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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that the electric vehicle company is getting closer to integrating Valve’s Steam to take its in-car gaming platform to a whole new level. According to the auto-tech website Electrek, Tesla has been investing heavily into integrating video games into its in-car entertainment system. But it still surprised many […]
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New Delhi: India reported 20,528 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, which is a marginal rise against the previous day’s count of 20,044, said the Union Health Ministry on Sunday. In the same period, the country reported 49 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide toll to 5,25,709. The active caseload has also risen to […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has rolled out Windows 11 Build 22000.829 to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel that has added the ability to receive urgent notifications when focus assist is enabled. Users will also be presented with the option to update to a newer version of Windows 11 during the out-of-box experience when […]
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New Delhi: After releasing stunning coloured images of thousands of galaxies in our universe, NASA has now unveiled outstanding images of Jupiter and spectra of several asteroids taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The data demonstrates Webb’s ability to track solar system targets and produce images and spectra with unprecedented detail, the US space agency […]
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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s legal team has reportedly asked the court to push back the Twitter trial by early 2023, saying that the case requires “forensic review and analysis” of a deep pool of data. While terminating his $44 billion Twitter takeover deal, Musk argued that the Parag Agrawal-headed micro-blogging platform is hiding […]
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New Delhi: India reported 20,044 Covid infections in the past 24 hours, a marginal rise against previous day’s 20,038 count, as per Union Health Ministry data on Saturday. In the same period, 56 fatalities took the nationwide death toll to 5,25,660. Meanwhile, the active caseload has also risen to 1,40,760 cases, accounting for 0.32 per […]
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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that his electric vehicle company Tesla would pull down the prices of its car if the inflation calmed down. On the microblogging site Twitter, the tech honcho mentioned the car prices on being asked by a user if the company plans to down the cost of cars after […]
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Meta-owned WhatsApp has recently found some fake versions of the application and therefore issued a strict warning to its users and requested them to not download and use such fake apps. According to Will Cathcart, the CEO of WhatsApp, users should not download these modified versions of WhatsApp since doing it might result in serious […]
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New Delhi: Blockchain startup 5ire on Friday said it has raised $100 million in Series A funding from UK-based conglomerate SRAM & MRAM, taking its valuation to $1.5 billion and becoming a new unicorn in the country. 5ire was founded by Indian-origin entrepreneurs, Pratik Gauri and Prateek Dwivedi, along with web3 financier Vilma Mattila, in August […]
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London: The Italian anti-competition watchdog has ordered a probe against Google for alleged abuse of dominant position in data portability in the country. According to the Italian Competition Authority, Google allegedly hindered interoperability in sharing individuals’ data with other platforms, and particularly with direct marketing platform called Weople. Weople has developed an innovative data investment […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Meta has confirmed that it is testing a way for users to have up to five separate profiles tied to a single account. The platform said the test allows users to dedicate different profiles to specific groups they want to connect with, such as one dedicated Facebook feed exclusive to their friends […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, has claimed he’s had a second unplanned child with his 35-year-old stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout. In an interview with The Sun, Errol, 76, told he welcomed a daughter with 35-year-old Bezuidenhout three years ago. It emerged in 2018 that Errol had baby Elliot Rush, nicknamed Rushi and […]
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New York: Twitter appears to be experiencing an outage for thousands of users across the globe on Thursday. Individuals attempting to use the social media platform were met with a message saying “Tweets aren’t loading right now. Try again”.
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New Delhi: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the industry’s apex body representing telcos, on Thursday urged the government not to allow Big Tech companies to enter the 5G spectrum auction this month via back door channels. The COAI said in a statement that the 5G spectrum should not be provided on an administrative basis […]
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New Delhi: Hit by a dwindling user base, streaming giant Netflix has partnered Satya Nadella-run Microsoft for its new ad-supported subscription plan for its over 221 million subscribers. Microsoft will be Netflix’s global advertising technology and sales partner to support all its advertising needs as “we work together to build a new ad-supported offering,” said Greg […]
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Hyderabad: Anything can trend on Twitter. Bizarre memes, celebrity pap photos, and even a basic English phrase. It’s all on what the algorithm picks. On Thursday, ‘No. He’ was on the ‘What’s happening?’ list of the micro-blogging site. By the look of it, one would imagine it to be some sort of a campaign that […]
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New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday once again demonstrated his “disparaging” behaviour towards Twitter by posting a ‘pile of poop’ emoji as the micro-blogging platform sued him over terminating the $44 billion takeover deal. As Twitter sued Musk, the company also submitted an earlier poop emoji reply by the Tesla CEO to Twitter CEO […]
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San Francisco: Nearly 550 women passengers have sued ride-hailing platform Uber, alleging they were assaulted by its drivers that included kidnapping, rape and physical attacks in the US. The complaint, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, has sought damages and a jury trial. The women said in their complaint that they were kidnapped, sexually […]
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Seoul: Samsung said on Thursday it has developed a new graphics dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip with a faster speed and improved power efficiency. The 24-gigabit Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) adopts third-generation, 10-nanometer technology and boasts a data processing speed that is over 30 per cent faster than existing products, the company said in […]
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Hyderabad: Till a few years ago, the concept of genetic tests for pregnant women to foretell the possibility of passing on a defective gene to the baby was alien. More often than not, the medical condition of a just-born baby was dependant on a genetic lottery, where genes are inherited from the parents. While we […]
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Hyderabad: The largest Supermoon of 2022 will appear tonight. This will be the third of four super moons to be visible this year. The Super moon will begin to shine on Thursday at 12:08 am IST. Called ‘Buck Supermoon’, this supermoon will be seen for the next three days, till Friday early morning. It is […]
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San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Tesla has laid off 229 annotation employees from its Autopilot team and closed one of its offices in the US. According to a regulatory filing in California state in the US and seen by TechCrunch, Tesla had laid off workers from its San Mateo office that employed 276 workers. The remaining 47 […]
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Washington: Tesla CEO Elon Musk was quick enough to react to a lawsuit filed against him by Twitter for breaching the USD 44 billion contract. Oh the irony lol — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2022 Minutes after news surfaced online that Twitter has sued him, Musk took to the microblogging site and just simply […]
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New York: A team of US researchers successfully transplanted two genetically engineered pig hearts into recently deceased humans in June and July. The surgeries, known as xenotransplants, were performed on June 16 and July 6 at NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital. These marked the latest advances toward addressing the organ shortage and developing a clinical protocol […]