Google to bring picture-in-picture mode for Meet app

Google to bring picture-in-picture mode for Meet app

Tech giant Google has announced that it is bringing picture-in-picture (PiP) support to its video conferencing app alongside pinning multiple video feeds. With the new functionality, users can see up to four video tiles in a meeting as it appears in a floating window, IANS reported from San Francisco. Enabling ...


Japan to levy fines on tech cos. for failing local laws

Japan to levy fines on tech cos. for failing local laws

The Japanese government is set to levy fines against 48 tech companies including Twitter Inc., Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc's Google for failing to register their headquarters in the country, Reuters quoted from a Nikkei newspaper report on Monday.

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Instagram testing full-screen version of feeds

Instagram testing full-screen version of feeds

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform, Instagram has begun testing a new full-screen version of the feed that is similar to TikTok. Meta's growing insistence on being more like TikTok has led to it borrowing a lot of features from the popular Chinese content hosting service, owned by ByteDance. The feed has been in...


Snap buys Netherland-based 3D scanning studio Th3rd

Snap testing new subscription service Snapchat+

Snap Inc, the parent company of photo messaging app Snapchat, is testing a new subscription service called Snapchat+ that would give subscribers access to exclusive and pre-release features, a Snap spokesperson has confirmed.

The subscription feature, which Snap said is being tested ...


Airtel launches Xstream Fiber in Ladakh, Andaman, and Nicobar Islands

Airtel launches Xstream fiber in Ladakh, Port Blair

Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband service, Airtel Xstream fiber, in Ladakh and Andaman and the Nicobar Islands. The company has become the first private internet service provider to roll out FTTH broadband services in these remote geographies, the company said in a st...


YouTube shorts now watched by over 1.5 bn users

YouTube shorts now watched by over 1.5 bn users

Google-owned music and video streaming platform YouTube has confirmed that more than 1.5 billion logged-in users are now watching Shorts every month, less than two years after its launch. According to IANS, YouTube also promoted Shorts’ ability to drive viewers to creators’ long-form video channels as a by-product of its investment in Shorts....