Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Google is reportedly planning to enhance accessibility to its AI chatbot Bard on Pixel phones and tablets by introducing an exclusive home screen widget on its devices in the near future.

Apple and Samsung remain the most profitable brands, together capturing 96 percent of global smartphone operating profits, a report showed on Friday.

US Vice President Kamala Harris has told top Big Tech CEOs, including Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (ChatGPT fame), that the private sector has an ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to ensure...

Shopify has announced to lay off 20 percent of its workforce which will impact more than 2,000 people.

The demand for VPN services in Utah skyrocketed on Monday, May 1, and Tuesday, May 2, 2023, as the most visited adult website in the United States banned users from the state from accessing their website.

Amazon has announced that the popular online video game Fortnite is now available to play for Fire TV customers in the US, UK, Canada, and Germany through the Amazon Luna cloud gaming service.

The UK's competition watchdog on Thursday launched an initial review of "AI foundational models" like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing, and Google's Bard, saying the move will help create an early understanding of the market for AI models and what opportunities and risks these could bring.

Chinese short-form video platform TikTok has opened its revamped creator fund, called the "Creativity Programme Beta", to all eligible creators in the US from May 3.

Meta has said that it had discovered malware creators who are taking advantage of the public's interest in ChatGPT and using this interest to entice users into downloading harmful applications and browser extensions.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a blanket ban on Meta (formerly Facebook) from monetizing data belonging to anyone under the age of 18, saying that the social network violated its 2020 privacy order.

The video game software developer Unity Software has announced to lay off nearly 600 employees, or 8 percent of its workforce, in order to continue to position itself for long-term and profitable growth.

Google has announced a new feature for Gmail that will verify the identity of senders through a blue checkmark next to their name.

Bitcoin trading volume sank by almost $700 billion in April, historically seen as one of the strongest months for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, bringing the biggest average monthly returns, a report showed on Wednesday.

Samsung has reportedly blocked the use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT on company-owned devices as well as non-company-owned devices running on internal networks.

Twitter on Wednesday backtracked on its decision to put its application programming interface (API) behind a paywall and will allow emergency and transportation service providers to access its APIs for free.

Meta has introduced new personalization controls for Facebook reels, which will let users customize what they want to see more or less of, so the videos they see are more relevant to them.

SpaceX is likely to launch another orbital test flight of the huge Starship vehicle in six to eight weeks' time again, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said.

Google Chrome has gained the top spot as the world's most popular desktop browser, while Apple's Safari browser ranked second.

US scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can translate a person's brain activity -- while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story -- into a continuous stream of text.

In a unique collaboration to safeguard the misuse of location-tracking devices, Apple and Google on Tuesday said they have jointly submitted an industry specification to help combat the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices for unwanted tracking.