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After a plethora of social media platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, Reddit is planning its verification system to put an ‘official’ badge in front of users who have confirmed their identity. The social media-cum-disucssion forum said it is currently conducting a test with a limited number of profiles to verify authenticity. Only a few organisations with pre-existing relations with the site have received the new ‘official’ label.“This is currently only available to a *very* small (double-digit) number…

One of the most obvious things about looking at stars in the sky is that they’re not all the same brightness. A handful are so bright that you can easily see them even in a big city’s washed-out sky, while others are so faint that they’re invisible unless you’re stargazing on a moonless night from an essentially light-pollution-free locale (if you can find one). This varying visibility of stars is so obvious you may not have given it much thought. Astronomers, however, think about it a lot. And astronomers, being…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Sony's gaming division has announced that it has sold more than 40 million PlayStation 5 consoles, attributing the milestone to ease in supply chain problems. Sony launched PlayStation 5 in November 2020 and since then the company, just like others in the tech industry, struggled with supply chain issues due to the Covid-19 pandemic. "We continued to face headwinds with the pandemic, and it took months for supply chains to normalise so we could have the inventory to keep up with demand. Now PS5 supply is well-stocked and…

Hackers are distributing a worm through Activision’s popular Call of Duty gaming franchise, according to a report by Techcrunch. The malware is believed to be able to spread automatically through online lobbies from one infected player to another. It is thought that hackers have found one or multiple bugs in the game which are being exploited to execute malicious code on other players’ computers. This has prompted Activision to take the game offline while they investigate the issue. Hackers are distributing a worm…

WhatsApp has rolled out a new feature for Android users. The Meta-owned platform has introduced the new video message feature which will enable users to express them in a better way. With the new video message feature, WhatsApp users will now be able to record and share personal videos directly in the chat.What is the video messages feature?Video messages are a real-time way to respond to chats with whatever you want to say. Users are allowed to record and send 60 seconds videos. Video messages are protected with…