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Google brings audio streaming, download quality controls to YouTube Music

San Francisco: Google is now rolling out audio streaming and download quality controls for YouTube Music on the Android operating system (OS), the media reported. The latest controls come with newer options in the “Settings” and “Downloads’ menu — low, normal, high and always high — that would allow users to choose the quality of […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Facebook expands security tools to protect elections globally

San Francisco: In order to further secure candidates and campaign staff vulnerable to hackers and nation-state actors during the elections, Facebook has introduced additional tools to protect political campaigns in the US and around the world. The social media giant has launched a pilot programme to expand its existing protections for users associated with US […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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YouTube Kids brings music, games for 'older' children

San Francisco: In a bid to increase parental control on its platform, YouTube has rolled out a new setting in its “Kids” app that showcases popular music and gaming videos. Known as “Older”, the setting is targeted towards children between ages eight to 12, the Google-owned content sharing platform said in a blog post on […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Twitter to show live streams on top of your timeline

San Francisco: Micro-blogging platform Twitter will now show live streams and broadcasts right on top of your timeline. “We’re making it easier to find and watch live broadcasts. Now, when accounts you follow go live, the stream will appear right at the top of your timeline,” the company tweeted. The new feature will include breaking […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Facebook to now 'fact-check' photos, videos

San Francisco: In a bid to curb the spread of misinformation, social networking giant Facebook is now expanding its fact-checking capabilities to all of its third-party analysis partners around the world to examine the authenticity of the photos and videos shared on the platform. “We have built a Machine Learning (ML) model that uses various […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Facebook can do better to retain new mothers: Ex-data scientist

San Francisco: Facebook should do better for families — especially for new mothers — by allowing them flexible work hours so that they are not forced to leave their jobs, a former employee has stressed. Writing in The Wired on Sunday, Eliza Khuner, a data scientist who worked at Facebook from November 2017 to July […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Twitter now allows live audio-only broadcasts

San Francisco: Twitter has launched an audio-only broadcasting feature so your followers can hear, but not see you. The new feature announced on Friday is currenly publicly available for all iOS users of the main Twitter app and its live-streaming app Periscope, The Verge reported. To use the “audio-only broadcast” option, users need to update […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Zuckerberg seeks more time to fix Facebook

San Francisco: As countries over the world including India face elections amid the spread of fake news and political interference on social media platforms, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asked for some more time to fix his network that has over two billion users. In a post on Friday, Zuckerberg said that Facebook started on […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google launches new Search engine for scientific community

San Francisco: Google on Thursday launched a new search engine for the scientific community that will help them make sense of millions of datasets present online. The service, called Dataset Search, will help scientists, data journalists and geeks find the data required for their work and their stories — or simply to satisfy their intellectual […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Apple dominated global wearables market in Q2 2018

San Francisco: Apple dominated the global wearables market in the second quarter of 2018 with a total share of 17 per cent as the market ticked up 5.5 per cent, an International Data Corp (IDC) report said on Wednesday. Cupertino-based Apple maintained its top position in the wake of continued demand for its LTE-enabled Watch […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Twitter plans threaded conversations, 'who is online' feature

San Francisco: Twitter is planning to roll out threaded conversations like Facebook along with status indicators — showing who else is online among your followers — on its platform. In a tweet, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Friday that the micro-blogging platform will soon get interesting updates. “Playing with some new Twitter features: presence […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Facebook restores cross-posted tweets that disappeared

San Francisco: Facebook has restored the cross-posted tweets of its users that temporarily disappeared following the removal of the Twitter app from Facebook, the media reported. Twitter requested the deletion of its app from Facebook as it became useless there earlier this month following Facebook’s move to give effect to an earlier decision to remove […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Facebook fixes bug that marked some posts as spam

San Francisco: A day after some users complained about their Facebook posts being marked as spam, Facebook on Saturday said it has fixed the bug that caused the problem. “We have fixed a bug that caused some posts to be incorrectly marked as spam. We’ve restored the posts that were affected and are very sorry this […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google releases AI-packed Android 9 Pie

San Francisco: Google has released its latest version of Android Operating System — Android 9 Pie, which harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict how users would like to experience their devices while offering a smoother navigation system and an easier way to track and limit usage of apps. It comes with features […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google makes it easier to find relevant data in Search

San Francisco: When it comes to text, videos or images, millions of people around the world rely on Google Search to get the relevant results. Now Google has identified ways to make the results of even tabular data search more relevant. The advancement is important in view of the fact that the importance of data […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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