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San Francisco: Months after tech giant Apple launched App Tracking Transparency (ATT), a new analysis has predicted its second year will still see major disruption to advertisers, with Facebook, YouTube and more collectively losing around $16 billion. According to AppleInsider, the tech giant released its feature in iOS 14 on April 26, last year, and […]
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Washington: Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday offered a “best and final” bid to purchase 100 per cent of microblogging site Twitter for USD 41.39 billion with $54.20 per share in cash. The world’s richest man made the offer in an updated 13D filing on Thursday and follows an announcement by Twitter that […]
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New York: US scientists have created a first-of-its-kind roadmap that traces each step in the development of blood stem cells in the human embryo. The map will provide scientists with a blueprint for producing fully functional blood stem cells in the lab. The research, published in the journal Nature, could help expand treatment options for […]
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New Delhi: As countries reopen and millions rejoin offices, video collaboration and chat app Zoom has seen a massive erosion in its stock value — nearly 80 per cent — from its high in 2020. The demand for Zoom soared in the two years of the pandemic as companies shut offices and employees had to […]
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San Francisco: Chinese short-video app TikTok is testing a private dislike button for comments and the users can flag comments they find ‘irrelevant or inappropriate’ without the dislike being visible to others. “We’ve started testing a way to let individuals identify comments they believe to be irrelevant or inappropriate,” the company said in a statement […]
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San Francisco: After Tesla fans propagated fake news of the acquisition of lithium mining firm Lithium Corporation on Twitter, the firm’s stock went up over 250 per cent. Over the last few years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has used his Twitter account to promote so many accounts that have become influential in the Tesla community, […]
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New Delhi: In a major flip to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to make deeper inroads into the Indian digital payments ecosystem, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has approved an additional 60 million users on unified payments interface (UPI) for WhatsApp. With this approval, WhatsApp will now be able to expand the service to […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Apple has reportedly delayed its augmented reality (AR) headset and will likely only launch at the beginning of the next year. Supply chain constraints and the fact that the tech giant does not want to release its first AR device in limited stock forced the company to push back the date […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google has quietly launched its most awaited ‘Switch to Android‘ app on the App Store in some countries, including the US. According to TechCrunch, the app promises to make the transition between mobile platforms easier to manage by helping users import their contacts, calendar, photos and videos to their new Android […]
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San Francisco: Popular social audio platform Clubhouse has confirmed that it is testing a new in-room gaming feature on both iOS and Android platforms. As part of the initial launch, the app is rolling out a game called “Wild Cards”, which presents a series of questions that are designed to spur conversation and help people […]
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Los Angeles: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the largest comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers, the agency has said. The estimated diameter of the largest icy comet nucleus is approximately 80 miles (128 km), making it larger than the state of Rhode Island, NASA said on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported. The nucleus is […]
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San Francisco: Music streaming platform Spotify has announced that it is changing the name of Greenroom to Spotify Live and bringing its live capabilities directly onto the Spotify app. Spotify Live can now be found both as the stand-alone app listeners and hosts know and love, and as a livestream function in the Spotify app […]
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New Delhi: Google-owned YouTube on Wednesday morning suffered global outage as users reported several issues like receiving error messages while trying to watch videos along with logging problems. YouTube users also reported issues with accessing website elements like the sidebar navigation, switching accounts or the Setting menus, for example. YouTube confirmed the site was experiencing […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft is reportedly working on a new feature for its Edge browser that will make Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and web apps feel more native. The new option lets users set Edge to open links in associated Progressive Web Apps or installed web apps. For example, a person could set their […]
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San Francisco: Meta on Tuesday announced it is testing new features in Horizon Worlds, its social virtual reality (VR) app, that will help creators sell virtual items and make money. In a conversation with Vidyuu Studios, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that creator monetisation and metaverse economy is really important. “There are two new things […]
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San Francisco: Google has sued a scammer who used a network of fraudulent websites that claimed to sell basset hound puppies — with alluring photos and fake customer testimonials — in order to take advantage of the elderly during the pandemic. This scam disproportionately targeted older Americans who can be more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Google […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk would not be joining Twitter’s Board of Directors but he may still engage with the social media company’s management on a variety of discussions, an amended regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has clarified. According to Teslarati, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO would be able […]
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New Delhi: Epic, the developer of popular game Fortnite, has announced a $2 billion round of funding from Sony and KIRKBI, the family-owned investment company which founded the Lego Group. The funds will be used to boost Epic’s dream to build the metaverse. Sony and KIRKBI invested $1 billion, respectively, in Epic. “This investment will […]
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Hyderabad: A positive reputation builds loyalty and increases confidence in your personality or brand, ultimately driving growth, which could be either sales or followers. Many of us treat social media accounts as a purely social vent, casually updating statuses and posting photos online with a little expectation of how friends and followers on how they […]
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New York: Ice on the surface of the Moon, known so far to be dry and airless, is likely protected by ancient magnetic fields, according to a new study. Sunlight does not reach the polar craters on the Moon because of the Moon’s small tilt to the Sun, 1.5 degrees compared with Earth’s 23.4 degrees. […]
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San Francisco: As companies look forward to embracing metaverse, Apple may also launch its mixed reality headset launch in early 2023. Reports surfaced that details about Apple’s mixed reality headset are expected to appear in iOS 16 beta. “As rumours point to the device undergoing pre-production testing, it seems Apple’s software will be prepared to […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: Against the backdrop of rising LPG prices, the Department of Electrical Engineering of the NIT, Kozhikode, has developed a new technology to tap solar energy to power a Smart Solar cooker. S.Ashok, professor of the department who is also the mentor of the project, said the product has been developed based on the idea […]
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Chandigarh: The official Twitter handle of the Punjab Congress was hacked on Monday. Punjab Congress’s official Twitter handle was hacked on Monday. The hackers removed the profile picture and posted a tweet that read, “In celebration of the reveal of the Beanz Official collection, we have opened up an airdrop to all active NFT traders […]
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San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) is ending an exception to its existing rules that allowed users to post private residential information of people on its platforms if it was “publicly available” elsewhere. Reacting to a decision by Facebook Oversight Board, Meta agreed to remove the exception from its policy. “As the board notes in this […]
