Here are the top trending news from the world of technology
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Elon Musk unveils Tesla’s first European Factory with Fanfare
Tesla’s CEO and founder Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled company’s Gigafactory in Germany. This is a milestone moment for the electric vehicle manufacturer as this is its first factory in the Europe. To mark this momentous occasion, Musk broke into dance as he handed over the keys of the brand new Tesla cars to select families. Tesla is of the opinion that this new Gigafactory in Germany will help in minimizing the production pressures on its existing factories in the U.S. and China (Read more)
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Apple hit by outage again (second time in less than 48 hours)
In a clear embarrassment for Apple Inc, the company’s multiple online services faced outage again on Tuesday. The latest outage happened barely 24 hours after Apple’s various services faced global outage. In the latest outages, services like Apple Music, podcasts, books and app store were affected. These services were almost down for two hours. Other critical services like iMessage, iCloud, Apple Maps and Apple TV remained unaffected during Tuesday’s outage (Read more)
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Twitter rolls out built-in GIF capture feature
Twitter on Tuesday launched a new exciting feature in the IOS app, allowing IOS users to create and record their own GIF right from their phone. Users have to merely open their camera module and switch to the GIF mode to record their own clips. Currently, Twitter has rolled out this feature only in IOS and has commented about the Android launch. It is not clear either whether this feature will be available to all IOS users across the world or to IOS users residing in selected countries (Read more)
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Zoom launches virtual animal avatars
How about turning up in your next Zoom meeting as a rabbit, fox or dog. This may sound bit wired but Zoom has launched new virtual animal avatar feature on its platform. As of now, these animal avatar feature will pop-up only during meeting breaks. The company believes that this new update will add a dash of fun element and also help its users to cope with fatigue during the meeting (Read more)
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Bored Apes NFT startup Yuga Labs raises fresh funds
Yuga labs, the creator of the popular the Bored Apes Yacht Club NFT, has raised $450 Mn at an eye-popping valuation of $4 Bn. In all probability, this is the first external funding received by the Miami based NFT startup. The company said that it plans to use the money to build a media empire around NFTs (Read more)
