Tech
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Nintendo sees Switch sales sliding; hails ‘Super Mario’ movie success
Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd on Tuesday said it sees a further slide in sales of its aging Switch console to 15 million units in the financial year to end-March 2024, a 17% annual drop that would mark a t…
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LinkedIn cuts over 700 jobs, phases out China app as demand wavers
LinkedIn, the social media network owned by Microsoft Corp that focuses on business professionals, said on Monday it would cut 716 jobs as demand wavers, while also shutting down its China-focused jo…
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Twitter set to scrape inactive accounts
Social media platform Twitter Inc will remove accounts that have been inactive for several years, CEO Elon Musk announced in a tweet on Monday, saying that the action is “important to free up abandon…
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European Union needs to ‘speed up work on AI laws’
BERLIN: The European Union needs to speed up work on artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, Commission vice president Margrethe Vestager said Monday, as policymakers wrestle with the risks from the…
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Truecaller steps in to help WhatsApp users block spam calls
Truecaller will soon start making its caller identification service available over WhatsApp and other messaging apps to help users spot potential spam calls over the internet, the company told Reuter…
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Vietnam to mandate social media users to verify identity in bid to tackle online scams
Vietnam is preparing to make it mandatory for social media users of both local and foreign platforms to verify their identity in a bid to rein in online scams, state media reported on Monday. The mea…
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Google plans to upgrade search with AI chat, video clips- WSJ
Google is planning to make its search engine more “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” with a focus on serving young people globally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documen…
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Google and Sonos set for fierce court battle on Monday over smart speaker copycat
Sonos Inc and Alphabet’s Google LLC will face off in a San Francisco federal trial on Monday over claims that Google copied Sonos’ patented smart-speaker technology in wireless audio devices like Goo…
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FTC proposes ban on Meta profiting from minors’ data
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Meta’s Facebook of misleading parents about protections for children and proposed tightening an existing agreement on privacy to include a ban o…
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TikTok to launch ad product that will give premium content creators 50% cut
TikTok said on Wednesday it is launching a product that well let advertisers place ads alongside content produced by premium publishers, half of the ad revenue from which will be shared with those pu…