Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

YouTube on Thursday said it is testing new generative AI features that’ll let people create music tracks using just a text prompt or a simple hummed tune.

Instagram has shared a number of improvements to reels, feed photos, carousels, and stories, as well as new insights to help creators better understand how their content is performing. The company is testing the ability for users to scale, crop, and rotate individual clips.

The company has achieved the feat in just 7 weeks, said Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Meta-owned American photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram is expanding its Close Friends feature beyond Stories and Notes to feed posts and Reels.

Instagram’s Threads is adding a core feature of X called hashtags to its platform and has started testing the feature with select users.

Tesla apparently will not sue Cybertruck buyers for reselling the vehicle within the first year of buying it.

Former US president Donald Trump’s micro-blogging platform Truth Social has suffered a $73 million net loss since its launch in February 2022.

Amazon is laying off over 180 employees in its games division, as the company shuts down its Crown channel that streams on Twitch, closes its Game Growth effort that helps game makers market their products, and “refocusing” the work it does with its free games...

Uber is introducing new features to address unfair deactivations, and drivers and couriers will request an additional review of account deactivation decisions, including the ability to provide new information to support their case.

Nvidia has announced a new flagship chip for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The H200 boasts more high-bandwidth memory than its predecessor, the H100, which will allow it to handle larger and more complex AI models.

Meta is planning to roll out a new feature that will allow users to delete their Threads account without having to delete their Instagram account.

The messaging app WhatsApp is introducing a new voice chat feature that will be a less disruptive method to connect with large groups on the platform.

In a section titled "For Cybertruck Only" to its Motor Vehicle Order Agreement, Tesla wrote, "You agree that you will not sell or otherwise attempt to sell the Vehicle within the first year following your Vehicle's delivery date".

YouTube, which doubled down on its effort to crack down on users with ad blockers on its platform globally, is reportedly running advertisements for ad blockers.

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users will soon be able to "save the frame" (capture the screenshot of the video) from YouTube videos in the original resolution and PNG format.

The Nepal Government has announced a ban on TikTok, the popular social media app.

Amid solar conjunction on Mars, where the Red planet disappears behind the Sun, the rovers and orbiters will continue with science operations, NASA said.

As Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, awaits ruling in an ongoing trial, a group of former FTX executives, including one who served as a key witness against Bankman-Fried, are reportedly planning to launch a new cryptocurrency exchange.

Russia is tightening its grip on VPNs, but it's not yet clear which ones will survive.

Threads users, rejoice! You can now keep your posts off of Instagram and Facebook. Meta has finally added a new opt-out feature to its messaging app, giving users more control over their privacy.