Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Ford has applied brakes on $12 billion in planned investments in electric cars, which included a battery factory in the site of Kentucky in the US, saying consumers are not willing to pay a premium for an EV over a gas or hybrid vehicle.

Sundar Pichai is set to testify in the US vs Google anti-trust case on October 30, sharing his side of the story on how Google’s search is successful owing to its own innovation and not deals with the big companies.

China has sent its youngest-ever astronaut crew aboard the Shenzhou-17 manned spaceship to its Tiangong space station.

Instagram is testing a new feature that will let users update their profile picture with a short or looping video in Notes.

Intel is reportedly working with multiple consulting firms to build ChatGPT-like apps for customers, as the AI boom catches up with almost every tech company especially rival chipmakers such as Nvidia and Broadcom.

Microsoft Word, which was initially released under the name 'Multi-Tool Word' and transformed the way people type on PCs and laptops, turned 40 on Wednesday.

Amazon rolled out AI-powered image generation to help advertisers deliver a better ad experience for customers.

Instagram’s Threads has reached almost 100 million monthly users, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. During the company’s quarterly earnings call late on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said: “We’re three months in now, and I’m very happy with the trajectory.”

Meta registered $34 billion in revenue in its third quarter, up 23 percent from the same quarter last year.

NASA is building a nuclear-powered lander for exploring Titan -- Saturn’s largest moon having a dense atmosphere and low gravity.

LG Display reported sixth consecutive quarterly losses on Wednesday on sluggish demand stemming from a global economic slowdown, but the deficit decreased from the previous year and quarter.

Qualcomm has launched its first generative AI-based mobile platform -- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which will be adopted for flagship devices by global OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and smartphone brands.

The micro-blogging startup Pebble (formerly T2), is shutting down and the company said they have run out of time to make Pebble happen, reports TechCrunch.

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, posted a net loss of $368 million for the quarter ended September 30, which is slightly better than the year-ago period but the company is still growing through slow growth.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx has surpassed its goal of bringing at least 60 grams of rock sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth, the space agency said.

TikTok Tests 15-Minute Video Uploads with Select Users

Instagram is testing a feed that will only allow posts from paid verified users.

Amazon is rolling out passkey support on browsers and mobile shopping apps (iOS users), making it easier and safer for the customers to access their accounts with passwordless sign-in.

Tesla is being investigated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for the advertised range of its TVs and personal decisions.