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Apple TV+ free for Airtel postpaid and wi-fi customers in India

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Apple has struck a deal with Airtel to provide the Indian telecom giant’s subscribers with exclusive offers for its music streaming service. The partnership, announced on Tuesday, will also see Airtel bundle Apple TV+ for its premium customers in India, while simultaneously shuttering its own Wynk Music app. Airtel customers who have subscribed to Airtel’s […]

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Paris court explains why it’s arrested Telegram founder, Pavel Durov

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When Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on August 24, French authorities did not respond to requests for comment. The secrecy of pre-trial investigations and inquiries is an important principle in the French judicial system. French television network TF1 reported that the main issues are Telegram’s (lack of) moderation processes

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Wait, what? Pavel Durov says he has fathered more than 100 children

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Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging platform Telegram, has been in the headlines since his arrest at a private airport near Paris on Saturday, reportedly in connection with an investigation into criminal activity on the his app. While many stories since have centered on free speech (i.e, should what happens on Telegram stay on

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Niantic aims to build a richer 3D map of the world with a new version of Scanniverse app

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Niantic is releasing a new version of its Scanniverse app to let users capture objects around them with more details. Scanniverse 4 will allow users to capture places and objects in 3D through a Gaussian Splitting technique, which captures more data points about an object for accurate and rich representation with faster rendering. The company

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Tidal launches royalty tracking features for artists

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Music streaming service Tidal has launched new features that let artists track royalties and manage the music they have songwriting credits for on the platform. Music royalties are Byzantine in their complexity. In the U.S., all collaborators on a given track, including the composers and performers, must be registered with a Performing Rights Organization (PRO)

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Threads explores ads, but says ‘no immediate timeline’ toward monetization

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Instagram says it’s not testing ads in Threads and has no immediate plans to monetize after multiple developers and reverse engineers uncovered references to ad products in the app’s code, including the word “ads” itself, as well as references to sponsored items and ads configuration. A JSON file that developers used, presumably for testing purposes,

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Meta lets you cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads. Here’s how to do it.

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Meta for months has been experimenting with letting people cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads, its social networking platform competing with X (formally known as Twitter). Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature has officially rolled out globally to all countries where Threads is available.  The new cross-posting capability is part of Meta’s larger goal

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