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Samsung Galaxy Watches to soon alert users of irregular heart rhythms
The IHRN feature, combined with the app's Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, helps Galaxy Watch users better understand their heart health by detecting heart rhythms suggestive of atrial fibrillation (AFib), the company said in a blogpost on Wednesday. This new feature has been approved by the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) last week, following the recent clearance by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Judge orders cops to evict Twitter from US office over unpaid rent
According to a report in Denver Business Journal, a Chicago-based landlord that owns Twitter's office in the city of Boulder, was provided a $968,000 letter of credit back in February 2020. The money ran out in March and the micro-blogging platform has not paid the rent since, which works out to be around $27,000 per month. "A judge has ordered the Boulder sheriff to return possession of Twitter's office to the landlord, according to court documents," the report mentioned.
Twitter sued for $250 mn over 'wilful' music copyright infringement
The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in the state of Tennessee on behalf of 17 music publishers, is seeking damages and injunctive relief for Twitter's "wilful copyright infringement". "Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating publishers' and others' exclusive rights under copyright law," the lawsuit read.
Truecaller introduces call recording for premium users on iOS, Android
While both operating systems restrict apps from recording calls natively, Truecaller circumvents the restriction by calling a dedicated recording line, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday. On Android, users can start a recording call directly from Truecaller's dialer. Truecaller will display a floating recording button if they are using another dialer.
OpenAI releases generative text features with function calling capability
"Developers can now describe functions to GPT-4-0613 and GPT-3.5-turbo-0613, and have the model intelligently choose to output a JSON object containing arguments to call those functions. This is a new way to more reliably connect GPT's capabilities with external tools and APIs," OpenAI said in a blogpost on Tuesday.
Users can now add 30-sec song clips to Notes on Instagram
"You can now add 30-sec clips of your favourite songs to Notes on Instagram," Zuckerberg posted on Meta's Broadcast Channel on Tuesday. "Shoutout to my daughters for levelling up my music taste." Meta had first introduced 'Notes' on Instagram in December last year and said that it helps users to feel closer to the people they care about.
OpenAI warned Microsoft to go slow on integrating its AI into Bing: Report
However, Microsoft went ahead with integrating GPT-4 technology into Bing, "despite warnings that it might take time to minimise the inaccurate and strange responses", reports The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, OpenAI warned of the negative risks of pushing out a chatbot based on an unreleased version of GPT-4 too early.
WhatsApp rolling out video messages feature on iOS, Android beta
This new feature provides beta users with the ability to record and send video messages, reports WABetaInfo. When users hold the microphone button within the chat bar in any conversation, it will turn into a video camera button. Recipients will be able to identify when they receive a video message making sure that it has been recently recorded, which will greatly increase its authenticity.
Endefo to invest Rs 200 cr in India, eyes 10% wearable market share
The Dubai-based brand, under the Ashtel Group of companies, said it is set to launch six verticals -- smart watches, sound bars, portable speakers, TWS (true wireless stereo), BoomBox and party speakers. The products will be accessible through more than 2,000 large retail outlets, Amazon, and the company's own e-commerce platform, it said in a statement.
I dream 8 bn people on Earth can have an AI tutor, an AI doctor: Satya Nadella
In an interview with Wired, Nadella, 55, said that AI is going to be democratised. "I was in India in January and saw an amazing demo. The government has a programme called Digital Public Goods, and one is a text-to-speech system. In the demo, a rural farmer was using the system to ask about a subsidy programme he saw on the news.
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