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Twitter brings ALT badge, improved image descriptions globally
San Francisco : In a bid to make it easy to add alt text to image uploads, micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that its new accessibility features, ALT badge and improved image descriptions, are now available globally. The company…
Snapchat’s new lens aims to teach users American Sign Language
San Francisco : Popular social network Snapchat has announced that it is rolling out a new ASL Alphabet lens to encourage users to start learning American Sign Language. The company said that it is constantly working to expand the ways…
Tesla plans to roll out FSD beta to all customers this year : Musk
San Francisco : Tech billionaire Elon Musk said that his electric vehicle company Tesla is planning to roll out "full self-driving" (FSD) beta software this year to all customers in North America who have plunked down as much as $12,000 for…
Tencent to shut down its game streaming service
San Francisco : Video games company Tencent said it will shut down its game streaming platform Penguin Esports by June due to "changes in business strategies". Twitch-like Penguin Esports never achieved a substantial market share in China,…
Twitter testing new feature to let users ‘unmention’ themselves
San Francisco : Micro-blogging site Twitter said it isAtesting a new way for users to remove themselves from conversations they do not want to be a part of.The company said that the experimental feature is currently available on the Web for…
Epic Games, Lego to build a kid-friendly metaverse
San Francisco : Game developer Epic Games and toy company The Lego Group are building a new, family-friendly virtual world. The companies have not revealed too many details just yet, though they plan to "shape the future of the metaverse to…
Musk opens Gigafactory in Texas to build ‘epic’ Cybertruck
San Francisco : Electric car-maker Tesla has opened its Austin, Texas-based Gigafactory, as Elon Musk aims to take his electric car company to the next phase of growth with the production of Cybertruck.Tesla held an event, billed as a…
Ukraine gets 5,000 Starlink internet terminals via SpaceX, USAID
San Francisco : Elon Musk-led SpaceX, in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has delivered 5,000 starlink terminals to war-torn Ukraine.The satellite internet connectivity of Ukraine was taken…
Twitter change leaves huge gaps in websites
San Francisco : Micro-blogging site Twitter has made a small but significant change to how deleted tweets are shown when they are embedded in third-party websites. Since at least the end of March, the social media network has started…
Instagram ‘slashes’ payouts to creators by 70% on Reels
San Francisco : Meta-owned Instagram has reportedly slashed creators' payout by as much as 70 per cent while increasing target metrics for monetisation for them on the platform.According to The Financial Times, their payments are down as…