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Bipartisan roadblock coming Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet, Apple way next week
The Klobuchar-Grassley number aims at reining in tech firms, including industry leaders Facebook and Apple. Past attempts on these lines have failed although one, a broader measure to increase resources for antitrust enforcers, has passed the Senate. Amazon, as per a Reuters investigation this week, is accused of using data from third-party sellers to determine products it would create.
Apple Music coming to PS5 soon: Report
Some users noticed that the app is offered to them when they create a new US-based PS5 account, but it can't actually be installed, reports iMore. While PS5 users may not yet be able to download Apple Music on their consoles currently, reports suggest that Sony is going to make the app available very soon.
India 6th most affected country by ransomware: Google
Israel was far and away an outlier, with the highest number of submissions and nearly a 600 per cent increase in the number of submissions compared to its baseline. It was followed by South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Iran, and the UK as the most affected top 10 territories, based on the number of submissions to VirusTotal.
Apple Watch Series 7 revs up growing smartwatch market
The latest Apple smartwatch comes with a 20 percent bigger screen and a 40 percent thinner body than the Apple Watch Series 6. Its battery runs for 18 hours, like the previous model, but charges 33 percent faster. It also supports advanced health and fitness tools, including an ECG app that records one's heartbeat and rhythm using the electrical heart sensor.
Google introduces continuous scrolling to Search on mobile
This new Search experience is starting to gradually roll out for most English searches on mobile in the US. Now, at the bottom of a set of results, the search engine will automatically load the next page, allowing users to continuously scroll until they find the particular website they are looking for.
FB developing AI that can see, hear, remember whatever you do
Imagine your AR device displaying exactly how to hold the sticks during a drum lesson, guiding you through a recipe, helping you find your lost keys, or recalling memories as holograms that come to life in front of you. To realise this new AI potential, Facebook AI has announced 'Ego4D' -- a long-term project aimed at solving research challenges in 'egocentric perception' (the perception of direction or position of oneself based on visual information).
Google makes 'select to speak' tool more fluid for people with dyslexia
For people with dyslexia, low vision, those learning a new language or people who have a hard time focusing on busy text, Select-to-speak on Chromebooks allows them to hear selected text on their screen spoken out loud. Now, new, more human sounding voices for Select-to-speak will help spoken text be more fluid and easier to understand.
After India report, US mulls bill to fix Amazon's predatory practices
The American Choice and Innovation Online Act, led by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), would prevent platforms like Amazon, Apple and Google from using their online dominance to disadvantage other firms, reports The Verge. "When dominant tech companies exclude rivals & kill competition, it hurts small businesses and can increase costs for YOU," Klobuchar said in a tweet on Thursday.
WhatsApp begins rolling out end-to-end encryption for chat backups
With the new update, if a user chooses to back up his chat history with end-to-end encryption, it will be accessible only to him, and no one will be able to unlock the backup. Neither WhatsApp nor the backup service provider will be able to access their end-to-end encryption backup. The feature will be rolling out "slowly" for people on the latest version of the app.
AirPods 3 to launch next week along with M1X MacBook Pro: Report
The new version of the AirPods Pro could have motion sensors to enable better fitness tracking, reports dailymail.co.uk. An image of the upcoming AirPods 3 reveals the earphones' design which seems to be inspired by the Pro variant. It may come with a short stem and a sensor, as well as a microphone on the front.
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