Category: Internet

Meta has announced new real-time Avatar feature for video calls on Instagram and Messenger. The company has announced the feature via its blog post, sharing that users can now use their Avatars during video calls on Instagram and Messenger. Meta Avatars on these social media apps’ video calls look somewhat similar to Apple’s Memoji avatars. […]

We’re halfway into 2023, but it’s already been a great year at the movies. Film historians would be delighted to look back at some surprise box office hits like The Super Mario Bros. Movie, an adaptation of the seminal Nintendo video game franchise, which earned $1.344 billion (about Rs. 11,063 crore) — a massive feat, […]

Wipro, India’s third-largest software services company, on Wednesday announced a $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,231 crore) spending plan to train its entire 2.5 lakh employees in artificial intelligence and integrate the technology into its product offerings. The spending, over the next three years, also involves bringing 30,000 employees from cloud, data analytics, consulting and engineering […]

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to financial services must go hand-in-hand with better fraud prevention and resilience to hacking and outages, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was expected to say on Wednesday. Nikhil Rathi, chief executive of the FCA, said in remarks made available to the media in advance of a speech, that he was already […]

A key way that Amazon’s cloud division aims to set itself apart from rivals perceived to have a leg up on artificial intelligence is by competing on price, an executive said on Tuesday. The AI models behind a viral chatbot like ChatGPT require immense computing power to train and operate, the kinds of costs Amazon […]

Online gaming companies on Tuesday said that levying of 28 percent GST will limit their ability to invest in new games, impact cash flows as well as business expansion. The GST Council has agreed to impose a 28 percent tax on online gaming, casinos and horse racing. The tax would be levied on the full […]

Tom Cruise is still hell-bent on filming his next movie in outer space, reuniting with his Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman. Speaking to Variety during the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One premiere in New York City, the actor claimed that he did not have a production date yet, adding: “We’ve been working […]

Amazon has launched a legal challenge against its inclusion in a group of companies subject to tough European Union online content rules, in a move that technology experts have said may prompt other tech giants to follow suit. Amazon’s challenge at the Luxembourg-based General Court, Europe’s second highest, is the first by a Big Tech […]

EA just unveiled the cover of its upcoming football simulation game EA Sports FC 24 Ultimate Edition, featuring some of the sport’s biggest players alongside legends of the past. It is worth noting that the star-studded cover looks a little odd, with the players’ faces appearing poorly rendered and as if they’re trying to mask […]

EA has formally announced that it’s working on a Black Panther single-player game. In a tweet, the publisher confirmed that its new Seattle-based studio Cliffhanger Games is developing an original story-driven game that explores the world of Wakanda. The project is led by Kevin Stephens, who served as Monolith Productions’ studio head when Middle-earth: Shadow […]

The world’s wealthiest nations must urgently prepare for the impact of an imminent “AI revolution” that will change jobs, create new ones and make others disappear, the OECD said Tuesday. The rapid development of artificial intelligence — with tools that can generate essays, create images and even pass medical exams — has raised concerns that […]

Meta Platforms’s Instagram is planning to bring its branded content tools to Threads, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing a source familiar with the matter. Such tools will help marketers collaborate with influencers on paid partnerships on the social media platform while advertising is unavailable. Meta, the parent of Facebook, did not immediately respond to a […]

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday sought to block a judge’s order that barred some federal agencies and officials from communicating with social media firms about moderating content on their platforms in a decision stemming from a Republican-backed lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration. The department asked the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of […]

WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new privacy-focused feature for community members. The new functionality previously said to be in testing would let users hide their phone numbers while joining a community. The feature called “phone number privacy”, is reportedly available to all Android and iOS beta testers. With this, users can participate in conversations […]

iPhone 14 price in India is set to get a discount later this week, when the Amazon Prime Day 2023 sale kicks off. The e-commerce giant’s biggest sale of the year for its Prime subscribers is set to bring a range of deals, discounts, and sale offers on the latest smartphones and consumer electronics, including […]

U.S. lawmakers are considering changes to address concerns about a bill that would give the Biden administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee who has cosponsored the legislation said on Monday. Democratic Senator Mark Warner told Reuters that aggressive lobbying by the ByteDance-owned short video app TikTok against […]

iOS 16.5.1 (a) and macOS 13.4.1 (a) were rolled out by Apple on Monday as Rapid Security Response (RSR) updates for the company’s phones, tablets, and Mac computers. The update included fixes for a vulnerability in Apple’s browser engine that may have been used by hackers to execute malicious code remotely on a user’s device […]

Social media giant Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to label government-affiliated accounts on its new Twitter-like platform Threads, an executive told an Australian inquiry on foreign interference on Tuesday. “Areas such as labels for state-affiliated media and fact-checking are all areas where we see a lot of value, and it’s our aspiration […]

Meta Platforms’ social media apps Instagram and Facebook, messaging app WhatsApp and Twitter-rival Threads were all back up after a brief outage affecting thousands of users on Monday, according to Downdetector.com. At the peak of the outage, lasting over an hour, over 14,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram, while around 7,000 and 2,700 users […]

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models.  The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Friday allege Facebook parent company Meta and ChatGPT […]

The European Commission announced a new data transfer pact with the United States on Monday, seeking to end the legal uncertainty plaguing thousands of companies which transfer personal data across the Atlantic. However, the move was immediately criticised by non-profit group noyb, led by privacy activist Max Schrems, which said it would challenge the agreement. […]

Meta Platforms‘ Twitter rival Threads crossed 100 million sign-ups within five days of launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday, dethroning ChatGPT as the fastest-growing online platform to hit the milestone. Threads has been setting records for user growth since its launch on Wednesday, with celebrities, politicians and other newsmakers joining the platform seen by […]

Taiwan’s Foxconn has withdrawn from a $19.5 billion (roughly Rs. 1,61,133 crore) semiconductor joint venture with Indian metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta, it said on Monday in a setback to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chipmaking plans for India. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, and Vedanta signed a pact last year to set up semiconductor and […]

NBA 2K24 is getting cross-play across the current-gen PS5 and Xbox Series S/X versions. This marks the first time in the franchise’s 25-year-long run that the feature is being added to the revered basketball sim, allowing players on different platforms to play with one another. The PC version, however, will not only be left out […]

A new social media trend has recently emerged in response to the materialistic nature of influencer culture: deinfluencing. This trend involves influencers discouraging their followers from buying overpriced or ineffective products. Influencing is a highly profitable form of marketing, reaching a market value of $16.4 billion (roughly Rs. 1,35,471 crore) in 2022. But by its nature, […]

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One — out Wednesday in theatres — is filled with utterly insane practical stunts, some of which are callbacks to sequences from previous films, albeit with higher stakes. Tom Cruise will once again be fighting atop a running train, one that was built from scratch for this particular film […]

WhatsApp is rolling out a feature to beta testers on Android with support for logging on to WhatsApp Web using a phone number. The platform currently requires users to scan a QR code with their smartphone in order to log on to the web version of the messaging service. After downloading the latest testing version […]

Threads is set to record 100 million registered users, less than a week after Facebook parent Meta launched its new microblogging platform. The company’s app is closely linked to a user’s Instagram account and is positioned as an alternative to services like Twitter, which was acquired by Elon Musk last year. Days after it was […]

Australia’s competition watchdog on Monday asked consumers, businesses and other relevant stakeholders to provide their views about the business practices of data brokers in an attempt to regulate the country’s digital platform services sector. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will consider products and services supplied by major data brokers including Oracle, Equifax, Ireland […]

Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year. “ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” read Sweeney’s first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning. ElonJet […]