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Google workers call Bard AI announcement ‘rushed’, ‘botched’
San Francisco : Google employees have reportedly criticised the company's leadership, particularly, CEO Sundar Pichai, for how it handled the announcement of its ChatGPT competitor "Bard" this week, calling the announcement "rushed", and…
Google launches ‘Immersive Stream for XR’ tool for Cloud users
San Francisco : Google on Friday launched its new 'Immersive Stream for XR' service for all Google Cloud customers, with which users will not need any powerful hardware or a special application to be immersed in a 3D or augmented reality…
WhatsApp lets users easily record videos hands-free on iOS beta
San Francisco : Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new camera mode which will allow users to easily record videos hands-free on iOS beta.
This feature is rolling out to some beta testers after installing…
Elon Musk fires Twitter engineer over his dropping reach
San Francisco : Twitter CEO Elon Musk has fired the company's top engineer because of his declining reach, the media reported. Musk, last week, kept his account private for one day to see whether that would increase the amount of his…
Tobacco, e-cigs may raise risk of Covid in healthy young : Study
San Francisco : Smoking tobacco and vaping electronic cigarettes may increase the risk of developing severe Covid illness among healthy young people, a new study has revealed.
According to the study published in the Journal of Molecular…
Google announces AI-enabled updates to Search, Maps, Translate
San Francisco : Google has announced a number of artificial intelligence-enabled updates across its products, including Search, Maps, and Translate, amid rising competition from Microsoft, which is also integrating AI into its suite of…
Twitter Blue users in US can now write 4,000-character tweets
San Francisco : Twitter on Thursday announced that Blue subscribers in the US can now post long tweets of up to 4,000 characters on the micro-blogging platform.
The company posted from its @TwitterBlue account: "Starting today, if you're…
Meta expands its monetisation feature ‘Gifts’ across US on Instagram
San Francisco : Meta has announced that it is expanding its Reels-focused monetisation feature 'Gifts' across the US on Instagram, offering a way for users to easily begin earning money from their audience.
Gifts allow followers to show…
Google to soon blur explicit images in search results by default
San Francisco : Tech giant Google has announced that it will blur explicit imagery in the search results by default "in the coming months". SafeSearch filtering is already on by default for signed-in users who are under the age of 18, the…
Microsoft introduces new Bing powered by improved ChatGPT AI
San Francisco : Microsoft has introduced its new Bing powered by "next-generation" ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI), and also updated its Edge browser with new AI capabilities.
The AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser are…