Culture & Policy Global News 4 years out, SEC says Elon Musk still needs lawyer approval to tweet Tesla-related information It has been years since Elon Musk agreed to post information related… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 24, 20232 minute read
Futurism Global News Samsung announces its own 5G network modem for smartphone satellite connectivity With Apple announcing satellite connectivity — albeit only for emergency use —… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 23, 20232 minute read
Apps Global News WhatsApp experiments a ‘Newsletters’ tool Newsletters, even though many have discarded their importance these days, continue to… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 22, 20233 minute read
Enterprise Futurism Global News OpenAI addresses concerns about bias in ChatGPT’s AI, announces ability for users to customize ChatGPT The ChatGPT fervor has well and truly taken the global tech sector… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 17, 20233 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News Microsoft acknowledges Bing user complaints, including ones that leads to it responding outside of ‘its designed tone’ Bing has been making the headlines ever since Microsoft introduced the AI-powered… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 16, 20233 minute read
Culture & Policy Global News Nearly 250 Google employees stage protest in Zurich over layoffs: Report The better part of the previous year (and this year so far)… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 15, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Global News Mass layoffs at Disney as COVID streaming boom subsides With the streaming boom coming to an end and a sizeable quarterly… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 9, 20233 minute read
Business Global News Apple misses expectations on revenue, profits led by iPhone sales decline in Q1 2023 Apple’s financial performance for the first quarter of the year seems to… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 3, 20233 minute read
Business Global News Meta clocks 4% drop in Q4 revenue, Reality Labs continues to bleed, massive buyback sends stock soaring Facebook-parent Meta successfully beat Wall Street estimates for its revenue for the… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 2, 20233 minute read
Global News Security T-Mobile, 2nd largest mobile carrier in the US, admits hackers accessed sensitive data of 37Mn customers Mobile telecommunication company T-Mobile, which is the second largest mobile carrier in… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 20, 20232 minute read
Global Internet News Security MailChimp suffers data breach yet again, hackers access partner accounts For the second time in recent months, email marketing firm MailChimp found… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 19, 20232 minute read
Business Culture & Policy Global News Microsoft preparing another round of lay offs, could impact 5% of its workforce: Report Fears of a recession and adverse macroeconomic conditions have, once again, persuaded… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 18, 20232 minute read
Business Culture & Policy Enterprise Global Internet News Twitter Twitter makes the algorithmic “For You” timeline as default on iOS Yet another major change has come to Twitter in the post-Musk era.… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 11, 20232 minute read
Global News Glitch in FAA’s computer system grounds flights across the US for hours before being resolved A major computer glitch in the US aviation regulator — FAA’s — … Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 11, 20233 minute read
Apps Business Culture & Policy Global Internet News Instagram to remove Shop tab, bring button to create posts back at the centre among other UI changes Come February, users will get to see Instagram undergo a significant UI… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 10, 20232 minute read
Business Global News Meta fined over $400Mn by Irish privacy regulator for online privacy violation In the latest instance of US Big Tech companies being hit with… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 5, 20233 minute read
Business Global News Microsoft reportedly looking to use ChatGPT for a smarter, AI-powered ‘Bing’ You may have heard of ChatGPT, the newly-launched chatbot that has gone… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 4, 20232 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Twitter Twitter back online after suffering global outage, Musk says it “should feel faster” Twitter has been pretty chaotic ever since Elon Musk took over, and… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 29, 20222 minute read
Global Internet News Twitter Twitter suspends accounts of prominent journalists, offers no explanation Yesterday, Twitter banned several accounts that tracked the locations of private jets… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 16, 20223 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Twitter Twitter suspends accounts sharing live location of someone else, including one that tracked Elon Musk’s jet In the age of the internet and social media, where nothing remains… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 15, 20222 minute read
Culture & Policy Global News Meta sued for $2Bn for not taking down hateful content on Ethiopian civil war from Facebook Facebook’s parent company Meta is now on the path to battle a… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 15, 20223 minute read
