Apps Internet News Twitter launches support for tweets up to 10,000 characters for Blue users Twitter is swiftly moving from its focus on short, snappy messages to… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 14, 20232 minute read
Internet News Twitter Twitter to allow users to offer subscriptions to their followers Twitter users can now apply to monetize their content on the platform.… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 14, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News First public beta of Android 14 is out now Google has released the first public beta of Android 14. In a… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 13, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News LinkedIn brings new ways of verifying your identity and where you work While social media companies like Twitter and Meta are allowing users to… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 12, 20233 minute read
Apps Internet News Google brings auto-archiving feature to Android A perennial problem that smartphone users face is the lack of storage… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 12, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Gaming Internet News India notifies new rules to regulate online gaming Proper regulations for online gaming in India have been in the works… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 6, 20233 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Amazon to stream state-run content in India on Prime Video Amazon has announced a new partnership with India’s Ministry of Information and… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 6, 20232 minute read
Crypto Global Internet News Twitter Twitter replaces homepage bird logo with a ‘doge’, sends Dogecoin price soaring Elon Musk is back to his antics on Twitter. In what seems… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 4, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News NPCI says no charge on normal UPI transactions, 1.1% charge on PPI merchant transactions Come April 1, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) will charge… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 30, 20232 minute read
Internet News Apple to hold annual WWDC from June 5-9, likely to reveal mixed reality headset Apple has announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 30, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News GitHub lays off engineering team in India Adding further to the already dreadful layoff situation in the global tech… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalMarch 28, 20231 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Twitter will only show verified accounts on its ‘For You’ algorithmic timeline, says Musk Yet another day, yet another strange-sounding stuff coming in from Twitter’s new… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalMarch 28, 20232 minute read
Internet News Security Parts of Twitter’s source code leaked, says a new court filing There is further drama unfolding at Twitter, adding to a chain of… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalMarch 27, 20231 minute read
Internet News Google rolls out its conversational AI bot ‘Bard’ to limited users The popularity of ChatGPT opened the floodgates for numerous other AI chatbots… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 22, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Twitter reportedly working on new govt ID-based verification Verification is a tricky subject for Twitter, more so since Elon Musk… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 20, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News YouTube increases TV subscription prices to $72.99/month Streaming service YouTube TV just got more expensive – the company announced… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 17, 20233 minute read
Internet News Startups Lenskart raises $500Mn from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) Confirming reports from last week, Lenskart has confirmed raising a $500Mn round… Staff@The Tech PortalMarch 16, 20232 minute read
Futurism Internet News OpenAI releases GPT-4, a new multimodal AI available to its paying users via ChatGPT Plus OpenAI, the parent behind the infamous AI chatbot ChatGPT, has announced the… Staff@The Tech PortalMarch 15, 20232 minute read
Internet News Startups Venture Capital Y Combinator cuts jobs by 20%, to cut down on late-stage investments Startup-accelerator Y Combinator is joining the layoff brigade if the latest development… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 14, 20232 minute read
Business Internet News Meta is ‘pausing’ Reels bonuses for creators in the US Social media company Meta is pausing its Reels Play bonus program in… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 10, 20233 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Google set to hold its annual I/O conference on May 10 with a limited live audience Google has announced that it will hold its annual I/O Conference on… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 9, 20233 minute read
