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Amazon will also join the likes of Apple and Spotify for including live audio content along with other music and radio features. The technology giant also plans to recruit celebrities to add content and launch the app.   | Photo Credit: AFP Amazon will also join the likes of Apple and Spotify for including live audio content along with other music and radio features. Amazon is reportedly building a standalone audio-only app aimed at allowing users to record and distribute radio shows, according to The Verge.(Sign up to our Technology newsletter, Today's Cache, for insights on emerging themes at the intersection of technology, business and policy. Click here to subscribe for free.)Codenamed ‘Project Mic’, the app will compete with Clubhouse, which grew popular earlier this year after Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s presence on the platform.The project aims to democratise and reinvent radio, according to the report. It will focus on U.S.  » Read More

Multiple calls to 911 after 8 p.m. led police to find bullet impact on a building housing a community centre and a bullet casing on the ground. Author of the article: Montreal Gazette Photo by Dario Ayala /Montreal Gazette files Shots were fired in St-Michel district in Montreal’s north end on Tuesday night. Multiple calls to 911 after 8 p.m. led police to find bullet impact on a building housing a community centre and a bullet casing on the ground at François-Perrault and L.-O. David Sts., Montreal police spokesperson Véronique Comtois said. The police found no victims or suspects, she added. The scene has been secured and the police are looking for surveillance camera footage, Comtois said. Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Montreal Gazette Headline News Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Montreal Gazette, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc. | 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4 | 416-383-2300

Home >Companies >News >Snapchat to strengthen bet on Indian originals Premium To create these mobile-first shows, Snapchat has partnered with Sony Entertainment Television and Zee TV, besides offering a platform to Internet content makers such as Shehnaaz Gill, Avneet Kaur, Harsh Beniwal and Sushant Divgikar. 4 min read . Updated: 27 Oct 2021, 12:55 PM IST Lata Jha The company that specializes in videos, both fiction and non-fiction, ranging from three to five minutes, announced 120 new episodes for 2022 at a virtual event called Snap in India on Wednesday NEW DELHI : Building on its revival strategy in India, Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, primarily known for short, disappearing stories, is strengthening its original content slate to cash in on the increasing popularity of short form videos in the country. The company that specializes in videos, both fiction and non-fiction, ranging from three to five minutes, announced 120 new episodes for 2022 at a virtual event called Snap in India on Wednesday. To create these mobile-first shows, Snapchat has partnered with Sony Entertainment Television and Zee TV, besides offering a platform to Internet content makers such as Shehnaaz Gill, Avneet Kaur, Harsh Beniwal and Sushant Divgikar. A…

In August 2021, Samsung announced that WhatsApp users will finally be able to transfer their chat histories from an iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. It was then said that owners of non-Samsung Android phones will get this feature too in the future, and now that future has arrived. On Tuesday, Google announced that users can now transfer their WhatsApp chat history from an iPhone to an Android 12 phone. It only works on phones running Android 12. Credit: google To get started, connect the phones with a USB-C to Lightning cable. While setting up a new Android device, scan a QR code on your iPhone, which will launch WhatsApp and move all your stuff to the new device. Alternatively, instead of scanning the code, you can open WhatsApp, and go to Settings - Chats - Move Chats to Android. Google says that making this work wasn't trivial. On Android 12, you can transfer most of your apps and data from iPhone to Android using the aforementioned cable. But some types of data are hard to move over, which is why Google worked with WhatsApp to enable the new functionality. Google says that this feature works on Samsung Galaxy devices…

Seeking inspiration for your video content approach? Twitter has published a new, simple overview of key video tips and inspiration notes to get you thinking, which could help to boost your Twitter video strategy. The listing below includes composition notes, based on video engagement trends in the app, as well as a selection of ideas for your next video upload. And given that Tweets with video attract 10x more engagements than Tweets without, and video ads on the platform save more than 50% on cost-per-engagement, it’s definitely worth considering video in your tweet strategy. It’s a simple list, but it could definitely come in handy. Check out Twitter’s full video inspiration notes below.

Snapchat has hit 100 million monthly users in India, the company announced at its Snap Summit for India today. Further, Snap is now partnering with Flipkart to power new AR-driven shopping experiences on the platform. It will also be bringing its AR-driven virtual try-ons for Indian cosmetic brands Sugar Cosmetics and MyGlamm. The two will join Snap’s AR shopping beta program and will offer virtual experiences to consumers. Terming India as one of the biggest examples of the success of Snapchat’s overall ecosystem, Snap co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Bobby Murphy told indianexpress.com that the company has seen tremendous adoption of its Augmented Reality (AR) capabilities in the country. “We’ve seen really tremendous engagement and enthusiasm across our entire community in India around augmented reality. That engagement is happening within Snapchat and in other apps that we’re working with,” Snap’s co-founder pointed out. For Snap, the new AR-driven partnerships are the results of growing investments in the country and the company sees AR growing bigger than just the creative and funny Lenses for which it is best known. Snap has been steadily investing in increasing AR skills in the country and helping ‘Lens creators’ build better experiences. Lens is…

"Baking your first fall batch of cookies but you put too much cinnamon in it because you're too excited it's fall," Swift's Tumblr post reads Pull your "Cardigan" out because Taylor Swift is calling all autumn lovers. The pop star shared an Instagram Reel on Tuesday and reenacted a Tumblr post from 2014 that listed all of her favorite things about the Fall season — captioning the post "Basic autumn lovers RISE 🍂🧣" Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. In the Reel, Swift, 31, starts out by saying it was a "video reenactment of her Tumblr post about Fall" before previewing it. She then begins to narrate the post over a series of scenes that imitate the list, such as: Pointing to her fall wardrobe, drinking out of a "pumpkin flavored" Starbucks drink, panning over her fireplace and baking a batch of cookies — which she dumps a load cinnamon on top of. "And hats and scarves and knee socks and wearing tights for the first time in months and when the mornings are all chilly and you can see your breath, and…

If a screenshot of the chats has been taken, it can be leaked as it will not fall under the purview of end-to-end encryption. Updated: Oct 27, 2021, 12:48 PM IST WhatsApp is an extremely popular app and there is hardly anyone who doesn't use this for day-to-day real-time communication. However, we are also aware of the WhatsApp breaches which are very commonplace.  This brings us to the question of security. WhatsApp has stated that no third parties will be able to view anyone's WhatsApp chats, photographs, or videos. Facebook does not have access to the information, and WhatsApp does not have access to it either. The chats can only be read by the sender and receiver due to the end-to-end encryption policy. In spite of all the security features, chats are leaked and this could be extremely dangerous. In the end, all of your information is stored on your phone or on a cloud drive. When there is a suspicion of wrongdoing or criminal conduct, the same information can be made available to government authorities upon request. Also, if a screenshot of the chats has been taken, it can be leaked as it will not fall under the purview…

NEW YORK — An Ohio trader in penny stocks was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he earned over $1 million illegally by lying repeatedly to his over 70,000 Twitter followers to get them to buy stocks in what authorities are calling a new social media-infused twist on an old stock manipulation game.Steven Gallagher, 50, of Maumee, Ohio, was charged in New York federal court with securities fraud, wire fraud and market manipulation. He was arrested in Ohio. It was not immediately clear who would represent Gallagher at an initial court appearance in Ohio.U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a release that Gallagher “brought old-school boiler room tactics to the Twitter age, and operated a social media pump-and-dump scam that defrauded ordinary investors.”Ricky J. Patel, head of the New York office for Homeland Security Investigations, said Gallagher turned “lies into cash.”“Pump and dump stock schemes cause mistrust in the market and have real victims who often invest large sums of money, only to have their hopes shattered by a fraudster’s greed,” Patel said.Court papers in Manhattan alleged that Gallagher began defrauding followers of a Twitter account he started in September 2019 under the alias “Alex DeLarge,” a gang leader character who…

We’ve been fortunate to spend a bit of hands-on time with HyperX equipment recently and you could too. For your chance to win some new gear, all you have to do is tune it to Twitch tomorrow. In collaboration with eight of their content creators from across Australia and New Zealand: HyperX is hosting an event on Twitch tomorrow night at 7 pm AEDT. During the stream you can expect to see: Content Creator Interviews Trivia Givaways and Prizes Other surprises The giveaways and prizes include the full range of HyperX peripherals such as headsets, mice, keyboards and microphones. For the cost of some time, that’s a pretty good price for potentially taking home some great gear. If you’re keen to check it out the site to visit is www.twitch.tv/hyperx at 7 pm tomorrow night. The stream is expected to run for about 90 minutes, but could well continue on for a while if everyone is having fun.