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Facebook-parent Meta has said that it took down 34 million pieces of bad content in India in the month of December. Out of these roughly 34 million content pieces, over 22.54 million pieces of content are on Facebook and over 12.03 million pieces of content are on Instagram. Facebook received 764 reportsAs per the report, … Read more
China, while accelerating its efforts to test and launch its CBDC, is still maintaining a blanket ban on all crypto-related activities. Huang Yiping, the former advisor to the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), has voiced concerns that China is losing next-gen fintech opportunities that other parts of the world are already experimenting with. Yiping’s warning … Read more
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s natural language processing (NLP) based chatbot, has taken the internet by storm ever since it was made available for public testing in November last year. The generative AI model is expected to take a massive leap with the introduction of GPT-4, which will succeed the currently utilised GPT-3 autoregressive language model. The update … Read more
Sony Group has nudged up its annual profit forecast, helped by a strong showing for its videogame division, and raised its PlayStation 5 game console sales target by one million units to 19 million for the year to March. The electronics and entertainment giant also said its chief financial officer, Hiroki Totoki, would become president … Read more
Oppo Reno 8T 5G and Oppo Reno 8T were launched in Vietnam on Thursday. The 5G model is powered by a Snapdragon 695 chipset, while the variant that offers 4G connectivity has a MediaTek Helio G99 SoC under the hood. Both smartphones are equipped with triple rear cameras and feature a 32-megapixel selfie shooter. They … Read more
Vivo is reportedly gearing up to launch the Vivo V27 series in India. The purported flagship series from Vivo is expected to arrive in India initially with two models, the vanilla Vivo V27 and the Vivo V27 Pro. The Vivo V27 Pro model could reportedly feature MediaTek’s latest Dimensity 8200 processor. However, it isn’t clear … Read more
Samsung hosted its first major launch event of 2023 in San Francisco, US. Galaxy Unpacked 2023 is the company’s first in-person event since the outbreak of Covid pandemic. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S23 flagship smartphone lineup and GalaxyBook 3 laptop series at the event. The event brought back smartphone industry rivalry with Samsung’s Chinese rival … Read more
TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, should be removed from app stores run by Apple Inc and Alphabet’s Google because the short video social media app poses a risk to national security, Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat on the intelligence committee, said in a letter dated Thursday. The app, which Congress has already banned from federal … Read more
Netflix, which once said, “Love is sharing a password,” is now cracking down on password sharing, asking people to use their own accounts. For a long time, Netflix, which promoted sharing passwords with your friends and family, has decided to put an end to password sharing. After months of testing waters in Latin America, its … Read more
A revamped alliance between Renault and Nissan will face an early test in India, where the automakers plan new investment in a bid to close the gap on rivals, people with knowledge of the plans told Reuters. The automakers reached a deal in principle on Monday to restructure their two-decade partnership by putting both companies … Read more