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Sri Lanka will introduce a mobile app for the safety of tourists coming to the South Asian country, Minister of Tourism and Lands Harin Fernando said here. He told reporters that the mobile app will also help boost Sri Lanka’s tourism, reports Xinhua news agency. The Minister said that he has already informed a select […]

The social media tool recently rolled out an In-chat polls feature that allows users to run a poll on groups or individual chats. Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has started working on 21 new emojis for the future update of the application. The messaging platform also redesigned eight emojis which are already visible in the beta

Silicon Valley leaders welcomed Elon Musk‘s management of Twitter, with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings going so far as to call the billionaire “the bravest, most creative person on the planet.” Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was keen to see how Elon Musk‘s management of content moderation on Twitter would fare, arguing it was

European planemaker Airbus has announced a partnership with French carmaker Renault to develop a new generation of electric batteries for cars and planes. Engineering teams from both companies will join forces to mature technologies related to energy storage, one of the main roadblocks for the development of long-range electric vehicles, Airbus said in a statement.

Tech giant Google has announced that it has started to roll out refunds for Stadia hardware which were purchased from the Google Store. According to an email sent to customers, the hardware refunds will be processed within two weeks. As per the tech giant’s Stadia shutdown FAQ page, purchases of the Stadia controller, the Founder’s

Google Maps is reportedly facing an issue with the voice search feature on CarPlay, a smartphone integration system that allows users to use and see a selection of iPhone-based applications through the car’s dashboard. Several Reddit users have reported the strange issue, mentioning that the feature is only working after multiple attempts, according to 9To5Google.

Iran has signed a Memorandum of Understanding valued at $300 million with Russia for car exports to the country, semi-official Fars news agency reported. Russia is one of the customers of Iranian automobiles, Fars quoted Mohammadreza Najafi-Manesh, President of the Association of Homogeneous Powertrain Industries and Parts Manufacturers, as saying on Monday. Read Also Najafi-Manesh

After a few users reported that they were not able to block accounts, Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed that a “slight degradation of service” on the microblogging platform was caused by an old “3rd party tool” that has now been fixed. Musk tweeted: “Twitter experienced slight degradation of service today from an old 3rd party

WhatsApp rolls out contact cards sharing on Windows beta Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has started to roll out the ability to share contact cards on Windows beta. The new feature allows users to share contact cards within the same chat share sheet, reports WABetaInfo. The entry point “Contacts” will appear if the feature is already

Qualcomm has announced its next-generation top-of-the-line chipset for smartphones, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, succeeding the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipsets. The new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset improves CPU and GPU performance with better efficiency. So far, only one smartphone has launched with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 –