Follow Gadgets 360 - Social, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/gadgets66 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 22:55:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZK7YkL3QYfK-T5HJgy6HUf Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay $1.26 million (nearly Rs. 10 crore) to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that she promoted a cryptocurrency on Instagram without disclosing that she’d been paid $250,000 (nearly Rs. 2 crore) to do so. The SEC said Monday that the reality TV star and entrepreneur has agreed to cooperate with its ongoing investigation.]]> Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:16:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZK7YkL3QYfK-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZDPX5_wc-BvKCY3L745TL_ Twitter wants a Delaware court to order Elon Musk to buy the social media service for $44 billion (nearly Rs. 3,60,000 crore), as he promised back in April. The Tesla billionaire's reputation for dismissing government pronouncements has some worried that he might flout an unfavourable ruling of the Delaware Court of Chancery, known for its handling of high-profile bus...]]> Mon, 03 Oct 2022 14:11:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZDPX5_wc-BvKCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZgYnUpFx8XcSlmFkX7M1Jw Elon Musk was denied access to additional documents about Twitter’s internal measure of robot and spam accounts after a judge concluded the company already disclosed enough of the information as part of the billionaire’s legal fight over a scuttled takeover.]]> Sat, 01 Oct 2022 08:45:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZgYnUpFx8XcSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aK-4ZS0uejcps0ohxaO6Yr Elon Musk's and Twitter executives', close friends', potential investors' and Silicon Valley bros' text exchange sheds light on how a $44 billion (nearly Rs. 3,58,100 crore) deal by the world’s richest person to buy the social media company came about — and ended up in court.]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:33:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aK-4ZS0uejcps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9bmceAMS9KbU5VjH6qdYdAk Meta has launched a new AI system called Make-A-Video that will allow users to generate short 5 second video clips by entering text of the desired scene. The company has also released a research paper on the generative technology behind the model and also plans to release a demo experience soon.]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:13:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9bmceAMS9KbU5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YMcuFclasLc5VjH6qdYdAk Twitter has announced two new features to its redesigned video viewing experience featuring a full-screen view, and a video carousel feature on the 'explore tab' that enables vertical swiping with a new 'videos for you' sub-section. The immersive media viewer with vertical scrolling will be available for iOS users using Twitter in English, while the video carousel fea...]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 10:40:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YMcuFclasLc5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZsLN96PwU41ZVjH6qdYdAk Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly informed the company's employees during a weekly all-hands meeting that the company will freeze hiring to cut costs, amid rough economic conditions, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal that states the company wants to cut expenses by at least 10 percent. Back in July, Zuckerberg reportedly told employees that the co...]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 09:02:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZsLN96PwU41ZVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aNUeAqtuSiwZVjH6qdYdAk Elon Musk's messages to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal reveal that the two were briefly friends earlier this year, until Musk tweeted to his followers in April asking if Twitter was dying. The Tesla CEO's messages to Agrawal showed that the latter asked Musk to treat him "like an engineer” instead of a CEO as they worked through technical questions together. At one point...]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:15:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aNUeAqtuSiwZVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YwWpnVWvm6A8b1naedg1wr Twitter on Thursday withheld the account of Popular Front of India (PFI) in India, after the Centre banned the outfit under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for alleged terror links. The government on Wednesday ordered the blocking of all the social media traces of the banned outfit, including its Twitter, YouTube channels, Instagram, and Facebook account...]]> Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:05:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YwWpnVWvm6A8b1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZMI3muBKLYUaCY3L745TL_ Twitter was slammed by major advertisers like Dyson, Mazda, and Ecolab over the platform displaying their ads next to accounts and tweets related to child pornography. The companies said they have suspended or removed their ads from the microblogging service, after promotions for 30 brands ranging from Disney to Coca-Cola and NBC Universal to a children's hospital wer...]]> Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:03:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZMI3muBKLYUaCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aTb2kLUbm-ipVjH6qdYdAk Facebook must pay compensation to Rohinygas over hate speech that exacerbated violence against the community when they were forced from their homes in Myanmar in 2017, Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday. The NGO said that Facebook, wasn't merely a passive site with insufficient content moderation, and that its algorithms “proactively amplified and p...]]> Thu, 29 Sep 2022 07:54:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aTb2kLUbm-ipVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZVd71x2OfPDaCY3L745TL_ Apple confirmed on Wednesday that it had delisted VKontakte, Russia's most widely used social networking app from the company's App Store. The app was removed in compliance with UK Sanctions on Russia after the latter held referendums in Moscow-controlled areas of Ukraine. The VK apps that were removed are used for messaging, digital payments, grocery shopping, and so...]]> Thu, 29 Sep 2022 07:37:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZVd71x2OfPDaCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9bTMHyeK5rhPps0ohxaO6Yr WhatsApp, Meta's instant messaging and calling service, has published details of a 'critical' vulnerability that has been patched in a newer version of the app but might still affect older installed versions that have not been updated.]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:59:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9bTMHyeK5rhPps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9a0uXT8Op6uFCejEQ2Mq9rY Elon Musk has moved a US federal appeals court asking it to remove a provision that was part of a consent decree with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), stating that the requirement inhibited and chilled his right to free speech on a broad range of topics. The Tesla CEO agreed in 2018 to let a Tesla lawyer screen tweets that might contain material inform...]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:49:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9a0uXT8Op6uFCejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aZ2wAM0SvhL3n9ye8UNv30 Meta on Tuesday said that it had disabled a China-based propaganda operation that was aimed at users in the US ahead of the upcoming midterm elections in November, serving them political content on the company's platforms. The firm said that the propaganda network had fake accounts on both Facebook and Instagram, as well as on rival service Twitter.]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2022 07:17:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aZ2wAM0SvhL3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YM0O6B673drHn9ye8UNv30 Twitter on Tuesday told a US court that Tesla CEO had not backed up his fake accounts claim, which he has used as a reason to back out of the $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,60,140 crore) Twitter takeover deal. The company's lawyers said it was a struggle to get documents from data scientists that Musk used to estimate the portion of fake accounts on the social network, an...]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2022 06:29:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YM0O6B673drHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YBeGTp4W3EzHn9ye8UNv30 Elon Musk's deposition by Twitter lawyers has been rescheduled from this week to October 6-7, just 10 days before a trial over his bid to walk away from the $44 billion (nearly Rs. 3,59,600 crore) takeover, and the delay could play in the social network company's favour. Musk's response to Twitter's motion was filed under seal. His lawyers have said in the past that t...]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:10:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YBeGTp4W3EzHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YBeGTp4W3EzOT5HJgy6HUf Elon Musk-Twitter hearing on Tuesday will begin with arguments on a motion by the billionaire’s attorneys to revise their answer to the lawsuit and their counterclaims against Twitter for the second time. Musk’s attorneys assert that Twitter needed his consent before making the payment but failed to do so.]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:59:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YBeGTp4W3EzOT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aOr5rNIRgyTezdsCmHakzH Facebook and Instagram's Account Center will allow users to switch between either platform's profiles and monitor notifications for both accounts from a single Accounts Center section. New mobile UI allows iOS, and Android users to switch between Facebook and Instagram without navigating to home screen, multitasking menu, or app drawer.]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:24:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aOr5rNIRgyTezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZLEbVQTtQkraCY3L745TL_ Instagram is reportedly increasing the time limit of stories to 60 seconds, from the earlier limit of 15 seconds. Earlier, stories that were longer than 15 seconds used to get broken up into separate segments. The social media company is said to have begun testing the change with select users towards the end of last year.]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 08:53:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZLEbVQTtQkraCY3L745TL_