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Hyderabad: K-pop group, Bangatan Boys popularly referred to as BTS has the most vibrant fandom today. Nine years ago, their fandom was named ARMY – Adorable Representative MCs for Youth, and ever since that day, they have celebrated the fandom’s birthday. This year Google and YouTube extended a sweet gesture to all the BTS fans […]
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Hyderabad: Many delay their visit to the diagnostic centre for tests due to the needle phobia that they have. Coming to the rescue of such people, city-based BlueSemi has launched a device called EYVA that can give readings of vitals without a needle prick. The non-invasive consumer health technology gadget – that fuses sensors, AI […]
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Hyderabad: The much awaited and hyped smartphone of the year, Nothing Phone (1), is launching on July 12, but apart from the design, a few features and the company’s founder Carl Pei, not many know its details. Nothing’s first-ever product “ear (1)” – wireless earbuds, sold over 400,000 units and became an instant hit. The […]
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New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has cancelled the $44 billion Twitter buyout deal, will have to pay $1 billion in termination fee to the micro-blogging platform. As per an earlier filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), “Musk will be required to pay Twitter a termination fee of $1 billion”, if […]
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Washington: NASA is set to reveal rare celestial objects, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, like one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, a giant planet outside our solar system composed mainly of gas, and first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877, among others. The US space agency will showcase these […]
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San Francisco: Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Saturday announced it was going to sue Tesla CEO Elon Musk for terminating the $44 billion takeover deal. In a surprising move, Musk’s legal team said in a US Securities and Exchange (SEC) filing that he is terminating the deal because Twitter was in “material breach” of their agreement and […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk is officially trying to pull out of his $44 billion agreement to purchase microblogging site Twitter. In a filing on Friday afternoon with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Musk’s team claimed he is terminating the deal because Twitter was in “material breach” of their agreement and had made […]
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Hyderabad: We have all heard of the saying “Health is wealth” but with the rise in cybercrimes all over the world, looks like there is a new variation of the saying – “Data is wealth” Latest statistics suggest India is the second largest internet using nation with only China ahead in the list. Higher the […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad is all set to host Formula-E on February 11. The race will be held on a 2.37 km street circuit that has been designed by Driven International, which has also worked on the Yas Marina Circuit in the past. The race will be held on a 2.37 km track in and around the […]
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New Delhi: Micro-blogging platform Twitter has laid off 30 per cent employees from its talent acquisition team amid the $44 billion takeover by Elon Musk, the media reported on Friday. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed these layoffs to TechCrunch, without divulging further details or the number of employees affected. The sacked employees will receive severance packages […]
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San Francisco: Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has confirmed that the US Secret Service Director James Murray, who is retiring from his current post, will join the company as a chief security officer at the end of the month. According to The Verge, Murray’s private sector move was first reported this week, shortly after the […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to buy the microblogging platform Twitter for $44 billion is in serious trouble, media reports say. According to The Washington Post, Musk’s deal to buy the platform is “in peril” — based on three anonymous sources who told the paper that the billionaire’s camp has “stopped engaging in certain […]
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San Francisco: Indian-origin Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, the former business partner and ‘boyfriend in secret’ of Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of healthcare company Therano, has been found guilty of defrauding Theranos investors and patients in the US. Balwani faced 10 counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. After a three-month […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has shown his support for large families a day after court documents revealed the tech billionaire had twins with a senior executive at one of his companies. On the microblogging platform Twitter, Musk also wrote that the “population of Mars is still zero people”. “Doing my best to help the […]
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New Delhi: The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which comes under the IT Ministry, has warned users of multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and denial-of-service (DoS) conditions on the targeted system. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending specially crafted requests on […]
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Bengaluru: Cyber-security researchers on Thursday said they have discovered an “unprecedented, sophisticated” phishing technique that has been targeting government websites across the world, including Indian government’s portal https://india.gov.in, extorting the affected users. The threat actors have been targeting the Indian government’s portal by utilising a bogus URL to trick users into submitting sensitive information such as […]
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San Francisco: Apple is planning to launch an “extreme sports” version of the Apple Watch this year with a larger screen, media report says. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the upcoming Apple Watch is expected to have the tech giant’s largest smartwatch display to date, along with a bigger battery and rugged metal casing, reports TechCrunch. […]
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New Delhi: Microblogging site Twitter has removed the controversial July 2 tweet of filmmaker Leena Manimekalai. Leena had released the poster of the film ‘Kaali’ via a tweet which led to outrage in the country. The poster of her film depicted a woman dressed in a costume portraying the goddess and smoking. Reacting to Twitter’s […]
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New Delhi: As 5G adoption is set to accelerate in the Asia Pacific with India and Vietnam going live in a few months, lack of digital skills, affordability and online safety concerns are key reasons why the region has the largest regional mobile broadband usage gap worldwide, a report showed on Thursday. According to the […]
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New Delhi: As state-sponsored cyber attacks with government spyware like Pegasus grow, Apple has previewed an extreme level of security that offers specialised additional protection to high-profile users who may be at risk of highly targeted attacks from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware. Called Lockdown Mode and coming this fall with iOS 16, iPadOS […]
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Chennai:An Artificial Intelligence-based tool that can predict cancer-causing genes in an individual has been developed, paving the way for devising personalised cancer treatment strategies, said researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras on Wednesday. The tool named ‘PIVOT’ is designed to predict cancer causing genes based on a model that utilises information on […]
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San Francisco: Meta has sued Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese high-tech enterprise, and a Turkish individual for scraping data from Facebook, Instagram and other big tech platforms. Octopus claims to have over one million customers and offers scraping services and access to software that customers can use to scrape any website. For a […]
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Washington: After leaving orbit, NASA’s CAPSTONE mission — a microwave oven-sized CubeSat — has faced communications issues on its way to the Moon, the US space agency has said. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) lifted off to the Moon on June 28 aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. On […]
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New Delhi: Google on Wednesday announced the third Asia Pacific Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge, as part of its ongoing commitment to support the news industry around the world, including India. Previous rounds of the Innovation Challenge supported more than 30 publishers across the Asia Pacific to develop sustainable business models by diversifying revenue streams […]
