Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Social media giant Facebook now has 1.88 billion daily active users and 2.85 billion monthly active users, as ad-driven revenue surged 48% to $26.2 billion, crushing forecasts.

Encrypted messaging app Telegram is launching a video conferencing feature in May.

Apple has reached more than 660 million paid subscriptions across the services on its platform.

Streaming giant Netflix is launching a feature that will make it easier to find something to watch when you’re stuck browsing and unable to make a decision.

Apple now expects to make between 75 million and 85 million units for 2021, compared with a previous production forecast of 110 million units.

Google Lens can now automatically translate texts in screenshots for devices running Android 11 or above.

The microblogging site Twitter is adding a new prompt to users’ timelines to help promote the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination effort, providing users around the world with the “latest vaccine info” in their particular country.

The new update brings Payments 2.0 for all Telegram chats, Scheduling and Mini Profiles for Voice Chats, new Telegram apps for your browser, and more.

The newly upgraded Intelligent TurboWrite 2.0 also offers significantly enhanced sustained performance over the previous iteration by allocating a much larger buffer storage area inside the drive.

E-commerce giant Amazon has joined hands with CT Grants, Temasek Foundation, Pune Platform for COVID-19 Response (PPCR) to urgently bring in 10,000 oxygen concentrators and BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure) machines to India.

The tech giant Google on Monday announced Rs 135 crore ($18 million) to help get urgent medical supplies, including oxygen and testing equipments, for India that is currently going through a devastating Covid wave.

Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube is allowing creators to change their channel name and profile picture without affecting their Google account.

The micro-blogging site Twitter has said it’s exploring features like tipping to give people a way to pay other Twitter users.

SpaceX is slated to launch its third crew to the International Space Station early Friday morning, ferrying two astronauts from NASA, one from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the first European Space Agency astronaut to fly a private US spacecraft to orbit. The four-person...

Sony will begin rolling out 1080p support for its PlayStation Now cloud streaming service starting this week.

Popular photo-sharing platform Snapchat reached 280 million daily active users (DAUs) in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 51 million or 22 percent year over year, and it now has more users on Android than iOS.

The full-screen ads will be arriving first in India, Germany, Brazil and Australia before landing in more countries “in the coming months.

The microblogging site Twitter is letting all users tweet (and view) pictures in 4K on iOS and Android.