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Hyderabad: Industries Minister KT Rama Rao said Telangana puts India on the world map of advanced high-tech manufacturing. India’s first Display FAB to manufacture the most advanced AMOLED displays is coming up in the State with a whopping investment of Rs 24,000 crore. The Minister on Sunday tweeted, “Historic day for Telangana. Rajesh Exports (Elest), […]
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San Francisco: Short-video-making app TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is most likely preparing to join the virtual reality (VR) space, media reports say. According to a source close to the issue, ByteDance aims to invest “tons of money” in VR-related content, citing a report from Protocol, The Verge reported on Saturday. Over 40 job listings have popped […]
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San Francisco: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including Indian-origin Joseph Ravichandran, have identified a new hardware vulnerability in Apple’s in-house silicon M1 chip that powers Macs. The threat, dubbed ‘PACMAN’ by PhD student Ravichandran, enables attackers to stop the M1 chip from detecting software bug attacks. The M1 chip uses a feature […]
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San Francisco: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) headset will get Horizon Home as part of a new update. The functionality will help users create their own environments without using third-party apps. “Met up with legendary climber Alex Honnold in the new Horizon Home — launching with […]
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San Francisco: Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote a letter to US lawmakers voicing his support for a recent bipartisan effort to draft a comprehensive federal privacy law. In the letter, which was obtained by AppleInsider, Cook echoes many of his past talking points on federal privacy legislation. He said he was “encouraged” by the draft proposals […]
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San Francisco: Cloud major Oracle, which just completed its $28.4 billion acquisition of electronic health records company Cerner, is developing a national health records database. Oracle’s board chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison said that patient data would be anonymous until individuals give consent to share their information, reports medcitynews.com. “We’re building a system where […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google’s Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao has beaten her own record from three years ago for the number of digits calculated for pi. In 2019, she was able to calculate pi to its 31.4 trillionth digit, and now, using the same Google Cloud y-cruncher programme Iwao was able to find […]
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San Francisco: Instant messaging platform Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov has officially announced that a subscription-based offering, Telegram Premium, will be coming later this month. Durov said that the new paid offer will go “above and beyond” what Telegram currently offers, reports 9To5Google. Much of what spurred the decision to introduce Telegram Premium was the demands of […]
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New York: Tesla proposed a three-for-one split of its stock on Friday, a move that will make a single share of the electric car maker more accessible to investors but not affect the company’s overall market value. Tesla Inc. made the announcement in its annual proxy statement, which also said Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison will […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
