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Samsung may reveal Galaxy Z Fold 5, Flip 5 in July
The company is expected to hold the Unpacked event on July 26, and the devices could become available in stores on August 11, reports The Verge. The news was first reported by the Korean news outlet The Chosun Ilbo.
Apple's App Store stopped over $2 bn in fraudulent transactions in 2022
"Today, Apple announced that in 2022, the App Store prevented over $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions, and rejected nearly 1.7 million app submissions for failing to meet the App Store's high standards for privacy, security, and content," Apple said on Tuesday.
If AI goes wrong, it can go quite wrong: OpenAI CEO to US lawmakers
Sam Altman, who testified at a hearing in the US Senate in Washington, DC, late on Tuesday, said that the AI industry needs to be regulated by the government as AI becomes "increasingly powerful". "If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong," Altman told them.
Google to delete all personal accounts inactive for 2 years
The company said it will purge the content in inactive accounts within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos. While the policy took effect on Tuesday, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account and the earliest the company will begin deleting accounts is December 2023.
Apple unveils new tools for cognitive, speech, vision accessibility in its products
The tech giant introduced new tools for cognitive accessibility, along with Live Speech, Personal Voice, and Point and Speak in Magnifier in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 18. "At Apple, we've always believed that the best technology is technology built for everyone," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO.
Grateful of IT Minister's acknowledgment of our user safety efforts in India: WhatsApp
Vaishnaw on Tuesday launched the Sanchar Saathi portal, on the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, that will help millions of people track their lost or stolen mobile phones, and mentioned WhatsApp's cooperation with the government to ensure customer safety.
Ashwini Vaishnaw launches portal to track, recover lost mobile phones
In his remarks at the launch, Vaishnaw said that the three reforms -- CEIR (Central Equipment Identity Register), know your mobile connections and ASTR (Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition powered Solution for Telecom SIM Subscriber Verification) have been introduced.
Google Bard's new update improves summaries, sourcing
"We've updated Bard with better summarisation capabilities by incorporating advances we've developed in our large language models," Google said. With the new update, users will be able to ask Bard to summarise a specific article or story, or to provide a quick explanation of a topic without going into too much detail.
Google's pre-written texts to tackle suicide, aid people to ask for help
Google developed the pre-written prompts in partnership with the International Association for Suicide Prevention to reduce the stigma of reaching out to ask for help, which is shown to help people get support in moments of crisis. The new feature will be first rolled out in the US, and will appear below the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Apple App Store up after brief outage globally
Along with the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, iTunes Store and Mac App Store were also part of the outage, which are now resolved. According to Downdetector, more than 2,400 problems were reported by the users. Around 91 per cent of people had reported problems with the server connection, 7 per cent while using the website, and 2 per cent while login.
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