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WhatsApp allows users to save 'disappearing' messages if sender agrees
WhatsApp has called this "sender superpower," and it will be the choice of the sender to allow others in the chat to keep certain messages for later. "Anyone in a disappearing message thread can long press on a message to keep it. The sender will be notified if it was saved and can decide if it stays or remains a disappearing message," Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.
Google may soon introduce generative AI into its advertising business
According to the Financial Times, the tech giant is preparing to integrate its generative AI technology, which also powers its Bard chatbot, into the Performance Max programme. Performance Max is a programme Google has offered since 2020 that uses an algorithm to determine where ads should run and how marketing budgets should be spent, as well as producing simple ad copy.
US scientists decode why our hairs turn grey
The team from New York University (NYU)- Lagone, in a mice study, showed that certain stem cells have a unique ability to move between growth compartments in hair follicles. However, as people age, it gets and thus loses their ability to mature and maintain hair colour. The study, published in the journal Nature, focused on cells in the skin of mice, which in humans are called melanocyte stem cells, or McSCs.
Apple's new feature to help users fix billing issues without leaving app
"Starting this summer, if an auto-renewable subscription doesn't renew due to a billing issue, a system-provided sheet appears in your app with a prompt that lets customers update their payment method for their Apple ID," Apple said in a blogpost. Previously, when a subscriber's payment method failed, they would contact the app developer for assistance.
10 lakh Indian digital content creators likely to earn Rs 40K a month each
The annualised growth rate for India is over 115 per cent for individual creators as compared to the global growth rate of 18 per cent, according to the report by creator economy startup Animeta on the 'International Creators Day'. In three years, 10 lakh creators in India would have at least 100,000 subscribers/followers, growing at 37 per cent at an annualised level, which will allow them to a steady digital income at par with a decent-paying full-time job.
Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, SRK, Virat Kohli lose Twitter Blue ticks
This comes months after Musk announced the date to press users to sign up for Twitter Blue, its paid subscription service. In India, one has to shell out Rs 900 a month (or Rs 9,400 a year) to get Blue Verified status.Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
Tim Cook left amazed at how iPhone, Mac helps Mumbai girl prepare macarons
After having vada pav with Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, Cook was invited to eat dessert by Pooja Dhingra, known as macron queen and pastry chef, to have dessert.
Cook said he ate the best macarons at Dhingra's Le15 patisserie. "It was a treat to spend time in Pooja's kitchen. Her passion for baking and the business she's created is a reminder of what's possible when you follow your dreams," Cook said in a tweet.
IT solutions provider CDW lays off hundreds amid 'intensifying economic uncertainty
According to a report in CRN, several CDW employees are reporting being laid off."The firm is offering a severance package, but laid off employees are signing non-disclosure agreements," the report mentioned, citing an employee. Several employees took to LinkedIn to disclose they have been sacked."Sad day! My employment at CDW has come to an end with today's announcements of economic layoffs at CDW! I will be looking for a new position within the Cloud/IT Management space!" a CDW employee posted.
Sundar Pichai creates 'Google DeepMind' to build robust AI systems
This group, called 'Google DeepMind', will bring together two leading research groups in the AI field: the Brain team from Google Research, and DeepMind. "Their collective accomplishments in AI over the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequence to sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX for expressing, training and deploying large scale ML models," Pichai explained in a blog post late on Thursday.
Elon Musk removes all legacy Blue ticks, allows some celebrities to retain
In India, one has to shell out Rs 900 a month (or Rs 9,400 a year) to get Blue Verified status. As more than 4 lakh legacy verified users bid goodbye to the Blue check marks, some celebrities have been offered a complimentary Twitter Blue subscription "on behalf of Musk". I am paying for a few personally," said Musk. "Just William Shatner.
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