Meta has officially launched Threads, its text-based rival to Twitter. The app went live on Wednesday on Apple and Android app stores in more than 100 countries although its release in Europe has been delayed over data privacy concerns. Despite that, within about 18 hours of its launch it had racked up more than 30 million sign-ups, posing the first real threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter. “Let’s do this. Welcome to Threads,” Meta Chief Executive and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his first post on the new platform, which will run with no ads for now. Here is what…
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Tech News: KPMG to invest $2B in AI
Big Four firms KPMG will be investing $2 billion over five years in AI services and capacities in partnership with Microsoft. As an early access partner for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure OpenAI Service, KPMG professionals will pilot the technologies with select business groups across the global organization to enhance client engagements and accelerate digital solution development. For example, with the integration of Microsoft Fabric, KPMG teams will have the ability to directly point to client data instead of having to ingest it, enabling KPMG professionals to perform audits on a more of a real-time basis. On the tax side…
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Meta launches Quest+ subscription for VR headsets
June 26 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms (META.O) on Monday launched Meta Quest+, a subscription-based service for its virtual reality (VR) headsets to shape a nascent but high-investment market. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, in a broadcast channel on social media app Instagram, said the Meta Quest+ subscription will be available from Monday at $7.99 per month, or $59.99 annually, for its Quest 2, Pro and soon for Quest 3. Apple (AAPL.O) has entered the market dominated by Meta, showing its $3,499 augmented reality headset called the Vision Pro. Still, Apple’s headset is three times the cost of the priciest headset from…
Salesforce ShipStation Integration | Digital ETG
The absence of integration hampers your ability to gain complete visibility into the order lifecycle. Without a seamless connection between Salesforce and your shipping software, tracking numbers, shipping status, and delivery updates may not be readily available in real time. This lack of visibility makes it difficult to provide accurate information to customers regarding their orders, resulting in decreased trust and satisfaction. Additionally, without integration, post-sale support and issue resolution become more challenging as the relevant order details are not easily accessible. To overcome these challenges and optimize your order management and shipping processes, integrating your Salesforce with ShipStation is…
Artificial Intelligence Trends And Top AI Stocks To Watch
Investors, beware: There’s plenty of buzz around artificial intelligence. Like adding dot-coms to their name in the 1990s, more and more companies are labeling themselves AI stocks. firm like Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabets (GOOGLE), apples (AAPL), adobe (ADBE) and countless others across a range of industries certainly qualify. Even human-resources leader workdays (WDAY) has deeply embedded AI and machine learning into its platform. Here’s A New Way To Play The Artificial Intelligence Boom X Simply jumping on that bandwagon, many companies use older data analytics tools and simply label them as AI for a public-relations boost. Identifying which companies…
Five key takeaways from OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman’s Senate hearing | TechnologyNews
Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT’s OpenAI, tested before members of a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday about the need to regulate the increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology being created inside his company and others like Google and Microsoft. The three-hour-long hearings touched on several aspects of the risks that generative AI could pose to society, how it would affect the jobs market and why regulation by governments would be needed. Tuesday’s hearing will be the first in a series of hearings to come as lawmakers grapple with drafting regulations around AI to address its ethical, legal and national security…
Brazil’s ‘fake news’ bill sparks outcry from tech giants | TechnologyNews
Brazil’s Congress is weighing a regulatory bill that would shift the burden onto internet companies to report illegal content on their sites, a controversial initiative that has pitted the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva against major tech companies such as Google. On Tuesday, Google was forced to remove a link on its home page in Brazil that advocated against Bill 2630, also known as the Fake News Law. The link alleged that the bill would stir public confusion and called on users to contact their congressional representatives to speak out against the legislation. The Brazilian proposal, which…
Attention: Beware of Scammers Impersonating App Masters
Attention: Beware of Scammers Impersonating App Masters We have recently received multiple reports of scammers impersonating App Masters, offering job opportunities in exchange for payment into a crypto currency account in the US, UK and Canada. Unfortunately, some individuals have fallen victim to this scam and lost their money. They are all scams and fake. Don’t engage with them and report them to authorities if possible. Please ensure that you only engage with our official website, Appmaisters.com, and our official email address, which is @Appmaisters.com. Any other website or email address that claims to represent App Masters is fraudulent and…