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Koo launches voluntary self-verification feature for users
The new feature empowers the users to prove the authenticity of their accounts on the platform, hence lending credibility to the thoughts and opinions that they share. Voluntary self-verification promotes visibility of genuine voices.
Starlink blocked by French court after legal battle with environmental groups
The decision was published by the Conseil d'Etat, France's Supreme Court for administrative justice, reports Teslarati. According to the court, the recent Starlink ruling negated a decision by Arcep, France's telecoms regulator, back in February 2021.Arcep had granted Starlink two bands of frequencies that would link the company's satellite constellation to France-based customers, the report said.
Musk won't get special treatment on the platform, says Twitter
In a statement to The Verge, Twitter spokesperson Adrian Zamora said the platform is "committed to impartiality in the development and enforcement of its policies and rules," implying that Musk will be subject to the same Twitter rules as everyone else. In other words, Twitter could likely still ban or suspend Musk, if need be.
Flipkart launches health app to supply affordable medicines in remote places
The app Flipkart Health+ aims to partner and strengthen the healthcare ecosystem by solving the critical gap of accessibility to genuine medicines and healthcare products in remote locations to address unmet healthcare needs. It will also contribute to 'Swasth Bharat', the company said.
Elon Musk gets fierce competition as Amazon enters space internet biz
The tech giant signed contracts for launches with United Launch Alliance (ULA), Arianespace, and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The contracts total up to 83 launches over a five-year period, providing capacity for Amazon to deploy the majority of its 3,236-satellite constellation.
Microsoft brings Arm chip support to Azure virtual machines
Azure VMs with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors will offer up to 50 per cent better price-performance than comparable x86-based VMs for scale-out workloads, Microsoft officials said. These new VMs are also for Web servers, application servers, open-source databases, gaming servers, media servers, and more, they added.
Spotify testing new feature for user-made playlists
The Featured Curators pilot is a limited-time test that promotes popular user and influencer playlists alongside our Spotify playlists. "Spotify transformed music discovery through flagship playlists like RapCaviar and personalised playlists like Discover Weekly," the company said in a blog post. "Now, we are experimenting with taking playlist creation and discovery even further.
Microsoft's top executive James Phillips quits
Phillips joined Microsoft in 2012 as a corporate vice president and strategic advisor to Satya Nadella, who has since become CEO of the company, reports Windows Central. In 2020, Phillips became the president of the Microsoft's Digital Transformation Group, which oversees the tech giant's business applications and services.
Meta takes down 23.6 mn pieces of bad content in India on FB, Instagram
Between February 1-28, Meta received 478 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism, and responded to 100 per cent of these reports. Of these reports, the social network provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 402 cases. These include pre-established channels to report content for specific violations, self-remediation flows where they can download their data, avenues to address account hacked issues etc.
Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day over Oppn uproar over fuel price hike
After the second adjournment when the House reassembled at 2 p.m., the panel deputy chairman Sasmit Patra said that the Union Minister for Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav will reply on the debate on the working of the Ministry but the oppositions' commotion continued as they wanted a discussion on the price rise.
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