Here are the top trending stories from the world of technology. Stories that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep in touch with. 1) China’s Baidu planning to launch ChatGPT-style bot soon Chinese search engine giant Baidu is mulling to launch AI powered chatbot similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in March, people privy to the matter informed Reuters. Baidu is planning to integrate the chatbot into its main search engine just like Microsoft’s Bing plans to do. Last week, Microsoft also announced that it will be making a multi-billion-dollar investment in ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI as it tries to ensure that…
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Here are the top trending stories from the world of technology. Stories that we feel every tech enthusiast should know about. 1) Investors panic over Intel’s grim forecast, stock down over 9% Intel Corp on Friday announced one of the grimmest forecasts in its corporate history after its P.C. chip business continues to struggle for revival, sending its stocks southwards and putting more brakes to its revival efforts. In the current quarter, the company announced surprise loss and poor sales figures that missed analysts’ expectation by a huge margin. Adding insult to the injury is the fact that rival AMD…
Here are the top trending stories from the world of technology. Stories that we feel every tech enthusiast should be aware. 1) WhatsApp may soon allow users to send photos in original quality Many WhatsApp users often complain about their photos getting compressed, which ends up lowering the quality of the photos. However, this may soon become a thing of past. WABetainfo reported that it has spotted a latest a code in the WhatsApp’s beta version of the Android app that indicates that WhatsApp users may soon get to send photos in its original quality. Even though currently WhatsApp allow…
Here are the top trending stories from the world of technology. Stories that we feel every tech enthusiast should know. 1) In a major AI push, Microsoft to invest $10 Bn in OpenAI Microsoft on Monday announced that it is all set to make multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the company behind the much talked about online chatbot ChatGPT. However, both companies refused to discuss about the financial terms of the deal but sources privy to the matter claimed that the tech giant has made $10 Bn investment in OpenAI. Notably, Microsoft had already invested $3 Bn in OpenAI few years…
Here are the top trending stories from the world of technology. Stories that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep in touch with. 1) T Mobile gets Hacked (Once again) Mobile communication company ‘T-Mobile’ on Thursday admitted in an online message that it suffered a massive data breach involving 37 million customer accounts. According to this online message, the unidentified hackers have managed to steal information including customer names, billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, account numbers and other information. However, the German based mobile carrier said that “the most sensitive types of customer information” including passwords, payment card information…
Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that every tech enthusiast should know. 1) Tesla’s German plant comes under fire over Labor Harassment Tesla’s Gigafactory in Germany is facing heat from a local union body, IG Metall and Politicans, over the issue of labor harassment. IG Metall, which has an office located near Tesla’s plant, said that it is aware about Tesla’s workers being subjected to unreasonable working hours and the lingering fear among the workers over publicly speaking about it. The IG Metall further said in its annual report that workers at Tesla are…
Here are the top trending stories from the world of technology. Stories that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Coinbase fires 950 people amid Crypto Meltdown Leading crypto exchange Coinbase earlier this week handed over pink slips to almost 950 people, which constitutes nearly 20% of the company’s workforce. This is the second time that the crypto exchange has opted for mass layoff in last one year, after the company fired almost 1,100 employees in June last year. Coinbase’s CEO Brain Armstrong also announced that the company would be shutting down several products as part…
Here are the top trending stories from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Twitter’s Interface is all set to get a major Tweak (Here’s What will Change) Twitter users will soon witness many changes in Twitter’s UI as early as this week after Elon Musk notified about the upcoming changes on Twitter. Musk, who acquired the microblogging company for nearly $44 Bn last year, announced that ‘recommended and followed tweets will now be swiped left & right and bookmark button will be rolled out as soon as this week.…
Here is the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a track on. 1) Amazon says it will cut more jobs than initially planned Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy announced on Wednesday that the ecommerce giant will cut more jobs than it was originally planned. The Jeff Bezos laid company is now likely to cut nearly 18,000 jobs, much more than the 10,000 jobs that it had announced last year. Jassy further added that the company was forced to disclose the unpleasant news as the news already got leaked to the…
Here are the top trending stories from the world of technology. Stories that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) TikTok Outlawed on all American Govt Issued Smartphones U.S. lawmakers and Congress members can no longer use TikTok on their devices. This after the U.S. Congress passed a bill to include TikTok on Government Devices Act. This basically implies that henceforth the popular short video app will be banned on all official devices issued by the American government. The ban also extends to the organizations and agencies that are affiliated to the U.S. government. TikTok’s alleged…
Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on. 1) Guess who wants to Buy Substack? Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who already owns six companies including his latest buyout Twitter, has expressed his desire to buy online publishing platform Substack. The Tesla boss expressed this desire while replying to a tweet. Musk argued that Substack makes for a perfect acquisition target for twitter as it can help the latter in increasing its monetization. Notably, Twitter had already started newsletter service called Twitter Revue earlier this year…
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 Claims nearly 100 Starlink Satellites Active in Iran amid Civil Unrest SpaceX CEO and tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that Starlink is now operating nearly 100 internet satellites in Iran that is witnessing unprecedented civil unrest across the country. Over the last few months the Islamic country has seen thousands of women and young people hitting the street to protest against the country’s conservative laws. Nearly three months back, Musk had tweeted that…