OTTAWA: The Canadian government will stop buying ads on Facebook and Instagram amid a dispute over a new law on paying online news publishers that the Meta-owned platforms have opposed, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said on Wednesday. The...
ChatGPT has currently disabled its Bing-based search engine feature after a loophole regarding bypassing paywalled content was figured out. In a tweet on July 4, OpenAI informed the users that they are temporarily closing the feature...
India will break ground next month on its first semiconductor assembly plant and begin producing its first domestically manufactured microchips by the end of 2024, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. India's information...
Cyber insurance rates dropped around 10% in June compared with a year earlier, reversing recent sharp rate rises, as claims proved smaller than expected, broker Howden said in a report on Wednesday. Cyber insurance rates more...
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday tweeted a defense of the temporary cap announced July 1 on the number of tweets users can read in a day, and the company said advertising has been stable in the days since the step that drew heavy...
A former ANZ Bank customer has closed her account and shared her frustration on social media after she failed to withdraw money from a bank branch last week.It comes as the bank has reduced the number of branches providing teller transactions,...
In a bid to challenge the embattled social media giant Twitter, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has unveiled its new conversation app called Threads.The move comes as Meta aims to tap into the growing demand for alternative platforms...
Australian stadiums playing host to the biggest concerts and sporting events in the country have been called out over their use of facial recognition cameras.Consumer group CHOICE claims consumers have been left in the dark by the...
Google Search is unable to display tweets and pages from Twitter in its results because of changes at Twitter which has affected the "ability to display tweets and pages from the site in search results," says spokesperson...
Twitter users will soon need to be verified in order to use TweetDeck, the social media company said in a tweet on Monday. The change will take effect in 30 days, the company said. Twitter made the announcement in a tweet detailing...
Millions of Telstra customers will now be paying up to $72 more per year for their mobile phone plan after the provider increased its prices.As of July 4, Telstra customers will see the price of their mobile plan increase in line with...
An online listing for a property in Melbourne has gone viral after an eagle-eyed house hunter spotted a bizarre detail in one of its photos.A screenshot of the listing was posted on social media, with the caption: “When you can’t...
Meta Platforms plans to launch a microblogging app, Threads, days after Twitter executive chair Elon Musk announced a temporary cap on how many posts users can read on the social media site. Threads, Instagram's text-based...
iPhone users around the world have discovered a “mind-blowing” calculator trick they never knew existed.Jackie, from Melbourne, shared a now-viral TikTok video showing a secret backspace feature that allows you to delete the last...
Apple has been forced to make major cuts to production forecasts for its Vision Pro augmented-reality headset due to design complexity, the Financial Times reported on Monday citing people with direct knowledge of the process. The...
Elon Musk's move to temporarily cap how many posts Twitter users can read on the social media site could undermine efforts by the company's new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino to attract advertisers, marketing industry professionals...
Stargazers are being told to look up to the skies on Monday night as the first supermoon of the year is expected to shine.The supermoon, also known as the buck moon, will reach its peak illumination at around 9.39 pm (AEST) on Monday...
WhatsApp has made it easier to transfer chat histories between two devices with the help of a QR code. Previously, users had to create a chat backup on a cloud service to later download it on the new phone. However, with the introduction...
YouTube is running an experiment globally, preventing viewers from using ad blockers while watching videos. According to some screenshots posted by viewers on Reddit, the video-streaming platform is showing a warning message to...
Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk on Friday called a "temporary emergency measure". Users who try to view content on the platform will...
Spotify Technology is mulling adding full-length music videos to its app, which could help the music streaming platform comPete with TikTok and Alphabet Inc's YouTube, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people...
