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Microsoft PowerPoint for web will let users insert videos into their presentations with closed captions and subtitles. The feature is a breakthrough for the differently abled, who may have trouble hearing. Closed captions can be added to videos in multiple languages so that users can connect with their audience easily. Subtitles have already become a supportive feature for many video-sharing platforms like TikTok, Netflix, Zoom, etc. and Microsoft isn't staying behind. To embed a video and insert captions , users will have to create closed caption files in the WebVTT format by either using a caption -creation tool or a text editor like Notepad. After selecting a video on PowerPoint web, users will need to insert the video , and then insert subtitle similarly. For insertion of multiple languages, multiple different files will have to be uploaded to support the feature. Read: IMF chief says rules, infrastructure needed to prevent crypto risks Microsoft has been increasi...

In an opinion piece published in Bloomberg, Google has admitted to staging parts of its demo video for newly launched GPT-4 com Pet itor, Gemini. The company not only edited the speed of output, but also added the implied voice between human voice and AI user. The original demo was made "using still image frames from the footage, and prompting via text," rather than having Gemini respond to a drawing or change of objects on the table in real time. The misleading video puts into question Gemini's capabilities, especially since the demo lacked a disclaimer. https://youtu.be/UIZAiXYc Gemini's co-lead, Oriol Vinyals, on X denied any wrongdoing and said that "all the user prompts and outputs in the video are real," and that his team made the video "to inspire developers." Really happy to see the interest around our “Hands-on with Gemini” video . In our developer blog yesterday, we broke down how Gemini was used to create it. https...

TikTok will prohibit content that promotes Osama bin Laden's 2002 letter detailing the former al Qaeda leader's justifications for attacks against Americans, the short-form video app said on Thursday. Discussions of the 20-year-old letter have spread on the platform this week in the context of debate over the Israel-Hamas war, with some users in the West praising its contents. The letter, which was written after al Qaeda's attack on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people, criticized US support for Israel, accused Americans of financing "oppression" of Palestinians, and contained antisemitic comments. Bin Laden was killed in 2011 in Pakistan by a US military special operations unit. "Content promoting this letter clearly violates our rules on supporting any form of terrorism," TikTok said in a statement, adding that reports that it was "trending" on the platform were inaccurate. A search for "Letter to America...

TikTok is testing a feature that will let users upload 15-minute video s on the platform, with users in selected regions. The new feature would increase the video limit from 10 to 15 minutes on the popular video -sharing site. First noticed by social media consultant, Matt Navarra, the feature allows users to upload videos from the app and desktop together. He shared a screenshot of a message displayed to users who have access to the feature. While TikTok initially started out as a short-video-sharing platform, it has recently begun embracing long-form videos as well. In February 2022, TikTok expanded the video limit from three to 10 minutes. Before that, the video limit was only 60 seconds. Longer videos will facilitate creators to share more information online with their viewers including food recipes, beauty tutorials and comedy sketches. Currently, videos longer than 10 minutes, direct their viewers to a second video titled 'Part Two'. These changes are placing T...

WARNING: Distressing content Aussie teenagers using TikTok are being shown suicide-related content within minutes of being on the app, a new study has revealed. The study, conducted by the US-headquartered Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCHD), involved researchers setting up two new TikTok accounts for users aged 13 in the USA, UK, Australia and Canada. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> One account was a “standard” account and one was a “vulnerable” account - meaning the account created had the username containing the word “lose weight”. This was to test the theory that users who seek content related to eating disorders often have usernames that included related words. For each account, researchers screen-recorded the first 30 minutes of usage, liking any videos related to body image, mental Health or eating disorders. CCDH chief executive Imran Ahmed called the results of the study “deeply disturbing”. This TikTok video used the #imnothung...

ISLAMABAD: TikTok – a popular online video sharing social networking service – has removed around 11.7 million videos uploaded from Pakistan for violating its community guidelines in the first quarter of 2023. The online short video service has released its latest community guidelines enforcement report for Q1 2023 (January-March 2023) as part of its strategy to stop misinformation on the platform and create a safe environment for its users. In its report, TikTok said it had removed over 91 million videos globally during this period. They make up roughly around 0.6% of the total videos uploaded to the platform from across the world. In comparison, the number of video s removed globally was more than 85.68 million in the fourth quarter of 2022. Around 53.49 million video s were automatically removed worldwide while 6.20 million deleted after reviewing them. In Pakistan, 11,707,020 videos were deleted for violating community guidelines during this period. This figur...

A Twitter video app for smart TVs is in the social media company's plans, owner Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday, a move that would be in line with the company's new plans to focus on growing video content on the platform. In response to a tweet suggesting that a Twitter video app is needed, Musk replied "It's coming". New CEO Linda Yaccarino and Musk had in an investor presentation on Thursday laid out Twitter's plans to focus on video , creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's Business beyond digital advertising. The investor presentation was reviewed by Reuters. One slide of the presentation said that vertical video accounted for more than 10% of time spent on Twitter. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson launched a new show earlier this month on the platform called "Tucker on Twitter." Twitter envisions that it could sell ads and sponsorships alongside video s from Carlson and other cont...

Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's business beyond digital advertising, according to an investor presentation by owner Elon Musk and new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino that was reviewed by Reuters. Yaccarino, who started as CEO on June 5, told Twitter investors on Thursday that the company is in early conversations with political and Entertainment figures, payments services and news and media publishers on potential partnerships, said a source familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a private investor call. The presentation was Yaccarino's first time addressing the company's investors, the source said. After Musk acquired Twitter in October, the social media firm faced months of chaos, including layoffs of thousands of employees, criticism over lax content moderation, and an exodus of many advertisers who did not want their ads appearing next to inappropriate cont...

HONG KONG: A new game released by "Genshin Impact" developer miHoYo this week has become China's top downloaded app, reflecting pent-up demand as gaming giants restart flagship launches with a crackdown on the industry easing. The blockbuster debut bodes well for several other games due to launch this summer in the world's largest video games market. As of Thursday, the Shanghai-based company's strategy Game "Honkai: Star Rail", where anime characters battle space monsters, had amassed 20 million download s across smartphones and personal computers, miHoYo said. The game scored more than 1.6 million downloads on smartphones in China within five hours after it was published on Wednesday, according to data firm App Magic, and had garnered 5.8 million downloads on smartphones worldwide. It has also become the most downloaded game on Apple's devices across 21 different markets including the US and Japan, according to another data firm SensorT...

Instagram's head Adam Mosseri admits that the platform intentionally focused on promoting videos and reels in 2022. In a Q&A session with the users, Mosseri admitted that Instagram is now working on creating a balance between videos /reels and photos shown to the audience. He said, "I think we were overfocused on video in 2022 and pushed ranking too far and basically showed too many videos and not enough photos." Read Netflix's ability to churn out hits gives it an edge over rivals He mentioned that both types of posts are getting equal attention now, which proves to be evidence of their work. Adam agreed that "photos are always going to be an important part of what we do. And there are always going to be people who love and are interested in finding photos on Instagram and elsewhere. And I want to make sure that we're very clear about that." The head of Instagram did mention how the efforts to change the app to a full-screen video exper...

TikTok has added a video - scrubbing feature that makes it easier for users to find specific parts of a longer video . The feature was spotted by social media Analyst Matt Navarra and isn't yet available to everyone and only applies to new video uploads. Read  WhatsApp announces new proxy support feature to bypass internet shutdowns The video-scrubbing thumbnail will enable users to see exactly what they want to and which part they wish to watch, instead of blindly scrubbing the entire video, Tech Crunch reported. Such a feature was expected to emerge as TikTok is slowly inching into YouTube's territory, which has had video - scrubbing thumbnail s much before. Just recently, TikTok also increased the video uploading limit by up to 10 minutes, which has improved the viewer experience. The platform also tested a horizontal full-screen mode with select users last month. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/tiktok-adds-video-scrubbing-thumbnails-to-aid...

Troops battle through burning streets. Missiles take down fighter jets. Drones pulverize tanks. The dramatic visuals have the trappings of real-life combat, but they are clips from video Game s fuelling mis information . Footage from the war-themed Arma 3 video game, often marked "live" or "breaking news" to make it appear genuine, has been used repeatedly in recent months in fake videos about the Russian offensive in Ukraine. The frequency and ease with which gaming footage is mistaken as real, even by some media broadcasters, and shared as authentic news on social media highlight what researchers call its serious potential to spread misinformation. "The fact that it keeps happening is a reminder of how easy it is to fool people," Claire Wardle, co-director of the Information Futures Lab at Brown University, told AFP. "As video game visuals get more sophisticated, CGI (computer-generated imagery) can, at a quick glance, look real. People need t...

Four labor and delivery nurses at an Atlanta hospital came under fire over a TikTok video in which they shared the things that annoy them about expecting mothers and their families. “My ick is when you come in for your induction, talking about, ‘Can I take a shower and eat?’” one nurse says. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Nurses under fire over TikTok video mocking maternity patient s. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> “My ick is when you ask me how much the baby weighs and it’s still in your hands,” a second nurse says. The nurses at Emory University Hospital Midtown were participating in a popular trend where users share their “icks” or turnoffs about a person. The TikTok trend originally began as a way for someone to describe why they stopped dating another person. In the video, another nurse says her “ick” is when the mother says she doesn’t want pain medication “but you are at an eight out of 10 pain.” Another nurse says: “The dad comes outside an...

ByteDance owned, TikTok, has started a test to introduce new features including a horizontal full-screen mode for video s to stream on users' phones. Users chosen to be part of the test phase will see a button on square or rectangular video s in their feed, which will expand the video to full-screen mode. TikTok is a popular known platform with short vertical video s which forces creators to add a "turn your phone" message at the beginning of the video s filmed in landscape mode. The feature, if launched, would incline creators to film more video s in landscape mode, Tech Crunch reported. Read:  Tesla shares fall as investors bash Musk's Twitter focus The company is taking big steps to capture audiences and directly com Pet e with YouTube. Just this year TikTok extended its maximum video length to ten minutes. On the other hand, YouTube is doing its best to rival TikTok with its Shorts, and allowing creators to earn revenue with them. However, it is ...