Tech

Hyderabad: Even as IT companies are seeing a gradual increase in employees returning to the office, work from home (WFH), the norm during the Covid pandemic, will continue for one more year. The new guidelines issued by the Department of Commerce are likely to introduce more flexibility in the workplace. A new rule (Rule 43A) […]

Hyderabad: Cybercrime, particularly those registered under the category of ‘fraud’, including credit/debit card, ATM, online banking fraud and OTP frauds, has seen a massive jump across the country from 2017 to 2020. This was revealed by union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra in a reply to a question in the Rajya […]

New Delhi: Facebook Gaming has rolled out a new ‘Clips to Reels’ feature for all creators to convert live gameplay clips into Reels. Last month, the company announced ‘Clips to Reels’ for gaming video creators to help them produce 60-second Reels from existing Facebook Gaming content. “Now, we’re excited to share it is available to all […]

San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has announced that it now allows users to transfer their chat history from Android to iOS and vice versa for all users. On the micro-blogging platform, the company also shared a link that tells how to migrate WhatsApp data from Android to iPhone. “A new way to keep the chats […]

San Francisco: The Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure is now generally available and Azure Cloud customers can directly access and monitor enterprise-grade services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the companies have announced. Oracle and Microsoft partnered to deliver the Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure in 2019 and hundreds of organisations have used the secure and […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple has released iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6 that bring new live sports features, storage bug fixes and more. The iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6 can be downloaded for free and the software is available on all eligible devices over-the-air in the Settings app. To access the new software, go to Settings, […]

New Delhi: Popular Microsoft-owned game Minecraft has announced not to support non-fungible tokens (NFTs), giving a shock to the Blockchain developer community. An NFT is a unique, non-editable digital token that is part of a blockchain and often purchased with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. An NFT can be associated with any form of digital asset such as […]

New Delhi: Tesla has sold 75 per cent of its Bitcoins, adding $936 million in cash to its balance sheet in the second quarter (Q2) this year, as it deals with economic meltdown amid cryptocurrencies falling off the cliff. Last year, Tesla made a $1.5 billion investment in Bitcoin and announced that it would accept […]

New Delhi: Microblogging site Twitter on Wednesday announced that it is launching Tamil topics for 100 per cent of its android, iOS and web users who have set Tamil as their primary language. The launch is part of Twitter’s commitment to build for India and serve the country’s diverse and multilingual audiences and will help people […]

San Francisco: Meta-owned photo-sharing Instagram’s latest update aims to make it easier for users to find local businesses or attractions by adding a searchable map to help “discover popular local businesses near you”, according to a Story from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The map will show you a list of places nearby and let you see posts […]

London: The record-breaking heat in the UK has led to cooling-related outages at the Google Cloud and Oracle servers, leaving the customers flummoxed as they never experience such outages. Google Cloud said in an update that there was a cooling-related failure in one of its buildings in the UK-based data centres, which has now been […]

San Francisco: Apple has agreed to pay $50 million to settle the lawsuit over flawed “butterfly” keyboards in MacBooks in the US. A group of MacBook users in 2018 had filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple for the controversial butterfly keyboards, alleging that the new design failed when even tiny particles of dust accumulated around the […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is introducing Viva Engage, a new app in Teams that helps build community and connection, along with providing tools for personal expression. Built on the foundation of Yammer, Viva Engage brings people together across the organisation to connect with leaders and coworkers, find answers to questions, share […]

New Delhi: Global smartphone brand OPPO on Wednesday launched its latest Reno Series — Reno8 Pro 5G at Rs 45,999 and Reno8 5G at Rs 29,999 — in India that offer end-to-end imaging solution and a streamlined unibody design. The OPPO Reno8 Pro 5G is backed by the company’s proprietary imaging NPU, the ‘MariSilicon X’. The […]

San Francisco: Popular video streaming platform Netflix has announced that it lost nearly one million paid subscribers in the second quarter of this year. In the second-quarter earnings report, the company revealed that it lost 9,70,000 subscribers, which is more than the 2,00,000-member decline from the first quarter. “The second quarter was better-than-expected on membership growth, […]

San Francisco: In an early win for microblogging site Twitter, a US court has ordered that the platform’s lawsuit against tech billionaire Elon Musk — for trying to back out of his $44 billion buyout of the firm — will be heard in October. According to The Verge, during oral arguments before a Delaware judge Chancellor […]

Hyderabad: The world’s largest telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by NASA was damaged permanently and irreparably, says a new report. The $10 billion telescope was struck by a micro meteoroid in May this year and the complications of the hit are more serious than estimated before, suggests the new report. NASA scientists […]

San Francisco: Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has announced that it will allow shoppers in the US to be able to pay for products directly in messages. The company said it wants to help people start conversations with businesses they care about and help them find and buy products they love in an easy, seamless experience, […]

Washington/New Delhi: After India, the US lawmakers have now asked the Lina Khan-led Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to address abusive and deceptive data practices by hundreds of companies providing Virtual Private Network (VPN) services for individuals. A VPN is an online service that purports to give users more security when connecting to the Internet. However, […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu The desktop has been the hallowed ground for PC gamers since times immemorial. Well, if you wish to be precise, the last three decades. With every iteration of new silicon design that companies have cast in their foundries, the performance gap with laptops has only widened as components have gotten bigger and […]

San Francisco: India, with 14.7 per cent of all downloads, and the US, with 10.2 per cent, had the most Subway Surfers downloads in June of this year, says a new report. According to Sensor Tower, Subway Surfers was the most downloaded mobile game worldwide for June 2022, with more than 26 million installs, representing […]

San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has reportedly texted microblogging platform Twitter’s CEO Parag Agarwal Ned Segal before pulling out of the $44 billion acquisition deal. Musk texted the Twitter executives that the company’s lawyers were trying to “cause trouble” after they requested information about the status of Musk’s financing for a deal to buy Twitter, […]

New Delhi: India is attempting several big reforms in the technology sector to allow local businesses thrive amid anti-market practices from Big Tech and according to Shireesh Joshi, Chief Business Officer (CBO) and President, Network Expansion for the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), the goal is to create population-scale inclusion of e-commerce in the country. […]

San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that the electric vehicle company is getting closer to integrating Valve’s Steam to take its in-car gaming platform to a whole new level. According to the auto-tech website Electrek, Tesla has been investing heavily into integrating video games into its in-car entertainment system. But it still surprised many […]