Musk announces $8 monthly charge for verified Twitter accounts By: AFP on November 2, 2022SAN FRANCISCO: New Twitter head Elon Musk said on Tuesday the site will charge $8 per month to verify users´ accounts, arguing the plan would upend the platform´s “current lords & peasants system” and create a new revenue stream for the company. The announcement comes days after the world´s wealthiest man took sole control of […]
More Twitter officials leave, gutting top management By: Reuters on November 2, 2022In an expanding exodus of Twitter’s top management, officials including its advertising and marketing chiefs left the company in the past few days, according to statements and a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The departures come after billionaire Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the company last week, followed by his firing of […]
Instagram fixes bug that suspended users’ accounts last night By: Web Desk on November 1, 2022Instagram accounts of users were restored after a brief outage last night. The company said it fixed the bug that temporarily suspended users’ accounts without any notice. The Meta-owned company has not clarified what caused the issue. According to the outage tracker, Downdector showed several Instagram users in Pakistan and other countries were facing login […]
China launches satellite to test space environment monitor tech By: AA on October 31, 2022China launched a new satellite into planned orbit on Saturday, saying it would be used primarily for in-orbit testing of new technologies. The Shiyan-20 C satellite was launched at 9.01 a.m. local time (0101GMT) on a Long March-2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, local media reported. The launch marked […]
Tips: How to schedule Whatsapp messages By: Web Desk on October 31, 2022Social media scheduling enables us to prioritize posts, schedule tasks, and operate more efficiently. While Facebook and Twitter directly allow users to schedule posts, third-party sites like Hootsuite even help us schedule posts for Instagram. But what about those who want to schedule messages on WhatsApp? WhatsApp doesn’t have a dedicated feature to schedule messages. […]
Apple planning to launch new Macs in early 2023 By: Web Desk on October 31, 2022Apple is reportedly to launch new models of Mac in 2023. According to notable Apple analyst and Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman, Apple will launch a new MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and Mac Pro next year, though the exact launch date remains unclear. Previously, the same analyst reported that Apple would launch a new MacBook Pro […]
NASA captures image of ‘smiling’ sun By: Web Desk on October 31, 2022 An image of the sun that looks to show it smiling with a pair of eyes and a turned-up mouth was taken by a NASA satellite. The agency tweeted the image, captured last week, with the caption, “Today, Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the sun ‘smiling.’ Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark patches on […]
Twitter considers charging verified users for blue tick mark: report By: Reuters on October 31, 2022Twitter considers charging verified users for blue tick mark Twitter will revise its user verification process, Elon Musk said in a tweet on Sunday, just days after he took over one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. “Whole verification process is being revamped right now”, Musk said in his tweet without giving more […]
Tesla faces US criminal probe over self-driving claims By: Reuters on October 27, 2022Tesla Inc is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company’s electric vehicles can drive themselves, three people familiar with the matter said. The US Department of Justice launched the previously undisclosed probe last year following more than a dozen crashes, some of them fatal, involving Tesla’s driver assistance system Autopilot, which was […]
Elon Musk visits Twitter headquarters ahead of takeover deadline By: Reuters on October 27, 2022Billionaire Elon Musk said he paid a visit to Twitter Inc’s headquarters in San Francisco on Wednesday, ahead of a court-ordered deadline to close his $44 billion deal for the social media platform. “Entering Twitter HQ let that sink in!” said the caption of a video that Musk tweeted in which he was walking into […]