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After borrowing statuses and disappearing messages from Snapchat, WhatsApp is working on another major feature that Snapchat is known for. Once enabled, this will make WhatsApp a complete replacement for Snapchat. Apart from this, WhatsApp is also working on adding another highly requested feature – multi-device support. WhatsApp is gearing up to add another Snapchat-like feature after adding statuses and disappearing messages. Only, this time around, this feature will allow you to replace Snapchat completely. In a WhatsApp group chat with WABetaInfo, a website that tracks developments in the app, WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed several features coming soon to the messaging service. Stripping away Snapchat’s features, one after the other WhatsApp’s Disappearing Mode will turn it into a Snapchat replacement, allowing you to send disappearing messages to all your contacts, instead of turning it on for individual chats. Essentially, this will turn WhatsApp into an ephemeral app like Snapchat. All individual and group chats will have disappearing messages turned on by default once you enable Disappearing Mode. Instagram and Facebook Messenger already have this feature, called Vanish Mode. Zuckerberg also confirmed another feature called ‘View Once’. When turned on, this will allow users to…

CLEVELAND — A federal judge Thursday sentenced Dr. Albert Aiad-Toss, 53, of Canfield, to 22 years in prison for having sex with children ages 12 to 15 in 2019. He pleaded guilty in February before Judge Pamela Barker to seven counts of sex trafficking of a minor and one count of child exploitation. He formerly worked for an outside company as an emergency room doctor at St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital but was taken off the schedule when the allegations surfaced in 2019. His medical license was suspended in December 2019 because of the criminal charges, according to the Ohio Medical Board. Federal investigators have said that Ashland police contacted the FBI after the mother of a 13-year-old girl told authorities she and other juveniles met Aiad-Toss on the social media app Snapchat and that he paid them for sex acts. In addition to the prison term, Barker also placed Aiad Toss on lifetime supervision after he leaves prison and ordered him to pay a $50,000 fine and a special assessment of $40,800. Bridget Brennan, acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, called the case the “largest juvenile sex trafficking prosecution to date.” Brennan said: “Juvenile sex traffickers like…

Last month, messaging platform, WhatsApp, filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against the Indian government over the traceability clause in the new IT Rules 2021. The new IT rules requires social media platforms to locate ‘the first originator of the information’, when asked by authorities, which is called a traceability clause. Calling it unconstitutional, WhatsApp stated that it was against the fundamental right to privacy as underlined by the Supreme Court decision and urged that it not be imposed on technology mediators. It is claimed that the clause puts ‘criminal liability’ on its employees for non compliance. While this rule will affect all messaging apps including Snapchat, Signal, Telegram and Snapchat, only WhatsApp is fighting this inclusion. Could this be due to its popularity in India – it has over 390 million users in India, of which around 4% are business users? For instance, many hotels allow guests to manage their room and dining bookings through this platform. It has emerged as an important technology especially during the pandemic, when guests seek minimal personal communication with hotel staff – they can instead chat on WhatsApp. Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, CMD of ProcessIT Global Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, CMD of ProcessIT Global explains…

While video-hosting service Vimeo isn't quite as popular as YouTube, it still has hundreds of millions of users. Over the past few years, the company has been regularly updating its service to entice more customers. The firm has announced that it now supports AVIF images which means an automatic improvement in page load times and bandwidth consumption too. For those unaware, AVIF is an acronym for "AV1 Image File Format" and is essentially an AV1 format for still images. Both these specifications have been getting a lot of traction recently. AVIF is getting official support in Android 12 and has been supported in Cloudflare since October 2020 as well. Vimeo has stated that with support for AVIF images, page load times will increase as the format preserves comparable image quality to JPEG and WebP, while maintaining a smaller file size. Although a potential downside is that encoding takes longer, the firm says that this will not be an issue because this will be a one-time operation after which AVIF images will be cached. Moving forward, Vimeo says that its image server will deliver image formats depending upon the HTTP headers of a web request and the properties of the source…

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Writer and director Destin Daniel Cretton made the short film named Short Term 12 first before it manifested into the acclaimed feature of the same name. The feature film is an emotional indie starring Brie Larson, Kaitlyn Dever, LaKeith Stanfield and Rami Malek that deals with a group of young instructors at a treatment centre for troubled youth. It’s interesting how there are certain similarities in the two versions, most notably Stanfield who appears in both.PikuElements of the 2015 hit film Piku are loosely adapted from a short film made in 1980 by Satyajit Ray. Named Pikoo, the short was directed by him for a French television channel, France 3. It’s based on a short story named Pikoor Diary (Pikoo’s Diary), written by Ray for one of his books, Pikoor Diary O Onyanyo (Pikoo’s Diary and Other Stories). While Pikoo showcases a day in the life of a six-year-old child, Pikoo, in the backdrop of his mother’s extramarital affair, Soojit Sircar’s quirky comedy Piku is about the relationship between a daughter and her ageing eccentric father. The hit film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Irrfan Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles.Yes God YesYes, God, Yes is a 2019 comedy feature…

For advertisers, it’s a good opportunity to go micro and sharpen their targeting, while making sure all of this plays out in a brand-safe environmentBy Gopa KumarYouTube has announced some major changes to its video monetisation policy, which allows the company to run ads on all video content from this month. However, it will only pay creators who have qualified for the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). And this has created much dissonance with creators at large.Before going into its advantages and disadvantages for advertisers/ brands and, more importantly, creators and, of course, the users at large, here’s a background on YPP. The program enables content creators who have at least 1,000 subscribers to monetise their videos and share the revenue that YouTube earns from advertisers. It’s a partnership between YouTube and creators to create content and provide a platform for its content to get more users engaged on YouTube and, thereby, earn money from advertising.What has changedThe change is, before this update YouTube used to place ads only on creator platforms that were part of YPP with a certain number of subscribers and views. Now, YouTube can place ads on any content of its choice. However, creators who are not…

SEOUL, June 4 (Yonhap) -- The music video for all-female act BLACKPINK's song "Ddu-du Ddu-du" has broken 1.6 billion views on YouTube. The 2018 hit broke the milestone at 7:22 a.m. Friday, setting a new record for a K-pop act, its management agency YG Entertainment said. The record came roughly 19 months after it became the first music video by a K-pop group to surpass the 1 billion mark in November 2019. "Ddu-du Ddu-du," the main track of the four-member band's first EP, "Square Up," released in June 2018, is one of the group's most popular songs. The fierce pop-rap track peaked at No. 55 on Billboard's main singles chart, a record high rank for a song by a female K-pop act at the time. BLACKPINK boasts one of the world's biggest fan bases on YouTube with around 61.7 million subscribers, the second most among musicians after Justin Bieber. It has 28 videos with over 100 million views, including four music videos that achieved the 1 billion view milestone.

For Japanese Breakfast, the summer of 2021 will “Be Sweet.” Japanese Breakfast – Michelle Zauner’s Tumblr-inspired stage moniker – has made a name for herself in more ways than one. As an indie rock musician releasing her third album “Jubilee” on Friday and a writer who recently released her memoir “Crying in H Mart.” Zauner said she has made peace with her past and found some joy along the way. The Daily Bruin’s Alex Driscoll spoke with Zauner to discuss her new songs on “Jubilee,” preservation of her mother through “Crying in H Mart” and the direction of her future musical creations. (Courtesy of Peter Ash Lee) Daily Bruin: Can you describe your transition from your last album “Soft Sounds from Another Planet” to “Jubilee”? How does this next album differ thematically or sonically from your last? Michelle Zauner: I wanted to write an album centered around joy as the major theme. It just seemed like the most unexpected, surprising thing for me to do as an artist whose narrative is so rooted in grief and also whose genre is really rooted in sadness in general. I…