Tech

San Francisco: Despite the global macro-economic environment, Apple saw a record June quarter with 2 per cent (year-over-year) revenue increase at $83 billion, riding on a 12 per cent sales increase in services. iPhone revenue was up from $39.5 billion to $40.7 billion in the April-June period — a 3 per cent increase from the same […]

San Francisco: After experiencing strong criticism, Meta-owned Instagram has decided to roll back some recent changes to the product, including a full-screen home feed and temporarily reduce recommended posts. According to TechCrunch, the photo-sharing platform’s head Adam Mosseri revealed the news in an interview with Platformer and said Instagram will phase out a test that turned […]

New Delhi: Google and Apple on Thursday pulled popular battle royale game Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) from their respective app stores, following a government order. Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is the Indian version of PUBG Mobile, exclusively for players in the country developed and published by Krafton. The game was released on July 2, 2021 […]

New Delhi: Rural population is now driving Internet growth in India as urban India appears to have hit a plateau, a new report showed on Thursday. There are 692 million active Internet users in India, and much of the growth continues to be driven by rural India (351 million users with 37 per cent). The urban […]

New Delhi: Nine in 10 Indians use Twitter while watching TV or streaming content as they turn to the platform for trailers, highlights and latest news about TV shows, the micro-blogging platform revealed on Thursday. About 79 per cent people in India use Twitter more when they’re watching sports content elsewhere, and what they seek on […]

San Francisco: A Tesla vehicle has allegedly killed another motorcyclist, this time in the Utah state in the US when a driver using Autopilot slammed into the rear of his bike. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has added the fatal accident to its list. Forty-eight crashes are under investigation, 39 of which involve […]

New Delhi: Microsoft has caught an Austrian company selling spyware based on multiple Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits to attack its customers. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) found that the spyware developer — officially named DSIRF and codenamed KNOTWEED — developed a spyware called ‘Subzero’ that was used […]

New Delhi: Apple iOS 16 will let users edit an iMessage for five times and once they reach the limit, the edit option will disappear from the long-press menu. In previous releases of iOS 16, the company allowed 15 minutes to unsend a message. With the latest update, the time frame has been significantly reduced to […]

New Delhi: Google has announced to delay its ambitious plan to block third-party tracking cookies in Chrome browser to the second half of 2024. Google originally announced its plan to phase out support for third-party tracking cookies in Chrome — called Privacy Sandbox API testing initiative — within two years in early 2020. “By Q3 2023, […]

San Francisco: Facebook has reported loss in revenue in the June quarter for the first time since going public in 2007, predicting that growth in the third quarter could fall even more. Facebook reported a 1 per cent drop in revenue to $28.8 billion, a 1 per cent decrease from $29.07 billion in the second quarter […]

New Delhi: The auction for the 5G telecom spectrum has garnered bids worth Rs 1,49,454 crore at the end of the second day and the bids for the much-awaited spectrum sale are extended for the third day. A comparison of the two-day figures shows that the 5G spectrum auction fetched Rs 71,639.2 crore more than […]

Despite the rapid development of modern technology and high-end research in the field of medicine, an effective cure or treatment for cancers continues to remain elusive for scientists, researchers, clinicians and patients. While high-end diagnostics and treatment tools are available, a majority of cancer patients, however, continue to struggle with side effects and poor prognosis. […]

San Francisco: Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has reported weaker-than-expected earnings and revenue for the April-June period (Q2). The company reported solid growth in its Search business. Revenue growth slowed to 13 per cent from 62 per cent in the same quarter last year. The company reported revenues of $69.7 billion in the quarter, up […]

New Delhi: India is in the final stage of rolling out high-speed 5G telecom services with the much-anticipated auction for the spectrum likely to be completed today. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently approved the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)’s 5G spectrum auction through which spectrum will be assigned to bidders […]

San Francisco: After Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner criticised Instagram for trying to be like TikTok, the Meta-owned platform’s head Adam Mosseri shared a video explaining the recent changes to the platform and said it will become more video-focused over time. On the microblogging site Twitter, Mosseri shared a video and mentioned that “there is a […]

Nothing happened this week in the world of technology. Yes, you read that right. Nothing. Quite a strange name for a firm, but then that is what OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei named his company, and after much hype and hoopla, Nothing Technology Ltd finally launched its Nothing Phone 1 last week. Coming in black and […]

San Francisco: As tech giant Google’s Play Store officially completed 10 years, it is now getting a new logo to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The tech giant has slightly tweaked the overall shape of its Google Play Store logo, but the most notable changes are the less vibrant colours that more closely match the green, […]

San Francisco: Apple’s next generation of Watch is likely to include a rugged Pro’ model and that will come with an all-new design with a “more durable formulation of titanium to make it extra rugged”. The new high-end model could end up being “big enough that it might only appeal to a subset of customers,” […]

New Delhi: Leading insuretech platform Policybazaar has admitted it was hit by a cyber security incident last week but no significant customer data was exposed. In a stock exchange filing, the platform which sells several insurable coverage, said that on July 19, certain vulnerabilities were identified in Policybazaar IT systems and the same were subject to […]

New Delhi: Continuing its growth in India driven by local manufacturing, Apple sold over 1.2 million iPhones in the country in the second quarter (Q2) this year, registering a massive 94 per cent growth (year-on-year), the data showed on Monday. According to data shared by market intelligence firm CyberMedia Research (CMR), the growth was driven by […]

San Francisco: Billionaire Elon Musk’s space venture SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites — the sixth launch for the programme in July alone, and the company’s 33rd launch of 2022. The satellites were launched on Sunday at 9.38 a.m. from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the eighth […]

San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife Nicole Shanahan that allegedly led to their divorce earlier this year, the media reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, the couple filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences”. “Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu  Stray, is one of the most awaited indie games of 2022 and it lands at a time with hardly any competition in sight. The action-adventure game with a feline protagonist has also made some interesting marketing decisions as it becomes one of the first games that is available for free on launch […]

San Francisco: A Twitter security vulnerability discovered in early 2022 has been used to cull the account details of 5.4 million users, and the hacker is offering the set for sale for $30,000, says a new report. According to AppleInsider, a hack of 5.4 million users is small compared to the 478 million T-Mobile customers […]