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How to pin, unpin a conversation on Snapchat
Snapchat is one of the social media platforms that allows users to send photos, videos, and messages that disappear after being viewed. Apart from sending snaps, users can also chat with friends on Snapchat using text, stickers, and multimedia messages. Snapchat is available on both Android and iOS platforms. The company recently introduced the Lenses feature that brings augmented reality filters that can be used to add effects to Snaps. There are many different Lenses available. Lenses can be used to change the look of…
Bug-Fix Update: WhatsApp addresses chat sorting issue on Android Beta
Image Source : FILE WhatsApp's Android Beta update released, sorting chats problems
WhatsApp, the messaging platform owned by Meta, has released a bug-fix update for its Android beta version to address a sorting chats issue. The problem caused the chat list not to refresh when a new message was received, resulting in the most recent conversation not appearing at the…
$1 Million Will Go to the Mathematician Who Busts the ‘ABC Conjecture’ Theory
For number theorists, 2012 was like a roller-coaster ride. Renowned mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan published a proof of the abc conjecture, one of the most important open puzzles in the field. But disillusionment quickly set in: Mochizuki had spent 20 years single-handedly developing no fewer than 500 pages of a completely new formalism that other experts needed to decipher. In the past decade these experts have been gnashing their teeth at his proof. Even several conferences could not…
The Morning After: Tesla reportedly formed a secret team to quash driving range complaints
Tesla is facing allegations that it's trying to minimize complaints about performance. Reuters sources claim the company had a secret Diversion Team in the Las Vegas area to cancel range-related service appointments.
If a customer complained the range didn't live up to marketing claims, advisors would tell owners that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) range figures were just predictions and battery degradation would reduce range. Tesla supposedly began tinkering with range estimates a decade ago to exaggerate figures…
Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 receives a price cut in India
Samsung recently launched its latest premium Android tablet series -- Galaxy Tab S9 at the Galaxy Unpacked event in South Korea. After the launch of the new tablets, the company has slashed the price of last year's Samsung Galaxy Tab S8.Samsung has reduced the price of the 128GB Wi-Fi variant of Galaxy Tab S8. The tablet has received a price cut of Rs 8,000 and the new price is reflected on the official website of Samsung.Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 new priceSamsung launched the 128GB Wi-Fi variant of Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 at…
Amazon India opens it’s first-ever floating store on iconic Dal Lake of Srinagar
Image Source : INDIA TV Amazon India unveils unique floating store on Srinagar's Dal Lake
Amazon India has made a significant announcement, introducing its first-ever floating store on the serene Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir, as part of its pioneering last-mile delivery initiative known as "I Have Space." The unique concept involves Murtaza Khan Kashi, the owner of the…
Oppo Find N3 may launch in August, company teases foldable phone
CloseOppo has teased the launch of its next foldable phone, the Find N3. The company posted a tweet, showing the letter "Z" turning around to read as an "N." The tweet also included the hashtag #FindN3. The teaser also confirms that the next foldable phone from Oppo will be called the Find N3.The Find N3 is expected to be a successor to the Find N2, which was launched in December 2022. Oppo has not yet announced a release date for the Find N3, but it is expected to launch in August 2023. The phone is likely to be…
Pollen is a professional development platform for tech workers, by tech workers
Meet Pollen, a new French startup that wants to provide a better way to learn new skills. Instead of working with full-time teachers, Pollen invites business executives and top performers in the tech industry so that they can host a class with a small group of people.
Behind the scenes, Pollen was co-founded by Julie Ranty, the former managing director of Viva Technology, a popular tech conference that takes place every year in Paris, along with Olivier Xu and Vincent Huguet. And Huguet knows a thing or two about…
AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models
Thanks to a boom in generative artificial intelligence, programs that can produce text, computer code, images and music are readily available to the average person. And we’re already using them: AI content is taking over the Internet, and text generated by “large language models” is filling hundreds of websites, including CNET and Gizmodo. But as AI developers scrape the Internet, AI-generated content may soon enter the data sets used to train new models to respond like humans. Some experts say that will inadvertently…
Ford expects to reach its EV production goal a year later than planned
Ford will take just a bit longer to reach the electric vehicle production goal it set for itself. As The Washington Post reports, Ford CEO Jim Farley now expects the automaker to be able to start producing 600,000 EV units per year sometime in 2024. The company was originally aiming to reach that production level in late 2023 with the help of lithium iron phosphate battery packs, which will help Ford cut manufacturing costs and reduce its dependence on nickel and other materials prone to shortage.
In the company's…