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New Delhi: As the debate grows about tech companies and apps tracking your data, here comes a website that can reveal how platforms like TikTok and Instagram may potentially see your sensitive data, including address, passwords and credit card information, without your consent. The website, named InAppBrowser.com, has a tool that will let you know […]
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Los Angeles: Kylie Jenner’s parents had thought of a different name for her with a political pedigree. The reality TV star revealed on TikTok that her parents, Kris and Caitlyn Jenner, almost named her Kennedy Jenner. “My name is Kylie, but it was almost,” she wrote over a video of her and daughter Stormi Webster, […]
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New Delhi: Threatened by the meteoric rise of Chinese short-form video platform TikTok, Meta-owned Instagram and Google-owned YouTube have introduced new features to discourage their short-video app users from cross-platform sharing. According to reports, when trying to download an edited clip to an iPhone in Instagram Reels, the audio from the clip just disappeared. “It […]
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San Francisco: With an aim to generate more engagement on its platform, tech giant Amazon is likely testing a TikTok-like vertical photo and video feed in its app internally. Per photos that Watchful, an AI product intelligence platform, provided to the Wall Street Journal, the feed, known currently as “Inspire”, will appear on the bottom […]
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New Delhi: A new survey of American teenagers (ages 13 to 17) by the Pew Research Center has revealed a worrying trend for Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook as the share of teens who use the social media platform has plummeted from 71 per cent in 2014-15 to 32 per cent as of now. Chinese short-form video platform […]
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Hyderabad: We have often discussed what it might look like if the world ends. And now, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has just given a glimpse into how the ‘last selfies’ on the Earth before the end of the world would look like. A series of haunting images were posted on TikTok by ‘Robot Overloads’ predicting it […]
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San Francisco: At least seven kids, under age 15, have lost their lives owing to the infamous ‘blackout challenge’ on Chinese short-video making app TikTok that encourages users to “choke themselves with belts, purse strings, or anything similar until passing out.” TikTok is facing multiple lawsuits from parents who alleged their kids died of strangulation […]
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San Francisco: Facebook (now Meta) employees have reportedly been directed by the senior executives to change the platform’s algorithms to make it more like its arch Chinese rival TikTok that is gaining immense popularity among the teenagers. In an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Tom Alison who’s Meta executive in charge of Facebook detailed […]
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San Francisco: Short-video-making app TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is most likely preparing to join the virtual reality (VR) space, media reports say. According to a source close to the issue, ByteDance aims to invest “tons of money” in VR-related content, citing a report from Protocol, The Verge reported on Saturday. Over 40 job listings have popped […]
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Bollywood movies ae full of heroes who fulfill their dreams despite facing several challenges in life. While these roles are inspiring they are still fictitious, the world is full of stories of real people that offer better inspiration. On such inspiring story is of Actor Gourav Chaudhary. Gourav has faced multiple hurdles in his journey […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad startups are making waves in different segments and now the Cannes Film Festival is the new arena where a city-born startup is all set to make its presence felt. After becoming the first startup to organise a virtual concert night by Daler Mehndi, Hyderabad-based Gamitronics is one of the startups that has been […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned photo sharing platform Instagram is experimenting with full-screen vertical home feeds. In a video posted on micro-blogging site Twitter, Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the test and said that taller photos and videos would begin appearing in some feeds. “We are testing a new, immersive viewing experience in the main Home feed. […]
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Orlando: According to a new study, parents who share photos of their children on social networking sites tend to have a more friend-like parenting style and allow their kids to use social media at younger ages. The findings of the study were published in the journal, ‘Computing Machinery’. These parents also tend to share posts […]
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San Francisco: TikTok competitor YouTube Shorts has allowed creators to use video clips from billions of videos from YouTube platform, albeit with some rules. The new feature is an extension of existing “remix” tool that allowed creators to sample audio from other videos into their own YouTube Shorts posts. “Create your own short videos using […]
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San Francisco: Chinese short-video app TikTok is testing a private dislike button for comments and the users can flag comments they find ‘irrelevant or inappropriate’ without the dislike being visible to others. “We’ve started testing a way to let individuals identify comments they believe to be irrelevant or inappropriate,” the company said in a statement […]
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New Delhi: Music streaming service Spotify is testing a personalised feed on the app’s home screen like Chinese short-video making platform TikTok to help users discover music easily. It is testing a new experience for Spotify users (across the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) where they can find new music and check out […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin recently signed into law a bill introducing jail terms of up to 15 years for publishing "fake news" about the army, as Moscow pushes forward with its invasion of Ukraine.
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New Delhi: Popular online discussion platform Reddit, which acquired short-form video social platform Dubsmash late last year, has finally shut down the platform. Dubsmash will not be available to download through the App Store or Google Play. Also, downloaded apps will stop functioning on the same date. “The Dubsmash team has been accelerating Reddit’s video, […]
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Hyderabad: Latching on to the new wave, four startups are trying out their luck with live commerce, which is taking the shopping experience inside a social channel such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok without the customers having to leave the platform. The adoption of live commerce, also known as social commerce, is getting accelerated due to […]
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The feature is similar to TikTok's video replies, which Instagram recently copied for its Reels feature.
