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Google Meet Will Start Removing Users From Empty Meetings, Host Controls Get Redesign

Google Meet, its video conferencing software, has received two usability improvements. When everyone else has left a call, the app will now immediately remove you from it. Google Meet is also consolidating host management controls. They’ll be merged into the Google Meet web interface’s bottom-right corner. The controls had already been discovered in a number of locations. The new change allows for a more centralised, but lengthier, location of host administration controls. “We believe that by decreasing the need to switch between several menus, this change makes it easier to…

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Fortnite maker Epic Games and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids

Another big coalition for a new metaverse, this time for children, has been announced. Epic Games, the company behind the popular battle royale game Fortnite, has teamed up with the Lego Group to create “an immersive, creatively stimulating, and engaging digital experience” for children. The companies hope to create a safe environment for children of all ages to refine their creative skills while also providing opportunity for play. Epic Games revealed the long-term agreement in a recent blog post. The new platform, which will be developed in collaboration with The…

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China uses AI software to improve its surveillance capabilities

A Dozens of Chinese companies have developed software that employs artificial intelligence to classify data collected on residents, in response to heavy demand from authorities looking to update their surveillance tools according to a Reuters investigation of official papers. According to Reuters’ review of more than 50 publicly available documents, dozens of Chinese businesses have purchased “one person, one file” software in the last four years. The technology improves on previous software that just collects data and then leaves it up to individuals to organise it. “The system has the…

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WhatsApp disappearing messages like to get this useful feature soon

WhatsApp may no longer save images or videos from disappearing messages to your iPhone’s gallery. As a result, if disappearing messages is enabled in a chat thread, WhatsApp will no longer preserve any data from the disappearing messages discussion. For chats with disappearing messages enabled, the Save to Camera Roll option will be removed automatically. So, even if auto-saving is enabled for WhatsApp, it will not store any type of media to our iPhone’s gallery, including photos, videos, or Gifs. This is one of the recent features that WhatsApp has…

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Tata Neu had a bumpy start, users complain of OTP failures and more

Tata unveiled Tata Neu, a super app that will compete with Amazon, Paytm, and others. Both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store have the app available for download. Despite the fact that the new super app offers a wide range of services, including travel booking, UPI payments, and more, it didn’t get off to a great start. Tata was probably not expecting such a positive response. As a result, people rushed to try out the Neu app as soon as it was released, however many ran into…

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India to focus on homegrown games, technologies and characters to promote Indian culture in a new initiative

The global gaming industry has experienced unparalleled growth. The Indian government has recognised this and now considers it a potential industry in which the country may establish a dominance. In order to accomplish this, India will shortly establish a digital gaming research effort aimed at generating new homegrown gaming technologies. According to SERB Secretary Sandeep Verma, the project would be spearheaded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). The initiative’s main goal will be to establish excellent gaming research and development. SERB intends to accomplish this by bridging the…

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BeyondIRR raises seed funding from Zerodha’s Rainmatter

BeyondIRR, a B2B wealth-tech platform, announced on Friday that it has received seed funding from Rainmatter, a subsidiary of Zerodha, and Sujeet Kumar, co-founder of Udaan. BeyondIRR is a B2B wealth-tech company formed by Parag Kasliwal, Deepesh Bhargava, Anupreet Choudhary, and Hemant Jain to help wealth rms, wealth managers, independent financial advisers (IFAs), RIAs, and MFDs provide a better advice experience to their wealth clients. BeyondIRR wants to use the capital to grow its team and develop a robust digital platform, according to the company. Parag Kasliwal, Co-founder and CEO…

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Actor Rana Daggubati ventures into Metaverse with his startup Ikonz

Rana Daggubati, a Telugu actor, has entered the Metaverse with Iknoz, a firm he co-founded with Indian American entrepreneur Abinav Varma. Ikonz seeks to use NFTs to introduce culture’s most iconic figures and IP into the Metaverse. Ikonz wants to increase IP aggression by bringing together half of India’s top entertainment IPs under one roof. This entails pursuing not only actors, athletes, and other public figures, but also social media celebrities, content providers, and even media companies that specialise in rights ownership. Rana Daggubati had earlier said, “As an IP…

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UC-Berkeley born data science startup looks at product by early next year

Ponder.io, a data science startup founded by University of California, Berkeley researchers, is working with early adopters to turn its open source project—a tool to help data science teams work with large data sets—into a product by early next year, according to Aditya Parameswaran, the company’s president. Downloads of Ponder’s open source projects Modin and Lux, a data visualization tool that can help with insight discovery, anomaly detection and more, have reached close to three million, said Parameswaran. “The early customers are helping us figure the features to be needed for…

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After Google, now Oppo is reportedly working on its own chipset to reduce dependence on Qualcomm and MediaTek

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo is said to be working on its own chipset, which it plans to unveil in 2023. Google, Apple, and Samsung are among the companies who have released their own mobile chipsets. During Oppo’s Inno Day 2022 annual event, the firm unveiled a neural processing unit (NPU) dubbed MariSilicon X. The chipset is designed to boost the device’s photography capabilities while also giving AI power. Oppo’s integrated circuit (IC) design subsidiary Shanghai Zheku is working on an application processor (AP) chipset, according to a report by IT…

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