Category : Technology
40 percent revenue drop at Twitter amid ad squeeze
According to reports, Twitter continues to be in the midst of an advertising squeeze. This is because the social media platform has seen a 40% reduction in revenue after over 500 clients ceased spending on the platform. Twitter’s daily revenue was down 40% year-over-year, according to the tech newsletter Platformer,......
Powerful Macbook Pro M2 Pro and M2 Max with long-lasting battery
It was announced today that Apple would be introducing the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros with Apple’s next-generation pro silicon, M2 Pro and M2 Max, which will deliver even superior power efficiency and battery life to pro users. With its M2 Pro and M2 Max processors, MacBook Pro tackles......
Microsoft will add ChatGPT to its Azure cloud services in the near future
The Azure cloud service from Microsoft now provides general access to OpenAI’s software. The company stated that more businesses would be able to utilize OpenAI’s large language models, including DALL-E 2 and Codex. The company also plans to add OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to the service in the near future. Microsoft......
Satellite launch by Britain ends in failure
After Virgin Orbit reported an anomaly that prevented its rocket from reaching orbit early on Tuesday, Britain’s attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment. The “horizontal launch” mission left from the coastal town of Newquay, southwest England, carrying Virgin’s LauncherOne rocket......
Microsoft in talks to invest $10 billion in ChatGPT
In a report published on Monday, Semafor quoted people familiar with the matter as saying Microsoft Corporation is discussing investing $10 billion in OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT. This would value the San Francisco-based company at $29 billion. A number of other venture capital firms have contributed to the funding......
Profits at Samsung plunge as gadget demand slows
For the last three months of 2022, Samsung expects its profits to decline by 69% to the lowest level in eight years. The world’s largest manufacturer of memory chips, smartphones and TVs predicted that its operating profit for the period would fall to approximately 4.3 trillion won ($3.4 billion; £2.8......
Danuri orbiter from South Korea has entered lunar orbit
Earlier than planned, South Korea’s unmanned spacecraft Danuri entered the orbit of the moon, according to the Yonhap news agency. According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, Danuri, also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, was captured by the gravity of the moon on Tuesday. It has begun......
400 million Twitter accounts breached by hacker, data for sale on the dark web
In one of the largest Twitter data breaches ever, 400 million Twitter users’ data was up for sale on the dark web. One day earlier, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced their investigation into a previous Twitter data leak that affected over 5.4 million users. In late November, a......
Meta to pay $725 million to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, will pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. Following Facebook’s revelation that 87 million users’ data had been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, tied to former President Donald Trump’s election campaign, a lawsuit was filed. Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data through......
Twitter lays off more workers
The Twitter San Francisco offices have been stripped out, fulfilling predictions that 75% of the company’s employees would be laid off. Somewhere, Elon Musk found even more people to fire as tumbleweeds blew through Twitter’s empty halls and empty office spaces. As first reported by Tech Crunch, the flailing social......