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Elon Musk has done the once unimaginable: He has helped revive Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley mojo. That was evident this week as tens of millions of people signed up for Zuckerberg’s alternative to Musk’s Twitter. After more than eight months of turmoil under Musk on Twitter, a certain glee erupted from those who said they were tired of the chaos and sometimes nastiness of his particular digital clubhouse.

Three of the 10 top-grossing apps on Google’s Play Store are live streaming apps — Chamet, Tango and Boloji Pro. All of these apps offer content that often borders on the Not Safe for Work category and have women who are a lot of times available for video calls, experts said. The top-grossing apps are those with the highest number of in-app payments made through the Play Store.

Senators pursuing PwC over its tax leaks scandal have demanded the firm reveal the names of the US tech giants given tax advice based on confidential government information obtained by a former PwC partner.

Investing.com — U.S. stocks were rising despite a weaker-than-expected jobs report and renewed fears that the Federal Reserve will continue to raise interest rates.

Paul Heaton has decided to support Scotland's largest music festival, TRNSMT, by buying drinks for fans attending the event. Heaton, known for his work with The Beautiful South and The Housemartins, will be gracing the main stage on Friday, delighting an estimated crowd of 50,000 festival-goers at Glasgow Green. Heaton took to social media to make the announcement about his plan. On the singer's Twitter and Facebook accounts, a post said, «Paul is leaving some money behind the bar at a few local pubs near to TRNSMT festival so that some of you can have a drink on him tomorrow afternoon (or until the money runs out, or the bar runs dry!).» This isn't the first time that Heaton has shown his appreciation for his fans. Last year, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, he generously sponsored 60 beverages for Neighbourhood festival attendees. Since then, he has continued this tradition of spreading joy and cheer.

Elon Musk after completing his takeover bid of Twitter fired almost half of the company's 7,800 employees. The massive lay-off as a bid to induce cost cutting on the part of the Tesla chief received backlash and criciticism for being brutal.

A transgender woman, the owners of an independent bookstore and an educator who teaches in costume are among those challenging Montana's first-in-the-nation law that bans people dressed in drag from reading to children in public schools or libraries

Jyotiraditya Scindia recently shared a video where he was seen interacting with the staff of an eatery near Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Amid loud chants of «long live Jyotiraditya Scindia», the minister was seen interacting with the cooks at the restaurant and taking the blessings of an elderly woman.

Namboothiri, the master illustrator known for his unique line sketches, died in the early hours of Friday, family sources said. He was 98. Popularly known as Artist Namboothiri among his admirers, he had been one of the most prolific literary illustrators in the country for decades. Besides line sketches, he was also known for his amusing paintings, sculptures and art direction in movies. Namboothiri's end came at a private hospital in nearby Kottakkal at 12.20 am while undergoing treatment for age-related ailments, his family said. During his several-decades-long career, Namboothiri illustrated many popular characters for literary publications in the state. The distinctive line sketches, which he drew for the characters of doyens of Malayalam literature like Jnanpith laureates M T Vasudevan Nair, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai and S K Pottakkad and legends like Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, were as popular as their literary works. On the illustration of the characters of his well-known work 'Randamoozham' which was based on the epic Mahabharata, an impressed MT even said that the readers saw in the book not his Bhima but that of Namboothiri's.

Facebook has handed US users the controls over fact-checked content, in a potentially significant move that the platform says will give them more power over its algorithm but some analysts insist could benefit purveyors of misinformation. For years, Facebook's algorithm automatically moved posts lower in the feed if they were flagged by one of the platform's third-party fact-checking partners, including AFP, reducing the visibility of false or misleading content.

Threads as a competitor to Twitter is a game-changer. Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, launched the new platform yesterday, ahead of schedule. Threads was welcomed almost immediately – especially by hordes of Twitter users that have watched in dismay as their beloved platform crumbles in the hands of Elon Musk.

PwC Australia advised Uber and Facebook how to restructure in face of an Australian law clamping down on tax avoidance, but both companies said on Friday they were surprised to find out PwC's advice may have been based on leaked government plans. The «big four» firm is under pressure to name all the clients it advised on the basis of confidential government tax plans leaked by a former partner between 2014 and 2017 while consulting for the government on international taxation. Citing two sources, Reuters reported on Wednesday Google had received confidential information from a former PwC employee confirming the likely Jan.

Garena Free Fire Max is a revamped version of Garena Free Fire. It debuted in 2021 and became popular after the ban of the former by the Indian government. Developers of the game keep updating these codes daily.

Twitter rival, Threads. The Facebook and WhatsApp parent is positioning the app as an extension of its Instagram platform, though it is a standalone application with features that are similar to Twitter. Experts ET spoke with said the app may dent Twitter’s user base in India, especially among the young people.

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk has broken his silence on Meta's Twitter competitor Threads after the news of his lawyers sending a cease and desist letter to Mark Zuckerberg started spreading online. The new app has seen a very successful launch, as Zuckerberg has revealed that more than ten million users signed up within the first seven hours, dwarfing the launch of some other popular platforms. Earlier Thursday, news portal Semafor reported that Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta Platforms over its new, text-based app called Threads, citing a letter sent to Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro.

US tech giants Uber and Facebook set up new company structures to sidestep Australia’s multinational tax avoidance law using PwC advice, days before the legislation came into effect in January 2016.

Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform, Semafor reported on Thursday, citing a letter sent to the Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro. «Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,» Spiro wrote in the letter.

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram officially unveiled Threads, an app designed as a direct rival to Twitter, launching the most serious threat yet to Elon Musk’s struggling social-media site. On Threads, people can post text and links and reply to or repost messages from others. The app will let users port over their existing follower lists and account names from Instagram, Meta’s photo and video-sharing app that counts major brands, celebrities and creators among its more than 2 billion users.

Meta, the company behind social media giants Facebook and Instagram, has launched its new microblogging platform Threads.What is Threads? The new app bears a striking resemblance to Twitter, allowing users to post text, images, or videos, as well as like, share, or repost content. Threads accounts are synched to Instagram at the outset, allowing users to keep their usernames and retain followers. Posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photos and videos up to five minutes long.

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McClatchy News on July 4.  “They have been seen ‘inflating’ their mouths," the institute said on Facebook. “…but this is the first time we believe anyone has had an encounter so soon after a meal." Diva Amon, the first scientist to identify the animal, “expressed that this was one of the most remarkable events of her career," Orcutt said.