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Chief Twit Elon Musk now becomes 'Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator
Bombarded with requests to change Twitter, Musk decided to change his profile for 112.7 million followers. Famous American author Stephen King asked him that $20 to get the Twitter blue badge is too much. "$20 a month to keep my blue check? F*** that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I'm gone like Enron," he posted.
Twitter bans over 54K accounts in India for promoting sexual content, terror
The micro-blogging platform, now owned by Elon Musk, also took down 1,982 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country. Twitter, in its monthly report in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021, said that it received 157 complaints from users in India in the same time-frame through its grievance redressal mechanisms, and took action on 129 of those URLS.
Netflix acquires 'Spry Fox' to expand in-house games studio
Spry Fox has joined the streaming platform to become its sixth in-house games studio, Netflix said in a blogpost. "Our goal is to create a place where creative people could make original games in a supportive environment that brought happiness to the people who played them," said Daniel Cook, co-founder of Spry Fox. According to Netflix, Spry Fox's approach to game development and success will help to accelerate the creative development in another genre and will add more games to the growing variety of the platform's games catalog.
Instagram fixes outage that tells users their account is suspended
Thousands of Instagram users from all over the world reported issues of the outage, which locked them out and informed many that "we suspended your account". In an apology on Twitter, Instagram said: "We've resolved this bug now -- it was causing people in different parts of the world to have issues accessing their accounts and caused a temporary change for some in the number of followers. Sorry."
Meta purges 33.7 mn pieces of bad content in India in September
Between September 1-30, Meta received 587 reports through its Indian grievance mechanism, and the company said it responded to 100 per cent of these reports in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. "Of these incoming reports, we provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 534 cases," the company informed.
Instagram suffers global outage, 2nd in 1 week
"We're aware that some of you are having trouble accessing your Instagram account." We're looking into it and apologize for the inconvenience," the company tweeted. The Instagram policy states that they may disable certain accounts that violate community guidelines, such as illegal, bullying, hate speech, spam, or violating intellectual property rights, according to the report.
Samsung to roll out Android 13 update to Galaxy S22 in US
According to SamMobile, the latest Android update was limited to Asian and European countries. In the US, the stable update was also rolled out a few days later to the carrier-locked Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, and Galaxy S22 Ultra.
Musk seeks to revive Twitter's short-form video app Vine in TikTok era
Chief Twit Musk posted a poll on his Twitter account, asking users if they think Vine should be brought back, with a caption, "Bring back Vine?". Several users expressed their thoughts on the poll. A user commented, "I think it would be a great idea to bring back Vine. It was a great platform for creative content and I think there is still a lot of potential there"
Rethinking social practice as art
The show, which is a collaboration of fourteen community-based projects from around India, highlights acts of resilience that develop through artistic techniques of placemaking, creating voice, bearing witness, negotiating visibility and leisure, healing, and catharsis. The practices suggest worldmaking inside itself, where encounters, engagements, acts, and actions build new cosmologies. Restitution, tranquility, and the vigor of collective effort all point to a brighter future.
boAt joins cult.fit to launch at-home workout programme
It will be a six-week programme with a mix of yoga, strength, conditioning, and HIIT workouts created by some of the most well-known fitness and lifestyle coaches, including Suvini Mehra, Naveen Sharma, Carolyn Theresa Simon, and Niran Ponnappa. "By customising workout routines and run plans, our smartwatches enable users to move beyond basic activity tracking and advance in their fitness journeys," said Siya Wadhawan, a Brand Manager at boAt.
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