Restrictions have been placed on content on some social media platforms in Afghanistan, Taliban government sources told BBC Afghan. Filters have been applied to restrict certain types of content on sites including Facebook, Instagram and X, the sources at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said. It is not clear exactly what sort of…
MTN Group’s Marina Madale and Paramount Africa’s Monde Twala. Online safety, as it pertains to children, needs to be embedded into the curriculums of schools in all countries across the African continent. This is according to Marina Madale, executive: sustainability and shared value at MTN Group, noting some key components that can form part of…
Laila Lockhart Kraner stars as Gabby in Universal and Dreamworks Animations’ “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie.” Universal | Dreamworks Animation A young girl named Gabby, alongside her menagerie of animated cat friends, is making the leap from streaming to the big screen. Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie” is the latest kid’s TV show…
A Reuters investigation has found that Meta Platforms has been using the names and likenesses of celebrities, including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Selena Gomez, to create social media chatbots without their consent. Many of these chatbots were created by users with Meta’s own tools, but Reuters discovered that at least three, including…
Spotify is introducing a new direct messaging feature that allows users to share music, podcasts, and audiobooks with friends without ever leaving the app. The feature, simply called Messages, is rolling out this week in “select markets” for both Free and Premium users who are at least 16 years old. Read: Google announces Pixel Watch…
Nick Argyros, chief operating officer, and Francois Schreuder, CEO, Phonetik AI Phonetik AI, a South African start-up building large language models that create subtitles, closed captions and narration, is helping the visually and audio impaired get more information from the video content they consume. Speaking to TechCentral at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg last week,…
Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation — is a Leader in the Nucleus Research Technology Value Matrix for Content Services and Collaboration for the 10 year in a row. Among the vendors evaluated, Laserfiche ranks highest overall in usability. Download a copy of the report here. This…
Good news for space enthusiasts! NASA Plus, the agency’s streaming service that launched in November 2023, will soon make its live programming available on Netflix. This content will remain ad-free. Read: Honor unveils the world’s thinnest foldable, the Magic V5 Subscribers to Netflix will gain access to a range of live NASA Plus programming, including…
