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WhatsApp on Tuesday rolled out a new feature that will help users stay safe in group messaging.

South Korea's antitrust regulator is expected to take punitive steps against Google regarding allegations that it has unfairly bundled YouTube's music service with its premium subscription program, officials said on Monday.

In a worrying trend, Elon Musk-owned X is manually reviewing certain users’ direct messages (DMs) to investigate reported violations and misuse of its service, “or to comply with laws or governmental requests”.

LG Energy Solution Ltd (LGES), South Korea's leading battery maker, said on Monday its second-quarter operating profit plunged 58 percent from a year earlier due to slowing sales of electric vehicles.

The fight between Apple and Epic Games is not over yet and now, Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney have said that the App Store owner's EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) saga "has taken a turn towards the absurd".

YouTube has significantly upgraded its "erase song" tool, leveraging AI to make copyright claim resolution a breeze.

The European Commission on Friday sent e-commerce giant Amazon a request for information (RFI) under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Polaris Dawn, run by tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, is all set to drive billionaire Jared Isaacman, along with three others, for the first-ever 'all-civilian' spacewalk.

Global eSIM-capable device shipments are expected to exceed 9 billion units between 2024 and 2030, growing at a 22 percent CAGR during the period, a new report showed on Friday.

American private aerospace firm Firefly Aerospace has successfully launched its Alpha Flight 5 (FLTA005) rocket, which carried eight CubeSats for NASA.

WhatsApp, the widely-used messaging platform owned by Meta, is in the process of developing an innovative feature that will allow users to create personalized AI-generated avatars.

Industry sources said on Thursday that Samsung Electronics has newly set up a unit dedicated to developing high bandwidth memory (HBM) to regain leadership in the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor market.

Meta's year-old social media experiment, Threads, has reached a significant milestone, surpassing 175 million monthly active users (MAUs) according to an announcement by CEO Mark Zuckerberg on July 3rd, 2024.

There's a critical issue affecting some Google Pixel 6 series phones (Pixel 6, 6 Pro, and 6a) following a factory reset. Reports have surfaced of devices becoming bricked, meaning they are rendered unusable.

Earlier today, Xbox Live experienced a significant service disruption impacting user sign-in, online gameplay, and other functionalities.

Netflix is finally saying goodbye to its most affordable ad-free plan, the Basic tier. As previously announced in January, existing subscribers on the Basic plan (typically around $11.99/month) are now receiving notifications that it's time to choose a new plan.

The sale of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is set to hit the 10-million milestone this year, marking a significant achievement for the global passenger vehicle market, a report showed on Tuesday.

WhatsApp on Monday said it banned more than 66 lakh accounts in India in May for violating the laws of the land.

Meta said it took down over 15.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.8 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in May.

WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature to bring a 'communities tab' to iPad.