Technology News: Elon Musk's X Update, Xiaomi 14 Civi, WhatsApp Video Calling Upgrade: Indian Tech Training

Owned by Elon Musk, X says it will end visible like counts on posts and drop its Likes tab on profiles to protect privacy and reduce negative behaviors. Users will still see their own liked posts in private-but others won't see like counts or who has liked what under the publicly visible posts. It comes in response to criticism that public like tallies can sometimes discourage people from engaging with sensitive or controversial content. Actually, the new policy forms part of a broader or wider turn toward privacy and the protection of the users sweeping through a lot of social media sites now -a -days due to concerns about online harassment and image management.

aft Updated:28 Sep, 2023 Xiaomi has now made the 14 Civi available in the Indian market. This launch bolsters the lineup of premium mid-range smartphones priced below the Rs 50,000 price segment. The 14 Civi features Leica-engineered photography, Snapdragon 8 Gen SoC, and HyperOS. The smartphone is priced at Rs 42,999 for the 8GB + 256GB variant and at Rs 47,999 for the 12GB + 512GB combination. Key other points include offering a 6.5-inch AMOLED display with an adaptive refresh rate, a Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor, and the triple set of cameras backed by Leica optics. The battery on the Xiaomi 14 Civi is also a large 4700mAh cell with 67W fast charging.

WhatsApp announces three new updates for further enhancing video calling on both mobile and desktop, thus fundamentally improving the entire user experience: screen sharing with audio, the inclusion of up to 32 people in a video call across devices, and automatic marking of the active speaker during group calls. The new features therefore propel WhatsApp into a proper competitor to Zoom and Google Meet, especially for better quality and functionality in terms of accessibility features for those with less forgiving network conditions.

Oracle has teamed up with Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation for providing Cloud computing, data science, AI, and other emerging technologies to 200,000 students in India. The Naan Mudhalvan programme, of Tamil Nadu aims to impart employment-oriented skill training to its youth. The trainings, which are to be conducted through educators, shall also have the digital module by Oracle's MyLearn followed by certifications to give way to improved employability across the spectrum. Already, more than 60,000 students have enrolled in the programme from 900 colleges.

Out of the gate, literally, at WWDC 2024-aiming to enrich day-to-day interactions with technology-cross the street. Competitors have seen flashing but impracticable AI products across the years, and this is Apple all about solving everyday problems in ways that make sense: through personalized features, really on the device, and done in ways truly woven across the ecosystem. That is, with its vertical approachapple could bring serious generative AI directly into the operating system and applications in a way never before seen-all in ways to improve the user experience. Indeed that is how apple will make technology faster, easier and more intuitive to the user

Childhood friends Moin S P M and Srinath Ravichandran co-founded AgniKul in Chennai in the year 2017. Though both of them had different career paths, it was the common interest in rockets gave them this idea almost a decade ago. Cut to 2024 AgniKul Cosmos launched its maiden sub-orbital test vehicle, Agnibaan SOrTeD which was powered by what is the world's first single-piece 3D-printed rocket engine. Such a revolutionary process is likely to slash launch costs and diminish assembly time-the whole assembling of such a vehicle could take something like couple of weeks only.