Tech

San Francisco: Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is expanding the Sensitive Content Control feature as users will now be able to control the amount of sensitive content and accounts they see on the platform. The platform said that Sensitive Content Control will cover all surfaces where we make recommendations. “In addition to Explore, you will now […]

Hyderabad: Tesla founder and world’s richest person Elon Musk has been going back and forth on one of the most popular and controversial deal agreement in the tech world. He first announced that he has reached a deal to buy micro-blogging platform Twitter for $44 billion on April 25. And in less than 50 days, […]

D'Silva, who is founder of Red Dot Foundation, was awarded the World Justice Challenge prize for Equal Rights and Non-Discrimination to Safecity: A crowdmap for sexual and gender-based violence.

New Delhi: The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has flagged several bugs in Chrome OS and Mozilla products that may put various sensitive data at risk. In a report, the agency mentioned that the bugs could allow a remote attacker to disclose sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, execute arbitrary code, perform spoofing attacks and […]

San Francisco: Apple has previewed the latest iOS 16, along with 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, and watchOS 9 and it also confirmed that public betas of these OS’ will be available in July through the company’s testing website. The tech giant said that the iOS 16 delivers the biggest update ever to the Lock […]

Canberra: An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former politician 715,000 Australian dollars ($515,000) over two defamatory YouTube videos. John Barilaro, the former New South Wales state deputy premier, had sued Google and comedian Jordan Shanks, also known as friendlyjordies, in the Federal Court over the videos. Justice Steven Rares found Barilaro […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple’s update to the MacBook Air could ship between 6 and 7 million units in the second half of 2022, media reports say. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo offered shipment forecasts for the model. He also said that the colour range for the model will not be as expansive as previously claimed, reports […]

San Francisco:  Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday said his space venture SpaceX aims to build over 1,000 Starships to transport life to Mars. The Tesla CEO stated that making life multiplanetary will help backup the ecosystems on Earth. He added that apart from humans no other species can transport life to Mars. Referring to Biblical […]

The Aadhaar Enabled Payment System is developed by NPCI that allows people to carry out financial transactions by furnishing just their Aadhaar number and verifying it with the help of their fingerprint/iris scan. Any bank customer who has their Aadhaar as their identity can access their respective Aadhaar-enabled bank account and perform basic banking transactions […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu Diablo Immortal is the free-to-play (F2P) game from the iconic Diablo franchise and I have spent the last three days playing the game across three platforms (Android, iOS and Windows). As I jumped across platforms the game transferred my progress smoothly as long as I was logged into my Battlenet account. In […]

Hyderabad: Now-a-days people are looking for earphones which are wireless and also would be suitable for every purpose like for music as well as for games. pTron’s Tangent Urban wireless neckband earphones would be an ideal choice for the music lovers as well as for the gamers. Tangent Urban neckband earphones built quality is good. I […]

Hyderabad: Ransomware – wherein users are denied access to data in return for a ransom – are the top kind of malware and they are growing the highest when compared to other vulnerabilities. A Ransomware Index Report for the first quarter of 2022 by Ivanti showed that there was 7.6 per cent increase in the […]

Beijing: China on Sunday sent three astronauts on spaceship Shenzhou-14 to its space station for a six-month mission. The trio — commander Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe — will cooperate with the ground team to complete the assembly and construction of the Tiangong space station, Xinhua news agency reported. The astronauts will develop […]

San Francisco: Two days after reportedly emailing employees of a 10 per cent job cut at Tesla, CEO Elon Musk on Sunday retracted his statements saying total headcounts will increase.However, Musk also noted that the number of salaried people may not change. An unverified Twitter account by the name Whole Mars Catalog tweeted that headcount […]

Hyderabad: A teenager played online games using his mother and grandfather’s money without their knowledge and lost Rs. 36 lakhs over a period of time. The teenager, a resident of Amberpet in the city, had downloaded a free fire gaming app on his grandfather’s mobile phone a few months ago. As he had access to […]

San Francisco: Microsoft has detected and disabled a previously undocumented Lebanon-based activity group that is working with other actors affiliated with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) to attack organisations in Israel. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) named the group ‘Polonium’. The tech giant suspended more than 20 malicious OneDrive applications created by Polonium actors, […]

New Delhi: Patiala-born Jaskaran Singh and Pune-based Jay Firke are among more than 350 students from 40 countries and regions who have been selected as Apple’s ‘2022 Swift Student Challenge’ winner for showcasing extraordinary coding skills. The ‘Swift Student Challenge’ is part of Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC22). Every year, in the lead-up to WWDC 22 […]

San Francisco: Nearly a dozen advocacy groups have launched a new campaign against Elon Musk to block his $44 billion takeover deal, as the micro-blogging platform said the waiting period for the deal has expired under the HSR (Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements) Act in the US. The Stop the Deal campaign is persuading Tesla stockholders to take […]

San Francisco: US President Joe Biden has wished Elon Musk “lots of luck” for his trip to the Moon, as the Tesla CEO expressed “super bad feeling” about the economy and decided to cut its workforce by 10 per cent. When asked about Musk’s pessimistic attitude toward the economy during a press briefing at the […]

Hyderabad: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Friday warned the public against frauds related to the installation of mobile towers on properties. According to a public notice released by the department, some companies, agencies, individuals were cheating the public by promising them hefty monthly rental payments for the installation of mobile towers. After collecting money […]

San Francisco: A 20-year-old woman has become the first in the world to get a human ear implant with a 3D-printed technology that uses her own cells. The AuriNovo implant, developed by 3DBio Therapeutics (3DBio) — a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company — is a patient-specific, living tissue implant created using 3D-bioprinting technology. The implant is […]

San Francisco: Mozilla, the firm behind the popular web browser Firefox, has added translation tools to Firefox that do not rely on cloud processing to do its work. The company has also rolled out other features that are aimed to make users’ experiences better. “In January of 2019, Mozilla joined the University of Edinburgh, Charles University, […]

San Francisco: After announcing that some major features are under development such as group polls and WhatsApp Premium, WhatsApp is now working on the ability to edit text messages for a future update of WhatsApp beta testers. According to WABetaInfo, the Meta-owned platform is now working on letting users edit their text messages for a […]

New Delhi: Elon Musk has revealed that he never wanted to become a CEO but he sees no other way to bring technology and design to fruition. After a Twitter user recalled Musk being replaced as CEO of X.com in 2000, he tweeted: “I never wanted to be CEO — just wanted to work on product/technology. […]