News Google Will Make Search Dark Theme Fully Black The black search background color could potentially help save battery life on smartphones and laptops. However, it won't make any big difference since users do not spend much time in Search.
News Twitter Now Lets Users Put Content Warnings on Tweets The feature allows users to hide individual photos and videos behind warnings for "violence," "nudity," or "sensitive" content. Previously, users only had the option of adding a general warning to all multimedia tweets.
News The DeLorean Is Coming Back as an All-Electric Vehicle Aside from the teaser, there are a few details about the car. One thing we know is that the model will be called the DeLorean EVolved, which indicates that it will be an electric car with a focus on luxury.
News Mark Zuckerberg Announced Meta's Updated Values The head of Meta noted that the current values were defined back in 2007. And while they have proven remarkably durable, the time has come to update them since the company is now heading towards developing a metaverse.
News Twitter Adds Ethereum Wallet Support to Its Tips Feature Twitter announced the Tips Jar feature back in May 2021. To support your favorite author financially, you should visit their profile and click the dedicated icon. Once you click it, you will need to select the payments service or platform to transfer the money.
News Samsung Unveiled the New Lineup of Galaxy S22 Smartphones Samsung introduced a new lineup of the Galaxy S22, S22+, and S22 Ultra flagship smartphones. All smartphones run Android 12 and One UI 4.1.
News Uber Might Accept Cryptocurrencies as Payment in the Future Uber CEO added that this opportunity could be good for the business as well as both drivers and customers, so the company will definitely consider it and implement it if it proves to be beneficial and useful.
News Twitter Is Rolling Out Its Downvote Button Test Globally During the previous round of testing, the company found that users generally downvote replies that are offensive or irrelevant. The same experiment also showed that downgrading is most often used to label content that users don't want to see.
News Facebook Is Losing Daily Active Users for the First Time in History In the third quarter of 2021, Facebook had 1.93 billion daily active users, while in the last three months of 2021, this number decreased to 1.929 billion, the quarterly earnings report of Meta revealed.
News Huawei Introduced a Smart Schoolbag With GPS Monitoring It aims to help parents keep track of their kids' location and keep them safe, especially in cases when kids forget their smartphones or smartwatches at home or if such devices are prohibited in schools.
News WhatsApp Might Soon Add Message Reactions The feature will work similarly to the one available on Telegram. After tapping or long pressing on the message, WhatsApp users will see a row of emoji right above it. At the moment, the list of reactions includes six emoji.
News Google Is Working on an AR Headset Codenamed Project Iris Like upcoming headsets from Meta and Apple, Google's headset uses outward-facing cameras to bring computer graphics into the real world, creating a more immersive mixed reality experience.
News YouTube CEO Hints at NFT Features for Video Creators The use of crypto and non-fungible tokens can significantly strengthen the connection between content creators and their viewers. YouTube plans to expand its ecosystem to help video creators benefit from such technologies.
News Google Abandons FLoC and Replaces Third-Party Cookies With Topics With Topics, the new concept will assign users five interests per week based on their web activity. These interests will be stored for up to three weeks. To do this, Google created a list of about 350 topics available in its advertising taxonomy.
News Apple Pays $100K to a Student Who Revealed a Mac Webcam Bug Pickren explained that this hack could ultimately allow the attacked to access the entire filesystem of the device by exploiting Safari's webarchive files, the system used to save local copies of websites. A user has to download such a file and then open it.
News Instagram Is Testing Paid Subscription Features in the US Creators who take part in the test will be able to offer their subscribers exclusive access to select Instagram Live videos and Stories, which will be marked with purple circles for better recognition.
News Tesla Accepts Dogecoin as Payment for Some of Its Merchandise A new section on the company's website says that Dogecoin can be used to purchase selected items from the Tesla Shop, making it the only cryptocurrency that Tesla customers can use to buy goods.
News Twitter Is Testing TikTok-Like Reaction Videos The company says the new feature is now being tested on a limited number of iOS users. If you have access to this feature, you will see a corresponding button in the retweet menu. Once you tap it, you’ll be able to take a video or photo to reply to a tweet.
News Baby Shark Is the First Video on YouTube to Hit 10 Billion Views The music video now has over 100 variations and has been translated into 11 different languages. At the time of writing, the video has over 32 million likes, and comments are disabled.
News Sony Announced Plans to Enter Electric Vehicle Market The company also unveiled a prototype of its updated Vision-S 02 electric vehicle, emphasizing that its priority is safety and security: the prototype is equipped with 40 sensors to ensure safety.
News Indian Regulator Ordered an Antitrust Probe Against Google The Competition Commission of India (CCI) suspects Google is violating the country's antitrust laws. The investigation should help determine whether Google imposes any discriminatory conditions or price on digital news publishers.
News Instagram Is Testing Three Feed Sorting Options Mosseri announced the return of the chronological feed in mid-December of last year. Back then, it was reported that the social media platform had been testing two options of feeds on a limited number of users.
News BlackBerry Officially Ends Support for Its Classic Phones BlackBerry announced that it would end the support of its smartphones from the beginning of 2022 more than a year ago, announcing a shift in focus to software solutions in the field of corporate security.
News Human Brain Cells in a Dish Were Taught to Play Pong In the experiment, scientists have grown about a million living cells of the human brain in the laboratory. They put the cells in a petri dish and placed them on top of a microelectrode array that analyzes neural activity.
News Tesla Breaks New Records of Vehicle Production and Deliveries In Q4 of 2021, Tesla delivered a third of the total number of all electric vehicles, or record 308,600 vehicles, which far exceeded analysts' estimates. Thus, the increase in sales compared to last year amounted to 87%.
