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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...

YouTube Music will no longer use your precise location to give song recommendations

YouTube Music, Google’s music streaming service, has announced that it will no longer use users’ precise location to curate personalised playlists for them. Starting September 26, YouTube Music will be discontinuing the use of precise location and will even delete the data derived from this data.

YouTube Music to stop using precise location for recommendations

Right now, YouTube Music uses Google Location History, if you have opted into the location permission for the app. The app uses this precise location to recommend songs and playlists like Workout Essentials, Focus Supermix, Unwind and so on. The company believes that they can recommend such songs and playlists by using the approximate location of the user.

As per the YouTube Music Support page, “We’ve decided to discontinue our use of precise location in YouTube Music. We’ll be removing all precise location-based recommendations, location settings, and app permissions. We’re also deleting any YouTube Music data derived from your precise location. This change will go into effect on September 26th.”

YouTube Music users will still get to see playlists as per their approximate location like top songs of the country, weather-related playlists and so on. YouTube assures that users will not see any changes in these features. Notably, the app will still continue to access your location.

In addition to this, the company clarifies, “This change only impacts your location settings in YouTube Music. It does not impact your Google Location History settings or any of your device’s location settings.”

For the unversed, YouTube Music users also have a choice to temporarily turn off the location access by going to the Settings section, then Privacy and location and then turning off the toggle for location. Android users can decide which app can access their location by giving permission to each one of them manually. This option is buried deep in the settings section of the smartphone.

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