TECHNOLOGY
Facebook launches its 1st ever event for gamers in India
Spread across two days October 19 - 20, the virtual event will be hosted by comedian Abish Mathews. According to the firm, the event will provide an opportunity to the game developers, publishers and creators across India to build, grow their communities and monetize on Facebook.
TikTok emerges as most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for Sep
According to Sensor Tower, the countries with the largest number installs were from Douyin in China at 16 per cent, followed by the US at 12 per cent. Facebook was the second most installed non-gaming app worldwide last month with more than 51 million installs. The countries with the largest number of Facebook installs were from India at 29 per cent, followed by Indonesia at 7 per cent. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger rounded out the top five most installed non-gaming apps worldwide for the month.
Twitter testing ads right in your replies amid monetisation push
"Starting today, we're trying something different and testing a new ad format in Tweet conversations," Bruce Falck, Twitter's revenue product lead, said on Wednesday. "If you're a part of this test (which is global; on iOS and Android only), you'll see ads after the first, third or eighth reply under a Tweet," he informed. Twitter sees here a big opportunity to build an ad offering that "creates value and aligns incentives for creators and advertisers".
If we don't solve future problems, we would be gone: Dell CEO
Speaking at the virtual 'Dell Technologies Summit' late on Wednesday, Dell said that we have to be bold in our reinvention and our investments for the future. "A business like ours really exists to solve those future problems. If we're successful in doing that, we'll be around for the next 37 years and beyond. If we don't do that, we'll be gone. That's just the way it works. It's not any more complicated than that," he said during his keynote address. Under his leadership, Dell is now building new-age solutions for the era of 5G, edge computing and telecom.
Microsoft, AMD to patch Ryzen bug on Windows 11 PCs next week
Microsoft said unlit the new update arrives it won't be pushing Windows 11 to AMD Ryzen-powered devices and suggests owners of such PCs to refrain from updating manually, reports GSMArena. The first bug affects the L3 cache and increases latency up to three times. The second bug is related to the "preferred core" feature that allows a system to use the fastest individual CPU cores in a processor.
Shatner after space trip: I'm so filled with emotion about what happened
Shatner has broken the record of aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who, at 83, became the oldest person to have ever flown to space. The booster and capsule of the fully automated and reusable New Shepard rocket landed separately, with the capsule landing in the west Texas desert with the help of parachutes within minutes of their launch to space.
Facebook to ban content that sexually harasses celebrities
"Public figures, whether they are politicians, journalists, celebrities or creators, use Facebook and Instagram to engage directly with their followers," Antigone Davis, global head of safety at Facebook, outlined in a blog post. "Our bullying and harassment policy differentiates between public figures and private individuals to enable freedom of expression and legitimate public discourse around those in the public eye." It will now remove coordinated efforts of mass harassment that target individuals at heightened risk of offline harm.
Samsung enables Galaxy smartphone users to donate through app
With the updated SGG app, Galaxy users in India will now be able to donate to projects using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). These projects include educating young women, feeding school children, protecting children's rights, supporting the fight against poverty and helping ease the loss of grieving families impacted by Covid-19, the company said in a statement.
Snapchat suffers outage, users can't post or send messages
Snap, which is the parent company of Snapchat, tweeted: "We're aware that some Snapchatters are having issues using the app right now - hang tight, we're looking into it!" Down Detector, which is an app outage tracking website, reported the problems with Snapchat. While 41 per cent has trouble with the app, 27 per cent of those affected were facing trouble with sharing photos and videos.
Global PC shipments grew 5% in Q3: Report
Despite the reduction in growth, volumes remain at a remarkably high level, given how strong the industry performed in Q3 2020. As a result, the PC market has undergone a two-year CAGR of 9 per cent from Q3 2019. Despite high demand, PC business suffered a series of blows, making it extremely hard to facilitate supply.
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