- On April 1, Musk will start earning from “checkmarks” on Twitter. Twitter will begin to remove all outdated blue ticks from the platform, which were obtained before the purchase of the social network by Elon Musk. The new owner believes these verification badges were issued in a “corrupt and nonsensical” manner. But a great businessman invented a way for the user to save a tick – for this he will need to pay.
- Bitcoin mining difficulty has reached a new record. The indicator increased by 7.56% to 46.84 trillion hashes, according to data from BTC.com.
- OpenAI has added plugins to ChatGPT: it now books tickets, searches for recipes, and interprets code.
- The wave of the ban on the Chinese application TikTok swept the world. At a time when the CEO of the company spoke in the US Congress, trying to convince the government not to block the service across the country, in Great Britain the program was banned in the parliament.
- Bill Gates published a seven-page text in his GatesNotes, where he shared predictions on the topic of artificial intelligence, and also talked about the dangers it carries.
- Whatsapp has released an update to the Windows application. It has features that users have been waiting for for years. And also presented the competitor of Zoom for Windows.
- “Killer” Google Chrome. Amazon is building its own browser.
- Elon Musk is recruiting a team to create a competitor to ChatGPT. The billionaire was an investor in OpenAI in the past but left the board in 2018 due to a conflict of interest.
- Huawei has introduced wireless headphones FreeBuds Pro 2+, which are able to measure both the user’s heart rate and body temperature with the help of built-in sensors.
- Microsoft plans to launch a mobile game store as early as 2024 to compete with Apple and Google.
That’s this week in tech!
