Tech

New Delhi: Google has admitted that its TV software is slow for users and after hearing their feedback, the company is rolling out some major updates to improve performance and manage storage on both Chromecast with Google TV and other smart TVs. The company said that via CPU optimisations and improvements to cache management, “we’ve […]

San Francisco: Apple employees have hit back at the tech giant’s return-to-office orders and launched a petition saying the firm risked stifling diversity and staff wellbeing by restricting their ability to work remotely, media reports say. The petition is in response to an all-employee memo from the CEO Tim Cook, who last week said workers […]

New Delhi: On the occasion of the 104th birth anniversary of India’s renowned physicist and meteorologist Anna Mani, search engine Google paid a heartfelt tribute to her via a creative doodle. Google honoured Anna Mani through a colourful and whimsical illustration of Anna Mani on its home page. Known as the ‘Weather Woman of India’, […]

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging tool worldwide, with over two billion users. While the main feature is texting, WhatsApp also allows you to post statuses, send voice messages, share locations and make voice and video calls. However, a scammer can easily download your profile picture (from WhatsApp) and use it with any other number, […]

New Delhi: There has been nearly 2 times increase in searches for 5G smartphones on Flipkart in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period last year, the e-commerce platform said on Monday. According to platform sales trends, the demand for 5G smartphones in the Rs 10,000-15,000 has seen nearly a four times growth […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly flagged parents’ accounts for potential abuse over nude photos of their sick kids. The father said that after using his Android smartphone to take photos of an infection on his toddler’s groin, the tech giant flagged the images as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), citing […]

New Delhi: The global number of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) transactions is likely to rise from 24 million in 2022 to 40 million by 2027, a new report said on Monday, cautioning the vendors about unregulated environment which is home to fraudulent activities and scams. The report by Juniper Research stressed that vendors who partake in the […]

New Delhi: The Indian smartphone users are spending 30 minutes a day on consuming memes and 80 per cent have increased meme consumption in the last year, a new report showed on Monday. While most users enjoy memes as a good way to release stress, 50 per cent expect their meme consumption to increase, according […]

Annamayya: Cybercriminals allegedly hacked the bank account of a retired school teacher in Annamayya via WhatsApp link and stole Rs 21 lakh. According to police, Varalakshi, a resident of Reddeppanaidu Colony in Madanapalle town of Annamayya district, received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number. There was a link in the WhatsApp message and after clicking […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple is reportedly planning to show search ads in its Maps app on the iPhone starting next year. In his newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that he believes the engineering work is already underway, reports MacRumors. “I believe the engineering work is already underway to launch search ads in the Apple Maps […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu Observations from a recent visit to Palika Bazar in Delhi once a popular haunt for Indian gamers. Growing up as a north Indian child in the nineties, Hyderabad was a challenge as I tried to make sense of who I was, where I was from and where I belonged while making decisions […]

New Delhi: As the debate grows about tech companies and apps tracking your data, here comes a website that can reveal how platforms like TikTok and Instagram may potentially see your sensitive data, including address, passwords and credit card information, without your consent. The website, named InAppBrowser.com, has a tool that will let you know […]

New Delhi: Streaming giant Netflix is likely planning not to show ads during kids’ movies and TV series, and will keep kids’ programming ad-free like its rival Disney+ announced in May this year. Netflix has told its partners that kids’ programming would stay commercial-free, reports TechCrunch. However, original series such as ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Bridgerton’, and ‘Squid […]

New Delhi: Google has blocked the largest-ever web distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attack on a customer that peaked at 46 million requests per second (RPS). This is the largest ‘Layer 7 DDoS’ reported to date — at least 76 per cent larger than the previously reported record, according to the company. “To give a sense of […]

Washington: The US space agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024. Each region contains multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III, which will be the first of the Artemis missions to bring crew to the […]

New Delhi: Apple’s music recognition platform Shazam has officially surpassed 70 billion song recognitions, as it turned 20. For more than 225 million global monthly users, to ‘Shazam’ is to discover something new, Apple said in a statement. Shazam was acquired by Apple for reportedly $400 million in 2018. According to the company, Drake is the […]

New Delhi: Google Pixel smartphone users were left in a lurch after downloading Android 13 as several of them were not able to use wireless charging after installing the latest operating system (OS). The Pixel users wrote on discussion forum Reddit that wireless charging stopped working almost immediately after the Android 13 upgrade. The problem appears […]

New Delhi: Twitter is working on a new feature to put a label or tag on the phone numbers of verified user profiles, apart from the blue tick or badge the company places with the verified accounts. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong discovered this new feature that is aimed at bringing more authenticity and much-needed credibility […]

New Delhi: After facing memes on his poorly-designed metaverse avatar, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has posted new screenshots on Facebook and Instagram, showing off a more life-like version of himself. Earlier this week, Zuckerberg posted a screenshot of his digital avatar standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, as the company expanded its Horizon […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple’s 2022 MacBook Pros may pack new M2 Pro and M2 Max chipsets made with TSMC’s latest 3nm manufacturing process, media reports say. According to the Commercial Times, TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor contract manufacturer, has been steadily building out its 3nm production processes and Apple could be the first customer […]

Bengaluru: Removable media like USBs or pen drives continues to be a serious data breach concern for various industries as this year, 52 per cent of cyber threats were specifically designed to use such removable media, up from 32 per cent in 2021, a new report said on Friday. According to the report, threats designed to […]

Washington: NASA has selected US-based Microchip Technology to develop a high-performance space flight computing (HPSC) processor that will provide at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers. The next-generation processor would advance all types of future space missions, from planetary exploration to lunar and Mars surface missions. “This cutting-edge spaceflight processor will have […]

New Delhi: Elon Musk on Friday said that Parag Agrawal-led Twitter is avoiding sharing information on the actual number of bot and spam accounts on his platform, as his lead team sought documents from advertising technology firms working for the micro-blogging platform. His legal team subpoenaed two ad tech firms — Integral Ad Science (IAS) and […]

New Delhi: Threatened by the meteoric rise of Chinese short-form video platform TikTok, Meta-owned Instagram and Google-owned YouTube have introduced new features to discourage their short-video app users from cross-platform sharing. According to reports, when trying to download an edited clip to an iPhone in Instagram Reels, the audio from the clip just disappeared. “It […]