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Insta soon to allow polls in comments section of posts

Oct 20, 2023

San Francisco, Oct 20 (IANS) Meta-owned Instagram will soon allow some users to create polls in the comments section of their posts, offering creators yet another way to milk their content for more engagement.Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the test on his broadcast channel, noting that polls can be added to comments on regular feed posts as…

Discord to shut down anonymous compliment-based app Gas

Oct 20, 2023

New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Popular chat platform Discord is shutting down Gas, the anonymous compliment-based social media app it had acquired earlier this year for an undisclosed sum.The app will officially shut down on November 7, Discord…

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Bots accounted for 48% of total global internet traffic in 1st half of 2023: Report

Oct 19, 2023

New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) Nearly half (48 per cent) of the total global internet traffic in the first half of 2023 was made up of bots, and most of this was due to bad bots, a new report showed on Thursday. According to cloud-enabled…

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Kerala HC stresses needs for safeguards for UPI

Oct 19, 2023

Kochi, Oct 19 (IANS) The Kerala High Court has expressed security concerns about the country’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) system, even while acknowledging the positive impact that it has had on money transactions. "The UPI has…

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WhatsApp tests ‘view once’ mode for ‘voice notes’ on iOS, Android

Oct 19, 2023

New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly testing "view once" mode for "voice notes" that will allow users to send voice messages which can only be listened to once by their intended recipient.Currently only available to…

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Major AI models not very transparent: Report

Oct 19, 2023

New York, Oct 19 (IANS) Artificial intelligence (AI) based foundations models such as Meta's Llama 2 and OpenAI’s GPT-4 are low on transparency, according to a global report on Thursday.The Foundation Model Transparency Index created by a…

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OpenAI formally launches internet-browsing feature to ChatGPT

Oct 18, 2023

New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) Microsoft-backed OpenAI has formally launched its internet-browsing feature to generative AI chatbot ChatGPT.‘Browse with Bing’ is now out of Beta and is officially available to all Plus and Enterprise…

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GlobalLogic appoints Srinivas Shankar as CBO, Head of Global Industries

Oct 17, 2023

New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Digital engineering services provider GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group company, has announced the appointment of Srinivas Shankar as its Chief Business Officer (CBO) and Head of Global Industries. Shankar has over two…

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Half of Bandcamp staff laid off by new owner weeks after acquisition

Oct 17, 2023

San Francisco, Oct 17 (IANS) Half of the employees of the US-based online audio distribution platform Bandcamp have been laid off by the new owner Songtradr (a music marketplace company supporting artists) just weeks after acquiring the…

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Google urges US lawmakers not to ban teenagers from social media

Oct 17, 2023

San Francisco, Oct 17 (IANS) Google has asked the US Congress not to ban teenagers from social media, urging lawmakers to drop problematic protections like age-verification technology. The tech giant released its 'Legislative Framework to…