Technology
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2,300 active & working employees now at Twitter, clarifies Musk
San Francisco: After a report claimed that Twitter is down to 1,300 full-time active employees from more than 7,500 last year, its CEO Elon Musk on Saturday refuted the report, saying the…
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Contract personnel deleted software files: US on mega aviation outage
San Francisco: The US has blamed the third-party contractors for last week’s mega outage that grounded thousands of flights, saying that “contract personnel unintentionally deleted files” while working on the 30-year-old software.…
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WhatsApp rolling out voice status updates on iOS beta
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new ‘voice status updates’ feature on iOS beta, which will allow users to share voice notes via status updates. Selected beta…
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Google may introduce ChatGPT competitor in May
San Francisco: Tech giant Google is preparing to introduce at least 20 artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools and a search chatbot during its annual developer conference in May this year, amid pressure from…
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Instagram overfocused on videos, reels last year: Head
San Francisco: The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, thinks that traditional photo posts suffered last year because of the platform’s lopsided emphasis on videos and reels. While answering a question from his…
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Musk admits he ignored investors while tweeting on Tesla ‘going private’
San Francisco: Elon Musk has admitted in a US court that he ignored his advisors and investors while tweeting about Tesla securing funding in 2018. Musk, who briefly took the stand on…
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Wipro lays off over 400 freshers for poor performance
Bengaluru: IT giant Wipro has laid off more than 400 fresher employees for poor performance in internal assessment tests. The company has issued termination letters to all the affected employees and stated…
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Netflix to soon roll out paid password sharing
San Francisco: Streaming giant Netflix has announced that it will roll out its paid password sharing “more broadly” “later in” the first quarter (Q1) of this year. “While our terms of use…
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US arrests Russian crypto exchange founder in USD 700 mn fraud
Washington: US authorities have arrested Anatoly Legkodymov, founder and majority owner of cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, for allegedly processing $700 million in illicit funds. He was arrested from the state of Miami for…
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Google’s parent company Alphabet to lay off 12K employees
San Francisco: Joining the Big Tech league of Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, Google’s parent company Alphabet is now laying off 12,000 employees, or about 6 per cent of its workforce, globally, the…
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Apple, Samsung making OLED screens for iPad Pro, MacBook Pro
San Francisco: Apple and Samsung Display have reportedly started working together on OLED panel development for the upcoming iPad Pro and MacBook Pro devices, which are expected to be released next year…
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Google removes Smart Reply from Voice app on Android, iOS
San Francisco: Google has removed Smart Reply suggestions that appeared at the bottom of messages from the Voice app on Android and iOS. The company introduced the feature last year in February.…
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Netflix to soon roll out paid password sharing
San Francisco: Streaming giant Netflix has announced that it will roll out its paid password sharing “more broadly” “later in” the first quarter (Q1) of this year. “While our terms of use…
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YouTube Music launching ‘Listening Room’ to get users’ feedback
New Delhi: Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music will bev launching a “Listening Room” programme on Discord (an online voice, video, and text communication platform) in which the company’s product team will…
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Instagram users can now pause notifications with ‘Quiet mode’
San Francisco: Meta has introduced a new ‘Quiet mode’ on Instagram, which will allow users to pause notifications whenever they want to take a break from the social networking platform. Once the…
