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Users are reporting seeing Microsoft Edge pop-up ads while browsing on Google Chrome. The pop-up doesn't appear in the notifications window but in c:\windows\temp\mubstemp and is digitally signed by Microsoft. “We are aware of these reports and have paused this notification while we investigate and take appropriate action to address this unintended behavior,” says Caitlin Roulston, director of communications, in a statement to The Verge . Reddit users have been trying to figure out why they have been seeing these pop-ups since the past three months. The company is known to reportedly use a number of prompts to get users to switch from Chrome to Edge Browser, with pop-ups appearing even on the Windows taskbar. Microsoft tried to force Windows users to move to Edge after every update with a full-screen message. Recently Microsoft began taking over Chrome searches in Bing to deliver a response similar to ChatGPT-4 chatbot, which produced a full Bing page to entirely take over th

WhatsApp’s new macOS app is now available in beta version for download from the official website. Previously, WhatsApp offered a web-wrapped version of the app for MacBook users. However, with the new macOS app, users will be able to make more efficient use of all the features. The app will now allow users to participate in video calls with up to 8 people and audio calls with up to 32 people. Users can share files by easily dragging and dropping into a chat, view more of their chat History , choose to receive incoming call notifications even when the app is closed and join a group call after it’s started. Read More Apple to host fall event on Sept 12, analysts expect new iPhones In a blog post, Meta mentioned, "The app is redesigned to be familiar to Mac users, helping you get more done faster when using WhatsApp on a large screen." Whatsapp had put the app for testing for a small number of people on TestFlight. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/whatsapp-introduces-n

Apple Inc on Tuesday launched its "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) service in the United States, a move that threatens to disrupt the fintech sector dominated by firms like Affirm Holdings and Swedish payments company Klarna. The service , Apple Pay Later, will allow users to split purchases into four payments spread over six weeks with no interest or fees, the company said. It will initially be offered to select users, with plans of a full roll-out in the coming months. Users can get loans between $50 and $1,000 for online and in-app purchases made on iPhones and iPads with merchants that accept Apple Pay, according to the company. More than 85% of US retailers accept Apple Pay, the company said. "Apple Pay Later will absolutely wallop some of the other players. Other companies would've taken a look at Apple's announcement today because they are an ubiquitous name. This will take a bite out of the market share of other players," said Danni Hewson, head of

NEW DELHI: Twitter has blocked the Pakistan government's account from being viewed in India in response to a legal demand, according to a notice on the social media platform on Thursday. The company's guidelines compel it to withhold entire account s in response to a valid legal demand, such as a court order. Read more: Pakistan urges Twitter to restore its account s in India The account , @GovtofPakistan, remained available for viewing and interaction from countries such as the United States and Canada, Reuters checks showed. Twitter as well as India and Pakistan's IT ministries did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-blocks-pakistan-govt-s-account-in-india-TheFOXposts-16384.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

The moon rover of India's Chandrayaan-3 exited the spacecraft on Thursday to begin exploring the surface of the lunar south pole and conducting experiments, and was braced for new challenges, the space agency chief said. The spacecraft landed on the unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday, making India the first country to achieve this feat just days after Russia's Luna-25 failed in a similar mission. The soft, textbook touchdown by the lander after a failed attempt in 2019 sparked widespread jubilation and celebration in the world's most populous country. The media hailed the historic landing as India's biggest scientific feat. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief S. Somanath said the lander and the rover were in good condition, and "both are working very well" but the experiments were yet to start. "All activities are on schedule. All systems are normal," ISRO posted on X, formerly Twitter. "Rover mobility operations h

A man has shared his “go-to” order at McDonald’s on social media - and people are McLoving it. Melbourne content creator and foodie Angelo, known as AngeEats on social media, eats and reviews food and drink, sharing his appraisals on TikTok. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: The best way to order a Macca’s Cheeseburger revealed. For more Lifestyle related news and videos check out Lifestyle >> In a trending video, he shows how he orders and eats a classic Macca’s cheese burger . “This is my Macca’s hack, and the best way to eat a Double Cheeseburger,” he said in the video, which has had nearly 460,000 views. He says the trick is to order a Double Cheese burger with a steamed bun, then separately order a hash brown and sweet ‘n’ sour sauce - to put inside the burger . AngeEats on TikTok shares how he orders and eats a Maccas Double Cheeseburger. Credit: TikTok In the video, he opens the burger and adds the hash brown, spreads the sauce on top, closes the burger and takes a bite. “This co

A Gold Coast tenant investigating a lingering smell in her new rental has uncovered the repulsive source of the stench in a most unlikely place. After spending hours cleaning away a reappearing “grime”, she finally found the retch-inducing evidence of a previous tenant ’s foul act in the bathroom . WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Renter discovers source of revolting smell in bathroom . Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> The hunt began when Julia Lang-Malone and her husband moved into his parents’ Queensland rental property and noticed the house reeked of cigarettes, particularly in the master bedroom and en suite bathroom. “We assumed the smell in here was just embedded in the f****** walls and carpets and everything,” Lang-Malone said in a video posted to TikTok, where she would continue to document the unfolding mystery. “I always thought it was the lingering smell of them having been smokers here.” After some time, Lang-Malone triangulated the problem to the base

HONG KONG/ WASHINGTON: For a decade until 2018, China sought to recruit elite foreign-trained scientists under a lavishly funded program that Washington viewed as a threat to US interests and technological supremacy. Two years after it stopped promoting the Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) amid US investigations of scientists, China quietly revived the initiative under a new name and format as part of a broader mission to accelerate its tech proficiency, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter and a Reuters review of over 500 government documents spanning 2019 to 2023. The revamped recruit ment drive, reported in detail by Reuters for the first time, offers perks including home-purchase subsidies and typical signing bonuses of 3 to 5 million yuan, or $420,000 to $700,000, the three people told Reuters. China operates talent programs at various levels of government, targeting a mix of overseas Chinese and foreign experts. The primary replacement for TTP is a program cal

An ocean-dwelling micro organism linked to blind ness-inducing infections in one in four swimmers has been spotted lurking in coastal waters in NSW. The microscopic life form Acanthamoeba feeds on cells in the eye, leading to i NFL ammation and, in rare cases, irreversible damage. If able to spread to the cornea, the clear outer layer at the front of the eye, the organism can cause an infection called Acanthamoeba keratitis. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> The drug-resistant organism can lead to vision loss, with one in four people affected by it ending up with less than 25 per cent of vision or becoming blind . Researchers at the University of New South Wales said although the condition was rare, swimmers who wore contact lenses were at an increased risk. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/nsw-swim-alert-as-blindness-causing-organism-found-in-water-TheFOXposts-33662.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_ca

Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter  citing potential risks to society . Earlier this month, Microsoft-backed OpenAI unveiled the fourth iteration of its GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) AI program, which has wowed users by engaging them in human-like conversation, composing songs and summarising lengthy documents. "Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable," said the letter issued by the Future of Life Institute. The non-profit is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation, as well as London-based group Founders Pledge, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation, according to the European Union's transparency register. "AI stresses me out," Musk said earlier this month. He is one of the

YouTube is launching an incubator to work with artistes and musicians to explore the use of artificial intelligence in music, according to its blogpost on Monday. The Alphabet unit has signed up Universal Music as its first partner for the Incubator, and will work with artistes including Anitta, ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus, and Max Ricther. "The incubator will help inform YouTube's approach as we work with some of music's most innovative artists, songwriters, and producers across the industry," YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said in the blog. The group "will help gather insights on generative AI experiments and research that are being developed at YouTube," said Mohan, adding that YouTube would bring on board more partners. Generative AI is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, sounds and other data. With the launch of ChatGPT late last year, the Technology has been adopted in a range of industries and use-cases even as lawmakers delibera

Video streaming service Netflix Inc is restructuring its film group , which will result in layoffs and the departure of two of its most experienced executives, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. As part of the restructuring, Netflix will combine small and midsize picture productions units, resulting in a few job cuts, and scale back the company's output to ensure high quality titles, the report said. It will also centralize decision making of different divisions. Lisa Nishimura, responsible for documentaries and smaller-budget films, and Ian Bricke, a vice president in the film group , will be leaving after more than a decade with the company, the report added. Netflix did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The company added about 7.6 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022, after bleeding subscribers in the first half as rivals such as Paramount+ and Disney+ raked in viewers. But average revenue per membership declined across regions in the la

The body that unites Europe's national privacy watchdogs said on Thursday it had set up a task force on ChatGPT, a potentially important first step toward a common policy on setting privacy rules on artificial intelligence. The move by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) follows a unilateral move by Italy last month to curb ChatGPT - a stance that Germany's commissioner for data protection said could be followed in Europe's biggest economy. Spain's AEPD watchdog said on Thursday that it too would launch a preliminary investigation into potential data breaches by ChatGPT. ChatGPT, an AI program that grabbed the public's attention for its ability to write answers quickly to a wide range of queries, has grown to be the fastest-growing consumer application in History with more than 100 million monthly active users, while raising questions about threats it may pose to safety, privacy and jobs. Experts, US government and several other European governments hav

Top Cryptocurrency bitcoin hit a fresh two -month low on Friday, breaking out of its recent tight range as a wave of risk averse sentiment swept through world markets . On Thursday, bitcoin fell 7.2% in its biggest one-day drop since November 2022 when top exchange FTX collapsed. It then slipped to a two-month low of $26,172 during Asian trading hours on Friday, its lowest since June 16 . By 0835 GMT, it had partly recovered to $26,441, down 0.8% on the day. Global markets have been hit by a wave of selling, with Wall Street's main indexes closing lower on Thursday and Asian shares heading for a third week of losses over concerns about China's economy and fears that US interest rates would stay higher for longer given a resilient economy. Ether, the second biggest cryptocurrency, was steady at $1,685.20 , having also dropped sharply on Thursday. Some analysts attributed crypto's drop to a Wall Street Journal report that Elon Musk's SpaceX sold its bitcoin holdi

The artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT, the homework-drafting chatbot that some schools have banned, is coming to more students via the company Chegg Inc. The US  Education al software maker has combined its corpus of quiz answers with the chatbot’s AI model known as GPT-4 to create CheggMate, a study aide tailored to students, CEO Dan Rosensweig told Reuters last week. "It's a tutor in your pocket," he said ahead of its announcement of CheggMate on Monday. The software will adapt to students by processing data on what classes they are taking and exam questions they have missed, personalizing practice tests and guiding study in a way generalist programs like ChatGPT cannot, Rosensweig said. It will be available next month for free initially, Chegg said. The release is poised to widen what pupils do with AI just as educators are grappling with its consequences. Last year’s launch of ChatGPT led students to turn in assignments written coherently by the chatbot,

Twitter, now known as X, appears to be working on its verification method for premium users , with the app asking for a government-issued ID and a live photo to verify accounts. Blue checkmarks are available to those who pay for X Premium, formerly Twitter Blue, a subscription service which also offers users a host of special features including the ability to edit posts, write longer posts and undo posts. Before tech magnate Elon Musk acquired the platform, verification was given out to users in media and government , or those at heightened risk of impersonation. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-asks-users-of-premium-service-for-photo-of-government-issued-id-to-verify-account-TheFOXposts-33201.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

A new deadly species of jellyfish has been discovered by researchers in Hong Kong. The killer stinger species is part of the box jellyfish family, the Australian relative of which is known as the most venomous marine animal in the world. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: New deadly jellyfish has been dis covered . Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Researchers from the Hong Kong Baptist University dis covered the 24-eyed jellyfish - Tripedalia maipoensis - while collecting samples in 2022 in the Mai Po Nature Reserve. Researchers confirmed with genetic analysis that it is a new species of the box jellyfish, and published their findings in the international journal Zoological Studies in March. The highly venomous find was discovered in a brackish shrimp pond, locally called “gei wai”, in the summers of 2020 to 2022. But lead researcher and HKBU professor of the Department of Biology Qiu Jianwen said it could also be spread more widely. “We believe that this

An ALDI customer has warned others to be careful when burning candles after hers exploded. The woman shared a photo of her shattered Purewick Lychee and Pomegranate scented candle in a Facebook group for ALDI lovers. “Don’t let your candle s burn too far down, I guess,” she captioned the photo. For more ALDI related news and videos check out ALDI >> Many ALDI fans echoed this warning in the comment section, saying no candle should be burned for too long or too low. “All candles can do this,” one person said. “That’s why you don’t leave them unattended and don’t burn them all the way.” “You should never allow it to burn that far down,” another observer warned. “It usually has a sticker on the bottom stating this.” “People need to read the warning labels,” someone else said. “This can happen to any candle .” Source: https://thefoxposts.com/aldi-customer-s-warning-about-exploding-candle-from-the-popular-grocery-store-TheFOXposts-31781.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_me

A vegan influencer shared an eerie final post shortly before dying of “hunger and exhaustion” at 39. Russian social media star Zhanna Samsonova - who had been eating only raw foods such as fruit, su NFL ower seed sprouts and juices for four years - died on July 21, reportedly from a “cholera-like infection”. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Footage of vegan influencer before shock death. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Her condition was made worse because of “body exhaustion” from her extremely limited diet, her mother Vera Samsonova told Russian newspaper Vechernyaya Kazan. Now, Samsonova’s shock final Instagram post has been revealed - in which she wrote about how life was “meaningless”. “Life is meaningless but worth living provided you recognise it’s meaningless,” she wrote, alongside a photo of herself with her mouth open. Zhanna Samsonova shared this final post to Instagram. Credit: Instagram Samsonova was on a tour of south-east Asia when she die

California firefighters are using artificial intelligence to help spot wildfire s, feeding video from more than 1,000 cameras strategically placed across the state into a machine that alerts first responders when to mobilize. In an example of the potential of the ALERTCalifornia AI program launched last month, a camera spotted a fire that broke out at 3 a.m. local time in the remote, scrubby Cleveland National Forest about 50 miles (80 km) east of San Diego. With people asleep and darkness concealing the smoke, it could have spread into a raging wildfire. But AI alerted a fire captain who called in about 60 firefighters including seven engines, two bulldozers, two water tankers and two hand crews. Within 45 minutes the fire was out, Cal Fire said. Developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego using AI from DigitalPath, a company based in Chico, California, the platform relies on 1,038 cameras put up by various public agencies and power utilities throughout the st

TOKYO: Japan plans to create tax breaks for domestically-made electric vehicle (EV) batteries and semiconductors from April 2024 to enhance economic security, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday. The move would follow similar industrial policies in the United States and European Union aimed at encouraging companies to bring production home from China, and would also facilitate the country's energy transition. For the government's fiscal 2024 tax code revision, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will propose the tax cuts for companies manufacturing strategically crucial items in Japan, Nikkei said. Akin to the US I NFL ation Reduction Act, the planned scheme would reduce corporate taxes based on output of batteries and chips, according to the Nikkei. The ministry will draft the specifics including applicable items by end of this year, the report said. The Japanese government revises its tax code every spring after the ruling coalition politically agrees on t

A recent university graduate has shared an emotional warning to other jobseekers after being scammed out of $A3500 in a fake LinkedIn job offer . Jennifer Chernenko thought she finally found her “big break” in her hunt for a job after graduating from Georgia State University in the US when she was targeted by a scammer. Chernenko said she had applied for hundreds of jobs when she was contacted on LinkedIn by someone claiming to be an employee at Bold Business, one of the companies she applied to work as a social media specialist. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> But while Bold Business is a legitimate company, the “employee” who had contacted Chernenko was actually a scammer. In a viral TikTok video, the university graduate explains how she was told got through to the interview process via an app called Wired. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/us-uni-graduate-s-warning-over-linkedin-job-offer-scam-that-cost-her-a3500-TheFOXposts-32595.html?u

Alphabet's Google and Universal Music are in talks to license artists' voices and melodies for artificial intelligence-generated songs, Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing four people familiar with the matter. The music industry is grappling with "deepfake" songs, made using generative AI, that mimic artists' voices, often without their consent. The goal behind the talks is to develop a tool for fans to create tracks legitimately and pay the owners of the copyrights for them, the report said, adding the artists would have a choice to opt in the process. Discussions between Google and Universal Music are at an early stage and no product launch is imminent, while Warner Music is also in talks with Google about a product, the report added. The companies did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/google-universal-music-in-talks-for-deal-on-ai-deepfakes-TheFOXposts-32716.html?utm_source=blogger

Stargazers are in for a treat at the end of the month as a rare super blue moon is set to grace the night sky. The super blue moon will be visible from Australia on August 31 for the last time until 2029, Weatherzone reported. The term ‘ super blue moon’ refers to a blue moon that occurs at the same time as a super moon. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> But anyone hoping for a blue-hued moon will be disappointed. The term “blue moon” refers to the rare occurrence when two full moons appear during the same month, not the moon’s colour. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/how-to-watch-the-rare-super-blue-moon-in-2023-TheFOXposts-32616.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

YouTube's high resolution 1080p is now available for all premium subscribers using desktop web. Spokesperson Paul Pennington told The Verge that the company was officially launching the “enhanced bitrate” 1080p in April on iOS after an earlier test. While non-premium members can still browser videos on 1080p , the enhanced bitrate on Premium will make videos “look extra crisp and clear, especially for videos with lots of detail and motion." Read: Musk says fight with Zuckerberg to be live-streamed on X The enhanced 1080p Premium membership is also available for Chromecasts and video Game consoles for living rooms. The feature isn't yet available for Android users. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/youtube-s-1080p-for-premium-subscribers-available-on-desktop-TheFOXposts-32515.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com