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Google pledges $3 mn for Data Transfer Project
New Delhi : Google has announced to provide $3 million over the next five years, as well as hundreds of hours of its engineers' time, for the for the Data Transfer Project.In 2018, Google, Facebook (now Meta), Microsoft and Twitter…
Google Stadia to add 6 new games: Report
San Francisco : Google is reportedly planning to add six new games to Stadia.So far, in 2022, Google Stadia has added 12 new games. In 2021, the search engine giant delivered 107 to Stadia, and the company promises at least 100 new games…
YouTube Vanced to shut down ‘due to legal reasons’
San Francisco : After facing a legal threat from Google, the popular Vanced YouTube app is being discontinued.The developers have confirmed that they have stopped all further development of the project, and Vanced has been officially…
YouTube to add transcription feature to Android app
San Francisco : Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube is bringing video transcriptions to its Android app.According to Android Police, with this new feature, users do not need to be sitting in front of a computer to scroll through a…
Google wins legal battle over song lyrics copyright
New Delhi : Google has won a legal battle against song lyrics platform Genius that claimed that the tech giant used its transcribed lyrics without permission in Search results.According to The Verge, a three-judge panel affirmed the earlier…
Russia to restrict access to Instagram on March 14
New Delhi/Moscow : The Russian government announced that it would block Instagram after parent company Meta said it would allow calls for violence against Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukrainian invasion.The Russian government's…
Instagram Live creators can now bring in moderators to handle trolls
San Francisco : Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is trying to tackle the problem of unsavoury comments that pop up during Live streams with its latest feature.Now, Live users can assign someone to be a moderator for their…
YouTube now blocking Russia state-affiliated media globally
Moscow : Google-owned streaming platform YouTube has said it is now blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets globally not just in Europe where two Russia state-affiliated channels, Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, along with their subsidiaries,…
Twitter makes it difficult to see chronological feed, users annoyed
New Delhi : Twitter has made an unnecessary change that makes it difficult to see chronological feed by default, leaving millions of users frustrated.According to the company, the Home timeline will be pinned first by default, but you can…
Twitter purges Russian Embassy’s tweet mocking pregnant woman in Ukraine
New Delhi : Twitter has deleted a controversial tweet by the Russian Embassy in London, that claimed a pregnant victim fleeing the site of a hospital bombing in Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupo was an actor in "some very realistic…