Culture & Policy Internet News Twitter tweaks DM settings to reduce spam, including from verified users In a tweak that will be implemented “as soon as July 14”,… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalJuly 13, 20232 minute read
A.I. Internet News Google’s Bard AI chatbot gains support for 40+ languages, now available in over 230 regions Google is not holding back when it comes to its competition with… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 13, 20232 minute read
Internet Microsoft News Security Chinese hackers exploit Microsoft cloud vulnerability, US govt. email accounts compromised In a significant data breach, Chinese state-linked hackers accessed nearly 25 email… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 13, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News Gmail will now let you share availability from Google Calendar Gmail is getting more intuitive by the day, with a new release… Staff@The Tech PortalJuly 12, 20232 minute read
Apps China Internet News Apple launches online store on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app in China Amidst a rise in WeChat and Douyin users in China, Apple has… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 12, 20232 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Threads soars to 100 million users in five days, way faster than ChatGPT or any other internet platform/app It’s official – Threads has surpassed 100 million users well within five… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 10, 20233 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter threatens Meta with lawsuit over ‘Threads’, claims it violated Twitter’s intellectual property rights Twitter is not taking its newfound competition with Meta over Threads lying… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 7, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News Non-users can once again view content on Twitter With the Threds mania rapidly taking over the Twitter chaos, the latter… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 6, 20232 minute read
Apps Business Internet News [Updated] Twitter-rival Threads takes off, clocks millions of sign-ups barely hours after launch [Update]: Instagram head Adam Mosseri teased the arrival of several “basic” features… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 6, 20233 minute read
Apps Internet News Meta’s Twitter competitor, Instagram ‘Threads’ goes live on iOS, Android Instagram ‘Threads’, the Twitter competitor from Facebook-parent Meta, that is aiming to… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalJuly 5, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News OpenAI discontinues “Browse with Bing” feature due to bypassing of paywalls ChatGPT, ever since it was rolled out, has been used for a… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 5, 20232 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Instagram’s Threads to debut on July 6 amid Twitter chaos With all that is going on at Twitter, the sight of a… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 4, 20233 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter puts a cap on number of tweets users can read daily Following the latest widespread outage suffered by Twitter in recent months, Twitter… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 3, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News Google to remove Canadian news links from Search, News, and Discover, in response to Online News Act The recent enactment of Canada’s Bill C-18 (the Online News Act) continues… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 30, 20233 minute read
Apps Internet News WhatsApp introduces a new QR code based data transfer that doesn’t rely on cloud backups It is perhaps the digital world’s most stated and still unanswered problem… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 30, 20232 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News Meta introduces new parental controls for Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger Meta is building on to its more recent child-safety measures across its… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 27, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News YouTube will require fan accounts to make their distinction from official artist channels ‘obvious’ Fan channels and accounts dedicated to actors, singers, celebrities, and inspirational personalities… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 23, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News YouTube suffers outage, down for thousands of users After Reddit, YouTube and YouTube TV have become the latest names to… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 23, 20232 minute read
Futurism Global Internet News China’s Ant Group ventures into Large-Language Models with Zhenyi The fallout of ChatGPT and the increasing investments into artificial intelligence just… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 22, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News WhatsApp to let users silence unknown calls, rolls out new Privacy Checkup Indian users are (unfortunately) intimately familiar with spam calls, and the increasing… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 21, 20232 minute read
Business Internet News Musk meets Modi, talk about possible Tesla and Starlink India debut Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced his intentions to invest in… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 21, 20233 minute read
