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Video live streaming service Twitch has rolled out a Chat History feature, allowing users to read the last 50 messages from a chat, or messages from the last hour of a chat, whichever is less. The feature, which began rolling out on Feb 6, will help users ‘catch up’ with what’s happening on the channel, … Read more
Microsoft’s long-struggling Bing search engine will integrate the powerful capabilities of language-based artificial intelligence, CEO Satya Nadella said on Tuesday, declaring what he called a new era for online search. “It’s a new day for search… The race starts today,” Nadella said at a launch event, marking the start of what it hoped would be … Read more
Riding on the tide of tech layoffs, Google fired 12,000 employees accounting 6% of its workforce last month in bid to what CEO Sundar Pichai said is to avoid “much worse issues”. This forced employees to go through a stressful period of job hunting. Several laid-off tech workers are now taking to social media to … Read more
Reuters | | Posted by Singh Rahul Sunilkumar Microsoft Corp said it was investigating issues with email service Outlook as users in North America faced problems with accessing, sending or searching emails on the platform. There were more than 2,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Outlook late Monday at about 23:10 ET, according to … Read more
PhonePe has introduced ‘UPI International,’ a facility with which PhonePe users travelling to international destinations can pay foreign merchants via UPI, and in the currency of that country. With ‘UPI International,’ PhonePe, the most widely used UPI app in India, has become the first Indian fintech company to enable payments abroad. Also Read: Non-resident Indians … Read more
WhatsApp is reportedly developing an ability to allow people to share as many as 100 media items in one go. The development has been reported by WhatsApp news tracker WABetaInfo, which spotted the feature in WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.4.3 update. Also Read | Now order food by WhatsApp: Indian Railways starts new service The … Read more
Google has introduced ‘Bard,’ its conversational artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, with CEO Sundar Pichai explaining the concept in a series of tweets, and also on the Google blog. Bard will be a direct rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which, since its launch in November last year, has taken the internet by storm. Also Read | China’s … Read more
Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc on Tuesday said it would complete internal testing of ChatGPT-style project “Ernie Bot” in March. Baidu plans to launch an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in March, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters last week. The person said Baidu aims to make the service … Read more
If you’ve heard it once in a president’s State of the Union speech, you’ve heard it 100 times: There is nothing the American people can’t do when they pull together. ALSO READ: Even if you are creative, ChatGPT may replace you, so… : IIT-D professor’s advice to stay relevant But you haven’t heard that thought … Read more
Businesses may now have to fork over $1000 per month to retain the gold verification badge on Twitter, according to a report tweeted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. Screenshots of Twitter’s offer of $1000 to verify organisations and an additional $50 per month for affiliate accounts were shared by Navarra. The report was confirmed … Read more