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New Delhi: Solana Mobile, a subsidiary of Blockchain platform Solana Labs has launched flagship Android mobile phone called ‘Saga’ that will make crypto and non-fungible token (NFT) trading easy on smartphones. Saga offers a 6.67-inch OLED display, 12GB RAM, 512GB storage, and the latest flagship Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Mobile Platform. Pre-orders for Saga require […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft is making its Edge browser a little more gamer-friendly as it is adding new Xbox and PC gaming performance features to the web page. Apart from a new gaming-focused homepage and casual games integration, the web browser is also getting a Clarity Boost to improve Xbox Cloud Gaming streams and an […]
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New Delhi: Google has found strong evidence that enterprise-grade Android spyware called ‘Hermit’ is being used via SMS messages to target high-profile Android users. The tech giant has warned all Android victims and implemented changes in Google Play Protect. Cyber-security researchers last week unearthed ‘Hermit’ that is being used by the governments via SMS messages […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Boring Company has applied to dig a tunnel under Tesla Gigafactory Texas in Austin, however, it is unclear what they plan to do with it. The Boring Company has been in discussions with the state and municipal governments for several projects since moving to Texas, but as far as […]
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New Delhi: Samsung on Thursday launched next-gen 200MP image sensor with the industry’s smallest 0.56-micrometer pixels that will allow smartphone users to take movie-like cinematic footage. ISOCELL HP3′ image sensor, with a 12 percent smaller pixel size than the predecessor’s 0.64m, packs 200 million pixels. It means that the sensor can enable an approximately 20 per […]
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Tokyo: With an aim to boost camera performance in premium mid-range smartphones, Japan-based tech giant Sony is reportedly working on its first 100MP camera sensor. The sensor will be aimed at premium mid-range smartphones. Notably, Sony also makes camera sensors for tech giants Apple and Google which are popular brands among smartphone photography enthusiasts, citing tipster, […]
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Hyderabad: Netizens took to the social media to express their ire against the Modi government for being busy with toppling the governments in the Opposition-ruled States rather than focusing on fulfilling its promises. The hashtag ‘#ByeByeModi’ kept trending for more than three hours with over 35,000 tweets and mentions, stating that it’s time for Prime […]
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New Delhi: Apple is further cracking down on SMS-based junk messages and has revamped message filtering in the iOS 16 Beta for developers. The new update allows developers of filter extensions to classify non-personal messages into 12 subcategories within “Transactions” and “Promotions.” The Transactions category includes finance, reminders, orders, health, public services, weather, carrier, rewards and […]
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San Francisco: Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group behind Wikipedia, has announced that Google is one of the first companies to buy its commercial Enterprise service. Wikimedia Enterprise is a commercial product designed for companies that reuse and source Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects at a high volume. Wikimedia Enterprise was recently launched by the Wikimedia Foundation […]
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Washington: Amazon is planning to come up with a way that will help Alexa voice assistant users to speak to their family members, even after they’ve died. As per TechCrunch, the online retailer announced its plan about developing a system to let Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio during […]
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Bengaluru: NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) launched GSAT-24 in its first “demand-driven” communication satellite mission post space sector reforms, leasing the entire capacity on board to Direct-to-Home (DTH) service provider Tata Play. Built by Indian Space Research Organisation for NSIL, the satellite was successfully placed into geostationary orbit by the Ariane 5 rocket, operated by French […]
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San Francisco: Microblogging site Twitter has confirmed that the platform is working on a built-in Notes feature that will allow users to write longer posts. On its own platform, Twitter introduced Notes and said it is testing the new feature for its audience. “A small group of writers is helping us test Notes. They can […]
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San Francisco: A Black former Tesla worker who said he was harassed and faced with “daily racist epithets,” including the “N-word,” while working at the company’s Fremont, California, plant has rejected a substantially reduced award of $15 million in his lawsuit. Owen Diaz, who worked at the Tesla plant in 2015 and 2016 as a […]
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Hyderabad: The pace at which technological innovations in medicine are underway, a day is not far when humanity would be once and for all defeat vector-borne diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya, which for decades have burdened public health systems in India. Thanks to the cutting-edge research, at least within the next decade, a lasting […]
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San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) and the US government have agreed on to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of engaging in discriminatory advertising for housing. The housing discrimination lawsuit, filed by the government in 2019, accused that Meta enabled and encouraged advertisers to target their housing ads by relying on race, colour, […]
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Washington: The US space agency NASA has picked three design concept proposals for a nuclear fission surface power system design that could be ready to launch by the end of the decade for a demonstration on the Moon. This technology would benefit future exploration under the Artemis mission that aims to land the first woman […]
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San Francisco: Electric car-maker Tesla has been sued by former employees who were sacked in the ongoing mass layoff at the company, accusing it of violating federal law in the US. John Lynch and Daxton Hartsfield, who worked at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada state, said in the lawsuit that they were among “more than 500” […]
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San Francisco: Frustrated with Spotify’s exclusive terms, former US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama have left the Swedish music streaming platform and signed a multi-year, worldwide podcast deal with Amazon subsidiary Audible. Audible did not disclose the financial terms of its agreement with Higher Ground, the media company run by the Obamas. […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon has announced that Doug Herrington will become the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company’s Worldwide Amazon Stores business, formerly known as “Consumer”. Harrington has been at Amazon for 17 years. He joined the company in 2005 to build out the Consumables business, launched AmazonFresh in 2007, and in 2015, […]
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Anyone who has experienced virtual reality through the bulky headsets would know that although it tries to mimic reality, it still has a long way to go before coming close to the real world. However, Meta (previously Facebook) seems to be solving this problem with its slew of VR hardware device prototypes to make the […]
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San Francisco: Frances Haugen, a whistleblower who exposed Facebook and testified in front of lawmakers about the social network’s illegal data activities, is raising up to $5 million to kick off a nonprofit organisation that will train lawyers to fight Big Tech. According to a report in Politico, Haugen wants to start ‘Beyond the Screen’ […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Meta’s Reality Labs division has revealed new prototypes in its roadmap toward the lightweight, hyper-realistic virtual reality graphics. The breakthroughs remain far from consumer-ready, but the designs, codenamed Butterscotch, Starburst, Holocake 2, and Mirror Lake, could add up to a slender, brightly lit headset that supports finer detail than its current […]
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New Delhi: The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) which comes under the IT Ministry on Monday issued an advisory over three serious vulnerabilities in networking major Cisco products that could help hackers gain access, infiltrate into computer systems and steal data. The vulnerabilities in products like routers and email/web manager could allow the attacker […]
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Chennai: About 1,100 workers have resumed work at the Ford India Private Ltd’s Maraimalainagar plant near here even though an agreement between the workers’ union and the management on severance package has not been reached, sources said. “There is no progress in the talks with the management on the severance package. However, workers have started […]
