Here is how the messaging application will work with other apps
A WhatsApp executive has said that the messaging service will allow users to chat across apps without compromising on privacy and security. “The idea behind interoperability is very simple.If you want to communicate with your friends…from one messaging app to another, you don’t need to know what messaging app they use,” the executive said. WhatsApp is planning to open its app to other apps.
Meta says you should reveal your fakes or they will pull them
Meta has announced that it will begin labelling images created with its own artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ‘Imagined with AI’. “We are adding a feature to reveal when they share artificial intelligence-generated video and audio so we can add a label to it,” Meta said. The labels will be applied to images posted by users on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.
The human species reached the higher latitudes of Europe about 45,000 years ago
An extensive set of radiocarbon dates from both collections as well as ancient DNA analysis show that the Hlle excavation has a correlation with our layers 9–8. Baltic flint was the major material for most of the artefacts from layers 9 and 8. This raw material also occurs in a few artefacts from the 1932–1938 excavation.
After the sun reaches its solar panels the Japanese moon landing gets back to work
Japanese space agency JAXA said that it has resumed its Space Interferometer (SLIM) mission and has resumed images of Moon’s surface after it was able to reestablish communications with it. SLIM had lost power when it was just 50 metres above the surface. “We believe that the success of pinpoint moon landing will be utilised in future lunar exploration missions,” said JAXA.
In the first fortnight of the year, nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off
The tech sector is not just downsizing, but it’s doing what it takes to be, said Jeff Shulman, a professor at University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. “There’s a herding effect in tech,” he said. Shulman added that if it appears as if an entire sector is experiencing a downward shift, it takes the focus off of any single individual company.
The joy of streaming and the sadness of it
‘An Unmarried Woman’ director Melanie Mayron has shared an old scene from her 1978 film ‘Girlfriends’, which shows a woman dancing to the sea off the coast of New York. “It stayed with me: exuberant, silly, creative, full of possibility,” she said. Mayron added she hasn’t seen the film since she was a teenager but that scene stayed with her.
Track friends and family on the phone
Several Android apps like WhatsApp and Google Maps offer location-sharing capabilities that allow users to track their friends. It allows users to share location with others. Users can turn off location-sharing with their contacts and add a location-based notification by tapping on a contact’s name. They can also choose to stop sharing location with a specific individual.
Apple is accused of extortion with the new App Store tax
Apple has announced a new fee structure for apps that want to operate on the third-party stores. Under the current fee structure, any app that sees over one million installs per year must pay Apple a 50 cent fee (about 54 cents) for every new installation over that first one million installs. Third-party app stores must pay Apple 50 euro cents per user per year.
Every developer will hate the new Apple tax
Apple will require a 1 million letter of credit from an A-rated financial institution in order to establish an alternative app store in the European Union (EU). Developers have to move their users to a third-party app store in order to launch a company’s store. A user must first uninstall the old version of the app that was downloaded through Apple’s App Store.
Cruise was hiding the video from regulators, but it had bad internet
An independent investigation by Exponent, a consulting firm, has said that self-driving car startup Cruise’s video of the crash, which left a pedestrian seriously injured, could not be viewed on the internet. It added that Cruise’s vehicle had “technical issues” during the crash which hindered the video’s playback. It said the video should have been viewed on the internet.