Microsoft has announced the Skype application is being closed today (Monday) after 20 years of operation. The app users will be moved to Microsoft Teams. In a statement, Microsoft reported: “Skype will be retired. This change will impact both free and paid Skype users, but not Skype for Business.” Skype users will have the option to More
Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011. The tech giant said Friday it will retire Skype in May and shift some of its services to Microsoft Teams, its flagship videoconferencing and team applications platform. Skype users will be able to use their existing accounts to log into More
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced his government will legislate a ban on the use of social media for children under 16 years of age. According to Reuters, Albanese told a press conference: “This step will be taken for the parents of children. Social media is doing harm to our kids and I’m calling More
Afghanistan has produced a new for urban public transport, an official of the interim government said on Thursday. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid wrote on his X handle the bus had been made in the country. This bus would be used for urban transport services in the country, he said. “Alhamdulillah (thank God), this is domestic More
The Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology (MoTIT) says about 10 million SIM cards have been registered over last two and a half years. Inayatullah Alokozai, spokesman for MoTIT, acknowledged the issue of illegal SIM card sales in the markets after the Talian takeover. He said MoTIT had thrashed out a plan curbing the practice More
A 13-year-old school student has invented a sun-tracking solar panel device in eastern Nangarhar province. Yahya, 13, a student of seventh grade at Najm-ul-Jihad High School in limits of 6th police district of Jalalabad City, has made the device for solar panels. He said the sun-tracking device he had made was a sample and he could More
An engineer with the Ariana Afghan Airlines (AAA) has built a plane for the first time which can carry four people. National Radio Television published a video and said that recently Daud Faizi, one of the engineers of the airlines, was able to build a plane with the capacity to carry four people using budget More
A computer science faculty student in the university of eastern Nangarhar province has made glasses and cane that can help blind people walk and do other things in life. Bashir Ahmad Omarkhail, a resident of Omarkhail area of Narkh district of central Maidan Wardak province, says if supported he will make other technological inventions. Omarkhail More
A resident of western Herat province has made a restaurant car using his own money. He says he can also make city buses and high-speed passenger vehicles if supported. Murtaza, the inventor of the restaurant car, said that the car was used as a mobile restaurant and all related facilities were available inside it. According More
Twitter Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk has promised adding a voice and video chat option to the platform soon. Musk tweeted: “Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform, so you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number.” He More
