Tech

San Francisco: The controversy surrounding the safety of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) software has intensified as the car maker has demanded that an advocacy group remove videos of its electric vehicles crashing into kid-sized dummies. In a cease-and-desist letter sent to the Dawn Project, an anti-Tesla group fronted by software developer Dan O’Dowd, Tesla alleged the […]

New Delhi: Ethereum, the network behind the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap (after Bitcoin), will move from a proof-of-work consensus mechanism to a proof-of-stake blockchain next month in a process called “the merge”. That will make Ethereum at least “99 per cent more energy efficient”. The Ethereum Foundation has said that the Merge Blockchain upgrade […]

San Francisco: After Apple expanded its self service repair programme to MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks with the M1 chips, iFixit said that the tech giant’s repair programme is creating an excruciating gauntlet of hurdles’. According to iFixit’s Sam Goldheart, the self repair programme seems like good news — but as it turns out, […]

New Delhi: Drone manufacturer Garuda Aerospace is all set to provide expertise to the Indian Army for carrying out special missions by detecting, deterring, and disrupting transnational organized criminal networks. Former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who holds a honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Parachute Regiment of the Indian Territorial Army, is […]

New Delhi: Kaspersky Threat Data Feeds are now integrated with Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native SIEM and SOAR solution to help Microsoft Sentinel users with actionable context for attack investigation and response. With this integration, enterprise security teams can extend cyber threat detection capabilities and increase the effectiveness of initial alert triage, threat hunting or incident […]

New Delhi: Google on Thursday expanded its Play Games for PC feature under an open beta to users in South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia. Earlier this year, the company announced that Google Play Games would be coming to PCs as a beta experience to a limited number of players. “Beginning today, we’re continuing […]

San Francisco: Google-owned wearable brand Fitbit has unveiled its latest-generation fitness wearables — Inspire 3, Versa 4 and Sense 2 — that offer several health features, including heart rate, oxygen saturation (SpO2), sleep trends, among others. The company said that Inspire 3 is a fun, easy-to-use tracker that helps users stay on top of their health […]

San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is likely planning to bring iMessage-like profile photos within group chats. According to WABetaInfo, the platform is planning to introduce something that has been requested for a long time — profile photos of group participants. When this feature will be released to beta testers, profile photos of other group participants […]

New Delhi: Apple on Wednesday announced its flagship product launch event for this year that will take place on September 7. Called ‘Far Out,’ the event will showcase new iPhone 14 lineup, Watches and other products. This will be an in-person event at Apple’s Cupertino campus in the US, the company’s first big event to take […]

Hyderabad: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones have been hailed as the next big technology that can possibly change healthcare delivery mechanism in the country. In the last decade, multiple attempts have been made by governments, scientific institutions, voluntary organisations and researchers across India to explore different applications of UAVs in the healthcare sector. While […]

San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s Twitter buddy from Pune Pranay Pathole, who recently met him, referred to the tech billionaire as “super genuine” and “down-to-earth,” media reports say. “He is super genuine. Like, way down-to-earth. He is humble,” the 23-year-old told AFP. “I don’t think that he’s a troll. He is an […]

Mumbai: End-user spending on enterprise application software in India is likely to total $4.7 billion in 2022, an increase of 14.8 per cent from 2021, a Gartner report said on Wednesday. However, the growth in software spending will be lower in 2022 than in 2021 owing to a volatile global macroeconomic situation that has increased business […]

San Francisco: As Meta (formerly Facebook) begins to steadily reduce headcount growth, hundreds of contractual workers organised a protest at the company’s headquarters in the US, asking for responsible, fair contracts from the Mark Zuckerberg-led company. Over 100 service workers from various unions marched on the Meta campus amid layoffs of contractual employees, reports Almanac […]

New Delhi: With the aim to cater to content creators, Taiwanese tech giant ASUS on Wednesday launched six new laptops in the Indian market that start at Rs 67,990 and go up to Rs 329,990. The Creator Series laptops include the flagship Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED and Pro16X OLED, along with ProArtStudioBook Pro 16 OLED […]

New Delhi: India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki on Wednesday said it will recall 166 Dzire Tour S vehicles for replacing Airbag Control Unit free of cost for possible defects. The vehicles that will be recalled have been manufactured between 6th August 2022 to 16th August 2022. The recall is being undertaken to replace the Airbag […]

New Delhi: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new stunning images of Jupiter that will give scientists even more clues to the planet’s inner life. With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on. In the standalone view of Jupiter, created from a composite of several […]

London: Smartphone brand Nothing stated that the Android 13 update for its recently launched phone (1) will only be rolled out in the first half of 2023. According to Android Authority, users who anticipated receiving Android 13 quickly for the Nothing Phone (1) may be disappointed to hear that they may have to wait until the […]

San Francisco: Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing platform Snapchat, has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection. The lawsuit alleged that Snapchat’s filters and lenses violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The company stored “biometric data without […]

San Francisco: An unopened first-generation 2007 iPhone in a sealed box has been sold for $35,000 (nearly Rs 28 lakh) in an auction in the US. On January 9, 2007, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone — a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features — at […]

Toronto: Parents who shout at their kids for their screen addiction have to first control their digital media consumption for relaxation as such people are more likely to engage in lower-quality parenting, a new study has revealed. The researchers from University of Waterloo found that parents with higher levels of distress engage in more screen-based activities […]

San Francisco: After a Twitter whistleblower claimed that the microblogging platform lied to Elon Musk about bots, the tech billionaire has now reacted to it and shared some cryptic tweets. On the microblogging site, Musk said that “in case anyone feels like buying a fine whistle…” along with a picture of a whistle. So spam prevalence […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Meta has announced that it will now let its Quest VR headsets users log in via a new Meta account. The company said this update will roll out globally on a gradual basis, so, users who do not have the option to create a Meta account and Meta Horizon profile right […]

Hyderabad: No doubt, smartphones and social media have encroached into almost every aspect of our day to day living and become an integral part of our lives. From studies to work to shopping and eating, in some way or other, most of us end up relying on them. However, what has to be remembered alongside […]

New Delhi: Amid growing privacy thefts and hacking concerns, more than a third of people (33 per cent) would delete their profiles from the Internet if they could, a report revealed on Tuesday. It is estimated that 63 per cent of the global population is currently online. According to a report by virtual private network […]