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Reece Rogers / Wired: As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips  —  More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements.  Sound clips are ready for their big break. Source link

WhatsApp, Meta’s popular messaging platform, has unveiled a new feature that enhances the app’s search capabilities. This latest addition allows users to search for messages based on specific dates, in an attempt to offer users a more efficient way to navigate through extensive chat histories. The new ‘Search by Date’ feature allows users to choose

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU court rules that regulators should pay €786K of legal fees for Qualcomm, not the €12M the company sought after it won an appeal against a 2018 antitrust fine  —  Europe’s second highest court has said EU regulators should pay 785,857.54 euros ($851,634) of legal fees for Qualcomm … Source

Apple ID could witness a rebranding exercise and take on the Apple Account moniker before the end of 2024, a new report has revealed. The current version of Apple ID with a formal email address was first started after the introduction of iCloud in 2011. While some version of Apple ID has existed since 2000s

Gareth Harris / Financial Times: How AI is being used to evaluate the authenticity of paintings, amid conservators’ concerns of whether the tech can account for wear, damage, and other factors  —  Machine learning can be the difference between a charming picture and a masterpiece worth millions Source link

Payments firm Paytm on Friday cut some ties with its payments bank unit, which India’s banking regulator has ordered to be wound down, in its latest attempt to address compliance concerns that triggered a meltdown in its shares last month. Paytm, formally known as One 97 Communications, and its banking unit mutually agreed to end

Washington Post: Inside “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good  —  Some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good  —  She had cut off contact with her ex, put a thousand miles

India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on Friday imposed a penalty of Rs. 5,49,00,000 ($662,565) on Paytm’s banking arm, Paytm Payments Bank, for violations in reporting illegal money routed through its accounts, the country’s finance ministry said. The FIU initiated a review of Paytm Payments Bank after information from law enforcement agencies about some entities engaged

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia’s rules  —  A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on US roads and highways.  But after a fight over the platform’s rules, they went rogue.

Google’s decision to remove some apps in India from its app store “cannot be permitted”, Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday, amid an ongoing dispute over service fee payments to the US firm. Google on Friday removed from its Play Store many Indian apps, including Matrimony.com’s popular Bharat Matrimony and job search app