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Meta Introduces Improved Avatars With New Body Shapes, Hair, Clothing
Meta has introduced new body shapes, and improved hair, and clothing textures to its avatars to help users better express themselves.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 28, 2023
1 min read
YouTube Music Is Officially Rolling Out Podcasts
Podcasts have finally started to arrive for YouTube Music users in the US
Bijay Pokharel,
April 28, 2023
1 min read
WhatsApp Rolling Out ‘Reply With Message’ Feature Within Call Notifications
WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new "reply with a message" feature within call notifications to some beta testers on Android.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 28, 2023
1 min read
Cloud Storage Giant Dropbox Sacks 500 Employees Amid Slowing Growth
Cloud storage giant Dropbox announced on Thursday that it is laying off 16 percent of its workforce, or about 500 employees, due to slowing growth.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 28, 2023
2 min read
Amazon Lays Off Employees In Cloud, HR Units In Fresh Wave
As e-commerce giant Amazon continues to lay off employees, reports have surfaced that the employees impacted by the fresh wave were mostly in its cloud computing and human resources (HR) divisions.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 28, 2023
2 min read
Astronomers Detect First Direct Image Of Black Hole Expelling A Powerful Jet
For the first time, astronomers have detected an image of a powerful jet exploding from a black hole.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 28, 2023
2 min read
SpaceX’s Starship Launch Comes Under US FAA Scanner
SpaceX‘s giant Starship rocket, which exploded after launch, has now come under the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) scanner for reportedly spreading plumes of potentially hazardous debris endangering human lives as well as habitats of animals. On April 20, the first flight test of SpaceX’s...
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
2 min read
LG Electronics Q1 Profit Down 23% On Slow Demand
LG Electronics on Thursday said its operating profit for the January-March period declined 23 percent from a year earlier amid the ongoing macroeconomic woes that dampened consumer demand.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
2 min read
Samsung Logs Worst Quarter In 14 Years Amid Memory Chip Glut
Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported its worst quarterly profit in 14 years, as global economic woes dented demand for consumer electronics and a chip glut battered its core business.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
3 min read
GitHub Announces Kyle Daigle As Chief Operating Officer
Microsoft-owned open-source software platform GitHub on Thursday announced Kyle Daigle as Chief Operating Officer (COO), the company's first since 2021.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
2 min read
Elon Musk May Testify Under Oath About His Autopilot Tweets
Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk is likely to testify in a lawsuit in the US that blamed Autopilot for a fatal crash in 2018.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
1 min read
Time Spent On Instagram Up 24% Thanks To AI-Driven Reels: Zuckerberg
Since Meta launched TikTok-rival short-video app Reels, AI recommendations have driven a more than 24 percent increase in time spent on Instagram, the company CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
2 min read
EU Warns Twitter Over Spreading Disinformation, Favouring Kremlin Agenda
The European Union (EU) has warned Elon Musk-run Twitter over spreading disinformation and encouraging the Kremlin agenda.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
1 min read
Meta Logs Decent Growth As AR-VR Vertical Loses $4 Billion In Q1
Meta has posted revenue of $28.65 billion, an increase of 3 percent year-over-year and beating Wall Street expectations in its March quarter, as the company still vouches for Metaverse.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
1 min read
Amazon Shuts Down Health-Focused Halo Division, Lays Off Employees
Amazon has shuttered its health-focused Halo division and discontinued Halo Band, Halo View, and Halo Rise devices which are no longer available on its website. The company has also laid off employees from the Halo team.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
1 min read
Google Meet Finally Supports 1080p Video Calls
Google Meet finally supports 1080p video calls — but only for paying subscribers.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2023
1 min read
Nasa Successfully Extracts Oxygen From Lunar Soil Simulant
Scientists at NASA have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil, even as the space agency works toward sending astronauts to the Moon through Artemis missions.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 26, 2023
3 min read
OpenAI To Let Users Turn Off Chat History In ChatGPT
Microsoft-owned OpenAI has announced a new update that allows users to turn off their chat history in its AI chatbot ChatGPT.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 26, 2023
1 min read
Tinder’s Photo Verification To Ask Users To Take Selfie Video
In a move to strengthen the Photo Verification process, dating app Tinder on Wednesday said it will now ask members to take a selfie video to confirm that the person in the photo is really them.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 26, 2023
1 min read
Users Can Now Use Their WhatsApp Account On Multiple Phones
WhatsApp has announced that users will now be able to use the same WhatsApp account on more than one phone via its multi-device login feature.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 26, 2023
1 min read
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