Tue 16 May 2023: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Meta, announced a new WhatsApp feature called Chat Lock on Monday to protect private conversations. The feature allows users to password-protect their most private discussions and save them in a separate folder. “New locked chats in WhatsApp make your conversations more private. They’re hidden […]
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Mon 15 May 2023: France is investigating Apple for allegedly aiming to make cellphones outdated by restricting their repair, prosecutors and an association claimed on Monday, AFP reported. According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, the probe into purported misleading commercial practices and planned obsolescence has been under way since December. It is the outcome of […]
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Mon 15 May 2023: WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, will soon enable users to make group calls with a chosen set of participants on macOS devices. According to WABetaInfo, it was previously impossible to begin a group call because the button was either blocked or wasn’t working on macOS. The call buttons (audio and […]
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Fri 12 May 2023: Elon Musk, the current CEO of Twitter, tweets that Linda Yaccarino, the former head of NBCUniversal advertising, will take over as the company’s new CEO. “I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk said on Friday. “@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I […]
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The NGC 6946, a spiral galaxy about 22 million light years away from Earth, also referred to as the ‘Fireworks Galaxy’. [File: NASA] Fri 12 May 2023: The largest cosmic explosion ever seen has been found by astronomers; it is a fireball 100 times the size of our Solar System that abruptly started burning […]
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Wed 10 May 2023: Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, has announced that audio and video calls would be added to the network. “Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform,” Musk said in a tweet on Tuesday. “So you can talk to people anywhere in the […]
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Wed 10 May 2023: In response to accusations of fraud and clutter on streaming platforms, Spotify, a music streaming network, has banned tens of thousands of artificial intelligence (AI) music company Boomy. Additionally, Universal Music, the industry leader in recording, has alerted all the major streaming services to dubious streaming activity on Boomy tracks. The […]
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Wed 10 May 2023: The rings of Saturn are breathtaking. And because they may be seen with simple stargazing tools, astronomers even in medieval times were able to see them with the less-than-advanced technology of the day. However, Saturn is more than just its rings. There are many satellites orbiting the most unusual planet in […]
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Wed 10 May 2023: Austria’s Interior Minister Gerhard Karner announced on Wednesday that Austria will join the increasing list of nations that have banned the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from government employees’ work phones, Reuters reported. TikTok has already been blocked in a number of Western countries, including the United States, Britain, and numerous other […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: Twitter will purge inactive accounts on the platform that have been inactive for years, potentially freeing up a number of long-coveted usernames, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said. “We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop,” Musk tweeted on […]
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