Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez have announced a $100 million fund to help with recovery efforts for the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii.

Xiaomi's MIUI, the custom Android skin that is pre-installed on many Xiaomi smartphones, is now flagging the popular messaging platform Telegram as a dangerous app in China.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has been sent to jail after a judge removed his bail, citing violations like witness tampering.

Chinese military scientists have claimed that they have developed a new cooling system that allows high-energy lasers to operate “infinitely” without any build-up of waste heat.

WhatsApp is rolling out a new multi-account feature on Android beta.

Instagram has released a new feature that will allow users to add music to their grid posts.

Amazon is reportedly reducing the number of its in-house brands on its marketplace as it seeks to cut costs and avoid antitrust scrutiny.

In order to reduce spam and scam attempts, Google-owned YouTube has announced that links in Shorts comments and Shorts descriptions will be non-clickable starting August 31.

Elon Musk has put up signs and things from the Twitter building for an auction, just a few weeks after the company rebranded to X.

Instagram is testing a new group mention feature that will allow users to tag more than one person in a story using a single mention.

Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), which is a charitable organization, has reportedly laid off 48 employees.

OpenAI has announced that it is expanding the ‘custom instructions’ feature to all ChatGPT users, including those on the free tier of the service.

In a bid to push more X users to get the verified status and earn money, Elon Musk on Friday lowered the eligibility criteria for ads revenue sharing from 15 million to 5 million, and the minimum payout to $10 from the current $50.

After 47 years, Russia is set to return to the Moon with its Luna 25 lander mission.

Regulators in the US state of California have given the green signal to autonomous car companies Cruise and Waymo to run commercial robotaxi services across San Francisco 24/7.

Crypto asset trading platform Bittrex and its co-founder and former CEO, William Shihara, have agreed to settle charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for $24 million over charges that they operated as an unregistered exchange, broker and clearing agency.

X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday announced to soon bring video calling on its platform, as it aims to become an “everything app” like China’s WeChat.

Despite reports that the "metaverse-hype" is slowing down, the metaverse could reach up to $900 billion by 2030, a report said on Thursday.

Mark Zuckerberg announced that new features coming to Threads "this week", including the ability to directly share posts in Instagram direct messages (DMs), a mention button, and more.

Elon Musk's Twitter faced a $350,000 fine earlier this year for refusing to comply with a search warrant concerning former US President Donald Trump's account on the micro-blogging platform.