Tech

New Delhi: A poll by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that nearly 65 per cent of his followers do not believe in Twitter’s claim that less than 5 per cent of daily users are fake/spam on the platform. Musk, who is fighting a bitter legal battle with Twitter over the cancellation of the $44 […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu  Noah’s Heart is a just released open world role playing game that has been designed as a massively online experience. In a similar mould as games like Genshin Impact, and Diablo Immortal, Noah’s Heart tries t1o narrate a compelling story using some incredible visuals and music. This is one of the best […]

Beijing: As Apple is gearing to launch its next-generation series of iPhones, a new report said that the upcoming iPhone 14 is likely to be delayed due to growing tension between China and Taiwan, media reports say. According to GSMArena, Apple is TSMC’s top customer, and the company ships chips to Pegatron in China, where iPhones […]

Hyderabad: Meta, on August 5, unveiled its most advanced chatbot to date, the BlenderBot 3 (BB3), which includes model weights, code, datasets, and model cards. This 175B-parameter chatbot is now publicly available for all adults in the United States. However, the Meta chatbot is causing quite a stir on the internet, not because of its […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft is rolling out a new Dictate feature to OneNote that supports AI-powered voice commands to control dictation, such as deleting text or undoing a recent step. The AI-powered voice commands can be used to format and edit text, such as deleting a word or undoing a recent step, and the platform […]

Sriharikota: The maiden launch of India’s brand new rocket is keeping the country in suspense as to its fate on Sunday morning. Hoping to celebrate in advance the country’s 75th anniversary of Independence in style the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its freshly minted rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle – Developmental Flight (SSLV-D1). On its […]

New Delhi: The Guinness World Record for the most pull-ups performed in a minute while dangling from a helicopter has been broken by a pair of Dutch fitness enthusiast YouTubers. According to a release from GWR, Stan Browney (online pseudonym of Stan Bruininck) and Arjen Albers, both from the Netherlands and presenters of the YouTube […]

San Francisco: Following the May disclosure that the privacy-focused online browser DuckDuckGo permits Microsoft to track scripts on external sites, the platform now claims to begin banning those as well. The platform said it was announcing more privacy and transparency around DuckDuckGo’s web tracking protections after community backlash. “Over the next week, we will expand […]

San Francisco: Amid the ongoing legal dispute over the $44 billion takeover deal to buy Twitter, tech mogul Elon Musk has challenged the platform’s CEO Parag Agrawal to have a public debate on fake accounts and spam. While replying to a user who summarised his accusations, which included Twitter stonewalling Musk and giving him “outdated data” […]

Sriharikota: India’s brand new rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D1) on Sunday morning lifted off with an earth observation satellite-02 (EOS-02) formerly known as Microsatellite-2 weighing about 145 kg. Piggybacking on that was the eight kg AZAADISAT built by 750 students of government schools facilitated by SpaceKidz India. At about 9.18 a.m. the 34 metre tall […]

New Delhi: Millions of Indians are spending close to five hours on their smartphones daily and 5G promises to revolutionise the Internet with super-fast connection speeds and reduced latency, giving gaming and OTT streaming a much needed boost, industry experts have said. The Indian gaming industry is set to become a $5 billion sector by 2025, […]

Tokyo: Japanese camera players Nikon and Panasonic have suspended the production of low-end compact digital cameras and will now focus on costlier mirrorless cameras going forward, the media reported on Saturday, as smartphones become more camera-centric. Nikon has suspended development of new compact models in its Coolpix line, report Nikkei Asia. Nikon now offers just two […]

New Delhi: The mass production of chip-maker Intels next big flagship processor Meteor Lake is expected to be delayed until 2024, a report has said. According to TrendForce research, Intel plans to outsource the tGPU chipset in Meteor Lake to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for manufacture. “Mass production of this product was initially planned […]

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the country’s Independence with the launch of its new rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle – Developmental Flight 1 (SSLV-D1) on Sunday. The countdown down for the SSLV-D1 launch will begin about six-and-half-hours before the lift off which is scheduled at 9.18 […]

Washington: A team of researchers has discovered 11 previously undetected space anomalies, seven of which are supernova candidates. The study was published in the journal, ‘New Astronomy’. The researchers analysed digital images of the Northern sky taken in 2018 using a k-D tree to detect anomalies through the ‘nearest neighbour’ method. Machine learning algorithms helped […]

New Delhi: Twitter has fixed a security bug that exposed data of at least 54 lakh accounts on its platform that were put up for sale on the Dark Web. Twitter said that if you operate a pseudonymous Twitter account, “we understand the risks an incident like this can introduce and deeply regret that this […]

New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter does not follow the law of the land in India and this has jeopardised one of its largest markets. In a countersuit against the micro-blogging platform filed in a Delaware court in the US late on Friday, Musk said he was “hoodwinked” into signing the $44 […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple is unlikely to redesign the standard “Apple Watch Series 8”, with more significant updates planned for the rumoured “Pro” model. A Twitter leaker named ShrimpApplePro has apparently obtained final production information for the “Apple Watch Series 8”, AppleInsider reported. While the leaker was not clear, it seems they have access to […]

New Delhi: Capturing the milestones the country has achieved in its 75-year journey since independence, software major Google has unveiled an online project, drawing from rich archives and featuring artistic illustrations to tell the story of India. The project — “India ki Udaan” — executed by Google Arts and Culture celebrates the achievements of the […]

San Francisco: Meta’s AI research labs have reportedly created a new state-of-the-art chatbot and the tech giant is letting members of the public talk to the system to collect feedback on its capabilities. According to The Verge, the bot is called BlenderBot 3 and can be accessed on the web. Though, right now, it seems only […]

Hyderabad: A relatively new service for smartphone users, an eSIM, or an electronic SIM, is becoming the latest ploy used by cyber fraudsters to cheat people of their money. According to a recent tweet by Cyber Dost, the cyber security awareness Twitter handle of the Ministry of Home Affairs, cyber crooks are now calling potential […]

Washington: Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is locked in a court battle with Twitter over a failed acquisition bid that Twitter now intends to force through, said that the social media giant jeopardized its third largest market by failing to disclose “risky” litigation against the Indian government. In a countersuit in a Delaware court which […]

San Francisco: Google-owned streaming platform YouTube is testing a new feature in its mobile app with its premium subscribers that allows them to zoom in on any video. The latest opt-in experimental feature enables a pinch-to-zoom gesture for videos — and it works both in portrait and full-screen landscape view, reports The Verge. According to […]

San Francisco: After several media outlets reported that Elon Musk may soon get to build his private airport outside of Austin, Texas, the tech billionaire denied the rumours and said it “would be silly”. On the microblogging site, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO slammed the plans to develop a new private airport, mentioning that the news […]