Technology

In a major victory for Google, a US district court has ruled against the US government’s closely watched, hard-fought proposal to break up the tech giant as part of remedies in a landmark search antitrust case. Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court of Columbia on Tuesday, September 2, rejected the Justice Department’s proposal … Read more

Like popular OTT platforms, YouTube has a family plan that lets users share Premium perks with up to five other family members. Priced at Rs 299 per month, the plan gives you access to several features like background play, ad-free video streaming, the option to skip segments in videos, and Smart Downloads, to name a … Read more

Instagram is testing a new feature which lets users watch Reels in a small floating window. Like YouTube, the Picture-in-Picture mode will be enabled when you close the app, allowing users to multitask while watching short-form videos on their device. First spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu on Threads, Instagram’s parent company Meta, confirmed to … Read more

Google won’t have to sell its Chrome browser, a judge in Washington said on Tuesday, handing a rare win to Big Tech in its battle with U.S. antitrust enforcers, but ordering Google to share data with rivals to open up competition in online search. Google parent Alphabet’s shares were up 7.2% in extended trading on … Read more

OpenAI said on Tuesday it will acquire Statsig in an all-stock deal valuing the product testing startup at about $1.1 billion based on OpenAI’s current valuation of $300 billion. The ChatGPT maker will also appoint Statsig’s chief executive officer, Vijaye Raji, as OpenAI’s tech chief of applications, in a push to build on its artificial … Read more

Builder.ai was a buzzy artificial intelligence company with a media-savvy chief executive, prestigious investors on three continents, a partnership with Microsoft and a supposedly vibrant business making apps for small businesses. Two years ago, Fast Company magazine ranked Builder the third most innovative company in AI, right behind OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind. Story continues below … Read more

An Australian government-commissioned report said selfie-based age guessing software could enforce a teen social media ban, but noted that some groups experienced “unacceptable” levels of inaccuracy, raising concerns about the December rollout. The report, published by the government on Monday, said photo-based age estimation products were broadly accurate, fast and privacy-respecting but noted worsening results … Read more

The digital tokens backing the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, fell in value on Monday in their first day of trading. The World Liberty tokens, known as $WLFI, were sold to investors after the Trump family and its business partners last year launched the venture, a decentralized finance platform that has also issued … Read more

When pop groups and rock bands practice or perform, they rely on their guitars, keyboards and drumsticks to make music. Oliver McCann, a British AI music creator who goes by the stage name imoliver, fires up his chatbot. McCann’s songs span a range of genres, from indie-pop to electro-soul to country-rap. There’s just one crucial … Read more

Days after the central government imposed a blanket ban on online money games, major real-money gaming (RMG) platforms have moved swiftly to suspend their pay-to-play-to-win services and have signalled that they will not mount a legal fight challenging the prohibition. Concerns over addiction and its social fallout have been cited by the Centre as a … Read more