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San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon has announced that Doug Herrington will become the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company’s Worldwide Amazon Stores business, formerly known as “Consumer”. Harrington has been at Amazon for 17 years. He joined the company in 2005 to build out the Consumables business, launched AmazonFresh in 2007, and in 2015, […]
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Anyone who has experienced virtual reality through the bulky headsets would know that although it tries to mimic reality, it still has a long way to go before coming close to the real world. However, Meta (previously Facebook) seems to be solving this problem with its slew of VR hardware device prototypes to make the […]
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San Francisco: Frances Haugen, a whistleblower who exposed Facebook and testified in front of lawmakers about the social network’s illegal data activities, is raising up to $5 million to kick off a nonprofit organisation that will train lawyers to fight Big Tech. According to a report in Politico, Haugen wants to start ‘Beyond the Screen’ […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Meta’s Reality Labs division has revealed new prototypes in its roadmap toward the lightweight, hyper-realistic virtual reality graphics. The breakthroughs remain far from consumer-ready, but the designs, codenamed Butterscotch, Starburst, Holocake 2, and Mirror Lake, could add up to a slender, brightly lit headset that supports finer detail than its current […]
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New Delhi: The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) which comes under the IT Ministry on Monday issued an advisory over three serious vulnerabilities in networking major Cisco products that could help hackers gain access, infiltrate into computer systems and steal data. The vulnerabilities in products like routers and email/web manager could allow the attacker […]
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Chennai: About 1,100 workers have resumed work at the Ford India Private Ltd’s Maraimalainagar plant near here even though an agreement between the workers’ union and the management on severance package has not been reached, sources said. “There is no progress in the talks with the management on the severance package. However, workers have started […]
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New Delhi: Apple may launch the second-generation model of AirTag that let users keep track of personal items like keys, wallet, purse, backpack, luggage and more through the Find My app. According to famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF Securities, the tech giant can launch the next general model of AirTag if the shipments […]
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New Delhi: India gained three spots in the global ranking on median mobile download speed, reaching 115th position with recording 14.28 Mbps in May which is slightly better than 14.19 Mbps speed in April, a new report showed on Monday. India also improved its global ranking for overall fixed median download speeds, from 76th in […]
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New Delhi: As all the leading cryptocurrencies get hammered, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he will keep supporting and buying Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency he has been vouching about for years. Amid the ‘crypto winter’, Dogecoin digital currency has tumbled from its high of nearly $0.74 to just over $0.05 in recent days. In a […]
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New Delhi: Encrypted messaging platform Telegram has announced paid subscription on its platform that is likely to cost around $5 (about Rs 400) a month. The company said that it now has over 700 million monthly active users (MAUs) and has become one of the top-five downloaded apps worldwide this year. “This growth is solely […]
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San Francisco: As Google Co-founder Sergey Brin seeks divorce from his attorney-entrepreneur wife Nicole Shanahan, he has reportedly asked the judge presiding over the divorce case to withhold spousal support from his soon-to-be ex-wife. Brin, who is worth $93 billion, is also not asking his wife to pay him any support either, reports Gizmodo. Brin […]
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Jerusalem: The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) and the Energy Ministry have announced support for testing three chosen innovative energy technologies developed by Israeli companies. The purpose of the grants is to promote the economy and develop Israeli hi-tech in the fields of energy and water, while dealing with the climate crisis and reducing pollution, said a […]
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By Aditya Deshbandhu Ocean – The place in your heart, is a game like Sky, Abzu, Flower, and Journey; one that wants its players to sit back, relax and take in its sights and the music. It accomplishes its set-out goals to a great degree as five minutes into the game it manages to not […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out new options to your privacy control settings to further protect users’ privacy online. On the microblogging site, the company wrote that now users can select who from their contact list can see Profile Photo, About, and Last Seen status. “The safety and security of you […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google has announced that it is bringing picture-in-picture (PiP) support to its video conferencing app alongside pinning multiple videos feeds. With the new functionality, users can see up to four video tiles in a meeting as it appears in a floating window, reports Android Central. Enabling the new picture-in-picture is relatively simple. […]
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San Francisco: At least 73 per cent of the representatives said that tech giant Apple gained the most switchers while only 16 per cent goes to Samsung in the US, says a report. According to new data from US carrier channels, at least 43 per cent of the representatives said that they would switch from […]
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San Francisco: The US lawmakers have asked tech giant Google to fix abortion searches that mislead users to “anti-abortion fake clinics”. According to USA Today, some Democratic members of Congress have asked Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to address concerns about Google search and map results for abortion information that are including “anti-abortion fake clinics”. Democratic Senators […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google on Saturday paid tribute to Romanian physicist Stefania Maracineanu on her 140th birth anniversary with an artistic and quirky Doodle. On the Doodle page, the company mentioned that Maracineanu was one of the pioneering women in the discovery and research of radioactivity. “Today’s Doodle celebrates the Romanian physicist’s 140th Birthday,” […]
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New Delhi: Edtech platform Unacademy has fired more that 150 employees in the second round of layoffs at the company, after it asked around 600 workers to go in April this year as the funding winter settled in. Sources told IANS that the current layoffs have affected the team at Chandigarh-based PrepLadder, a leading post-graduate medical […]
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San Francisco: SpaceX which fired employees who wrote a letter criticising Elon Musk’s behaviour in the public sphere has likely violated US labour laws. According to The Verge, labour lawyers now say the firings may have violated US labour law. The fired employees may also approach the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to sue SpaceX. […]
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San Francisco: Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle company Tesla has started another wave of layoffs, and this time it also includes hourly workers instead of just salaried employees as the CEO claimed. Informed sources confirmed that Tesla started another wave of layoffs yesterday that included many hourly employees in its sales and delivery teams across North America, […]
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New Delhi: Cyber-security researchers have unearthed a new enterprise-grade Android spyware called ‘Hermit’ that is being used by the governments via SMS messages to target high-profile people like business executives, human rights activists, journalists, academics and government officials. The team at cyber-security company Lookout Threat Lab uncovered the ‘surveillanceware’ that was used by the government of […]
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Washington: The latest WhatsApp beta update also includes an admin approval feature that allows WhatsApp group admins to accept or deny requests from people wanting to join via hyperlink when enabled. The information comes from WABetaInfo, and it indicates that the feature, which is now only available to beta users, will soon be available for […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Meta, formerly called Facebook, has announced that it is launching a digital clothing store — Avatars Store — that will let users purchase outfits for their avatar. In a Facebook post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said launching ‘Avatars Store’ on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger so that users can buy digital clothes to style […]
