Tech

New Delhi: Chinese short-video making app TikTok is reportedly restricting livestreams to viewers who are 18 years of age and above, to prevent minors from encountering adult content. The new setting for users is currently in limited testing with select users, reports TechCrunch. The select users in the testing period can toggle the “mature themes” […]

New Delhi: It is not often that you find your Zomato delivery boy, handing you their job resumes. It is true that job searching is indeed a tedious task. However, Bengaluru’s Aman Khandelwal seemed to find an interesting way out. The man has created a buzz on the Internet as he disguised himself as a […]

Artificial intelligence, when used by human intelligence, can have some interesting spin-offs, like what is being done using Apple’s latest location tracker device, AirTag, and what China’s ruling party is doing with AI-powered facial scans. The AirTag controversy saw Irish actor and author Hannah Rose May claiming that she was tracked by an AirTag, after […]

Iso-propanol, which can be used as an antiseptic, a solvent, or a cleaning agent, has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, according to research led by Arnaud Belloche of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn. The molecule was found in the massive star-forming region Sagittarius B2, near the centre […]

New Delhi: Tech giant Google on Tuesday expanded its News Initiative Training Network to include five new languages: Punjabi, Assamese, Gujarati, Odia and Malayalam. Google has also launched the Fact-Check Academy in partnership with DataLeads, the tech giant said in a statement. About a 100 new trainers have been inducted to help newsrooms and journalists […]

San Francisco: Electric vehicle company Tesla has confirmed that its vehicles can now scan for rough roads, like potholes, to help avoid them damaging the vehicles by adjusting the suspension. In a new 2022.20 software update, the automaker wrote about a new feature of the “Tesla Adaptive Suspension” system, reports the auto-tech website Electrek. “Tesla […]

New Delhi: The Indian government on Monday warned e-commerce platforms against illegally selling wireless jammers, along with directing the general public on the proper use of wireless jammers and booster/repeaters. The Department of Telecommunication (DoT) said that the use of cellular signal jammers, GPS blocker or other signal jamming devices is generally illegal, except specifically permitted […]

New Delhi: Health-centric Apple Watch Series 8 will reportedly come with a body temperature sensor that will let the user know if he or she is running a fever. The upcoming Apple Watch should be able to detect a spike in body temperature, and then ask you to use a thermometer, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. “The […]

London: Hackers infiltrated the British Army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts to promote cryptocurrency scams and on YouTube, they replaced the British Army’s videos with old livestreams featuring Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The UK Ministry of Defence confirmed in a tweet late on Sunday that they were aware of a breach […]

Washington: Android users may now modify the navigation bar in the Twitter Blue app. This feature, which was previously exclusive to iOS, allows you to remove the Spaces icon from the centre of your navigation bar (and of course, remove some of the other tabs if you want, too). According to The Verge, if you’re […]

New Delhi: India outranks every other country in the world in terms of preference on dealing with brands and the secular shift to digital has gone to the next level in the country in the post-Covid world, a top Adobe executive said on Monday. According to Simon Tate, Adobe’s Asia Pacific President, it really has […]

San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Tesla has been hit by another gender discrimination lawsuit after dozens of current and former employees alleged the electric car giant operates under a ‘pre-Civil Rights’ atmosphere of racial discrimination as a standard operating practice. The mass-action lawsuit, filed in Alameda Superior Court in California in the US, alleged the plaintiffs […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu The last three years have been extremely challenging to gaming fans as they have struggled to find the graphic card they desire owing to the manufacturers’ inability to keep up with the demand. A demand that was constantly rising and impossible to meet owing to the now omnipresent global chip shortage. As […]

New Delhi: Twitter banned more than 46,000 accounts of Indian users in May over violation of its guidelines, the microblogging platform said in its monthly compliance report on Sunday. According to the report, Twitter removed 43,656 accounts for child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and similar content, while 2,870 accounts were banned for promoting terrorism.A The […]

New Delhi: After analysing data on the millions of attachments, a team of researchers has found that 21 per cent of all HTML attachments scanned over the past month were malicious. According to Barracuda researchers, malicious HTML attachments are being used for credential phishing. “These attacks are difficult to detect because HTML attachments themselves are […]

San Francisco: US-based fashion brand Fossil has confirmed that it is working with Google to bring new features, including Wear OS 3 support to its smartwatch companion app. According to Android Central, the company has teamed up with Google designers to bring changes to the companion app for its hybrid smartwatches. The app has recently received […]

Beijing: Apple captured half of smartphones sold in China during the 6.18 online shopping festival, at the expense of Chinese brands Xiaomi and Honor. According to new research from Strategy Analytics, 14 million units of smartphones were sold during the festival, down 25 per cent (on-year). “Apple outperformed the market selling nearly 7 million iPhone units, […]

San Francisco: Meta, formerly Facebook, is all set to shut down the pilot for its digital wallet service Novi and the company wants users to withdraw their balance before it is no longer available, which is September 1. Novi is a digital wallet that helps people send and receive money internationally — instantly and with […]

San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is working on a feature that will give iOS users the ability to hide their online status from everyone. According to WABetaInfo, this feature will come in a future update as it is under development so it cannot be released to beta testers since it is not ready. As of now, users […]

San Francisco: Despite several supply chain challenges and factory shutdowns, Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle company Tesla has delivered 2,54,695 EVs globally in the second quarter of 2022. The company also said that June 2022 was the highest vehicle production month in Tesla’s history. “In the second quarter, we produced over 2,58,000 vehicles and delivered over 2,54,000 […]

New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday broke his 10-day long Twitter silence, admitting that he was feeling a bit bored. Musk took his longest-ever ‘digital detox’ from Twitter in nearly five years, leaving his more than 100 million followers and the media speculating. He last tweeted on June 22, before switching off […]

New Delhi: Microsoft has alerted users of “toll fraud” malware on Android that can drain your mobile wallet by switching off Wi-Fi connection. Compared to other subcategories of billing fraud, which include SMS fraud and call fraud, toll fraud has unique behaviours. According to Microsoft 365 Defender research team, whereas SMS fraud or call fraud […]

New Delhi: As customers delay purchasing electric two-wheelers amid fire incidents, Ola Electric again saw its registration dipping in the month of June, taking the company to fourth place in the overall category. Bhavish Aggarwal-run Ola Electric saw 5,869 electric scooters’ registrations (as of June 30), according to the VAHAN data. The June tally for EV […]

San Francisco: The demand for tech giant Apple’s much anticipated and upcoming iPhone 14 series is expected to be higher than iPhone 13 series in China. A survey carried out by reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that suppliers and retailers are pre-paying significantly higher deposits for the first expected iPhone 14 units, reports GizmoChina. […]