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18 Nov

Amazon to cuts hundreds of jobs in Alexa division

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaINDIA

Amazon is cutting jobs in the Alexa division and laying off "several hundred" employees. Those to be laid off will include employees working in the artificial general intelligence team. The development comes a week after the company cut jobs in music and gaming divisions as well as some human resources roles. Daniel Rausch, Amazon's vice president of Alexa and Fire TV, informed the team of the layoffs on Friday (Nov. 17). He said the company is going to focus its resources on generative AI Read his letter to employees:Team,We’re really encouraged by the progress we’re making with Alexa: customers are…

17 Nov

Google Photos gains 2 new AI features

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

Google Photos, the popular gallery app used by millions worldwide, often gets new features that improve the overall user experience The tech giant is now rolling out two new AI-powered features that help reduce clutter and categorize screenshots and documents into albums. If you're someone who takes a lot of photos, your photo gallery can often be cluttered with similar images like sunsets or group photos. Google is introducing a feature called 'Photo Stacks' which aims to solve this problem. The new AI-powered feature automatically detects and groups similar photos and organizes them into piles. It also selects the top…

17 Nov

Apple is making iMessage available for Android users

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

iPhone users are now set to be friends with Android users on iMessage, as Apple has announced its decision to adopt the Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging standard. This move paves the way for a unified messaging experience across the platform, allowing Android users to enjoy the full suite of iMessage features. Apple made the strategic decision to integrate the RCS messaging standard into its messaging platform in response to the European Union's Digital Markets Act and regulatory pressure from competitors such as Google and Samsung, 9 to 5 Mac reported. Apple will implement the feature in late 2024 through…

16 Nov

Nana Patekar breaks silence on viral video of him slapping fan

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

A day after a video showed Nana Patekar slapping a fan for clicking a selfie with him on the sets, the actor shared his side of the story in a new video posted by ANI. He says that beating a boy was part of a scene in his next film, and he thought the fan was actually a crew member who was supposed to be part of the scene, but later found out that he was a real fan. Speaking in Hindi, Nana says in the video, “Namaskar. A video is going viral where I hit a boy. There is…

14 Nov

Ishaan Khatter starrer Pippa apologies over controversial AR Rahman rendition of Karar oi Louho Kopat song

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, India, North EastINDIA

The makers of the recently released biographical war film Pippa on Monday apologized after facing backlash for AR Rahman's rendition of Karar Oi Louho Kopat. Rahman recently performed Bengali poet Nazrul Islam's patriotic song Karar Oi Louho Kapat for a war drama, which sparked much controversy. On Monday, production house Roy Kapoor Films took to Instagram and apologized for the controversy over the performance of Nazrul Islam's patriotic song AR Rahman. https://www.instagram.com/p/CzlirXCIyuo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

14 Nov

Tata Steel to scrap 800 positions in Netherlands

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

Tata Steel's Dutch division said on Nov. 13 that it would cut about 800 jobs at its IJmuiden plant in an effort to boost profitability. Tata currently employs about 9,200 people in IJmuiden on the Dutch coast, 30 kilometers (19 mi) west of Amsterdam. "Despite all efforts by Tata Steel to improve its market position and reduce costs, more needs to be done," the company said in a statement. "Also in light of the transition to a cleaner company, where significant investments have been made and will be made." The restructuring would mainly affect managerial and support staff, and was…

11 Nov

PM Narendra Modi’s is now a Grammy nominee

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndiaINDIA

In a major surprise, Abundance in Milts, a song featuring PM Narendra Modi has received a nod at the 2024 Grammy Awards. It received a nomination in the Best Global Music Performance category. It was created by Falu and Gaurav Shah. Other nominees in the category include: Vijay Iyer Arooz Aftab and Shahzad Ismaily - Shadow Forces, Burna Boy - Alone, Davido - Phil, Bella Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Silvana Estrada - Milagro y Disastre and Zakir Hussain ft Rakesh Chaurasia - Pashto. Ibrahim Maluf Ft. Simafunk and Tank and Bangus - Todo Colores. An abundance of Millet was created to…

11 Nov

Man orders kurta for German colleague from Blinkit

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

A Twitter user's post about ordering a traditional Indian dress for his German colleague from Blinkit caught the attention of the CEO of the fast-commerce platform. In a viral post, Twitter user Debarun Talukdar explained that a colleague in Germany visited their India office during the festive season and was surprised to see everyone wearing traditional Indian attire. The German employee did not realize that he was in the office for the annual Diwali Puja, which is why all his Indian colleagues were dressed in their traditional best. Not wanting to leave him out, the Company's Indian employees did something…

10 Nov

Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

A new lawsuit filed against Meta by the state of Massachusetts claims that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed concerns about Instagram's features negatively impacting users' mental health. According to the lawsuit filed Monday in Suffolk Superior Court, Zuckerberg and other members of Meta's leadership were asked to remove plastic surgery filters from Instagram and Facebook by 2019 because of concerns from mental health experts about the filters' negative mental health effects may affect young users, especially women. According to an internal email cited in the complaint, Instagram's then-policy chief allegedly pleaded with Zuckerberg to disable the filters, writing, "We're talking…

09 Nov

Fake Sara Tendulkar-Shubman Gill photo goes viral!

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

Deep fake technology has taken the world by storm. Many celebrities have been victims of AI and have created fake pictures of them and shared them on the internet. Indian batsman Shubman Gill became the latest victim of technology as a picture of Gill and Sachin Tendulkar's daughter Sara went viral on social media. Many fans celebrated that the two made their relationship official with the post, after some investigation, it was found that the photo was morphed. The film originally featured Arjun Tendulkar's face instead of Gill. However, through the power of AI, Gill's face was transformed into Arjun's…