Spotify is bridging the gap between podcasters and their listeners by launching a comment section for podcasts, which will start showing up on episodes today. Listeners can find the service's new comment section by scrolling past the pla…
WhatsApp now allows businesses to send authentication and login codes through its API to users in India. The company confirmed that it enabled this functionality in India starting July 1.
Meta introduced this ability for merchants to au…
Tesla is apparently not ready to reveal its “robotaxi” design next month, and is instead pushing the event to October, according to Bloomberg News.
The company reportedly needs more time to build the prototypes. It had been aiming for a…
Australia plans to introduce a law by the end of the year forcing internet companies to proactively stop hosting scams or face hefty fines, the top consumer regulator said on Friday, potentially setting up another showdown with Big Tech.
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YouTube is continuing its mission to compete with Instagram and TikTok. The platform has announced new features on Shorts, notably including an "Add yours" sticker. That's right, it seems to be pretty much the same tool that Instagram laun…
WhatsApp Business is changing its per-conversation rates for businesses — a conversation is a 24-hour thread between sellers and users. The company is reducing rates for utility messages and raising rates for marketing messages.
Meta …
Bytedance’s video editing app CapCut will stop offering free cloud storage to host creative assets starting August 5.
In the past few days, users have received notifications about Capcut changing its terms for the free tier. Until now…
Bytedance’s video editing app CapCut will stop offering free cloud storage to host creative assets starting August 5.
In the past few days, users have received notifications about Capcut changing its terms for the free tier. Until now…
PlayStation Stars is finally back online across the globe, but a number of players are complaining about missing points. The outage lasted nearly 1.5 months for folks in the Americas, who are finally getting the program back as we speak. I…
Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a surprising proportion of modern life would break down. So, why are they so hard to find?
The friends did their best to explain what they were looking for – a really c…
Meta announced on Wednesday that users aged 10 to 12 will soon be able to interact with others in VR if they have their parents’ approval to do so. Up until now, children were not able to chat or interact with other users on Quest.
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Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks. It’s the second such alert campaign from the company this year, following a similar notification…
With Spotify’s recent launch of comments on podcasts, the streamer is taking yet another step toward building a social networking experience in an app primarily known for music. With comments, podcasters can now engage with their listene…
Samsung events tend to be about as leaky as a 150-year-old faucet, so there weren't too many surprises coming out of the company's latest Unpacked event. As expected, the showcase shed more light on the Galaxy Ring, Samsung's latest foldab…
Few industries are moving faster than TMT. It is at the very heart of global innovation, driving technological, societal, and economic progress. One notable opportunity in the technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) industry is the…
Cloud architecture and capability are transforming the application development process and giving companies increased flexibility alongside a solid competitive advantage
The global cloud application market is anticipated to reach $365 b…
It’s rare to feel delighted by a phone in 2024, but that’s the Motorola Razr Plus, baby.
Sure, phones are amazing little computers. For $999, which is what the Razr Plus costs, they should be. But they’re mature products — tools rather …
Viruses have traditionally been named after the places or animals they have been first discovered in. Now scientists are trying to bring order to the chaos of virus naming.
In the final decades of the 16th Century, doctors began r…
Microsoft has dropped its seat as an observer on the board of OpenAI, less than eight months after securing the non-voting seat. Apple was reportedly planning to join OpenAI’s nonprofit board, but now the Financial Times reports that App…
Microsoft has announced big price rises for Game Pass, its Netflix-style subscription service for games.
The gaming giant, which purchased studio Activision Blizzard for a record $69bn (then £56bn) in 2023, says monthly charges for PC…
Samsung debuted the latest versions of its two foldable phones Wednesday at its Unpacked 2024 event. The Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 are thinner and lighter than their predecessors, whereas the Fold 6 delivers a long-awaited upda…
Du has announced the launch of the 'Future X' graduate trainee programme for UAE nationals. The scheme's principles are learning, innovation and adaptability and it provides graduates with skills for career progression and teaches tech-for…
Amazon has released an all-new version of its Echo Spot ahead of Prime Day, the company announced on Monday. The 2024 version of the Alexa-enabled smart alarm clock costs $79.99, but is currently on sale for $44.99 for Prime members.
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Poe, Quora’s subscription-based, cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, has launched a feature called Previews that lets people create interactive apps directly in chats with chatbots…
Solo founder Cat Jones took the plunge on setting up a travel business right around the time the pandemic was hitting Europe in March 2020. Fast-forward to summer 2024 and her curated package tour business, Byway, is announcing the close…
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has announced the launch of the Africa National Broadband Mapping Systems (AfricaBBMaps). The AfricaBBMaps scheme is backed by the European Commission and aims to establish broadband mapping …
Huawei Zambia has launched a smart village project in the southern district of Namwala, Huawei. It includes a communication tower and a solar system able to power numerous homes. At a launch event, Huawei also signed a Memorandum of Unders…
E& UAE has announced the launch of the GoLearning online education platform in the UAE. GoLearning offers more than 10,000 courses in professional and personal development topics through partnerships with global companies such as Coursera,…
Parental controls are offered by almost every popular media network, but many parents aren’t aware of them. Fewer than 10% of teens on Instagram had enabled parental control settings by the end of 2022 and only a single-digit percentage …
Chinese people around the world are being targeted by an elaborate scam in which criminals pretend to be Chinese police. A British-Chinese woman has told the BBC that she handed over her life savings to con men who wore uniforms in video…
The trend of media companies bringing games to their platforms has been unfolding in recent years.
In a world where user attention is increasingly competitive and attention spans are dwindling, streaming services and apps are looking…
We’re only one week away from Samsung’s next Unpacked event on July 10th, where we’re expecting the company’s Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 folding phones — but leaker Evan Blass has just revealed the entire spec sheets and marketing mate…
As more music streaming apps and creation tools emerge to compete for users’ attention, social music-sharing app Popster is getting two new features to grow its user base: an AI image generator for cover art and a collaboration capability …
Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models.
Some AI vendors, including Google, OpenAI and Apple, allo…
On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music from their videos without affecting any other audio such as dialog or sound effects.
YouTube chief Neal Mohan posted about t…
Proton Docs looks a lot like Google Docs: white pages, formatting toolbar at the top, live indicators showing who’s in the doc with their name attached to a cursor, the whole deal. That’s not especially surprising, for a couple of reason…
Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launched out of invite-only mode Wednesday. Designed to appeal to a younger crowd — or anyone who wants to connect…
Whatsapp appears to be working on a new generative AI feature that should allow users to make personalized avatars of themselves for use in any imagined setting. The in-development feature, spotted in the new WhatsApp Beta for Android 2.…
Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, just celebrated its first birthday. After launching on July 5 last year, the social network has reached 175 million monthly active users — that’s a notable achievement. But, after a year, Threads i…
Samsung Electronics expects its profits for the three months to June 2024 to jump 15-fold compared to the same period last year.
An artificial intelligence (AI) boom has lifted the prices of advanced chips, driving up the firm's forec…
Three decades on from the day it began, it is hard to get your head around the scale of Amazon.
Consider its vast warehouse in Dartford, on the outskirts of London. It has millions of stock items, with hundreds of thousands of them bo…
Teddy Solomon just moved to a new house in Palo Alto, so he turned to the Stanford community on Fizz to furnish his room.
“Every time I show up to buy something from somebody, I grill them about the marketplace, because I’m really curio…
Brazil has blocked Meta from using Brazilians' Instagram and Facebook posts to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models.
It comes weeks after the company abandoned similar plans to use UK and European users' posts for the same pu…
Kellie Dingwall is one of a growing number of visually impaired people who are getting into online gaming.
"One of my best friends and I got closer through playing games online, and it became a weekly thing," she told BBC Scotland.
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The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them?
When an idea for a new piece of music begins swirling in Esp…
Snapchat is introducing new ways for users to personalize their accounts, the company announced on Tuesday. The updates, which are mostly available for Snapchat+ subscribers, allow users to do things like design a personalized house on S…
X, formerly Twitter, could be bringing back a downvote feature for posts — something it had previously tested back in 2021, ahead of Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social network. At the time of the original experiment, Twitter had teste…
As part of industry-leading efforts to communicate to customers in real-time, airline uses AI tools to send travelers information about their trip, especially if things don't go as planned
Real-time radar maps can help customers underst…
KnowBe4 (www.KnowBe4.com), the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, released its International Healthcare Report. The report takes a closer look at the cybersecurity crisis cu…
Mastodon, the open source, decentralized alternative to X (formerly Twitter), is rolling out a new feature that’s meant to make the app more appealing for those who use it to keep up with news and information from writers and journalists…
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