News Meta Launches a Digital Clothing Store for Virtual Avatars Virtual clothes will be much cheaper than the real designer clothes of the mentioned brands. In the future, the number of brands for the meta-universe is expected to grow. There will still be free clothing options for virtual avatars.
News YouTube Shorts Hits 1.5 Billion Monthly Users Two years after its launch, the service within YouTube has an audience comparable to that of its Chinese rival TikTok, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a report from Google.
News USB-C Charging Will Be Mandatory Across the EU by Autumn 2024 The European Union has reached an agreement on legislation that would require all smartphones sold in Europe, including the iPhone, to be equipped with a universal USB-C port for charging by the fall of 2024.
News Instagram Now Lets You Pin Three Posts or Reels to Your Profile Instagram announced that its users can now pin up to three posts or Reels at the top of their profiles. Just like pinned posts on Twitter or TikTok, such posts will appear at the top of the Instagram grid as if you had recently posted them.
News Meta Adds New "Calls" Tab to Its Messenger App on iOS and Android Meta is launching a new "Calls" tab in its Messenger app for iOS and Android users. The new tab will track every call you make or receive in the app in one place, making it easy to connect calls with one tap.
News Tesla's Humanoid Robot Prototype Might Be Ready by September Optimus is a human-sized robot that will be produced at Tesla plants and help people with everyday tasks, such as buying groceries, catching pets, or carrying objects weighing up to 20 kilograms.
News Chinese Experts Created a Neural Network That Generates Videos Based on Text Input By now, CogVideo can create videos for such queries as "a couple are having dinner," "a lion is drinking water," "a boy is surfing in the sea," "a dog is running on the lawn," and more.
News 6 Biggest Announcements From the Apple WWDC 2022 Event The most important announcement was iOS 16, which got a brand new, customizable lock screen, as well as improvements to iMessage, updated maps, CarPlay, and many other changes.
News Instagram Rolls Out a New Typeface and Redesigned Logo To make the gradient in its logo "illuminated and alive," the platform updated it using an "innovative 3D modeling process." Consisting of Instagram's brand color, the iconic gradient is the foundation of the company's color system.
News Xiaomi Officially Unveiled the Mi Band 7 Smart Fitness Tracker The Mi Band 7 has a 1.62-inch AMOLED display with a 192 x 490-pixel resolution. Another notable feature of the device is the Always On Display support. Xiaomi Mi Band 7 has a battery capacity of 180 mAh, providing up to 15 days of battery life.
News DeLorean Unveils First Images of Its Alpha 5 Electric Car The Alpha 5 needs 2.99 seconds to reach 60mph or 4.35 seconds to reach 88mph. A battery with a capacity of 100 kWh offers an estimated 300 miles of range and a top speed of 155mph.
News Spotify Is Reportedly Testing Musician NFT Galleries Recently shared reports indicate that Spotify is currently running a test for a limited number of users of the platform's Android app in the US. These users can see previews of NFTs on artists' profiles.
News Twitter Introduces Exclusive Spaces for Super Followers Until now, Super Followers had only one advantage over regular Twitter users – they had access to exclusive tweets of the creators they followed. Now Super Followers will also have a dedicated place only they can attend.
News TikTok Adds New Tools for Tagging and Crediting Creators TikTok is rolling out a new tool that aims to encourage users to tag, mention, or credit the creators who inspired their videos, as well as learn the importance of crediting in the digital space.
News Apple Showed Off Its AR Headset to the Company's Board of Directors Apple has already shown its AR headset to board members, which means that it is almost ready for release. Most likely, the novelty will be presented to the public later this year, and it will go on sale in 2023.
News Instagram's New Test Removes the Recent Tab From Hashtag Searches People use hashtags as a key way to find content on Instagram, so some users might not welcome the change if they rely on hashtags for searching for new posts rather than the most popular ones or Reels.
News Twitter Created a Web Game to Explain Its Privacy Policy The game is set in PrivaCity, and your task is to navigate a dog named Data safely to the part. Along the way, you will "dodge cat ads, swim through a sea of DMs, battle trolls, and learn how to take control of your Twitter experience along the way."
News Mark Zuckerberg Showed Meta's VR Headset Project Cambria in Action In the video, Zuckerberg puts on and uses the VR headset, which has been "blurred" to hide its design. The minute-long clip shows the headset being used to play with a virtual pet, browse on a virtual computer, and work out with a virtual fitness trainer.
News Apple Discontinues the iPod After More Than 20 Years The company is now discontinuing the iPod touch, the last remaining model in this lineup, for good. Apple also noted that it would sell the current Touch while supplies last.
News Google Chrome Will Automatically Change Stolen Passwords If Chrome detects that a certain password should be changed, the user will be prompted to have it changed automatically by pressing a single button in a pop-up window. The feature is powered by Google Assistant and Google Duplex technology.
News Rare First Batch Apple-1 Computer Is up for Auction It comes with the original monitor, Datanetics keyboard, modern cassette interface, cables, power supply, and a reproduction of the original operation manual signed by Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak.
News Google Introduced an App That Lets iOS Users Wirelessly Switch to Android While switching from one Android smartphone to another is relatively easy, transferring data from iPhone to Android is rather complicated since it requires creating backups to Google Drive and manual data recovery.
News Snapchat Introduced Pixy, a Pocket-Sized Flying Camera Snap describes Pixy as your friendly flying camera, adding that it is a pocket-sized, free-flying sidekick suitable for adventures big and small. The new camera is available for $229.99 while in stock.
News Microsoft Patents a Virtual Reality Glove The patented device is equipped with sensors and mini-motors that help feel the interaction with virtual objects and make being in a VR environment more realistic. When interacting with objects, the user will feel a slight vibration and resistance.
News Snapchat's New Lens Will Help You Learn the American Sign Language Alphabet Snapchat's new ASL Lens, which serves the important purpose of teaching users how to use American Sign Language and test their skills, is now available on iOS and Android globally.
