Technology

Social media platform X’s head of policy for India and South Asia, Samiran Gupta, has resigned, two sources said, a top departure that comes ahead of India elections and as the company fights a court battle with New Delhi over content removal. Gupta was the most senior India employee for X, formerly known as Twitter, and responsible for “key content-related …

LONDON: Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard “opens the door” to the biggest ever gaming deal being cleared, Britain’s antitrust regulator said on Friday. Microsoft announced the deal early last year, but it was blocked in April by Britain’s competition regulator, which was concerned the US tech giant would gain too much control of the nascent cloud gaming …

YouTube – a video-sharing platform – recently announced to release of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered feature for short-form content creators. The AI-powered technology called – Dream Screen – will allow users to use AI tools to create AI-generated videos or image backgrounds for short-form videos – called shorts – just by giving prompts. YouTube’s vice president for community products …

While updating from an older iPhone to the latest version, there are certain steps to be taken to ensure that all the data from the old phone moves over to the latest one. Android users find it difficult to switch to iOS, as they have to face the hassle of transferring the data, but after 2018, Apple released an application …

NEW YORK: A trade group for US authors has sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court on behalf of prominent writers including John Grisham, Jonathan Fra­nzen, George Saunders, Jodi Picault and Game of Thrones novelist George R.R. Martin, accusing the company of unlawfully training its popular artificial-intelligence based chatbot ChatGPT on their work.

Bard – Google’s conversational, AI chat service – is now providing its users a one-stop shop, as the users can get their travel and planning needs with real-time information from various Google applications including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Hotels, and Flights. If the user is planning their next vacation or just trying to find out what to do over the weekend, …

WhatsApp said on Wednesday that it will offer credit card payments and services from rival digital payment providers within its app in India, the latest bet by the Meta-owned service to boost commerce offerings in its biggest market. WhatsApp has more than 500 million users in India, though regulators there have capped its in-app WhatsApp Pay service to only 100 …

Online platform X could introduce a monthly fee for all users, its owner Elon Musk said on Monday, citing the need to cut down on bots. The tech tycoon has made multiple changes since taking over the site for $44 billion in October last year when it was known as Twitter. He has fired thousands of employees, introduced a paid premium option, cut content moderation, and reinstated formerly …

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk to build a Tesla factory in Turkiye, the country’s communications directorate said on Monday. It cited Musk as saying that many Turkish suppliers are already working with Tesla and that Turkey was among the most important candidates for its next factory. Tesla did not immediately respond to requests …

The meta-owned messenger application WhatsApp rolled out a new feature that allows users to create channels to connect and share updates with their followers directly through the app. The WhatsApp Channels feature serves as a one-way broadcast tool that allows users to receive updates from organizations or individuals that are of interest to them within the same application. In this …