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Way back in 2016, Facebook introduced a new technology called automatic alternative text (AAT) that utilises object recognition to generate descriptions of photos on demand so that blind or visually impaired individuals can more fully enjoy their News Feed.

"#JUSTIN: #JackMa not disappear, here we go: Ma just had a video conference with 100 village teachers on Wednesday morning, saying: after #COVID19, we'll meet each other again," tweeted Qingqing Chen, Chief Reporter of Global Times News, a China state-affiliated media.

The Snapchat lens will also play a message from Biden addressing Snapchatters: "Hey Snapchat!! It's me, Joe. Welcome to inauguration!"

The Toronto-based storytelling platform provides stories through its flagship app. It is a community of more than 90 million people globally who spend over 23 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories.

Samsung said its 870 EVO SSD series comes in five models -- 250 gigabyte (GB), 500GB, 1 terabyte (TB), 2TB, and 4TB -- and will go on sale in around 40 countries starting with South Korea and the US.

The device will be available in two attractive colours, obsidian black and purist blue, on the Vivo India E-store, Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm, Tatacliq, and across all partner retail stores.

The new variant costs more than its entry-level sibling (3GB+32GB) by Rs 1,000. The other Realme C12 specifications remain the same as that of the original model.

iOS 14.4 developer beta now throws up an error message when it detects a non-genuine camera fitted to an iPhone, reports MacRumors.

Keeping the growing audience for PC gaming, Lenovo has now brought the Legion 5 powered by the premium AMD Ryzen 5 4600H mobile processor

According to the security expert, if you are on Facebook Messenger, you need to quickly move to safer chat platforms than you are on WhatsApp that still offers end-to-end encryption.

The India pricing of SmartTag is yet to be revealed.

Telegram has seen a significant uptake in new users as WhatsApp's new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy have triggered a fresh data sharing debate.

Cybercriminals are more advanced than companies and are developing new, ingenious methods to hack into systems

The Reno5 Pro 5G and Enco X wireless earphones will start selling in India from January 22 across mainline retailers of the company and e-commerce platform Flipkart for Rs 35,990 and Rs 9,990 respectively.

According to Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, 2021 notebooks will be "equipped with more types of I/O, and most users may not need to purchase additional dongles."

Jib True aims to offer a total of 22 hours of battery life with six hours in the bud and an additional 16 hours in the case and comes loaded with all must-have audio features

The Google's '2020 Economic Impact Report' said that 1.3 million businesses receive $39 billion in benefits through increased revenues, millions of connections with customers and greater efficiencies, saving time and money.

On January 7, 2020, Tesla launched the project to manufacture Model Y vehicles in its Shanghai Gigafactory, its first overseas plant outside the United States. The China-made model went on sale on Jan. 1.

In Madurai a family hit upon a simple idea of printing the QR code of Google Pay and PhonePe on the wedding invite so that those who had come for the wedding of their daughter

"If you just focus on one type of footprint, you miss out on others that can provide a more holistic look at environmental impact," said researcher Roshanak "Roshi" Nateghi, Professor at Purdue University in the US.

The Seoul High Court gave Lee, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., the prison term for bribing Park and her longtime friend, Choi Soon-sil, to win government support for a smooth transition of managerial power at the tech giant

It is a private app. Don't join it. It is a voluntary thing, don't accept it. Use some other app," Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said to the petitioner, a lawyer, who has challenged WhatsApp's new privacy policy

The output value accounted for 19.3 per cent of China's total, the alliance said. In 2020, the number of mobile game users in Beijing hit 5.08 million, an increase of 166,000 over 2019.

"Parliamentary standing committee on IT has summoned Facebook and Twitter officials on January 21, change in WhatsApp privacy policy also to be discussed," sources said.