WhatsApp to allow users to create and share polls in channels

In order to enable its users to create and share polls in channels, WhatsApp, the Meta-owned social messaging platform, on Sunday announced that it is rolling out a new update for its Android version, WABetaInfo reported. According to the app-tracking website, WhatsApp is working on a feature to share polls in channels, and it will be available in a future update of the app. Currently, the feature is under development, so it’s not ready for beta testers. The new feature will make users enable to create and share polls in channels in…

Israel thrusts anti-Hamas ads into children’s video games, dehumanising Palestinians

Israel is taking aid of media propaganda in order to continue waging its war on Palestinians, as graphic pro-Israel advertisements make their way into children’s video games. As Maria Julia Cassis’s 6-year-old son entered the dining room with a pale face, she was enjoying lunch in her north London terraced house. His Android phone’s puzzle game had been cut off by a blurry, horrific film featuring distressed Israeli families and Hamas gunmen. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent the first-grader a message over a black screen that said, “WE…

Elon Musk announces new ad-free, low cost subscription plans on X

Two new premium X (previously Twitter) subscription levels have been confirmed by Elon Musk, one of them will be less expensive than the current $8/month X Premium subscription while the other will cost more and allow users to opt out of seeing ads on the social media platform. The billionaire has said that he hasn’t yet disclosed the costs of these two subscription plans. In a post on X confirming the new subscription plans, Musk wrote, “Two new tiers of X Premium subscriptions launching soon. One is lower cost with…

X fined $386,000 for not cooperating in child-abuse investigation in Australia

Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, has incurred a fine of A$610,500 (approximately $386,000) from the Australian e-Safety Commission for its failure to cooperate with an investigation into its practices related to preventing child abuse. This financial penalty is a significant blow to the platform, which has been grappling with declining revenue and facing criticism for its content moderation policies. The e-Safety Commission imposed this fine on X, which was formerly known as Twitter before Musk’s rebranding, due to its refusal to respond to inquiries regarding how it handles reports…

Nasa mission to fly metal-rich asteroid to probe genesis

US space agency Nasa and Elon Musk’s aerospace company are all set to send a probe to a metal-rich asteroid to study the origins and evolution of the celestial rock about which the astronomers were unaware, calling it an entirely new phenomenon. It is anticipated by astronomers that the space rock could be a part of a small planet. The probe is to fly Friday bound for Psyche, an object 2.2 billion miles (3.5 billion kilometres) away that could offer clues about the interior of planets like Earth. “We’ve visited…

What did James Webb Telescope reveal about Orion Nebula?

Astronomers have discovered a new look into the Orion Nebula using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovering a planet-like object at a distance of 1,300 light-years from Earth, according to the European Space Agency.  Orion Nebula is the brightest one in the night sky which consists of clouds of dust and gas. Experts have been studying the Orion Nebula due to its hosting of objects including planet-forming disks around young stars and brown dwarfs. The astronomers Samuel G. Pearson and Mark J. McCaughrean while studying focused on the Trapezium Cluster…

Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, Alexei Ekimov awarded for developing ‘quantum dots’

Moungi Bawendi from France, Louis Brus of the United States and Russian-born Alexei Ekimov won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday creating tiny “quantum dots” that are used to light up TVs and lamps. The trio brought advances on tiny particles that “now spread their light from televisions and LED lamps, and can also guide surgeons when they remove tumour tissue,” the jury said. But a rare leak led to the winners´ names being mistakenly sent to media outlets hours before they were officially announced, prompting an apology from…

New antimatter findings push scientists closer to cracking code of universe’s origin

Scientists have made a significant finding about antimatter, a mysterious substance that was abundant at the beginning of the universe. Antimatter is the exact opposite of matter, which the universe is made of. Both were produced in an equal quantity during the Big Bang that gave rise to our universe. Although matter can be found everywhere, it is currently incredibly difficult to find its opposite. According to the most recent research, the two react to gravity in the same way. For years, physicists have been trying to figure out how…

Another power-up for OpenAI as ChatGPT given full access to Internet

ChatGPT, a generative AI platform, can now acquire data directly from the internet and gather current information in real-time in a significant development for the software, as per its developer OpenAI. Until now, ChatGPT´s responses to user queries were based on a vast database, which did not contain information from after August 2021. “ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources,” OpenAI said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “It is no longer limited to data before…

James Webb Telescope observes life supporting element on Jovian moon

The deep space diver James Webb Space Telescope captured remarkable details about the composition of Jupiter’s moon Europa’s icy surface which hosts carbon as scientists are hopeful of finding traces of extraterrestrial life in the planets and their satellites in our solar system. Earlier researchers have described the composition of Europa’s surface with salty liquid water which designated it as a focus area of the experts searching for life outside Earth. The results of the studies published in the journal Science gave new explanations about the chemical composition of the ocean beneath…