Tech

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

San Francisco: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Monday agreed with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to convert Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters in the US into a homeless shelter. Musk and Bezos, who have been sparring over who will win the space race for years, finally agreed on a noble cause on the social media. […]

Washington: Microblogging site Twitter on Monday announced that Tesla CEO Elon Musk will not be joining the company’s board of directors. The announcement was made by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. “Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here,” tweeted Agrawal sharing the […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu ‘Chronicle of Infinity’ is a mobile RPG for iOS and Android that has been made available for its open beta just this week. This review comes to you after I spent nearly eight hours on the game in its first three days trying to understand what the game does differently from other […]

Dallas: Researchers have found that cellphone selfies can distort facial features which may be driving an uptick in requests for plastic surgery. The findings were reported in the journal, ‘Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery’. The results have highlighted an unexpected consequence of social media and the need for plastic surgeons to discuss this phenomenon with their […]

San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube, which officially rolled out Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to the iOS app last June, has reportedly now ended the test for iPhone and iPad users. The experiment has disappeared from youtube.com/new after hitting its early April end date. Google notified people with a “the feature you are trying has been turned off” banner […]

San Francisco/New Delhi: TikTok’s meteoric rise has baffled Meta (formerly Facebook) as the Chinese short-video app is set to overtake the global advertising share of micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing platform Snapchat this year. Moreover, TikTok is predicted to catch up with Google-owned YouTube by clocking $23.6 billion in ad revenue by 2024, reports The […]

New Delhi: Elon Musk, who is now on the board of Twitter after acquiring 9.2 per cent stake in it for nearly $3 billion, took a fresh dig at the Parag Agrawal-led platform, asking if the micro-blogging platform is dying as several high-profile accounts do not tweet frequently. Sharing a list of 10 most-followed Twitter […]

San Francisco: Taking advantage of Tesla’s seven-day, no-questions-asked return policy at the time, a customer who returned his Tesla Model X in early 2020, is still making payments on a $116,000 vehicle that he does not possess from past two years. Danny Roman bought a new car and took delivery of the car on February […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple is likely working on a dual-port USB-C wall charger and it may see a release in the near future as an analyst has claimed it will soon be entering mass production. On Friday, a support document briefly posted then removed from Apple’s website described the unreleased Apple 35W Dual USB-C […]

London: The privacy changes that Apple made in iOS 14 to stop apps from tracking users’ data have not fully stopped developers from the illegal practice and several apps are still tracking data despite the user having asked the apps not to be tracked, a study has revealed. The study of 1,759 iOS apps from […]

New Delhi: Music streaming service Spotify is testing a personalised feed on the app’s home screen like Chinese short-video making platform TikTok to help users discover music easily. It is testing a new experience for Spotify users (across the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) where they can find new music and check out […]

San Francisco: Popular social network Snapchat has announced that it is rolling out a new ASL Alphabet lens to encourage users to start learning American Sign Language. The company said that it is constantly working to expand the ways Snapchatters can express themselves and make connections through its Camera. “We hope that Lenses not only […]

San Francisco: In a bid to make it easy to add alt text to image uploads, micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that its new accessibility features, ALT badge and improved image descriptions, are now available globally. The company said that image descriptions, also called alternative text, are an easy way to make Twitter accessible to […]

New Delhi: In a fresh battle, BharatPe founder and former managing director Ashneer Grover has threatened a legal action against CEO Suhail Sameer and the board for his comments on professional networking platform LinkedIn against his sister Ashima Grover, along with seeking a resignation from Chairman Rajnish Kumar. In a letter written to BharatPe Board, […]

New Delhi: Google has introduced multi-search on its platform that allows people to use text and images at the same time to find the most relevant results. Currently available as a beta feature in English in the US, multisearch allows people to search with both images and text at the same time, to help them […]