Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab. 1) Biden wants ByteDance to sell stake in TikTok The Biden administration is putting enormous pressure on Bytedance to sell its entire stake in TikTok to an American company, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal. The Biden administration is hopeful that this will completely end the possibility of Chinese government’s surveillance over the data of American consumers. The timing of the Wall Street Journal could not have been more conspicuous considering that barely…
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Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Meta opts for another mass layoff, cuts 10,000 jobs Meta on Tuesday declared a second round of layoff on Tuesday, cutting nearly 10,000 jobs in the fresh round of layoffs. Meta has now become the first big tech company to announce a second round of layoffs. The Mark Zuckerberg led company had eliminated nearly same number of people in November last year. The two back-to-back job cuts is a part of Zuckerberg’s strategy to control company’s…
Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Meta will no longer support NFTs on Instagram and Facebook Meta is done with NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. Meta’s Head of Commerce and Financial Technologies posted on Twitter that the company is “winding down digital collectibles or NFTs for now to focus on other ways to support creators.” Meta is pulling down the curtains on NFTs at a time when the hype around NFTs has significantly dissipated. The social media company had started testing digital collectibles…
Here is the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Spotify revamps its app in a TikTok-style In the coming weeks, when you login to your Spotify account you’ll find that the app is adorning a brand-new look. This’s because the streaming giant on Wednesday unveiled a completely new look for its app that apparently has lot of similarities with TikTok. The most visible TikTok like feature being the short-form video feed, which has been immensely popularized by the Chinese short video app. A new…
Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) White House Openly endorses TikTok Ban in U.S The White House on Tuesday openly threw its weight behind a new bipartisan senate bill that will allow the Biden administration to levy nationwide ban on TikTok in the U.S. The U.S National Security Advisor ‘Jake Sullivan’ said in a statement “today the threat that everyone is talking about is TikTok and how it could enable surveillance by the Chinese Communist Party.” Sullivan further urged that Congress…
Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Twitter suffered Unprecedented Outage Globally due to’ API Issue Twitter on Monday suffered a brief yet massive outage with users across the world especially complaining that they were unable to open external links on Twitter and read the articles of the external website. This problem lasted for almost an hour or so, according to the reports. Musk later tweeted that “small API changes had massive ramifications” on the microblogging platform. Notably, last month Twitter had announced…
Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Elon Musk’s Master Plan fails to Cheer up Investors Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla hosted a 2023 investor day presentation on Wednesday and CEO Elon Musk obviously took the center stage during the presentation. Musk gave a four-hour long speech in what is been dubbed as “Master Plan 3,” a long-term roadmap for Tesla’s growth. However, Tesla’s Master Plan 3 that included the ambitious goal of producing 20 Mn electric vehicles per year by 2030 failed to…
Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) OpenAI to allow Developers to build ChatGPT into their apps OpenAI, the company behind the viral online chatbot tool ChatGPT, has now launched developers API for ChatGPT. The new ChatGPT AI will be based on the same AI model, which basically implies that the developers can either add completely unchanged or improved version of ChatGPT into their apps. The ChatGPT API is available at $0.002 per 1,000 tokens (about 750 words). Additionally, software developers with deep pocketed…
Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Elon Musk Reportedly hires AI Researchers to work on ChatGPT Rival According to people privy to the matter, tech billionaire Elon Musk had recently called on AI researchers to form a new research lab. The ultimate aim of this new research lab is to work on the alternative of ChatGPT. However, currently not much information is known about this research lab. Even Musk, who is otherwise known for his outspoken nature, has remained completely tightlipped…
Here is the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Twitter lays off Dozens of Employees including Senior Product Manager Twitter laid off fresh set of employees on Saturday, triggering a second wave of mass layoff since Elon Musk took over the company last year. Although it is still not clear exactly how many employees have been laid off, sources privy to the matter have put the number to approximately 50 employees. Twitter has even reportedly sacked Product Manager Esther Crawford who was in charge of…
Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that I feel every tech enthusiast should have. 1) Netflix Slashes Prices in over 30 Countries There is some good news for Netflix subscribers. The streaming giant has announced that it is cutting its monthly subscription prices in over 30 countries. These selected countries hail from the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and parts of Asia. Notably, prices won’t be slashed in the U.S. and other developed countries where Netflix had recently increased the subscription price. This move has come at a time when Netflix has launched cheaper…
Here are top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) WhatsApp is reportedly Beta Testing a Newsletters Feature If everything goes well then pretty soon Whatsapp users might be able share newsletters with all its contact. WhatsApp dedicated news portal WABetaInfo has claimed that it has found a code in a recent WhatsApp beta with reference to “Newsletter” feature. However, not much is known about this feature till now. Besides, there is no surety that WhatsApp may eventually release the newsletter feature on a full-fledge basis. However,…