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Marriage Spies In India Are Being Hired For Background Checks On Prospective Partners
People in India are hiring marriage spies to carry out a thorough background check on their prospective partners before the wedding
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Instagram Is Working on an AI-Powered Editing Tool That Can Reimagine Users’ Videos
Instagram is working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to reimagine their videos. The AI-powered video editing tool is built on Meta’s Movie Gen AI model, an early research project that can generate videos from text prompts. On Instagram, instead of letting users generate videos from scratch, the feature will add...
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WhatsApp Rolls Out New Calling Effects, Animations and Stickers Ahead of New Year
WhatsApp is introducing fun new features to enhance the texting and calling experience ahead of the new year, the company announced on Thursday. For a limited time, WhatsApp users will be able to take advantage of new calling effects with the New Year theme during video calls. Further, the instant messaging platform rolls out new animations and sti...
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Apple Developing an iPad-Like Foldable With No Crease for 2028 Launch: Mark Gurman
Apple appears to be quietly working on foldable devices in the background, and the iPhone maker seems to be another step closer to launching its lineup of foldables. The Cupertino tech giant is yet to confirm its plans, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has offered an overview of the new product category on the way from Apple. The company is said to be d...
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NDTV Indian Of The Year: Kapil Sharma Looks Back At His Journey: "20 Years Ago, I Came To Do A Show As Background Singer Here"
Kapil Sharma will welcome veteran actress Rekha in the upcoming episode of The Great Indian Kapil Show on Netflix. It will premiere at 8 pm on Saturday
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Deadly Game: US Woman Jailed After Boyfriend Dies In Hide-And-Seek Game
A Florida woman received a life sentence after being found guilty of killing her boyfriend by locking him in a suitcase and leaving him to suffocate, amid a background of domestic and alcohol-related issues.
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Pixel Recorder App Could Soon Get a ‘Clear Voice’ Feature for Background Noise Reduction
Google is developing a new feature for its native Pixel Recorder app to eliminate background noise and enable clearer speech playback when recording audio on its smartphones, according to a report. It was spotted during an APK teardown of the app for Android. The app is exclusive to Google’s Pixel lineup of devices such as the latest Pixel 9 seri...
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"Polite, Cheerful, Sensitive": Teacher Recalls 'Back Bencher' Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was a sensitive, polite and helpful student who never boasted about his family's political background, recalls one of his school teachers.
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Nvidia Research Introduces DiffUHaul, an AI Tool That Allows Object Relocation in Images
Nvidia researchers introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can relocate objects in an image. Dubbed DiffUHaul, the tool can spatially understand the context of an image to move an object from one place to another without impacting the background or the shape of the image. The unique aspect of this technique is that it is training-f...
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YouTube Shorts’ Dream Screen AI Feature Upgraded With Video Background Generation Capability
YouTube first began testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Shorts dubbed Dream Screen in June. The feature earlier could generate AI-generated image backgrounds for the vertical short video format, but on Thursday, the company announced a new capability. Dream Screen can now generate video backgrounds alongside image backgrounds all...
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Meta Rolls Out AI-Powered Backgrounds, HD Video Calls and More for Messenger Calling
Meta Platforms has introduced new features for Messenger which aim to improve the experience during audio and video calls. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), users will be able to take advantage of custom backgrounds during Messenger video calls for better expressivity. It also brings HD video calls to the app, in addition to other updates su...
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Viral: "Middle-Class" Man Fulfills His Dream Of Having Tea At Taj Hotel Mumbai, Internet Applauds
A man spent more than Rs. 2000 to experience the luxury of having tea at The Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai.
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Donald Trump's Team Avoids FBI Background Checks For Some Cabinet Picks: Report
Donald Trump and his allies feel that the FBI system is "slow," besides being plagued with issues which might prevent him from immediately starting the work of implementing his agenda, people close to the transition planning said.
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Children's Day 2024: Jackie Shroff's Powerful Message - "Every Child Has The Right To Education, Right To Dream..."
The video had Nanhe munne bachche teri mutthi mein sung by Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi from 1954 film Boot Polish playing in the background
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When Human Zoos Paraded Real People: A Dark Chapter Of Mankind
Up until the late 1950s, Europeans could go and see people from other ethnic backgrounds exhibited in cages, or in specially built villages.
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Marriage Spies In India Are Being Hired For Background Checks On Prospective Partners
People in India are hiring marriage spies to carry out a thorough background check on their prospective partners before the wedding
-
Instagram Is Working on an AI-Powered Editing Tool That Can Reimagine Users’ Videos
Instagram is working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to reimagine their videos. The AI-powered video editing tool is built on Meta’s Movie Gen AI model, an early research project that can generate videos from text prompts. On Instagram, instead of letting users generate videos from scratch, the feature will add...
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WhatsApp Rolls Out New Calling Effects, Animations and Stickers Ahead of New Year
WhatsApp is introducing fun new features to enhance the texting and calling experience ahead of the new year, the company announced on Thursday. For a limited time, WhatsApp users will be able to take advantage of new calling effects with the New Year theme during video calls. Further, the instant messaging platform rolls out new animations and sti...
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Apple Developing an iPad-Like Foldable With No Crease for 2028 Launch: Mark Gurman
Apple appears to be quietly working on foldable devices in the background, and the iPhone maker seems to be another step closer to launching its lineup of foldables. The Cupertino tech giant is yet to confirm its plans, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has offered an overview of the new product category on the way from Apple. The company is said to be d...
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NDTV Indian Of The Year: Kapil Sharma Looks Back At His Journey: "20 Years Ago, I Came To Do A Show As Background Singer Here"
Kapil Sharma will welcome veteran actress Rekha in the upcoming episode of The Great Indian Kapil Show on Netflix. It will premiere at 8 pm on Saturday
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Deadly Game: US Woman Jailed After Boyfriend Dies In Hide-And-Seek Game
A Florida woman received a life sentence after being found guilty of killing her boyfriend by locking him in a suitcase and leaving him to suffocate, amid a background of domestic and alcohol-related issues.
-
Pixel Recorder App Could Soon Get a ‘Clear Voice’ Feature for Background Noise Reduction
Google is developing a new feature for its native Pixel Recorder app to eliminate background noise and enable clearer speech playback when recording audio on its smartphones, according to a report. It was spotted during an APK teardown of the app for Android. The app is exclusive to Google’s Pixel lineup of devices such as the latest Pixel 9 seri...
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"Polite, Cheerful, Sensitive": Teacher Recalls 'Back Bencher' Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was a sensitive, polite and helpful student who never boasted about his family's political background, recalls one of his school teachers.
-
Nvidia Research Introduces DiffUHaul, an AI Tool That Allows Object Relocation in Images
Nvidia researchers introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can relocate objects in an image. Dubbed DiffUHaul, the tool can spatially understand the context of an image to move an object from one place to another without impacting the background or the shape of the image. The unique aspect of this technique is that it is training-f...
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YouTube Shorts’ Dream Screen AI Feature Upgraded With Video Background Generation Capability
YouTube first began testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Shorts dubbed Dream Screen in June. The feature earlier could generate AI-generated image backgrounds for the vertical short video format, but on Thursday, the company announced a new capability. Dream Screen can now generate video backgrounds alongside image backgrounds all...
-
Meta Rolls Out AI-Powered Backgrounds, HD Video Calls and More for Messenger Calling
Meta Platforms has introduced new features for Messenger which aim to improve the experience during audio and video calls. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), users will be able to take advantage of custom backgrounds during Messenger video calls for better expressivity. It also brings HD video calls to the app, in addition to other updates su...
-
Viral: "Middle-Class" Man Fulfills His Dream Of Having Tea At Taj Hotel Mumbai, Internet Applauds
A man spent more than Rs. 2000 to experience the luxury of having tea at The Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai.
-
Donald Trump's Team Avoids FBI Background Checks For Some Cabinet Picks: Report
Donald Trump and his allies feel that the FBI system is "slow," besides being plagued with issues which might prevent him from immediately starting the work of implementing his agenda, people close to the transition planning said.
-
Children's Day 2024: Jackie Shroff's Powerful Message - "Every Child Has The Right To Education, Right To Dream..."
The video had Nanhe munne bachche teri mutthi mein sung by Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi from 1954 film Boot Polish playing in the background
-
When Human Zoos Paraded Real People: A Dark Chapter Of Mankind
Up until the late 1950s, Europeans could go and see people from other ethnic backgrounds exhibited in cages, or in specially built villages.
