Tech

San Francisco: Betting big on metaverse and its short-video platform Reels, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Founder and CEO, has taken a deep dive into his next investment priorities that will drive the growth for the company. The social network which now has 1.96 billion daily active users (DAUs), up from 1.92 billion last quarter, said that […]

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has confirmed that it is running a cash-back campaign in India to drive more users on its digital payments service. The company is giving away Rs 11 cashback up to three times by sending money to three different contacts via unified payments interface (UPI) on WhatsApp. “We are running a campaign […]

Washington: In the last 48-hour of his buyout of the micro-blogging site Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk is again on a fun trail. In a flurry of tweets, Musk claimed that he has set eyes on Coca Cola to “put cocaine back in” and “McDonald’s to fix ice-cream machines”. After the multi-billion buyout of the microblogging […]

Washington: Days after Tesla Chief Elon Musk take control over Twitter, he said that for the microblogging site to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral. “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally,” Musk tweeted. Twitter on Monday […]

New Delhi: As gaming gets mainstream, more than 10 million people have streamed games over Xbox Cloud Gaming to date, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said. He said that billions of hours have been played by subscribers over the past 12 months, up 45 per cent. Many of Xbox most popular titles, including Flight Simulator, […]

New Delhi: Hailing the India digital payments growth story, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said that the company’s payments strategy is very similar to the strategy it has for commerce overall. During the company’s quarterly earnings call, Pichai said that the digital payments work in India is “certainly what really got everything started”. […]

San Francisco: Users will soon be able to download Microsoft teams from its online store that comes built into Windows, according to an update from the company. Microsoft’s work and collaboration communications app has not been available in its own store to date. It either had to be downloaded from the web or installed alongside […]

Los Angeles: The first US private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has returned to Earth. The private astronaut mission returned to Earth on Monday. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the coast of Jacksonville, in the southeastern US state of Florida, at 1:06 p.m. Monday, SpaceX confirmed. The crew undocked from […]

New York: Shares of Twitter, arguably the worlds most influential social media platform, jumped after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is nearing a deal with Elon Musk, the worlds richest man, and that the announcement could come as soon as Monday night. Earlier this month, Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 […]

Washington: Twitter’s board is negotiating with CEO Elon Musk over his bid to buy the social media platform and a deal could be announced as early as Monday, according to media reports. Twitter and Musk negotiated into the early hours Monday over his bid to buy the social media platform, The New York Times reported, […]

Hyderabad: Our digital identity is precious. Any digital identity application or programme must be supported by enabling meaningful dialogue, trust, control and accountability. Whether or not we agree that these principles are difficult to implement, they’re going to be made even tougher by a confluence of political, economic, technological, cultural, legal and social factors. Each […]

New Delhi: Online food delivery platform Swiggy on Monday announced the launch of an industry-first-accelerator programme for its delivery executives to transition into full-time, managerial-level jobs with a fixed salary and additional benefits. The programme, named “Step-Ahead” is aimed at giving an opportunity to those executives who want to move from their current flexible engagement […]

San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday announced that its modern urban transport venture called The Boring Company will aim to build a high-speed hyperloop in the coming years. The Boring Company, a project to build underground highways to alleviate traffic congestion, last week raised $675 million in its Series C round, taking its […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu  Tunic is a roleplaying game that at first glance seems like a spiritual successor to games like Celeste, Deadcells, and Hollow Knight with its old-school design and linear game play. However, a few minutes into the game you begin to realize that it serves an experience filled with mystery like none other. […]

Krishnagiri: Bhavish Aggarwal will not invite Elon Musk to his state-of-the-art, electric two-wheeler manufacturing facility here as the Ola Founder and CEO feels that when India becomes a global hub for electrification, Tesla CEO will have no choice but to come to the country. Aggarwal said that not one company has the right or the […]

San Francisco: In a bid to make group calling better, Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp will now reportedly support up to 32 participants in group voice calls. According to 9To5Mac, with version 22.8.80 of the app, users will now be able to participate in group voice calls with up to 32 people. This update includes a […]

San Francisco: Jack Dorsey is no longer the financial services firm Block’s CEO, instead, now, the executive is choosing to call himself “Block Head”. Dorsey co-founded Square in 2009, and the company changed its name to Block in December. According to The Verge, the company filed an 8-K with the US Securities and Exchange Commission […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple is likely cracking down on apps that no longer receive updates. In an email sent to affected developers titled “App Improvement Notice”, Apple warned it will remove apps from the App Store that haven’t been “updated in a significant amount of time” and gives developers just 30 days to update […]

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter is reportedly working on a new feature, codenamed ‘Vibe,’ that allows users to set a status. The possible feature was first spotted by Jane Manchun Wong, a researcher and reverse engineer with a track record of spoiling upcoming app updates, reports The Verge. Screenshots shared by Wong show a “Set […]

San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has re-clarified the story of the electric vehicle company’s early days to a Bengaluru-based man who tweeted that “Elon Musk was not the founder of Tesla. He acquired it”. Elon Musk was not the founder of Tesla. He acquired it. Just reminding 🙂 — Vaibhav Sisinty (@VaibhavSisinty) April 21, […]

Los Angeles: The first US private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to undock from the ISS on Saturday and return to Earth on Sunday, according to NASA. The mission, codenamed Ax-1, was launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 8, Xinhua news […]

By Epsita Gunti Hyderabad: From reading books together to spending their whole lives together, this couple who met on twitter are living a modern day fairy tale. Nipun and Mohit first interacted when the latter’s grandparents contracted Covid-19 and he resorted to asking for help on twitter. Nipun responded as she was helping people find […]

Mumbai: Celebrated YouTuber and gaming star CarryMinati along with Triggered Insaan, Mortal and Scout are coming together in the first gaming entertainment show titled ‘Playground’ by Rusk Media. ‘Playground’ is a unique eSport gaming championship, featuring multiple casual and pro games, between four teams, each owned and mentored by Asia’s leading gaming superstars. Expressing his […]

Hyderabad: Zomato will recycle more than 100 per cent of all plastic used in food delivery packaging, the company announced today on twitter. On the account of World Earth day, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal tweeted saying that the food delivery platform is introducing “100 per cent plastic neutral deliveries” starting today. “From now on, every […]