Tech

Austin: The “Cyber Rodeo at Giga Texas”, an invitation-only party for thousands of guests at Tesla’s new billion-dollar-plus “Gigafactory” in Austin, was the biggest secret and the toughest ticket in town Thursday. As many as 15,000 people were expected to attend the private event hosted by Tesla mogul Elon Musk to mark the opening of […]

Washington: Using two space-based studies, NASA has been observing climate change and groundwater loss across the planet. Its Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission, ecosystem and climate researchers can quickly locate their regions of interest and study forest structure and carbon content with greater precision than in the past. GEDI is a high-resolution lidar instrument […]

New Delhi: Consumer durable major Panasonic India on Thursday launched its flagship mirrorless camera — LUMIX GH6 – in India for Rs 2,34,990. The company said that LUMIX GH6 offers outstanding mobility and high video performance, making it a perfect partner for the content creator community worldwide. It is available across all Panasonic brand shops […]

San Francisco: Meta-owned Instagram has reportedly slashed creators’ payout by as much as 70 per cent while increasing target metrics for monetisation for them on the platform. According to The Financial Times, their payments are down as much as 70 per cent per view and videos need millions more views for creators to get paid. […]

Jiuquan: China launched a new Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Thursday. The satellite, Gaofen-3 03, was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:47 a.m. and has entered the planned orbit successfully, Xinhua news agency reported. The launch marks the 414th mission for the Long March series carrier […]

San Francisco: Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s firm Block is working on hardware crypto wallet, a device to help people “safely own and manage their Bitcoin”. Block’s hardware lead, Jesse Dorogusker, tweeted an image showing several devices, all seemingly including fingerprint readers and USB-C charging ports — both things Block said its hardware wallet would […]

New Delhi: Former Co-founder and managing director of BharatPe, Ashneer Grover, on Thursday once again hit at the board members of the fintech company, saying snatching the keys and running a corner shop are two different skill-sets. Ashneer was stripped last month of all company titles over alleged “extensive misappropriation of company funds” and using […]

New Delhi: In a bid to protect users from installing outdated apps which can put their data at risk, Google has announced to block and hide apps on Play Store that have not kept up with latest Android operating system (OS) updates. Starting November 1 this year, existing apps that don’t target an API level […]

Washington: American tech giant Apple is adding a TrueDepth camera repair option for easier Face ID repairs to its iPhone X users. As per The Verge, Apple reportedly will soon provide a new Face ID repair option for iPhone X that doesn’t involve replacing the whole device. “The option comes after Apple’s recent shift to […]

San Francisco: Meta has announced not to hold its flagship Facebook F8 developer conference this year, as it gears up for new initiatives towards metaverse. Meta will instead organise its “inaugural business messaging event”, called Conversations, on May 19. “Similar to years past, we are taking a brief break in programming and will not hold […]

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has made a small but significant change to how deleted tweets are shown when they are embedded in third-party websites. Since at least the end of March, the social media network has started showing a blank box on external sites when an embedded tweet has been deleted, reports The Verge. […]

Seoul: Tech giant Google will be violating South Korean law if it pushes through with its plan to remove apps linking to external payment methods, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said in a new legal guidance. Last year, the country passed a law that requires major app stores to accept alternative payment methods, and Google […]

Washington: NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent process”. This discovery supports a long-debated theory for how planets like Jupiter form, called “disk instability”, the researchers said. The new planet under construction is embedded in a protoplanetary […]

Chennai: Officials of the Indian space agency will visit Maharashtra to look into the objects that fell from the skies in Pawanpur village in Chandrapur district. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), it has received formal communication from the District Magistrate and District Collector of Chandrapur in Maharashtra. “It is reported that a […]

New Delhi: Meta has announced to allow users to post short-form videos from third-party apps in Facebook Reels. The ‘Sharing to Reels’ feature is a new way for developers to make it easy for people to share video directly to Facebook. As part of this launch, Meta has partners like Smule, Vita, and VivaVideo who […]

San Francisco: In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Twitter has announced not to amplify or recommend government accounts in countries — starting with Russia — that limit access to free information and are engaged in armed interstate conflict whether Twitter is blocked in that country or not. Twitter said when a government blocks […]

New Delhi: As digital transformation gets in top gear, IT companies lead the pack and the top 3 firms are Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture and Cognizant, respectively, ramping up IT investments and hiring, a Microsoft-owned LinkedIn report said on Wednesday. This time, 11 out of the top 25 companies are from the IT and service […]

Washington: US tech giant Apple has announced its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event will be held from June 6 to June 10, this year. As per GSM Arena, although the annual event is developer-focused, it will enlighten consumers too, as new iOS versions will get unveiled during the four-day program. Reportedly, the conference will once […]

New Delhi: Google on Wednesday said it is rolling out toll prices on Maps in India, the US, Japan and Indonesia that will help users make the choice between toll roads and regular roads. With this new update, users can now find the estimated toll price to their destination even before the trip starts with […]

California: Microblogging site Twitter on Wednesday said it has been working on developing an edit feature for its platform since last year and will begin testing it among users in the coming months. “Now that everyone is asking… yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature since last year,” the company said in a tweet […]

Hyderabad: OnePlus 10 Pro 5G which was launched in India last week, went on sale on Tuesday from 12pm on e-commerce major Amazon. Priced at Rs. 66,999 and Rs. 71,999 respectively for the 8GB + 128 GB and 12GM + 256 GB variants, OnePlus 10 Pro 5G becomes the costliest phone to come from the […]

San Francisco: Hackers have stolen data from more than 100 clients of email marketing giant Mailchimp after they broke into its services, using the data to mount phishing attacks on the users of cryptocurrency platforms. Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallet, a user of Mailchimp, tweeted that they have been targeted by sophisticated phishing emails. “MailChimp have […]

Washington:  NASA has sent a telescope in space that will measure the amount of light reflected off the Moon in order to improve the accuracy and consistency of measurements among Earth-observing satellites. The airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance, or air-LUSI, flew aboard NASA’s ER-2 aircraft to accurately measure reflected moonlight. By using the Moon as a […]

Hyderabad: Our civilisation is built upon our ability to distinguish facts from fiction. What would happen to our communities, our businesses, and our government if we couldn’t trust what we read, heard or saw? Right now, we are in a time where sensationalism is rewarded because it attracts attention and manipulates beliefs and drives people […]