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Apple unveils iPhone 14, 14 Plus in yellow, available in India from March 14
"The extraordinary battery life, lightweight design, pro-level camera and video features, groundbreaking safety capabilities like Emergency SOS via satellite, and all iOS 16 has to offer make iPhone 14 a great option for anyone in the market for a new iPhone," said Bob Borchers, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
YouTube to remove 'overlay ads' on videos from April 6
"Starting on April 6th, 2023, the 'Overlay ads' ad format will no longer appear on YouTube to help improve the viewer experience and shift engagement to higher performing ad formats on desktop and mobile devices," the company said in a YouTube Help Forum post. Overlay ads are a legacy ad format that is only served on desktops and are disruptive for viewers.
Elon Musk takes 'exit interview' of sacked employee on Twitter
Ex-Twitter employee named Haraldur Thorleifsson wrote in his post: "Dear @elonmusk, 9 days ago the access to my work computer was cut, along with about 200 other Twitter employees. However, your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not. You've not answered my emails. Maybe if enough people retweet you'll answer me here?"
Microsoft's video upscaling tech to boost blurry videos quality via AI
"This can be accomplished by removing blocky compression artifacts and upscaling video resolution so you can enjoy crisp and clear videos on YouTube, and other streaming platforms that play video content without sacrificing bandwidth no matter the original video resolution," according to the Edge Insiders blogpost.
Google making Android more safe in 2023
"It's our top priority to keep Android and Google Play safe for developers to build successful businesses and provide quality apps and games to billions of users around the world," the tech giant said in an Android Developers blogpost on Monday. "We'll continue to work in collaboration with developers, publishers, regulators and more as we navigate the transition to a more private mobile ecosystem."
Reports of new CPU development team aren't true: Samsung
"A recent media report that Samsung has established an internal team dedicated to CPU core development is not true," the tech giant told SamMobile. "Contrary to the news, we have long had multiple internal teams responsible for CPU development and optimisation, while constantly recruiting global talents from relevant fields." This means that the company has not started developing in-house CPU cores for its upcoming smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Google building a 1000-language AI model to beat ChatGPT
In November last year, the company announced its plans to create a language model supporting 1,000 of the world's most-spoken languages while also revealing its USM model. The tech giant describes USM as a family of state-of-the-art speech models with 2 billion parameters trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text, spanning 300+ languages.
Apple's new 13, 15-inch MacBook Air may feature M3 chip
According to 9to5Mac, the tech giant is also planning to release an updated version of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M3 chip. The upcoming M3 chip will have an 8-core CPU like the M2 chip, but it is expected to be manufactured using TSMC's (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) latest 3nm process for improved performance and power efficiency, the report said.
Microsoft introduces its new 'Canary Channel' for Windows Insiders
"The new Canary Channel is going to be the place to preview platform changes that require longer-lead time before getting released to customers," the tech giant said in a blogpost on Monday. Similar to the Dev Channel, some of the changes the company will try out in the Canary Channel might never ship, and others could roll out to future Windows releases.
WhatsApp to clearly outline how its privacy updates will affect EU users
The European Commission said in a statement that the company will make it easier for users to reject updates when they disagree with them, and will clearly explain when such rejection leads the user to no longer be able to use WhatsApp's services. Also, WhatsApp confirmed that users' personal data are not shared with third-parties or other Meta companies -- including Facebook -- for advertising purposes.
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