Tech

New Delhi: Photo-sharing platform Snapchat on Wednesday launched its paid subscription service in India for Rs 49 per month, as it aims to increase revenue amid slowed growth and layoffs globally. The subscribers in India will receive a Snapchat+ badge for their profile with a Star designation. The Snapchat+ arrives in India at a time […]

New Delhi: The amount of data generated by roaming internet of things (IoT) connections will increase from 86 petabytes in 2022 to 1,100 petabytes globally by 2027, a report showed on Wednesday. This represents enough data to stream 165 million hours of 4K video from online entertainment and gaming platforms such as Netflix, according to Juniper […]

Hyderabad: Amazon announced a deadline extension for submission of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)Pen to publish contest entries by another month to October 10.  The 5th edition of the contest was launched in July this year with the aim to encourage enthusiastic writers transform their dream of becoming an author, into reality. This flagship event by Amazon KDP will witness […]

San Francisco: Music streaming giant Spotify has introduced a new design for the home screen of its mobile app that includes feeds for both Music and Podcasts and Shows. The company said the feature is currently rolling out to Android users and will soon be available on iOS. “By creating these feeds, Spotify will help listeners […]

New Delhi: Tech giant Microsoft on Wednesday partnered with the Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), and Capacity Building Commission (CBC) to enhance the functional computer literacy of nearly 2.5 million civil servants of the Central government. The project — Capacity Building by MSDE in Microsoft Digital Productivity Skills — will digitally empower […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Google has introduced a new website — Read Along — to help kids learn to read independently with the help of an animated reading assistant named “Diya”. Read Along has been an Android app so far, which was first released as Bolo in India in 2019 and released globally as Read Along […]

San Francisco: Google has launched a new campaign to put pressure on Apple to adopt RCS (rich communication services) and improve texting between Android and iOS users. RCS is a next generation SMS protocol that upgrades text messaging across Android and iMessages. “It’s time for Apple to fix texting. It’s not about the color of […]

San Francisco: As Apple is prepping up to launch its next-generation iPhones, a new report said that the supply chain of the tech giant’s upcoming iPhone 14 series will remain unaffected by current geopolitical tensions. On Twitter, prominent analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said his survey showed “no impact on the supply chain of the iPhone 14 models”. […]

San Francisco: As several users complained of facing trouble while using Twitter, the microblogging platform acknowledged that it suffered a partial outage and blamed “internal systems change” for it. However, the platform said it has now fixed the issue. “We fixed it! We made an internal systems change that didn’t go as planned and have […]

San Francisco: Electric vehicle company Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold 7.92 million shares of the company worth around $6.88 billion, media reports say. Musk’s transactions occurred between August 5 and August 9, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings revealed, following Tesla’s 2022 annual shareholder meeting on August 4 in Austin, Texas, reports […]

These are the times when privacy is one of the hottest topics, and WhatsApp, one of the most popular means of communication, whether it is at work or for friends and family in India, has announced some changes aimed at better privacy. The first was a set of privacy features to give users more control […]

Hyderabad: A new study has found that rainwater on the ground across the earth contains higher levels of Per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that make it unsafe to consume. The study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, has found that the level of PFAS substances in rainwater exceeds the advisory levels set by prominent […]

New Delhi: Leading PC maker HP on Tuesday introduced a new range of all-in-one PCs built that aims to enable a seamless work and entertainment experience for a hybrid workforce for Indian creators. The new all-in-one PCs include two new PCs — HP Pavilion 31.5-inch, which starts at Rs 99,999 and the HP ENVY 34-inch, […]

Screen-sharing fraud is a type of social engineering (phishing) fraud where hackers impersonate an employee of a bank or payment app and ask people to download a screen-sharing app to gain remote access. They then deceive people by making them believe that screen sharing provides them with easy access to the bank or payment app-related […]

New Delhi: As India gears up to usher in the 5G era, 89 per cent of consumers wish to upgrade to 5G network in India while 48 per cent would upgrade to 5G even if it calls for switching service providers, a new report showed on Monday. 5G adoption would boost video content streaming, gaming, and […]

New Delhi: Apple is likely to bring back its original HomePod in a new avatar, along with a fresh HomePod mini smart home speaker in early 2023. Following the discontinuation of the larger HomePod in March 2021, the company is expected to bring it back in the first quarter of next year, predicts Apple analysts Mark […]

New Delhi: LG Electronic on Monday announced two new sets of ‘TONE Free’ wireless earbuds, and the flagship device comes with the world’s first ‘Dolby Head Tracking’ feature across all content and devices. The ‘Dolby Head Tracking’ feature in TONE Free T90 model recalibrates the sound as users move their heads for a more natural sound […]

New Delhi: Meta is shutting down Quest 1 virtual reality (VR) headset support for ‘Population: One’, its popular battle-royale game set in VR. Quest 1 owners will no longer be able to launch or play the game starting October 31, its developer BigBox VR has announced. Quest 1 players can still play the game if they […]

New Delhi: A poll by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that nearly 65 per cent of his followers do not believe in Twitter’s claim that less than 5 per cent of daily users are fake/spam on the platform. Musk, who is fighting a bitter legal battle with Twitter over the cancellation of the $44 […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu  Noah’s Heart is a just released open world role playing game that has been designed as a massively online experience. In a similar mould as games like Genshin Impact, and Diablo Immortal, Noah’s Heart tries t1o narrate a compelling story using some incredible visuals and music. This is one of the best […]

Beijing: As Apple is gearing to launch its next-generation series of iPhones, a new report said that the upcoming iPhone 14 is likely to be delayed due to growing tension between China and Taiwan, media reports say. According to GSMArena, Apple is TSMC’s top customer, and the company ships chips to Pegatron in China, where iPhones […]

Hyderabad: Meta, on August 5, unveiled its most advanced chatbot to date, the BlenderBot 3 (BB3), which includes model weights, code, datasets, and model cards. This 175B-parameter chatbot is now publicly available for all adults in the United States. However, the Meta chatbot is causing quite a stir on the internet, not because of its […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft is rolling out a new Dictate feature to OneNote that supports AI-powered voice commands to control dictation, such as deleting text or undoing a recent step. The AI-powered voice commands can be used to format and edit text, such as deleting a word or undoing a recent step, and the platform […]

Sriharikota: The maiden launch of India’s brand new rocket is keeping the country in suspense as to its fate on Sunday morning. Hoping to celebrate in advance the country’s 75th anniversary of Independence in style the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its freshly minted rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle – Developmental Flight (SSLV-D1). On its […]