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Silicon Valley is driving users to ditch keyboards and spend hours talking to their tech
Gavin McNamara has abandoned his keyboard and spends all day talking rather than typing. He speaks for hours with his computer and phone,…
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Google is at last letting users swap out embarrassing Gmail addresses without losing their data
Google has finally answered users’ cries, allowing Gmail users to swap out embarrassing teenage email addresses. Gmail account holders can…
Business
Snapchat is nearing 1 billion monthly users. Why can't it turn a profit?
Snapchat, an app whose disappearing messages and silly face filters made chatting with loved ones more casual, is close to a milestone…
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Roblox to scan users' faces to verify age amid persistent child safety concerns
Roblox, a popular gaming platform that’s faced growing scrutiny over child safety concerns, said Tuesday it will require users to verify…
Culture
Netflix is revamping its gaming strategy to win more users. Is it working?
Inside an office in Hollywood, not far from the Walk of Fame and the Sunset Bronson Studios, Netflix executive Alain Tascan revealed new…
Business
India’s Bharti Airtel posts surge in quarterly profit as higher-paying users grow
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest mobile carrier by number of users, posted its sixth straight quarterly profit rise on Monday (Nov…
Business
China tightens rare earth export controls, targets defence, semiconductor users
BEIJING (Reuters) -China tightened its rare earth export controls on Thursday, expanding restrictions on processing technology,…
Business
Revolut to spend US$13 billion on its push for 100 million users
The company aims to become one of the top three financial apps in every market it enters Revolut plans to enter 30 new geographies by the…
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Online liberal social media users celebrate Charlie Kirk's assassination
Liberal commentators online took to their social media platforms upon hearing about the assassination of conservative activist and Turning…
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Clip of strong winds in Vietnam falsely shared by Thai users to taunt Cambodia
After major storms caused flooding in parts of Southeast Asia, a video of people battling strong winds surfaced in Thai social media posts…
Business
AI-generated clip of 'sparrows eating lovebugs' fools S. Korean users
After South Korea was hit with a lovebug infestation, social media posts and news reports shared a video falsely claiming it showed a…
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Tinder rolls out mandatory face verification for California users
West Hollywood-based Tinder is now requiring facial recognition scans for all users in California as part of its efforts to build trust…
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Alibaba chases international AI users with new Qwen upgrades
The expansion, through its Singapore availability zones, shows Alibaba ramping up an aggressive campaign to lure AI users and developers…
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Will Trump kill programs that help drug users? L.A. harm reduction groups await fate
Samson Tafolo’s final count read 119. For 45 minutes, he had tugged a wagon packed with mini water bottles, hemp cigarettes and…
Business
Thai users share staged clip as genuine footage of 'Bank of China ex-chairman after death sentence'
Thai social media users have shared a staged video of a man being taken away with the false claim it is genuine footage of the former Bank…
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Adobe brings free Photoshop app to phones, courting younger users
The free version of the Photoshop app will have features such as splitting a photo into separate layers, masking off parts of it and…
Business
Card-issuing banks in Singapore to require additional verification for mobile wallet users
Major card-issuing banks have prevented S$53.9 million of losses in Q4 2024, ABS says THE Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) said on…
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Sony to offer PlayStation Plus users five-day extension after global outage
SONY said on Sunday (Feb 9) that all PlayStation Plus members would automatically receive an additional five days of service, after a…
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DeepSeek Faces Major Cyberattack After Wall Street Debut, Limits New Users Amid Privacy Concerns and Global Tech Stock Slump
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek announced a temporary halt on user registrations following a large-scale cyberattack on its services. This…
Politics
US Google Maps Users to See 'Gulf of America' Instead of 'Gulf of Mexico'
Google Maps users in the United States will soon notice a significant change in their app: the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of…
Business
ChatGPT Outage Reported by Thousands of Users
ChatGPT appeared to be disrupted Thursday morning, as thousands of users reported problems with the site. The website Down Detector showed…
Politics
Reddit Users Boycott X Links After Elon Musk’s Gesture at Inaugural Event
Many Reddit users are boycotting the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, after Elon Musk twice made a gesture during President…
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CapCut, a Video-Editing App From ByteDance, Returns for U.S. Users
TikTok is not the only app owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance that is flickering back to life. CapCut, a popular video-editing…
Politics
TikTok goes dark for US users, company pins hope on Trump
TikTok stopped working in the United States late on Saturday (Jan 18) and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores ahead of a law that…