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WhatsApp for Android Could Soon Get an AI Character Creation Feature
WhatsApp for Android is working on an artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users create personalised AI characters within the app, as per a claim by a feature tracker. The new feature is said to be similar to the AI character creation feature available on Instagram and Messenger. The feature tracker claimed that users will be able to ...
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Democrats Widen Scrutiny of US Tech Companies Over Abortion Data Privacy
Democratic representatives are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion. Recently, six House Democrats have asked the top executives of Amazon’s cloud-service network and major cloud provider Oracle about the companies’ handling of consumers’ location data...
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Facebook Brings Messenger to Oculus Quest VR Headsets, Introduces App Lab for Developers
Facebook announced that it is rolling out Messenger to Oculus headsets. The other person need not have a VR headset for you to chat with them. You can type out a message in VR, send pre-written messages, or use the voice-to-text feature. The feature will be rolled out starting this week.
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Railways Stops British-Era Practice Of Personal Messengers To Cut Costs
The Railways has decided to do away with a British-era practice of sending confidential documents via personal or Dak messengers and instructed zones to move to communication via videoconferencing.
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Facebook Messenger May Soon Get Instagram Threads-Like Auto Status Feature
Facebook Messenger will soon have a feature that will let your close friends know what you're doing. A user has spotted Facebook prototyping a version of Instagram's Threads app's Auto Status option that indicates what a person is up to using emoji's over their profile icon.
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BBM Aka BlackBerry Messenger to Shut Down in May, but BBM Enterprise Becomes Available to Individual Users
BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) is shutting down. Emtek will wind down the service on May 31, 2019. However, BlackBerry is opening up BBM Enterprise (BBMe) for personal use.
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Facebook Messenger Kids App Sees US FTC Complaint Filed by Child Experts
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and other groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate Facebook's Messenger Kids.
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Facebook Messenger Adds Support for Reactions and Mentions
The new Message Reactions feature lets you react to a message with specific emojis while the Mentions feature allows you to tag a particular person in a group to directly notify them.
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Google's Duo App Joins Crowded Field of Video Calling
The new app, announced in May, is being released Tuesday as a free service for Android and iOS.
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Opinion: Delhi's So-Called National Media And Its Irrelevant Obsessions
Who the hell is interested, in this country of a billion people, if a couple of senior journalists have a personality clash or even an argument on principles? It can form the subject of a panel discussion at the Press Club, but how is it prime-time news? The messenger cannot become the message.
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Facebook Messenger Has a Hidden Chess Game; Here's How to Get Started
The Chess game can be played by any user in a personal chat window.
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AR Rahman Dismisses Fatwa Against Him in Strongly-Worded Facebook Post
"I didn't direct or produce the film I just did the music. My spiritual experiences of working on the film are very personal and I would prefer not to share these. My decision to compose the music for the film was made in good faith and with no intention of causing offence," AR Rahman wrote in a Facebook post
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WhatsApp for Android Could Soon Get an AI Character Creation Feature
WhatsApp for Android is working on an artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users create personalised AI characters within the app, as per a claim by a feature tracker. The new feature is said to be similar to the AI character creation feature available on Instagram and Messenger. The feature tracker claimed that users will be able to ...
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Democrats Widen Scrutiny of US Tech Companies Over Abortion Data Privacy
Democratic representatives are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion. Recently, six House Democrats have asked the top executives of Amazon’s cloud-service network and major cloud provider Oracle about the companies’ handling of consumers’ location data...
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Facebook Brings Messenger to Oculus Quest VR Headsets, Introduces App Lab for Developers
Facebook announced that it is rolling out Messenger to Oculus headsets. The other person need not have a VR headset for you to chat with them. You can type out a message in VR, send pre-written messages, or use the voice-to-text feature. The feature will be rolled out starting this week.
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Railways Stops British-Era Practice Of Personal Messengers To Cut Costs
The Railways has decided to do away with a British-era practice of sending confidential documents via personal or Dak messengers and instructed zones to move to communication via videoconferencing.
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Facebook Messenger May Soon Get Instagram Threads-Like Auto Status Feature
Facebook Messenger will soon have a feature that will let your close friends know what you're doing. A user has spotted Facebook prototyping a version of Instagram's Threads app's Auto Status option that indicates what a person is up to using emoji's over their profile icon.
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BBM Aka BlackBerry Messenger to Shut Down in May, but BBM Enterprise Becomes Available to Individual Users
BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) is shutting down. Emtek will wind down the service on May 31, 2019. However, BlackBerry is opening up BBM Enterprise (BBMe) for personal use.
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Facebook Messenger Kids App Sees US FTC Complaint Filed by Child Experts
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and other groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate Facebook's Messenger Kids.
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Facebook Messenger Adds Support for Reactions and Mentions
The new Message Reactions feature lets you react to a message with specific emojis while the Mentions feature allows you to tag a particular person in a group to directly notify them.
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Google's Duo App Joins Crowded Field of Video Calling
The new app, announced in May, is being released Tuesday as a free service for Android and iOS.
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Opinion: Delhi's So-Called National Media And Its Irrelevant Obsessions
Who the hell is interested, in this country of a billion people, if a couple of senior journalists have a personality clash or even an argument on principles? It can form the subject of a panel discussion at the Press Club, but how is it prime-time news? The messenger cannot become the message.
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Facebook Messenger Has a Hidden Chess Game; Here's How to Get Started
The Chess game can be played by any user in a personal chat window.
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AR Rahman Dismisses Fatwa Against Him in Strongly-Worded Facebook Post
"I didn't direct or produce the film I just did the music. My spiritual experiences of working on the film are very personal and I would prefer not to share these. My decision to compose the music for the film was made in good faith and with no intention of causing offence," AR Rahman wrote in a Facebook post
