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Hyderabad: Google has now banned three applications from the Google Play Store and urged android users to uninstall them on their devices as they can be unsafe. These apps reportedly bring in the Joker malware on android smartphones that are capable of stealing money. The three apps that secretly run the Joker malware on Google […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Google has announced that its music streaming app YouTube Music for Wear OS can now let users stream content over Wi-Fi and LTE. The company said that starting this week users will be able to stream music over LTE or WiFi, so they can listen to their favourite playlists wherever they […]

San Francisco: Amid the ongoing Elon Musk-Parag Agrawal saga over fake user accounts, a senior Twitter executive, while slamming the ‘free speech’ call, mocked the Tesla CEO for having Asperger’s syndrome that makes him “special”. Conservative political journalist Benny Johnson on Wednesday posted a secretly recorded conversation by US-based far-right activist group Project Veritas on […]

London: Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5 per cent of the accounts on the platform are fake or spam. Musk made the comment in a reply to another user on Twitter early Tuesday. He spent much of the […]

New Delhi: On the occasion of silver jubilee celebrations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a 5G Test Bed, developed as a multi-institute collaborative project by a total of eight institutes led by IIT Madras. Prime Minister Modi graced the occasion as the chief guest through […]

London: Google is facing a class-action lawsuit in the UK for allegedly using confidential medical records belonging to 1.6 million individuals for its artificial intelligence (AI) division called DeepMind. DeepMind allegedly passed data on patients for a smartphone app called ‘Streams’ that it received from the Royal Free NHS Trust in London, without the patients’ […]

New Delhi: The knives were finally out on Monday between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal as the Twitter CEO went into finer details on how the micro-blogging platform is fighting spam and fake accounts, to which Musk has objected and put the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal on hold. Musk even showed an […]

Daejeon: Astronomers snapped an image of a supermassive black hole for the first time in history. This is the second result of the research team since 2019, when it presented a picture of the M87 black hole. The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) also participated in the research. Scientists said the result is […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu Hyderabad: The gaming industry is just like any other news domain where some weeks are extremely transformational and some more humdrum and simple. This week, a slow one is one where things from the world of gaming are more in line with general expectations rather than surprising. We look at three events […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Google is preparing to purge nearly 900,000 apps, which have been abandoned or not been updated, from the Play Store. According to Android Authority, the Google Play Store could see the number of available apps drop by nearly a third. Google and Apple have both unveiled measures to deal with abandoned […]

San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday said that microblogging site Twitter’s algorithm might be manipulating users and also suggested a solution for that. Musk, in a series of tweets, mentioned that it is very important to fix the Twitter feed and shared how it can be done. “You are being manipulated by the […]

San Francisco: Elon Musk on Sunday said that he received a call from Twitter’s legal team being run by Indian-origin Vijaya Gadde, accusing the Tesla CEO of violating a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by revealing that the sample size for checking fake/spam users on microthe -blogging platform was 100. Musk earlier said that his team was […]

Washington: There’s no end to Twitter saga after billionaire Elon Musk’s dramatic entry to buy out the micro-blogging site, with rapper Snoop Dogg too throwing his hat in the ring after the news broke out that Tesla CEO’s deal is on hold. Rapper Snoop Dogg tweeted that he “may have to buy Twitter”. This set […]

Bengaluru: E-commerce giant Amazon on Sunday said it has cumulatively created over 11.6 lakh direct and indirect jobs in India so far, and is on track to reach the target of creating 20 lakh direct and indirect jobs by 2025. “We have cumulatively created over 11.6 lakh jobs, enabled nearly $5 billion in exports and […]

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter is likely testing a new label “Liked by Author” that appears when the creator of a tweet likes your reply. A spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company has been testing different labels to help give people context about the tweets they see, but said the social media giant does not […]

New Delhi: As the crypto market suffered a meltdown, several top crypto data websites were hit by cyber attacks where a malicious pop-up prompted users to connect their crypto wallets. Crypto data websites Etherscan, CoinGecko, DeFi Pulse and others reported such phishing attacks, reports CoinDesk. The phishing attack appears to come from a domain displaying the […]

New Delhi: Breaking his silence, a defiant Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has explained why a “lame-duck” CEO has made key changes at the micro-blogging platform amid the $44 billion takeover by the Tesla CEO. Stressing that “no one at Twitter is working just to keep the lights on,” he said that a lot has happened over […]

New York: Elon Musk, still the world’s richest man, is poorer by nearly $39 billion since he spoke of buying out Twitter. Irony. At $231 billion of worth on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index at close of play on Friday, only part of Musk’s losses are because of his still single-digit ownership of Twitter. Most […]

San Francisco: Amid the high voltage drama happening ever since Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition deal announcement at micro-blogging site Twitter, CEO Parag Agrawal has now said that he expects the deal to close, but “we need to be prepared for all scenarios”. The statement by the CEO comes hours after Musk, in a series […]

San Francisco: US-based anonymous social media platform Yik Yak, which allows users to read messages from others in proximity, has reportedly left at least two million users’ precise locations exposed. David Teather, a computer science student, last month, found that the iPhone app’s flaw let attackers obtain both the precise location for posts and users’ […]

Bengaluru: Online food delivery platform Swiggy on Friday announced it has acquired Dineout, a dining out and restaurant tech platform, for an undisclosed sum. Dineout, which serves millions across its network of 50,000 restaurants in 20 cities, will continue to operate as an independent app post the acquisition. “Times Internet and the founding team should […]

San Francisco/New Delhi: In a stunning post, Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said that he has put the $44 billion Twitter deal temporarily on hold till he gets to know how many fake or spam accounts are present on the micro-blogging platform. “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do […]

Washington: Scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back to Earth by astronauts in the Apollo missions, a step towards producing food and oxygen on the Moon or during future space missions. The researchers at the University of Florida (UF) in the US showed that plants can successfully sprout and […]