Fri 28 Apr 2023: Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, announced its decision to stop receiving donations via the digital currency Bitcoin. The group said in a statement that the decision was taken “within the framework of ensuring the safety of the donors and not subjecting them to any harm”, […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: Following its parent company’s failure to give information requested by authorities on neo-Nazis using the network, a Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram across the whole country, officials said. In the wake of an investigation into neo-Nazi behavior on social media, the court fined Telegram a […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: WhatsApp, owned by Meta, has finally unveiled a long-awaited feature that lets users manage one WhatsApp account on several phones. This functionality has long been requested by users who have several phones and have had to switch between phones to access their WhatsApp accounts. The new functionality allows the same account […]
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Tue 25 Apr 2023: Meta-owned WhatsApp is working on a new feature called “channels,” a new one-to-many tool for broadcasting information on iOS. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp plans to rename the Status tab “Updates” in order to include channels within this section. A WhatsApp channel is a private tool in which phone numbers and user […]
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Tue 25 Apr 2023: The UK on Monday announced an initial £100 million ($124 million) fund to develop the safe and reliable use of artificial intelligence across the economy. The government said in a statement that foundation models, including large language models like ChatGPT and Google Bard, can be used for a wide range of […]
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Mon 24 Apr 2023: Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, claimed on Monday that his microblogging service has turned into a “serious danger” to mainstream media organizations as he reinstated the use of the iconic Blue checkmarks for famous people and influential users. Before this week, Mario Nawfal, co-founder and CEO of NFT Tech and […]
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Sun 23 Apr 2023: Millions of mobile phones in the United Kingdom rang with a siren on Sunday as part of a test for a new national emergency warning system. The loud alarm was planned to ring at 3 pm (1400 GMT) on all devices that were using 4G and 5G networks in Britain. The […]
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Sat 22 Apr 2023: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday introduced a ‘Keep in Chat’ feature that will allow users in a disappearing message thread to long-press a message and choose to save it. WhatsApp has called this “sender superpower,” and it will be the choice of the sender to allow others in the chat to keep […]
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Fri 21 Apr 2023: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who has also lost Blue check-mark courtesy new CEO Elon Musk, has brought his new micro-blogging platform and Twitter rival called Bluesky to Android users. Bluesky, backed by Dorsey, offers a host of new features and was initially launched to the iOS users in February in a […]
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Fri 21 Apr 2023: Billionaire Elon Musk’s iconic rocket Starship, the largest and most powerful ever built designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond, exploded on Thursday during the spacecraft’s first test flight. Mr Musk said that the next Starship test will be in a few months. Minutes after SpaceX congratulated itself on an “exciting […]
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