Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Instant messaging platform Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov have confirmed that a subscription-based offering, Telegram Premium, will be coming later this month.

Following complaints from the Dutch government that said the company’s actions to allow dating apps to use alternative payment methods on the App Store is ‘insufficient’, tech giant Apple has once again updated its App Store guidelines.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he thinks that Starlink, the satellite Internet division of his rocket company, will take at least three to four years, from now, to go public.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has informed employees that the company is ending all operations in the country and has begun laying off employees.

Instagram is expanding the Sensitive Content Control feature as users will now be able to control the amount of sensitive content and accounts they see on the platform.

Chargers will be harmonized for small and medium-sized portable electronic devices by 2024 in the European Union (EU), negotiators of the European Parliament, and the Council have agreed.

US-based automaker Ford is reportedly planning to invest $3.7 billion to add over 6,200 union jobs to its manufacturing plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri.

Samsung is reportedly planning to build a new production line to make larger OLED displays suitable for tablets and notebooks, with the company ultimately aiming to fulfill orders for future Apple products, media reports say.

In bad news for Bitcoin and Blockchain lovers, the New York State on Friday passed a bill to halt new permits for certain fossil fuel power plants to be used in Bitcoin mining.

Mozilla, the firm behind the popular web browser Firefox, has added translation tools to Firefox that does not rely on cloud processing to do its work.

Photo sharing social media platform Pinterest has acquired AI-powered shopping startup ‘The Yes’ for an undisclosed sum.

Meta-owned WhatsApp is now working on the ability to edit text messages for a future update of WhatsApp beta testers.

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has announced that it is launching AMBER Alerts on the platform that will allow people to see and share notices of missing children in their area.

Google is reportedly working to cut down on the number of unwanted Chrome notifications that users receive, by blocking notifications from websites that the company deems to be “disruptive”.

NASA has selected two private US-based companies — Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace — to develop next-generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to Mars.

Amazon has informed its customers that they cannot buy books on Kindle App for Android anymore.

A Netflix experiment to crack down on password sharing outside of households has left users flummoxed, as the streaming giant increased subscription fees for such users, forcing some of them to cancel their subscriptions.

Chips for chipmaking machines are one of the things in short supply amid chip shortage constraints, say executives from Intel and Apple chipmaker TSMC.

Epic Games has announced that it will host an in-person Fortnite competition in November in the US, with a prize pool set to be $1 million.

NASA’s much-celebrated James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation.