Tech

London: After examining Google and Apple’s “duopoly” for a year, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided that they “hold all the cards” in the mobile phone market. According to Engadget, it is now consulting on the launch of a market investigation into the tech giants’ market power in mobile browsers, as well […]

San Francisco, June 10 (IANS) Microblogging site Twitter’s newly improved tweet-reporting tools are now available to everyone on the platform. The company first began testing the new process for reporting harmful tweets in December, saying it was trying to take a “people first” approach that would make it easier to flag tweets, reports Engadget. Previously, […]

Tokyo: Scientists from Japan have brought us one step closer to human-like robots by crafting living human skin on robots which gave their fingers skin-like texture, as well as water-repellent and self-healing functions. While current silicone skin made for robots can mimic human appearance, it falls short when it comes to delicate textures like wrinkles […]

Washington: The next-generation and powerful James Webb telescope was hit by space debris called micrometeoroid, leading to a “marginally detectable effect in the data” but has suffered no damage, according to NASA. Since its launch on December 25 last year, the Webb telescope faced four smaller measurable micrometeoroid strikes. However, this most recent “impact was larger […]

New Delhi: Jaguar Land Rover is the first automotive manufacturer to integrate what3words’always-on’ global location technology into vehicles already on the road via a software-over-the-air (SOTA) update, providing customers with accurate and precise navigation even in the most remote locations. Mark Carter, Navigation Product Owner, Digital Product Platform at Jaguar Land Rover, said: “This world-changing […]

San Francisco: Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday partnered with artist Shawn Carter, popularly known as Jay-Z, to launch The Bitcoin Academy — an educational initiative in New York. The initiative is a 12-week free educational course, both online and in person, for residents of the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn, where Jay-Z […]

San Francisco: Announced at tech giant Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2022, the all-new iOS 16 has introduced a new feature that allows an eSIM to be transferred between iPhones via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service. According to MacRumors, in the Settings app on an iPhone running iOS 16, tapping on “Set up eSIM” brings […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon announced that it is introducing an interactive mobile experience that allows customers to try on shoes virtually for iOS users in the US. “Virtual Try-On for Shoes” provides customers a convenient way to visualise how a pair of shoes will look on themselves, creating more immersive experiences while shopping for fashion […]

San Francisco: Microblogging site Twitter is testing a new shopping feature — Product Drops — that will preview upcoming product releases from different merchants. The new feature lets brands tease items before they go on sale, and users can sign up to be reminded before the release through in-app notifications. “With Product Drops, when a merchant […]

San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he believes that the upcoming Cybertruck will be the company’s “best product ever”. According to Teslarati, the Cybertruck was spotted at the Moss Landing Battery System’s commissioning event in California earlier this week. It was sporting its 30X Cold-Rolled Stainless-Steel exoskeleton and its somewhat challenging wiper blade, which […]

San Francisco: Microblogging platform Twitter’s board now plans to grant Elon Musk access to the massive stream of “firehose” data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted each day, the Washington Post reported citing a person familiar with the company’s thinking. Soon after making a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter in April, Musk has […]

Kanpur: The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), will provide an indigenously designed tool to help the Uttar Pradesh police in detection and cracking of cases of fraud through cryptocurrency transactions. Professor Sandeep Shukla from IIT-Kanpur, said that the tool developed by IIT, known as HOP, can analyse cryptocurrency transactions. “The tool is cheaper than any […]

Hyderabad: In the last few years, the gene-editing tool CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) has quickly emerged as a powerful technique that has the potential to end many diseases in the coming decades and even have a profound impact on the evolution of the human race. Through CRISPR, geneticists can alter the human […]

New Delhi: With the aim to empower photography enthusiasts, Fujifilm India on Wednesday launched a premium instant camera — Instax Mini Evo — that comes with 100 combinations of shooting effects. Priced at Rs 22,999, the new Instax Mini Evo will be available at all leading e-commerce platforms and with authorized offline Fujifilm retail partners. “At […]

New Delhi: With an aim to empower teachers and students, tech giant Google on Wednesday announced that it is sharing new updates to Chromebooks, Google Classroom and Google Meet. For those using the Google Workspace for Education Plus or Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Google said it is adding features focused on increasing interconnectivity, control and […]

San Francisco: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he thinks that Starlink, the satellite Internet division of his rocket company, will take at least three to four years, from now, to go public. Musk stated about Starlink’s initial public offering (IPO) during a recent all-hands meeting with SpaceX employees, reports Teslarati. During the meeting, Musk reportedly highlighted […]

San Francisco: Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is expanding the Sensitive Content Control feature as users will now be able to control the amount of sensitive content and accounts they see on the platform. The platform said that Sensitive Content Control will cover all surfaces where we make recommendations. “In addition to Explore, you will now […]

Hyderabad: Tesla founder and world’s richest person Elon Musk has been going back and forth on one of the most popular and controversial deal agreement in the tech world. He first announced that he has reached a deal to buy micro-blogging platform Twitter for $44 billion on April 25. And in less than 50 days, […]

D'Silva, who is founder of Red Dot Foundation, was awarded the World Justice Challenge prize for Equal Rights and Non-Discrimination to Safecity: A crowdmap for sexual and gender-based violence.

New Delhi: The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has flagged several bugs in Chrome OS and Mozilla products that may put various sensitive data at risk. In a report, the agency mentioned that the bugs could allow a remote attacker to disclose sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, execute arbitrary code, perform spoofing attacks and […]

San Francisco: Apple has previewed the latest iOS 16, along with 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, and watchOS 9 and it also confirmed that public betas of these OS’ will be available in July through the company’s testing website. The tech giant said that the iOS 16 delivers the biggest update ever to the Lock […]

Canberra: An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former politician 715,000 Australian dollars ($515,000) over two defamatory YouTube videos. John Barilaro, the former New South Wales state deputy premier, had sued Google and comedian Jordan Shanks, also known as friendlyjordies, in the Federal Court over the videos. Justice Steven Rares found Barilaro […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple’s update to the MacBook Air could ship between 6 and 7 million units in the second half of 2022, media reports say. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo offered shipment forecasts for the model. He also said that the colour range for the model will not be as expansive as previously claimed, reports […]

San Francisco:  Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday said his space venture SpaceX aims to build over 1,000 Starships to transport life to Mars. The Tesla CEO stated that making life multiplanetary will help backup the ecosystems on Earth. He added that apart from humans no other species can transport life to Mars. Referring to Biblical […]