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Amazon miniTV shares a glimpse of the hip-hop dancers ready to battle it out on Hip Hop India!
Mumbai: Amazon miniTV – Amazon’s free online video service is all set to get the ball rolling and create waves in the dance community with its hip-hop-based dance reality show, Hip-Hop India. The platform has a glimpse of the contestants ready to set the stage on fire with their jaw-dropping performances. With anticipation already running high with the service unveiling Nora Fatehi and Remo D’Souza as the judges for India’s first Hip Hop centric reality show, the preview has taken the excitement levels significantly higher!
The quick peek promo shows Nora and Remo being wow-ed by the performances as participants across multiple categories – Solo, Duo and Dance crews battle for the top honour. The high-energy video also shows host of the show, Wicked Sunny a.k.a Vikalp Dwivedi, encouraging the participants to give it their all. Hip Hop India will stream from 21 July, exclusively on Amazon miniTV for free within Amazon’s shopping app and Fire TV.
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WhatsApp may soon let users to pick who sees their status updates
The messaging giant is borrowing a page from Instagram’s playbook as it pushes to give users finer control over their social circles.
CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp is quietly working on a feature that could make its Status function considerably smarter and considerably more private.
According to reports from beta tracking platforms, the app is testing a tool called Status lists, which would allow users to create named groups such as close friends, family and colleagues, and control precisely which group sees each update. It is a meaningful step up from the platform’s current blunt instruments, which offer only three options: share with all contacts, exclude specific people, or manually select individuals each time.
The new feature draws an obvious comparison with Instagram’s Close Friends function, and the resemblance is unlikely to be accidental. Both platforms sit within Meta’s family, and the company has been nudging them toward a common logic of audience segmentation for some time.
The move also fits neatly into WhatsApp’s broader privacy push. The platform has been rolling out enhanced chat protections and is exploring the introduction of usernames, which would allow users to connect without exchanging phone numbers. Status lists extend that philosophy from messaging into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Status itself has been evolving well beyond its origins as a simple photo-and-text slideshow. The feature now supports music stickers, collages, longer videos and interactive elements, pushing it closer to the social-media-style story format pioneered by Snapchat and refined by Instagram. In that context, finer audience controls are not merely a privacy feature. They are a precondition for people sharing more.
The feature remains in development and has not been confirmed for release. WhatsApp routinely tests tools that are later modified or quietly shelved. But the direction of travel is clear: the app wants Status to be a destination, not an afterthought. Letting users decide exactly who is in the audience is how it gets there.
