Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

China's space station will conduct more than 1,000 research projects, promote science popularisation, and enhance international cooperation over the next 10 to 15 years, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilisation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chinese government officials have reportedly considered a scenario where ByteDance sells TikTok’s U.S. operations to Elon Musk, according to Bloomberg.

Chinese social media app RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, has climbed to the top of the Apple App Store as the United States edges closer to banning TikTok.

Amazon is shutting down its Prime Try Before You Buy program on January 31, 2025, according to a banner on the service’s landing page and a statement provided to The Verge.

Blue Origin’s highly anticipated New Glenn rocket launch has faced another delay.

Most children aged 11 and 12 use TikTok, Instagram, and other social media despite the platforms’ age restrictions, and many show signs of addiction to social media, a team of researchers has found.

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has announced a significant reduction in its contributions to the open-source WordPress project.

Content creators on YouTube are discovering a new revenue stream: selling their unused video footage to AI companies.

Many former YouTube Premium subscribers notice a frustrating trend: increased ads after canceling their subscriptions.

VideoLAN, the non-profit organization behind the widely-used VLC media player, is rolling out a groundbreaking AI feature that will let users add subtitles to any video directly within the player.

X announced today that it will begin labeling parody or satire accounts to help users distinguish them from authentic profiles.

According to a report on Friday, generative AI (GenAI) smartphones will account for over 54 percent of total smartphone shipments by 2028, with an installed base exceeding 1 billion.

Tesla has introduced a refreshed version of its Model Y SUV, aimed at the Chinese and broader Asia-Pacific markets.

Proton, the privacy-focused tech company, experienced a significant worldwide outage today that impacted its suite of services, including Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, ProtonVPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, and Proton Wallet.

LG Electronics, South Korea's leading home appliance maker, on Wednesday estimated its fourth-quarter operating profit decreased more than 53 percent from a year earlier due to global economic uncertainties.

On Wednesday, Samsung Electronics estimated its fourth-quarter operating profit to be more than doubled from a year earlier but missed market expectations due to lackluster performance in its high-end memory chips for artificial intelligence accelerators.

Ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, Meta, a social media platform, has said it will stop using fact-checkers.

At CES 2025, Nvidia stole the spotlight by unveiling its much-anticipated RTX Blackwell series of GPUs. The star of the show? The RTX 5090, a powerhouse that boasts groundbreaking features and performance enhancements.

Blue Origin is targeting January 10 for the launch of its massive new rocket New Glenn, said Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ owned company on Tuesday.

Samsung Electronics will hold this year's Galaxy Unpacked event in the United States this month, company officials said on Tuesday. At the event, the company is expected to unveil its new Galaxy S series smartphones with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) features.