TECHNOLOGY
After Apple and Samsung, MediaTek to bring satellite connectivity to phones
NTN is a communications technology that uses satellites and other non-terrestrial vehicles to bring connectivity to regions that were previously unreachable by terrestrial networks, whether over mountains, across deserts or in the middle of the ocean. The chipmaker will also launch the first smartphones with MediaTek's satellite connectivity, with more devices to be unveiled in the coming months.
Apple may launch high-end, low-end 2nd-Gen AR headset in 2025
"Apple's second-generation AR/MR headset has two high-end and low-end models. The high-end and low-end will be developed and produced by Luxcaseict and Foxconn, respectively. The current launch schedule for both models will likely be in 2025," Kuo said in his latest report.
Twitter removes captions from Spaces on iOS
The company still advertises that users can enable captions in a Space by clicking the three-dot menu, but that option is currently unavailable on iOS, reports The Verge. Moreover, captions do not appear when listening to a Spaces on the web, and while the "CC" closed captions button is present, clicking it on or off has no effect.
YouTube Music to get podcasts soon
Kai Chuk, YouTube's head of podcasting, announced on Thursday that podcasts will soon be available on YouTube Music, reports TechCrunch. "We will soon start to bring both audio and video-first podcasts to YouTube Music for users in the US, making podcasts more discoverable and accessible, with more regions to come," a YouTube spokesperson, was quoted as saying.
Sam Bankman-Fried now charged with unlawful political contributions
According to a new filing from the Southern District of New York attorney's office, Bankman-Fried used the FTX customer funds he misappropriated, and was used in the unlawful political influence campaign, which involved flooding the political system with tens of millions of dollars in illegal contributions to both Democrats and Republicans.
Paytm now offers lightning fast UPI payments that never fail in peak hours
Paytm UPI LITE will never fail even during peak transaction hours, even when banks have success rate issues, the company said in a statement on Friday. Paytm UPI LITE aims to make digital payments more accessible to people across the country. UPI LITE, enabled by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), aids users to carry out multiple small value UPI transactions without using a PIN.
Meta may lay off another 11K or so employees in March: Report
According to Command Line, a weekly newsletter by The Verge, Meta leadership "has been coy both internally and externally about what is coming". The report said late on Thursday that the upcoming layoffs can be "somewhere in the ballpark of the last layoff, which was about 11,000 people or 13 per cent of the company".
YouTube now let creators dub videos in multi-languages
Over the past year, the company was testing this feature with popular YouTube content creator Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast and a small group of creators. "For viewers, multi-language audio means they can now watch videos dubbed in their primary language, introducing them to even more content that they otherwise may not have seen," the company said in a blogpost on Thursday.
Netflix lowers subscription costs in over 30 countries
Recent price reductions by the streaming giant include Middle Eastern countries (Yemen, Jordan, Libya and Iran), sub-Saharan African markets such as Kenya, and European nations (Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria), reports The Wall Street Journal. In Latin America, nations including Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Venezuela have seen reductions in subscription costs.
Google 'blatantly disobeying' CCI orders, charging app developers 11-26%: ADIF
While an alternative billing system will be permitted by Google, it will continue charging service fees from the developers which will be 4 per cent less than the normal service which it would charge if the user had availed of Google Play's Billing System (GPBS) option - meaning the commission rate under user choice would be 11 per cent or 26 per cent, as the case may be, said the ADIF.
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