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Stack Overflow sacks 28% of workforce
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Stack Overflow sacks 28% of workforce

The Prosus-owned startup Stack Overflow revealed Monday that 28% of its workforce had been let go. The CEO of Stack Overflow, Prashanth Chandrasekar, stated in a blog post that the company is concentrating on its route to profitability. Although the post did not go into detail about the cause of the job layoffs, it did […]

Twitch enhances filtering tools to block sexual, violent content from livestream
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Twitch blocks banned users from watching streams  

Twitch has introduced an anti-harassment feature that makes it impossible to block banned users from watching their streams. The function was first introduced by Twitch in August. Although there are techniques to prohibit banned users from participating in a stream’s conversation, streamers have limited control over whether banned people actually watch their streams. The “Stop […]

Snap unveils new lens studio tools for AR creators
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New Snpachat update angers users – Report

An update to the social media site is causing frustration among Snapchat users once more. This time, it has to do with the formerly charming but now unsettling Bitmoji. Users were shocked last week when Snapchat’s cartoon avatars underwent a facelift as part of its efforts to further 3D-ify Bitmoji. “The Bitmoji has evolved into […]

Stears pivots to B2B market - Report
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Stears pivots to B2B market – Report

Nigerian data and intelligence company, Stears is changing its focus from consumer-oriented data solutions to an intelligence company with new offers that are focused on organisations. The director of Stears, Yvette Dimiri, claims that user input was the driving force behind this modification. “From the insights and data solutions being requested by our professional users, […]

Wattpad launches freemium package to monetize, grow authors' stories
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Wattpad launches freemium package to monetize, grow authors’ stories

The social storytelling platform Wattpad is now replacing its Paid Stories with a new freemium model dubbed “Wattpad Originals” that provides authors the chance to monetize their work while also expanding their readership of non-paying customers. “Paid Stories paid out millions to authors, but it also meant slower story growth,” head of content and creator […]

FG launches applications for tech startup accelerator programme
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FG launches applications for tech startup accelerator programme

The federal government, through the National Information Technology Development Agency, has launched applications for a tech startup accelerator Fellowship programme to encourage Nigerians with creative ideas. According to the Agency, the Founder Institute in Abuja is collaborating with them to organise the Fellowship programme. The Fellowship, according to NITDA, aims to promote an entrepreneurial culture […]

Russia blocks Discord for violating local laws
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Discord resumes operations after hours-long outage

The instant messaging service Discord said on Friday morning that it had resumed operations following an hours-long outage. According to the company, the platform had been seeing “unusual traffic spikes” when the outage occurred. According to independent site monitoring service Downdetector, the problems started at about 6 AM ET/3 AM PT. On Friday morning, the […]

Snap shuts down enterprise services months after launch
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Snap shuts down enterprise services months after launch

Snap is closing its division that produces augmented reality services for enterprises within months of its launch. According to Snap, which like other social media companies has been bearing the brunt of low advertising spending from inflation-hit businesses since early last year, the division’s shutdown will result in around 170 job losses. The company that […]

NASA returns from space with asteroid
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NASA returns from space with asteroid

NASA has successfully brought its first piece of asteroid back to Earth as the OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample obtained from the asteroid Bennu on Sunday. OSIRIS-REx has “brought something extraordinary: the largest asteroid sample ever received on Earth,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on NASA TV. “It’s going to help scientists […]

Mozilla rebrands Firefox accounts to Mozilla
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Mozilla rebrands Firefox accounts to Mozilla

Mozilla on Saturday announced that it is changing the name of Firefox accounts to Mozilla accounts. The synchronisation of data between many Firefox installations on the same or other devices is one of the primary functions of a Firefox account. Mozilla argues that as the initial emphasis was on the Firefox web browser and its […]