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San Francisco: Tech giant Google’s Search will show users what cloud streaming services have a particular video game, building on existing support for movies, TV, and music. According to 9To5Google, for years, Google Search has acted as an aggregator of the world’s streaming services. If you want to watch a particular show, users can use […]
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San Francisco: A day after Pavel Durov said an update had been in Apple’s app review for two weeks, the Telegram CEO and founder has now released the feature. According to Durov, the new update comes packed with emoji-related features. However, one is missing because the tech giant requested its removal specifically. “After extensive media coverage […]
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San Francisco: After Ford CEO Jim Farley took a playful dig at Elon Musk, the tech billionaire has shared a lighthearted response to the playful pickup truck jab from him. Farley, recently, drew a comparison between Tesla’s long-delayed Cybertruck and Ford’s plug-in pick up — F-150 Lightning, while announcing a significant investment in solar energy. […]
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Hyderabad: Cyber fraudsters are now hacking WhatsApp mobile numbers of Non Resident Indians (NRIs) and sending requests for money to people on their contact lists in the guise of medical emergencies and other needs. According to the police, this new way of cheating by impersonation and fake WhatsApp accounts was becoming very common, with the […]
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Hyderabad: In general, an antibody test (serological test) for Covid-19 is performed in specialized labs, and to get results it takes anywhere from 24 hours to several days. But a new paper test developed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has shown that it takes only 10 minutes to find the level of neutralizing antibodies […]
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San Francisco/New Delhi: A group of crypto investors has filed a class-action lawsuit against billionaire investor and Shark Tank icon Mark Cuban, along with his basketball team the Dallas Mavericks, for promoting crypto platform Voyager Digital that went bankrupt, resulted in billions of dollars in loss for its customers. Top cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital last month […]
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Seoul: Hyundai Motor said on Friday it will spend $424 million to build an artificial intelligence (AI) research centre in the US to bolster its edge in robotics technology, an area it cites as a key future growth driver. Hyundai Motor, Kia and Hyundai Mobis — Hyundai’s three key auto affiliates — will invest $211.9 […]
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New York: Martian equator contains little or no ice, according to a new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission. The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, describes the dry conditions in the top 300 metres of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian equator. “We find that Mars’ […]
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New Delhi: Google has announced to expand content advisories to searches where its AI systems don’t have high confidence in the overall quality of the results available for the search. Pandu Nayak, Google Fellow and Vice President, Search, said that this doesn’t mean that no helpful information is available, or that a particular result is low-quality. […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Apple seems confident despite analysts’ predictions and is reportedly asking its suppliers to build at least 90 million next-generation iPhones. In fact, Apple anticipates to assemble 220 million iPhones in total for 2022, citing Bloomberg, AppleInsider reported. Apple has weathered the pandemic-era slumps well. Mac shipments, for instance, grew in the first […]
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New Delhi: The world saw sales of 4.2 million electric vehicles in the first half of this year, a 63 per cent growth from the same period last year, a new report has shown. China alone witnessed the sale of 2.4 million EVs, 26 per cent of all passenger cars delivered in the country against […]
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New Delhi: A new survey of American teenagers (ages 13 to 17) by the Pew Research Center has revealed a worrying trend for Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook as the share of teens who use the social media platform has plummeted from 71 per cent in 2014-15 to 32 per cent as of now. Chinese short-form video platform […]
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San Francisco: Google has received a go-ahead from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in the US to keep politician campaign emails from being marked as spam. Google will now allow candidates and political party committees to apply for its programme that would make their messages exempt from Gmail’s spam detection systems, reports The Verge. “I have […]
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Barcelona: Tech giant Amazon has been under investigation by regional labour authorities over its subcontracting practices for a number of years in Catalonia, Spain. According to local press reports, the latest fine for Amazon of $3,303,408 approx. follows a penalty of over $826,040 approx. it received in 2020, for similar breaches of labour laws, reports […]
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San Francisco: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blamed Apple for its obscure App Store review process that is delaying the encrypted messaging platform from releasing an update to its app that will “revolutionise how people express themselves in messaging”. In his Telegram channel, Durov said the upcoming update had been stuck in Apple’s “review” for two weeks. […]
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San Francisco: Professional networking platform LinkedIn has announced that it is rolling out new tools to make it easier for users to create visual content that helps them stand out and inspire their professional community. The company revealed a 20 per cent increase year-on-year (YoY) among users adding visual content in their posts on the […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft is open sourcing more than 1,500 of its 3D emoji, making them accessible for creators to remix and build upon. Almost all of Microsoft’s 1,538 emoji library will be available on Figma and GitHub in a move that Microsoft hopes will encourage more creativity and inclusivity in the emoji space, […]
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New Delhi: As many as ten crypto exchanges were under the lens of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for their alleged involvement in money laundering of around Rs 10 billion. The ED had on August 5 conducted searches on the premises of one of the Directors of Zanmai Lab Pvt Ltd, which owns the popular crypto currency […]
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New Delhi: The Broadband India Forum (BIF) on Thursday questioned the government’s decision to ask enterprises to submit demand studies in order to assess direct assignment of spectrum for them to set up private captive 5G networks. The government on Wednesday announced to undertake demand studies for the direct assignment of spectrum to enterprises with net […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Meta had announced that it is introducing a new way to create hands-free on Instagram and Facebook with Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, as well as other Samsung Flip phones. With FlexCam on Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, users can fold the phone and place it on a surface freestanding to record hand-free videos. […]
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San Francisco: Drawing a comparison between Tesla’s long-delayed Cybertruck and Ford’s plug-in pick up — F-150 Lightning, Ford CEO Jim Farley took a dig at tech billionaire Elon Musk while announcing a major investment in a solar energy. According to The Verge, Farley spoke at a Ford plant in Michigan to announce a deal with […]
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New Delhi: In another important milestone in the Gaganyaan project, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully carried out the test-firing of the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of Crew Escape System, from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, said the officials on Wednesday. Today, ISRO achieved an important milestone in the Gaganyaan project by successfully test-firing the Low […]
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United Nations: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) called for action to curb cryptocurrencies in developing countries in three policy briefs. While private digital currencies have rewarded some, and facilitate remittances, they are an unstable financial asset that can also bring social risks and costs, the UN trade and development body warned on Wednesday. […]
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Hyderabad: This concept may seem quite fictional and even futuristic. However, this is what geneticists worldwide through gene therapy are pursuing, while trying to find cure for a wide range of diseases that challenge modern medicine including cancers, heart diseases, diabetes, haemophilia, AIDS, genetic disorders, among others. Gene therapy involves altering the genes inside the […]
