Post Date: Post Date – 12:15 AM, Wed – Nov 2 22
Over the past three days, Musk has disbanded the Twitter board and made himself the sole director, foreshadowing more layoffs to come.
Hyderabad: Rarely has any social media platform acquired so much confusion and so much news. The man behind it was Elon Musk, who got all the attention by securing a $44 billion acquisition of a company with about 240 million daily active users.
But everything that happened after that, especially after Musk walked into Twitter HQ in San Francisco holding what looked like a ceramic bathroom sink with the words “…let it sink.”, It’s just a mess.
Musk has since fired and became the sole member of the company’s board, himself making Twitterati part of the chaos at Twitter headquarters, suggesting that users must pay $20 for the so-called halo blue tick. “The entire verification process is now being revised,” Musk tweeted on Sunday in response to a user seeking help with verification.
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said he and his kingdom holding company have a combined $1.89 billion in existing assets despite an ongoing global debate over whether users will accept their payment factor. That sparked another debate about where Twitter was headed. Twitter’s stake, making them the company’s largest shareholder after Musk.
Following last week’s layoffs, including CEO Parag Agrawal and other executives, and signs of a larger restructuring and layoffs, Twitter’s future is trending in tweets from the microblogging site. Is the bird really as free as Musk tweeted, or will the bird fly again?
New Releases/Features
iOS 16.2 may be released in mid-December
Apple is about to make a major update to its iOS 16 operating system, iOS 16.2. The new features will likely be rolled out with iPadOS 16.2 in mid-December.
According to MacRumors, in iOS 16.2, users will be able to add a new sleep widget option to their lock screen. There will be a choice of three widgets: one showing the time the user spends in bed, another showing a bar graph illustrating sleep quality, and a larger widget showing the amount of time spent in bed in a visual representation.
Freeform, a new Apple application introduced at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), enables users to communicate with friends and colleagues through drawings, text, video, pictures, and more on a single board. The app is currently available to developers and public beta testers, and will likely be released in mid-December with iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, and macOS Ventura 13.1.
Google rolls out Chrome OS update with ‘save desktop for later’
Google has released an update to Chrome OS 107 that includes a “save desktop for later” feature to improve the user experience.
According to 9to5Google, the new update brings two improvements to Desks. The first will allow users to quickly “save desk for later” from the overview screen using the button above the leftmost window. Once clicked, the user will be redirected to the “Save Later” screen, which can be accessed from the right side of the “New Desk” screen.
Users can also see a row of open favicons, name them, and check the date they were created. It added that upon clicking, the table will start up and resume immediately.
In the Files app, the Recent view has been improved with a new Documents filter, while the list below has been sorted by time period for easier browsing.
– Dennis Marcus Mathew with institutional input
