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SAN FRANCISCO: Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was restored globally early Thursday, with over 77,000 US users facing issues at the peak of the outage. Users in Canada, Britain, France and other countries reported…
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Rockstar Games has officially revealed the trailer for high-anticipated online game “Grand Theft Auto VI.” The trailer also confirms the game will be available in 2025, and that the title is indeed simply Grand Theft Auto VI for now. No…
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Music streaming giant Spotify will lay off around 1,500 employees, or 17% of its workforce, to bring down costs, after letting 600 of its staff go in January, and 200 more in June. In a letter to employees, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said the…
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Tesla’s long-delayed Cybertruck will be priced starting at $60,990, over 50% more than what CEO Elon Musk had touted in 2019 and a cost analysts said will draw select, affluent buyers. The truck, made of shiny stainless steel and shaped…
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Billionaire Elon Musk told advertisers that have fled his social media platform X over antisemitic content to "Go (expletive) yourself" in a fiery interview. His profanity-laced remarks followed a moment of contrition in a New York Times…
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MOSCOW: Russia has added the spokesman of US technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to an online database maintained by the country’s interior ministry. Russian media reported that Meta…
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SAN FRANCISCO: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has reached an agreement for Sam Altman to return as CEO days after his ouster, capping frenzied discussions about the future of the startup. The company also agreed to revamp the board of directors…
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SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI named ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear as interim CEO, while outgoing chief Sam Altman moved to Microsoft, in a surprise turn of events that clouded the future of the startup at the heart of the artificial intelligence…
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Sam Altman will not return as the CEO of OpenAI and ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear will become the new interim CEO, media outlet The Information reported, citing board director Ilya Sutskever's statement to the company's staff. Shear…
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Meta Platforms launched two new AI-based features for video editing that could be used for posting to Instagram or Facebook. The first is called Emu Video and it generates four-second long videos with a prompt of a caption, photo or an…
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OTTAWA: Canada banned Chinese messaging application WeChat and Russian antivirus program Kaspersky on government-issued mobile devices due to privacy and security risks. The ban was announced after an assessment by Canada's chief…
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NEW DELHI: Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of trying to hack into senior opposition politicians' mobile phones, after they reported receiving warning messages from Apple. Some of…
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Elon Musk said social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, will soon launch two new tiers of premium subscriptions. "One is lower cost with all features, but no reduction in ads, and the other is more expensive, but has no ads,"…
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NEW DELHI: Google will start manufacturing smartphones in India and its flagship Pixel 8 will be available next year, as the tech giant joins global companies setting up facilities in the nation. At a Google for India event, Rick…
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Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, said it will test a new subscription model under which it will charge $1 annual fee for basic features. The new subscription termed as "Not A Bot" will charge users for likes, reposts…
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