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Tesla Megapack battery fire triggers shelter-in-place advisory in US
The fire started at the local utility company PG&E's Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California, in the morning hours on Tuesday as reported by local media. No injuries were reported at the facility and the cause behind the fire incident was being probed, according to The Verge. The local authorities later lifted the shelter-in-place advisory.
Twitter breaks all records with over 30 mn tweets on passing of Queen Elizabeth II
Since the Queen's passing, there have been over 30.2 million tweets about the Queen, said the company. The day of the announcement on September 8 was the highest volume of conversation ever seen on the micro-blogging platform. There were over 1 million Tweets about queues and the #1 hashtag within this conversation was #queueforthequeen.
Standalone app of TikTok's BeReal clone is now available outside US
According to TechCrunch, the app offers a similar feature set to the TikTok Now experience being introduced into the US TikTok app, announced last week. But as an independent mobile app, it allows users to opt-in to receive the push notifications just for these social check-ins, even if they have their TikTok notifications silenced, the report said.
OneWeb's 36 satellites arrive in India ahead of launch
With this launch, OneWeb will have over 70 per cent of its planned Gen 1 LEO constellation in orbit as it progresses to deliver high-speed, low-latency connectivity services around the world. "OneWeb's dedication to industry collaboration has allowed us to successfully navigate the ever-changing global environment and prepare for yet another milestone launch," Neil Masterson, CEO, OneWeb, said in a statement.
YouTube 'dislike' and 'not interested' buttons fail to protect users: Mozilla study
The team from the developer of Firefox open-source web browser heard from several people who expressed frustration with the user controls, and who said they wanted better tools that simply work the way they'd expect them to. "People feel that using YouTube's user controls does not change their recommendations at all. We learned that many people take a trial-and-error approach to controlling their recommendations, with limited success," said the report.
Apple hikes App Store prices in Europe, some Asian nations from Oct 5
The price increases will be effective on both in-app purchases and regular apps on App Store, starting October 5.
"As early as October 5, 2022, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories that use the euro currency," the tech giant said in an update.
India drops 7 spots in fixed broadband speeds in August globally
The country, however, maintained its global ranking for median mobile speeds at 117th position, according to network intelligence and connectivity insights provider Ookla.
Google's next-gen chipset to improve GPU performance over its predecessor
According to a tipster, the new chipset will utilise the same CPU as the original Tensor, reports Android Central. The alleged internal specification leak has been found from an alleged Pixel 7 Pro testing unit. The device, which ran a Geekbench test, has revealed more details on the next Tensor chip made by Google. The tipster further broke down important information on the new chip based on the benchmark data in a series of tweets.
Google pilot to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam launched
Gmail users could start seeing more campaign fundraising emails in their inboxes in the next couple of days, reports Axios. Announced in June, the programme allows candidates, political party committees and leadership political action committees to apply for spam folder exemptions.
Twitter makes it easy for the visually impaired to read images
The new image description reminder will encourage more people on Twitter to add helpful descriptions to the images they tweet, the company said in a statement. Alternative text, or alt text, is a written description of what's in an image that can be picked up by screen reader software used by the visually impaired.
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