Technology
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3 US designers sue Chinese fashion giant Shein over copying their creative work
San Francisco: Three US fashion designers — Krista Perry, Larissa Martinez and Jay Baron — have sued Chinese fast-fashion company Shein which is valued at a staggering $66 billion, for allegedly stealing…
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Bitcoin crashes over reports of Binance laying off 1,000 employees
San Francisco: Bitcoin prices nosedived on Saturday after leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance reportedly laid off roughly 1,000 workers, and the layoffs could continue. Bitcoin slipped back nearly $30,000 per token after the…
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Indian creators hail ads revenue from Twitter
New Delhi: Elon Musk-run Twitter on Friday started paying Indian creators their share of ads revenue under its newly launched ‘ads revenue sharing programme’ for creators. After receiving their share, several users…
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Apple iOS 17 public beta includes personal voice feature, StandBy mode & more
San Francisco: Tech giant Apple has released the iOS 17 public beta, which includes a new StandBy mode, personal voice feature and more. influencer Marques Brownlee revealed the personal voice feature on…
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Flipkart pays $700 mn to workers after PhonePe split
New Delhi: E-commerce major Flipkart on Friday began a “one-time discretionary” cash payment of $700 million to employees following its separation from fintech firm PhonePe. In an email to employees seen by…
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Threads for iOS update brings iOS 17 support, bug fixes & more
San Francisco: Threads has released a new update for its iOS application which includes iOS 17 public beta support, bug fixes, and much more. Instagram software engineer Cameron Roth posted on Threads,…
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Sony to globally launch ‘Access controller’ for PS5 on Dec 6
San Francisco: Sony has announced that the ‘Access controller’ for PlayStation 5 (PS5) will be available globally on December 6, with preorders kicking off on July 21. The controller will be available…
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Crypto firm Circle lays off staff, cuts investments in non-core activities
San Francisco: US-based cryptocurrency company Circle which manages stablecoin USDC (USD Coin), has announced that it is reducing its workforce and cutting investments in non-core business activities. Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle,…
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Twitter starts paying hefty sums to creators via ads revenue sharing programme
San Francisco: Twitter on Friday launched a new ads revenue sharing programme for creators, and has already started paying hefty sums. “We’re expanding our creator monetisation offering to include ads revenue sharing…
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Google Play Games beta on PC now available in India
New Delhi: Google on Friday launched Play Games beta on PC in the country, to enable players to experience an immersive and seamless cross-platform gameplay. Players participating in the beta can play…
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Meta to train speech recognition engines on ‘clusters’ of speakers using new dataset
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has developed a new dataset which the company will use to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) tools by clustering speech at the “utterance level”.…
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Elon Musk sues 4 unknown people for scraping Twitter data
San Francisco: The Elon Musk-run X Corp has sued four unnamed individuals over unlawfully scraping data from Twitter, seeking over $1 million in damages. According to the complaint, the four entities, which…
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Meta to release commercial generative AI model
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly planning to release a commercial version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model in order to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI experiment Bard,…
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Apple Vision Pro to use custom-designed DRAM Chip
San Francisco: Apple’s upcoming AR (augmented reality) headset Vision Pro will reportedly feature a new type of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that has been custom designed to support Apple’s R1 input…
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Tesla car for Rs 20 lakh in India still a distant dream, say experts
New Delhi: As reports surfaced on Tesla considering a cheaper Model 3 in India around Rs 20 lakh as it mulls bringing its supply chain ecosystem to the country in the near…
