We are determined to build complete product ecosystem in India: OnePlus COO

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 1, 2023 | Technology

The year 2023 is a defining moment for OnePlus and the global technology brand plans to provide the fast and experience to other products like tablets, wearables, and other products to help it build an ecosystem in India, a top company executive said on Wednesday.

This year is the 10th year of OnePlus, and “we have a clear strategy going forward,” Kinder Liu, OnePlus chief operating officer (COO) and Head of R&D, told IANS.

“A fast and smooth experience is central to our vision. The success of this vision is a sum of providing a smooth software experience, industry leading fast charging, and bringing a AAA PC-level gaming experience to mobile platforms,” he elaborated.

Moving on, “photography will also be an important pillar for us in 2023 and providing an effortless imaging experience to our users is of utmost importance,” Liu added.

The company will launch its next flagship OnePlus 11 5G on February 7.

It comes with over-the-top hardware specifications such as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform, up to 16GB LPDDR5X RAM, and 100W SUPERVOOC fast charging.

“It is also equipped with a third Generation Hasselblad camera for Mobile to accurately record each of life’s milestones in every angle. All this goodness is packed in a purposefully designed body that oozes modern elegance. The OnePlus 11 5G will provide you a unique experience that cannot be found in other devices,” Liu told IANS.

This time, the company introduced some software-based features on the OnePlus 11 5G, that help provide a significantly improved experience.

“For instance, besides a 16GB LPDDR5X RAM, we have also introduced RAM-Vita which is an in-house machine learning technology, that accelerates every layer of RAM allocation process including selecting resident RAM already in use, releasing it from current tasks, and the reallocation of this RAM to other resource-heavy tasks,” Liu explained.

As a result, the OnePlus 11 5G with 16GB RAM can keep as many as 44 applications active in the background.

Since the beginning, OnePlus has focused on producing smartphones that provide users an unparalleled fast and smooth experience.

“Devices such as the OnePlus 3, OnePlus 5T, OnePlus 6T, OnePlus 7 Pro, and OnePlus 10T reflect our ongoing commitment to improving and enhancing the user experience,” the top executive noted.

–IANS

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Instagram co-founders launch Artifact, a text-based version of TikTok

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 1, 2023 | Technology

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have launched ‘Artifact’, a text-based version of TikTok which will use machine learning to understand users’ interests.

Artifact is a personalised news feed application, whose name represents the combination of articles, facts and artificial intelligence (AI), reports The Verge.

The application opened up its waiting list to the public on Tuesday, and is available for both Android and iOS devices.

The application opens to a feed of popular articles selected from a curated range of publications, including top news outlets to small-scale blogs about niche topics.

After users tap on articles that interest them, the application will show them similar posts and stories in the future, in the same way watching videos on TikTok’s For You page tunes its algorithm over time.

The application’s beta users are currently testing two more features that Systrom hopes to become the main pillars of the app.

One of them is a feed that will display posts made by users you have picked to follow along with their comments.

The second feature is a direct message inbox that will allow users to discuss the posts they read privately with friends.

“Throughout the years, what I saw was that every time we use machine learning to improve the consumer experience, things got really good really quickly,” Systrom said in a statement.

He also mentioned that specific posts that spread falsehoods will also be deleted by Artifact. Additionally, the application’s machine-learning algorithms will be primarily focused on measuring how much time users spent reading about various topics, the report said.

In 2012, Facebook had acquired Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock and later in 2018, Systrom and Krieger resigned from Facebook.

–IANS

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Twitter ends collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets’ after testing phase

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 1, 2023 | Technology

Twitter has announced that it has shut down its collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets’, which the micro-blogging platform had been testing for the “last several months”.

“For the last several months we’ve been testing a new way to tweet together using CoTweets. We’re sad to say that the current experiment is coming to an end,” the platform said on its help centre page.

“CoTweets will no longer be available to create starting Tuesday, 1/31. Already existing CoTweets will be viewable for one more month at which point they will revert to Retweets. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

A CoTweet was a co-authored tweet that was posted to both writers’ timelines and the timelines of their followers at the same time.

Users were able to identify CoTweet by the usernames and profile images of two authors in the header.

The feature allowed authors to share the spotlight, unlock opportunities for engaging new audiences and enhance their established partnerships.

When launched in July last year, the platform said that, “this limited-time experiment allows select accounts in Canada, Korea, and the US to send invites to CoTweet with another account.”

–IANS

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Samsung to launch Galaxy S23 series, Book 3 lineup at Unpacked event today

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 1, 2023 | Technology

Tech giant Samsung will launch the Galaxy S23 series alongside Galaxy Book 3 lineup at its much-awaited ‘Galaxy Unpacked’ event on Wednesday.

Like every year, the tech giant will unveil its new flagship smartphone series, Galaxy S23.

The lineup is expected to have three models — Galaxy S23, S23 Plus and S23 Ultra.

According to reports, the first two models will have similar designs and specifications, and the third will be more visually distinct with at least one significant unique feature.

The main camera of the S23 Ultra is likely to have a high-resolution 200-megapixel main sensor, which is almost double the 108-megapixel sensor featured in last year’s Galaxy S22 Ultra, according to The Verge.

Alongside the 200-megapixel sensor, rumours suggest that the S23 Ultra is likely to have three additional cameras, a 12-megapixel ultrawide, a 10-megapixel telephoto with a 3x optical zoom and 10-megapixel telephoto with a 10x optical zoom.

However, S23 and S23 Plus are expected to feature triple-camera systems consisting of 50-megapixel main sensors, 12-megapixel ultrawide and 10-megapixel telephotos.

While the Galaxy S23 is likely to come with a 6.1-inch 1080p 120Hz OLED display, the S23 Plus is expected to feature a 6.6-inch display, and S23 Ultra might have a 6.8-inch display.

Galaxy S23 is likely to have a starting price of $799.99, S23 Plus will have $999.99 and S23 Ultra will have $1,199.99.

The tech giant is also expected to announce a new laptop lineup, Galaxy Book 3, alongside the S23 series.

All the laptops in the new lineup are likely to come with a 16-inch 1800p OLED display, an Intel i9-13900H CPU, an Nvidia RTX 4070 discrete GPU, 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and might be compatible with Samsung’s S Pen stylus

Moreover, the company is unlikely to launch tablets, earbuds or smartwatches at the Unpacked event.

–IANS

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Spotify world’s 1st music streaming platform to surpass 200 mn paid users

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 1, 2023 | Technology

Music streaming platform Spotify on Tuesday announced its premium subscribers base has touched 205 million, representing a 14 per cent increase year-on-year. This makes Spotify the world’s first music streaming company to achieve such a large user base.

Its monthly active users (MAUs) reached 489 million, a 20 per cent increase (YoY), according to the company’s Q4 2022 earnings report.

“Q422 delivered great platform growth. We ended 2022 strongly despite a challenging year. Expect us to move faster with more intensity of effort, driving even greater efficiency in 2023,” CEO Daniel Ek said in a tweet.

On the earnings front, Spotify posted an operating loss of around $250 million for the quarter.

The MAU net additions reached a quarterly record-high of 33 million in Q4, 10 million above guidance. Subscriber growth also materially outperformed, exceeding guidance by 3 million net additions.

“Looking back on 2022 in its entirety, we are pleased with our overall results. Each year presents certain challenges and opportunities and, over the past 12 months, we largely delivered on our internal goals and we are excited about the momentum we are building heading into 2023,” said Spotify.

The company last week announced to slash 6 per cent of its workforce, or about 600 staffers, globally, and Ek announced that he was too ambitious in investing ahead of their revenue growth.

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Meta announces to shut down social to-do list app ‘Move’ in March

by Hansraj Agrawal | Jan 31, 2023 | Technology

Meta has announced that it will shut down its social to-do list application ‘Move’, which allows users to earn points for completing tasks on either their personal or group to-do lists, in March.

Launched in March 2022, the application allows users to use earned points to customise an alpaca avatar with accessories like hats, clothing, sunglasses and more, reports TechCrunch.

Move’s larger goal was to promote group involvement as the avatar’s customisation allows users to see which members were the most productive, based on the number of accessories they had collected for their alpaca.

In an iOS application update published on Sunday, Move informed its users that the application will shut down and no longer be available after March 2, 2023.

Now, new users will not be able to sign-up and existing users can log in to download their data before the application’s final closure.

In December 2022, the company had announced that it will shut down its cameo-like app, Super, on February 15, 2023.

Super is a live-streaming platform for influencers developed by Meta in 2020.

–IANS

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