Instagram makes product tagging available to everyone in the US, DuckDuckGo CEO hits back at search result allegations, Amazon may be working on a new AR device, Mastodon gets an Android app, is looking for 250 engineering graduates and Netflix is losing subscriber in droves
Instagram has rolled out a feature to tag products in feed posts for everyone in the US. Previously, the feature was limited to creator and brand accounts, but is now available to everyone with a public account in the US.
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg has denied reports the privacy-focused search engine was purging results for popular “pirate” sites, tweeting that the allegations were "completely made up". Weinberg said the company was not "purging" any search results, and "anyone can verify this by searching for an outlet and see it come up in results". He blamed the missing results on the site: operator function and said they were "having issues which we are looking into".
New listings posted on Amazon Jobs hint that the multinational technology company is working on a device that will be a new-to-world smart-home product. Online publication Protocol spotted the job listing which was looking for potential hires for a project related to "XR/AR devices". This would include developing code for "early prototypes through mass production".
Mastodon, which has been pitted as an alternative to microblogging platform Twitter, has now officially released an app for Android. The platform launched on iOS in July last year. Mastodon is an open-source platform for running self-hosted social networking services. It is a decentralized service that has no single entity or server overseeing it. It claims to be community-owned and ad-free. Users set up their private servers and host them based on multiple categories such as gaming, technology and journalism.
Netflix recently said it lost 200,000 subscribers during the first quarter of 2022, the first time the streaming service witnessed a subscriber drop since 2011, causing the stock to tank. The company cited password sharing as the main reason for the drop in paid subscribers. The streaming service has pledged to go after subscribers who are sharing passwords. Netflix claims that around 100 million households globally share passwords. It has 222 million “paying households”, 30 million of which are based in the US and Canada.
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Amazon's job listings hint at new AR device
The company is looking for people to work on a 'new-to-world smart-home product'
MONEY CONTROL NEWS, APRIL 19, 2022 / 03:47 PM IST
New listings posted on Amazon Jobs hint that the multinational technology company is working on a device that will be a new-to-world smart-home product
Online publication Protocol spotted the job listings, one of which was looking for potential hires
Apple has also teased its metaverse plans and is to be working on a mixed reality headset. Snapchat announced its smart glasses in May, Microsoft already has a portfolio of HoloLens devices, including the HoloLens 2 smart glasses, and Google is working on an AR headset, code named "Project Iris".
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