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YouTube is being upgraded with several features that introduce new features on the video streaming platform, while improving existing capabilities. The Alphabet-owned company is rolling out “over two dozen” updates — including a new sleep timer, a resizable miniplayer, and the ability to fine-tune playback speed. Most of these features will be available on the web

Alphabet Inc.’s Google redesigned its shopping website to better match consumers with merchant storefronts, seeking to distinguish the platform from e-commerce sites such as Amazon.com Inc. The updated shopping experience largely revolves around scrollable feeds akin to a social media app. A new home page will display a personalized feed of products, reviews and auto-playing

Google has asked a California federal judge to pause his sweeping court order requiring it to open up its app store Play to greater competition. In a court filing on Friday night, Google said US District Judge James Donato’s injunction order, which goes into effect on November 1, would harm the company and introduce “serious safety,

Adobe Content Authenticity, a free web app that allows users to easily add content credentials as well as artificial intelligence (AI) labels, was introduced on Tuesday. The platform is aimed at helping creators with their attribution needs. It works on images, videos, and audio files and is integrated with all of the Adobe Creative Cloud

Google has announced a new feature for its Docs users. Those who edit their files using the web editor, will now see a new Document Tabs feature. The feature builds on the existing Document Outline feature which mainly deals with headlines. The new feature allows users to add tabs to their Google Docs documents making

Apple has released several open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models this year. These are mostly small language models designed for a specific task. Adding to the list, the Cupertino-based tech giant has now released a new AI model dubbed Depth Pro. It is a vision model that can generate monocular depth maps of any image. This

Google said on Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has with local news organisations, if the country’s government goes ahead with a law to force tech giants to pay a fair price for content that appears on their feeds. The New Zealand government in July confirmed

Alphabet’s Google is testing showing check marks next to certain companies on its search results, a company spokesperson said on Friday, in a move aimed at helping users identify verified sources and steer clear of fake websites. Fraudulent websites impersonating official businesses or services could creep up in online search results, leading users to view

Microsoft gives its Edge Web browser an unfair advantage and EU antitrust regulators should subject it to tough EU tech rules, three rival browsers and a group of Web developers said in a letter to the European Commission. The move by Vivaldi, Waterfox, Wavebox, and the Open Web Advocacy could boost Norwegian browser company Opera which in

WhatsApp has introduced a new set of features for status updates. The Meta-owned instant messaging platform is rolling out new status likes and private mentions features for Android and iOS users. Likes on Status is a new way to acknowledge a contact’s status update by tapping the heart emoji. With private mentions, users can now

Google announced several new features for its apps and services at its Google for India 2024 event on Thursday. The firm announced improvements to Google Pay with support for personal and gold loans, and showcased new health related features developed in partnership with the health sector. New features to detect and protect users from scams

Google for India 2024 — the search giant’s annual India-focused event that showcases features and services designed for users in the country — was held on Thursday in New Delhi. During the event, the Mountain View-based tech giant introduced several new features and services including new capabilities of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Gemini. The company

Three online sellers operating on Walmart-owned Flipkart have sued the Indian antitrust watchdog over an investigation which found they, Flipkart and rival Amazon breached competition laws, according to court filings seen by Reuters. The filings come after antitrust investigations concluded in August found Amazon and Flipkart, some of their sellers and smartphone brands, violated local competition

Flipkart’s Big Billion Days Sale and Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale kicked off on Friday, a day after early access was made available to Flipkart Plus and Amazon Prime members, respectively. As part of these sale events, which have now entered their second day, customers can access deals and discounts on a range of products

A federal judge narrowed a lawsuit accusing Apple of violating the privacy of iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch users by collecting their personal data through proprietary apps such as the App Store, Apple Music and Apple TV. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California, dismissed nearly all claims based on the “Allow Apps

Two YouTube channels of content creator Ranveer Allahbadia (also known as BeerBiceps) were hacked by crypto fraud-promoting miscreants. Allahbadia hosts interactive sessions with Indian celebrities, spiritual leaders, and politicians, with a collective subscriber base of over 12 million.  Following the account breach, both of his channels were inaccessible to him, according to the creator. Meanwhile,

Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing the Firefox browser maker of tracking user behaviour on websites without consent. NOYB (None Of Your Business), a digital rights group founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, said Mozilla has enabled a so-called privacy preserving

Google released newer versions of the Gemini 1.5 Pro artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. These arrive just months after the Mountain View-based tech giant released the last version of Gemini, which increased the context window to up to 2 million tokens. Dubbed Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002, the company said these AI models not only offer

Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro models are confirmed to get big discounts during the upcoming Flipkart Big Billion Days 2024 sale. Both iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are teased to be priced below Rs. 1,00,000 during the sale. Besides the general discount, there will be additional discounts on select bank cards and EMI

iPhone 16 series went on sale in India and global markets for the first time on Friday. While several customers thronged the Apple BKC and Apple Saket stores in Mumbai and Delhi respectively, hyperlocal delivery platforms like Blinkit and BigBasket have enabled customers to purchase Apple’s latest handset and have the smartphone delivered to their