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Samsung Galaxy Watches To Soon Alert Users Of Irregular Heart Rhythms
Samsung Electronics has announced that the 'Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification' (IHRN) feature on the Samsung Health Monitor app will soon be available in 13 markets starting this summer.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 15, 2023
1 min read
Meta Introduces Text-Based ‘World Chat’ Feature For Horizon Worlds
Meta has introduced a new text-based 'world chat' feature, a way to communicate with other people in the same world session, for the social virtual reality (VR) platform 'Horizon Worlds'.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 15, 2023
1 min read
Sony Testing Cloud Streaming For Some PS5 Games
Sony has announced that it is testing cloud streaming for "supported" PlayStation 5 (PS5) games.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 15, 2023
1 min read
Twitter Sued For $250 Million Over ‘Wilful’ Music Copyright Infringement
The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) in the US has sued Twitter for $250 million over a massive copyright infringement.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 15, 2023
2 min read
Truecaller Introduces Call Recording For Premium Users On iOS, Android
Truecaller has introduced a call recording feature on both iOS and Android.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 15, 2023
2 min read
NASA’s Curiosity Snaps Postcard Of Martian Morning, Afternoon
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a "postcard" of lighting during morning and afternoon at the Martian surface, the space agency said.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 15, 2023
2 min read
Samsung May Soon Unveil New Sensor For AR/VR Headsets
Samsung is reportedly planning to unveil a new time-of-flight (ToF) sensor for AR/VR (mixed reality) headsets which will feature an on-chip Image Signal Processor (ISP).
Bijay Pokharel,
June 14, 2023
1 min read
Lenovo To Invest $1 Billion To Accelerate AI Deployment For Businesses
Global technology brand Lenovo on Wednesday announced that it will invest $1 billion over three years in the expansion of infrastructure solutions to accelerate the artificial intelligence (AI) deployment for businesses globally.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 14, 2023
1 min read
OpenAI Releases Generative Text Features With Function Calling Capability
OpenAI has released the new versions of its text-generating AI models GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4, with a capability called function calling.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 14, 2023
2 min read
AMD Unveils New Chip As Generative AI Accelerator
Chip maker AMD has unveiled new details of its Instinct MI300 Series accelerator family processors, including the introduction of the Instinct MI300X accelerator, an advanced accelerator for generative AI.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 14, 2023
1 min read
Windows 11’s Android Integration To Get File Sharing Feature, Settings Updates & More
Microsoft has released an update for 'Windows Subsystem for Android' (WSA) -- which allows users to run Android apps on Windows 11 -- to all Insider channels, which includes a new file-sharing feature, settings updates, and more.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 14, 2023
1 min read
Users Can Now Add 30-Sec Song Clips To Notes On Instagram
Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that users can now add 30-sec song clips to Notes on Instagram.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 14, 2023
1 min read
Spotify Fined Over $5 Million For GDPR Violations In Sweden
Spotify has been fined about $5.4 million in Sweden for breaching the data access rights of users in the European Union (EU).
Bijay Pokharel,
June 14, 2023
2 min read
Subreddits’ Blackout Will Pass: Reddit CEO
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has commented on the subreddits' protest against the company's new application programming interface (API) pricing changes, and said that like any other blowups on the platform, "this one will pass as well".
Bijay Pokharel,
June 14, 2023
2 min read
YouTube Lowering Eligibility Requirements For MonetiZation Program
With the new policy, the YPP will be accessible to creators after they acquire 500 subscribers, which is half of what YouTube previously demanded.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 14, 2023
1 min read
WhatsApp Rolling Out Screen-Sharing Feature For Video Calls On Windows Beta
WhatsApp is rolling out a screen-sharing feature for video calls to some beta testers on Windows beta.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 13, 2023
1 min read
Food Ordering Firm Grubhub To Lay Off 15% Of Staff
US-based online food ordering company Grubhub has announced to lay off about 15 percent of its workforce, or nearly 400 employees, to maintain "competitiveness" in the market.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 13, 2023
1 min read
Twitter May Soon Limit Number Of DMs Send By Non-Blue Users
Twitter is reportedly working to limit the number of direct messages (DMs) non-Blue users can send per day.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 13, 2023
1 min read
Meta Releases Ai-powered Music Generator ‘MusicGen’
Meta has released its AI-powered music generator called 'MusicGen', which will turn text description and melody into audio.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 13, 2023
1 min read
Oracle Founder Larry Ellison Now World’s 4th Richest Person
Oracle founder Larry Ellison is reaping the benefits of artificial intelligence popularity, edging past Microsoft founder Bill Gates to land the number four spot on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, according to Bloomberg.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 13, 2023
2 min read
