YouTube announced its partnership with the entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) on Tuesday to protect public figures from deepfakes. With this partnership, the Google-owned video-streaming giant will offer early access to its AI-generated deepfake detection technology, while the celebrities will provide feedback to help YouTube improve its tool. The company also announced
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Microsoft seems to have pivoted to a multiplatform strategy for first-party Xbox games in 2024, with more and more exclusive titles launching on rival platforms. The company is decoupling its content offerings from its hardware — a move highlighted by Microsoft’s “This is an Xbox” campaign in November. At Microsoft’s annual shareholders meeting, Microsoft CEO
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Apple’s AirTag, that helps users track their belongings, was introduced in 2021. The Cupertino-based tech giant is expected to unveil the second generation of the smart tracker soon. A rumoured AirTag 2 has surfaced online over the past few weeks. Although the company has yet to confirm the tracker, its probable launch timeline has been tipped. 
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Jared Isaacman, billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut, has been nominated by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the next NASA administrator, as per several reports. Isaacman, who was born in Union, New Jersey, in February 1983, amassed his fortune by founding the payment-processing company Shift4 Payments at the age of 16. His nomination was
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain, lawyers for the Congolese government told Reuters. Congo is a major source of tin, tantalum and tungsten, so-called 3T minerals used in computers and mobile phones. But
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YouTube announced a new update on Monday that will allow content creators on the platform more control over third-party artificial intelligence (AI) training. The move comes after the video-streaming giant introduced new tools to protect creators from deepfakes that imitate their likenesses, including their faces and voices. The new option will let content creators decide
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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has verified a decades-old mystery regarding planet formation in the early universe. According to The Astrophysical Journal, findings indicate that planet-forming disks around stars endured far longer than previously theorised, even in environments with minimal heavy elements. Reportedly, in 2003, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed the presence of
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Google appears to be working to bring a new feature for managing notifications on Android devices. The tech giant is reportedly adding Gmail-like categories for organised notification management in Android 16. This new feature, dubbed “bundled notifications”, was reportedly found in the latest Android 15 beta version. Similar types of notifications will be reportedly arranged together
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China is focusing on large language models (LLMs) in the artificial intelligence space.  Blackdovfx | Istock | Getty Images China’s attempts to dominate the world of artificial intelligence could be paying off, with industry insiders and technology analysts telling CNBC that Chinese AI models are already hugely popular and are keeping pace with — and
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Google Drive’s mobile document scanner tool has been upgraded with a new feature dubbed ‘auto enhancements’. It can automatically enhance the resolution and image quality of a digitised document to improve its readability. The new auto enhancement feature on Google Drive can fix a number of issues in a scanned document including white balance, shadows,
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YouTube is expanding one of its health-related initiatives to allow verified content creators to spread awareness about different topics and diseases. Last week, the video streaming platform announced it was opening up ‘health content shelves’ and ‘health source information panels’, two exclusive features reserved for accredited health organisations, to registered doctors, nurses, and other health
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Apple is reportedly developing augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, a product that its rivals like Google, Meta Platforms, and Samsung have already shown progress towards in recent years. But despite its efforts to foray into wearables, starting with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro this year and a new initiative called ‘Atlas’, the company’s
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Samsung Galaxy M16 5G and Galaxy F16 5G handsets could be launched in India soon. The names of the purported budget smartphones had previously surfaced on a certification site. Now, the phones have reportedly been spotted on a particular certification website in India, suggesting an imminent India launch. The Samsung Galaxy M16 5G could come with
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