A SIM card is necessary for answering and receiving calls, sending and receiving text messages, and accessing the internet. As unfortunate as it is, hardware and software issues can cause your phone’s network connection to fail. If your Android phone says “No SIM card,” there are possible reasons it is malfunctioning; TRY…
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The popular app TikTok is being asked to be banned again, this time by a well-known lawmaker. In a letter to Apple and Google, Democratic Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, demanded that the tech. companies remove TikTok from their app stores. Bennet writes that…
Instagram is rumoured to be working on a subscription plan that includes the blue badge. “Paid blue badge,” as a reverse engineer named Alessandro Paluzzi puts it (via TechCrunch), was found in code snippets that suggested the company might be thinking about letting users pay for verification. “At the moment…
ChatGPT’s number of users has grown at a much faster rate than that of TikTok and other popular apps. UBS, an analytics firm, released a study (via Reuters and CBS) indicating that OpenAI’s chatbot was on track to surpass 100 million MAUs in January. Although the chatbot only recently became…
Microsoft has launched a premium Teams messaging offering that is powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company made the announcement in a blog post, touting, “Teams Premium brings the latest technologies, including Large Language Models powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, to make meetings more intelligent, personalized, and protected.” Microsoft’s Teams Premium subscription…
Twitter has announced that, starting February 1, users who have had their accounts temporarily suspended can appeal an account suspension and be evaluated under its new criteria for reinstatement. This follows a statement by the company’s @TwitterSafety account that, “Going forward, we will take less severe actions, such as limiting…
Surprisingly, Twitter says it has discontinued its CoTweet feature, which allowed a user to co-author a tweet with another Twitter account. The company, which announced this via an updated support page, noted that CoTweets will no longer be available to create starting Tuesday, 1/31. CoTweets was enabled on “select” accounts in the United States, Canada,…
OpenAI is testing a new tool to help distinguish between AI-written and human-written text. The “AI Text Classifier,” as the company calls it, is a fine-tuned GPT model that predicts how likely it is that a piece of text was generated by AI from a variety of sources. While there…
Like many other tech companies, PayPal plans to let go of a large number of its employees. The payments company said on Tuesday that it was going to lay off about 2,000 people, which is about 7% of its total staff. President and CEO Dan Schulman announced that layoffs would…
Horizon Worlds, Meta’s social VR platform, has begun testing a new type of closed space—members-only worlds—that will let users create curated worlds for a select community of users. Currently, you can create public worlds for a large number of people to visit. The company is also testing what it calls…
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that Apple may debut a foldable iPad in 2024. He tweeted first thing Monday morning, “I’m positive about the foldable iPad in 2024 and expect this new model will boost shipments and improve the product mix.” Kuo is an analyst who likes to share observations and…
On March 23, the CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, will testify before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to address concerns over its potential risk to US national security. This was confirmed yesterday at a press release, the committee noting that Chew will face questions from the lawmakers in…
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has announced on his Twitter page that the company will be rolling out its Notes feature for text-based updates across Europe and Japan. Notes are short pieces of text (up to 60 characters) that are displayed over your profile picture for up to 24 hours before…
Baidu Inc, a Chinese multinational technology company specialising in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence (AI), plans to launch an artificial intelligence service similar to ChatGPT that provides users with conversational results. A large-scale machine-learning model that “excels in natural language understanding and generation,” Baidu announced in 2021, will…
Bloomberg says that Apple could start using its own screen technology to replace the screens in its mobile devices as early as next year. Reports say that Apple will replace the OLED displays on its most expensive Apple Watches with displays that use the company’s own microLED technology starting in…
According to reports, the Biden administration has reached an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to limit China’s access to high-tech chipmaking equipment. Bloomberg reports that on Friday, representatives from the two countries reached an agreement to implement some of the same export controls the United States has used over…
On February 1st, 2023, Samsung will host its first Unpacked event of the year, with the Galaxy S23 family likely to be the focus. There have been hints at even more information, like better cameras and faster processing speeds. Do we expect a radical change to this year’s crop of…
Instagram’s professional profiles allow users to schedule content up to 75 days in advance. In the past, the Meta-owned platform didn’t allow users to plan ahead and schedule their posts. Content creators, instead resorted to using desktop solutions like Meta Business Suite or third-party applications. Instagram posts can now be…
Twitter has said that it will take “less severe actions” in the future against accounts that break the rules. Accounts will only be suspended for “severe or ongoing, repeat violations.” Not only that, it also said that, beginning on February 1st, anyone can appeal a suspension, and that those who…
Researchers at Google have developed an AI that can compose music based on text inputs, much like how ChatGPT can transform a text command into a story and DALL-E can compose images based on written prompts. The AI model can quickly transform a user’s written words into music lasting several…