Akinola Ajibola

2 days ago | techbooky.com | Akinola Ajibola

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas revealed onstage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday that Perplexity got 780 million searches in the month of May. According to Srinivas, the AI search engine is growing by more than 20% every month. With 22 million active users, $100 million in recurring revenue annually, and plans to debut its Comet browser in a matter of weeks, the AI search engine is still growing at a breakneck pace and is looking for capital that could raise its valuation to $18 billion.

2 days ago | techbooky.com | Akinola Ajibola

A makeover of the Now Playing screen has been under test by YouTube Music since November 2024. The thumbs up and down buttons on YouTube Music have been moved, however it hasn’t been implemented yet and is currently in transition. The play/pause, next/last, shuffle, and repeat control lines are located beneath the song name and artist in contrast to the existing design from 2023. The timeline is now blockier to resemble the main YouTube app, although it still stays in the centre.

2 days ago | techbooky.com | Akinola Ajibola

On Thursday, a feature posted on X said that it is starting an experiment that would identify posts that are loved by individuals who would typically disagree. The platform’s crowdsourced Community Notes function, which is currently utilized when content has been flagged as inaccurate or misleading, is utilized in this project.

2 days ago | techbooky.com | Akinola Ajibola

USSD transaction fees are now being deducted from customers’ airtime by Nigerian banksThe Nigerian Communications Commission allegedly ordered Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to take Unstructured Supplementary Service Data transaction fees straight out of customers’ airtime balances rather than their bank accounts. However, telecom operators who are members of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria have denied these allegations.

3 days ago | techbooky.com | Akinola Ajibola

Two significant subscription milestones have recently been reached by Truecaller. On Wednesday, Truecaller declared that it now had over three million active members worldwide. The additional features it added to its paid consumer service, which let consumers benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for spam protection and call screening, are responsible for this growth.