Instagram DMs get upgraded with new features
Instagram is jazzing up the inbox by adding new features for photo editing, sticker creation and themes. The company is trying to make Instagram more appealing as a messaging app with features to make conversations more engaging. While some of these features might not sound new, it’s all about removing
Read moreDonald Trump says he’ll task Elon Musk with auditing the entire federal government
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Former President Donald Trump says that if reelected, he’ll create a government efficiency task force — and that Elon Musk has already agreed to lead it. During a speech in New York on Thursday, Trump said the new efficiency commission would conduct a “complete
Read moreGoogle faces provisional antitrust charges in UK for ‘self-preferencing’ its ad exchange
More antitrust woes for Google. The U.K’.s competition watchdog said on Friday that it suspects the company of adtech antitrust abuses. The tech giant will now have a chance to respond to the provisional findings before the regulator reaches a final decision. Confirmed violations of U.K. competition law can lead
Read moreKaro is a to-do app that lets you assign tasks to your friends and family
You can build a reminder and task management system for yourself, and use a service that works for your team. But it might not be easy to get your family members or friends to use the same task management app. iOS app Karo (which means “do it” in Hindi) aims
Read moreHow Can AI Smart Telematics Enhance Safety in South Africa?
The rapidly expanding and widespread use of systems like AI language models and other natural language processing (NLP) tools is opening people’s eyes to the remarkable abilities of AI to integrate various sources. This integration allows AI to provide comprehensive, microscopic details about literally everything, in real-time. This is no
Read moreElon Musk’s X could still face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans’ data
Earlier this week, the EU’s lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chatbot, but the saga isn’t over yet for the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has confirmed
Read moreOnline search: Are we at the end of an era or the dawn of something new?
Recently, I’ve noticed AI-generated overviews appearing above my search results. AI has officially made its way into online search results. Is this the end of an era? Will AI dominate search results from now on? For a long time, search engines have been an integral part of our lives. When
Read moreLanga Dube Talks Innovative Solutions in Exclusive Interview
TCS is excited to announce the Africa launch of WisdomNext at the AWS Summit, a revolutionary AI platform that will empower businesses across the continent with Generative AI. Join us for an exclusive interview with Langa Dube, Country Head and Executive Director of TCS South Africa, about a game-changing solution
Read moreThe creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source
On today’s episode we speak with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, who won the Google-O’Reilly Open Source award for his work on the Hudson/Jenkins project. Kohsuke began his career at Sun Microsystems. In 2010 he founded InfraDNA, which merged with Cloudbees shortly after. In 2014 he become the CTO of Cloudbees. He shares
Read moreTelegram will start moderating private chats after CEO’s arrest
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Telegram has quietly removed language from its FAQ page that said private chats were protected from moderation requests. The change comes nearly two weeks after its CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France for allegedly allowing “criminal activity to go on undeterred
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