Author: Rudra Sharma

Emmy Awards 2023 have been formally delayed to subsequent yr. After months of dialogue between the Tv Academy and new broadcaster Fox, the seventy fifth Primetime Emmy Awards will now be held on January 16 at 6:30am IST in India/ January 15 at 5pm PT within the US. This marks the primary time in 20 years that the Emmys are being postponed — the primary being in 2001, after the September 11 assaults. This newest delay is owing to the continued actors’ and writers’ strikes in Hollywood, which have halted a number of main movie and TV productions. Nominees have…

X video calls are coming to the app sooner or later, the platform’s CEO has confirmed in an interview. The Elon Musk-led microblogging web site previously often known as Twitter is engaged on including assist for brand new options as a part of the billionaire’s plan to show X into an “the whole lot app”. Customers will have the ability to make video calls with out sharing their cellphone quantity, a characteristic supplied by rivals like Fb and Instagram the place account usernames are used to attach with different customers.Throughout a latest CNBC interview, X CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed that the…

Tech large X, previously often called Twitter, on Friday, introduced a brand new replace to their Adverts Income program for creators, decreasing the minimal quantity of impressions wanted from 15M to 5M.The corporate tweeted from its official deal with, “Now, much more folks can receives a commission to put up! We have lowered the eligibility threshold for adverts income sharing from 15M to 5M impressions inside the final 3 months. We have additionally lowered the minimal payout threshold from $50 (roughly Rs. 4,137) to $10 (roughly Rs. 827). Join a Premium subscription to get entry.”Now, much more folks can receives…

PVR Inox, India’s greatest theatre chain, has launched the one standalone IMAX property within the nation. The corporate has transformed Delhi’s age-old Priya Cinema, situated at Basant Lok Advanced, Vasant Vihar, right into a ‘state-of-the-art’ expertise, outfitted with IMAX Laser projection for large-scale viewing. Whereas different IMAX theatres within the nation home common theatre codecs and projections alongside, this marks the primary time a complete cinema is devoted to IMAX screenings. As one of many oldest PVR properties, it contains a single-screen with a 316-seater setup, with ticket costs ranging anyplace from Rs. 400 to Rs. 1,000 relying on what…

WhatsApp has begun rolling out a brand new characteristic to beta testers that permits including a number of accounts to the favored messaging app. Presently, customers who wish to add a second account to their smartphone have to put in a clone of WhatsApp — a characteristic supplied on some Android smartphones. As an alternative, the brand new multi-account characteristic that was added to the newest beta model options an account switcher that may change between the first account that’s tied to the smartphone and different WhatsApp accounts.In keeping with a report by WhatsApp characteristic tracker WABetaInfo, the Meta-owned messaging…

Massive media corporations have been reporting stronger-than-expected income as the dual strikes by Hollywood writers and actors grind on.Whereas the executives who make and distribute movies and TV reveals all say they’d like their staff to return quickly, their companies are seeing an enormous short-term profit from the work stoppages: No manufacturing means no bills.Netflix kicked off earnings season final month with this nugget of reports: Projected free money circulation can be about $1.5 billion (almost Rs. 12,420 crore) higher this yr than initially forecast, because of the strikes. Warner Bros. Discovery saved $100 million (almost Rs. 830 crore) on movie…

A division bench of the Excessive Courtroom of Karnataka on Thursday stayed a single decide bench order that had imposed a price of Rs. 50 lakh on X (previously Twitter) for not complying with IT Ministry orders — topic to the corporate depositing 50 % of the quantity (Rs. 25 lakh) inside one week. The deposit is for X to point out its bonafides, the courtroom stated. The order of the only decide who had directed X to deposit Rs. 50 lakh by August 14 shall be stayed until the subsequent date of listening to.“As such, on deposit of Rs. 25 lakh,…

Reserve Financial institution of India on Thursday introduced to extend the transaction fee restrict from Rs. 200 to Rs. 500 for UPI Lite in offline mode. UPI Lite was first launched in September 2022, permitting customers to make transactions for a small quantity restrict in offline mode. Since then, the function has been adopted by PhonePe, Paytm, and Google Pay as effectively. In the meantime, just a few different options together with conversational funds and NFC assist on UPI have additionally been proposed to make transactions extra seamless.RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das in a press convention right now introduced a few…

The US Supreme Courtroom on Wednesday denied Epic Video games’ stringent App Retailer cost guidelines that forestall builders from introducing alternate cost strategies for in-app purchases. The court docket declined to let a federal choose’s injunction take impact that would pressure the iPhone maker to vary cost practices in its profitable App Retailer. The court docket’s ruling lets Apple hold its strict App Retailer cost guidelines in place for now. The choice comes as a setback for Epic Video games, publishers of fashionable Battle Royale online game Fortnite, and Web3 app builders who await adjustments in Apple’s App Retailer insurance…

Disney+ is the most recent within the line of premium streaming companies trying to prohibit password sharing amongst its subscribers. Throughout its Q3 2023 earnings name, Disney CEO Bob Iger claimed that the corporate is ‘actively exploring’ methods to handle account sharing, with plans to roll out new insurance policies someday in 2024. The chief by no means dropped a quantity, however said {that a} ‘important’ quantity of individuals have been sharing passwords with family and friends, although his bigger concern is what number of of them are prepared to transform to new subscribers — in flip, boosting the income…