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Twitter announced on Wednesday that it is testing a new tool that automatically bans abusive posts, as the US social media platform faces increased pressure to shield its users from online abuse. Users who use the new Safety Mode will have their “mentions” filtered for seven days, preventing them from seeing messages marked as likely to contain hate speech or insults. According to Twitter, the functionality will be tested first by a small number of English-speaking users, with priority given to “marginalized populations and female journalists,” who are frequent targets…

Telegram has announced a significant upgrade that will remove the limit on the number of people that may see a livestream. The software has also enhanced the way messages are transferred across conversations, and it now includes a function that recommends popular stickers to users. Telegram will also display whenever a user selects a sticker during a chat. In addition, new animated stickers will be distributed to users. Furthermore, Telegram has reportedly discontinued support for its Wear OS app, as it is no longer available for download from the Google…

Google’s Research team has unveiled two new techniques to image enhancement that use ai techniques. Google has released two models, SR3 — Image Super-Resolution and CDM — Class-Conditional ImageNet Generation, which it claims, “push the boundaries of image synthesis quality for diffusion models.” According to Google, super resolution models convert a low-resolution image into a detailed high-resolution image. Super resolution can be utilized to improve medical imaging systems and restore ancient family photographs. The Diffusion models were first proposed in 2015 but have recently witnessed a resurgence due to their…

Windows 11 will be available as a free upgrade to all genuine Windows 10 users starting from October 5. That will be the stable version of Windows with free of bugs and problems, unlike to the beta version that some people have been using for some time. Aside from bugs, the stable version of Windows 11 may lack an essential feature: support for Android applications. Microsoft announced that Android applications would be accessible on Windows 11 only in the coming months, implying that customers will be unable to use Tiktok or Instagram on…

Telegram has become the latest app to exceed the one billion downloads mark internationally. The instant messaging software, which debuted in late 2013, competes with WhatsApp and Facebook’s Messenger. Despite public outcry over WhatsApp’s latest privacy policy modification, it was able to expand its market penetration. Telegram also added new features, such as group video calls, screen sharing with sound, and an improved voice chat experience, which helped entice more users. Telegram reached a billion downloads globally last week, according to TechCrunch. Telegram’s main competitor WhatsApp, as well as Messenger,…

WhatsApp has been seen testing the disappearing mode feature just days after WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart revealed that the app is working on it. Disappearing mode is a feature that extends the disappearing messages function. Users may enable disappearing messages for all conversations at once using this feature. Currently, users can enable disappearing mode for individual chats and groups. There is no option to enable it for all chats at once. According to Wabetainfo, WhatsApp was seen trying the vanishing mode feature in the most recent beta release for the…

Instagram has announced that it would begin requesting users to provide their birthdate information. These reminders may be ignored at first, but the social media giant intends to make them mandatory if you want to use Instagram in the future. These prompts attempt to determine how old everyone on Instagram is in order to avoid content that is inappropriate for young kids from appearing in their feed. Instagram claims that this information is required for new features it is developing to safeguard young people. Instagram said in a new blog post…

Apple has agreed to ease payment limits on its App Store, a significant shift revealed in a deal with small developers as the US technology behemoth suffers increased scrutiny and legal challenges over its tightly regulated online marketplace. The move would enable small developers to inform their consumers about payment methods other than the official App Store. In a class-action complaint, the developers accused Apple of monopolistic distribution methods by acting as the exclusive portal for getting applications or other content onto iPhones and other iOS-powered devices. “The agreement clarifies…