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London: UK scientists may have discovered the world’s first cure for heart attacks using the same mRNA technology as Covid vaccines. Human heart has no capacity to heal itself after a heart attack. But with the new technique called genetic tracking – built on the same technology used to create Pfizer and Moderna’s Covid vaccines […]
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New Delhi: Twitter users want Tesla CEO Elon Musk to acquire Sri Lanka instead of the microblogging site for $43 billion, as the country faces its worst economic crisis since its Independence. Many users on the platform shared their views and asked the tech billionaire to bail out the debt-ridden country. “Elon musk, if you […]
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New York/London: In a strongest challenge to Elon Musk’s Tesla in the electric vehicle (EV) market, Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its long-range ‘Vision EQXX’ concept car that travelled over 1,000 kms on a fully charged battery — longest-ever distance covered by an EV on a single charge to date. According to the automaker, the journey from […]
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San Francisco: TikTok competitor YouTube Shorts has allowed creators to use video clips from billions of videos from YouTube platform, albeit with some rules. The new feature is an extension of existing “remix” tool that allowed creators to sample audio from other videos into their own YouTube Shorts posts. “Create your own short videos using […]
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San Francisco/New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday took a jab at Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a major Twitter investor who rejected Musk’s hostile offer to acquire 100 per cent of the micro-blogging platform for $43 billion. Questioning Saudi Arabia’s own media laws, Musk tweeted: “Just two questions, if I may. […]
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New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced to add emoji reactions directing in its chat app, allow up to 32 people in a single group voice call and increase file sharing to support files up to 2GB, up from the current sharing size of 100MB. WhatsApp will first allow users to react with six key emoji […]
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San Francisco: Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy has said that the e-commerce giant wants to improve worker safety at its warehouses and fulfilment centres, as the company faces intense scrutiny over employees’ conditions. In his first shareholder letter as the head of Amazon, Jassy, who took over as CEO from founder Jeff Bezos last […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Apple is planning to launch iPhone 14 with satellite connectivity options for emergency scenarios. According to GizmoChina, through satellite connectivity, users would be able to send text messages or SOS responses via a satellite network to report on accidents, similar to the one on the brand’s smartwatch. Recently, the tech website […]
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San Francisco: After Elon Musk made a hostile bid to acquire Twitter for nearly $43 billion, its Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal has tried to convince employees that the micro-blogging platform would follow a “rigorous process”. In a meeting with employees late on Thursday, Agrawal said the board is still evaluating Musk’s offer and will make […]
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Shenzhen: OnePlus is all set to launch their new range of smartphones with the OnePlus Ace, boasting of a MediaTek Dimensity 8100 processor and support for 150W fast charging. As per GSM Arena, the tech giant is gearing up for its official launch of the OnePlus Ace on April 21. While the smartphone will arrive […]
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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 […]
