Tech

New Delhi: Indian-origin Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Thursday said that “despite the noise” coming from Tesla CEO Elon Musk after his successful $44 billion takeover of the company, he and the entire team will continue to do the job to change Twitter for better. In a tweet, Agrawal, who may leave or asked to […]

New York: If Elon Musk and Twitter get their way, the company will soon be privately held and under his control. The most obvious immediate change would likely be Twitter’s stock being taken off the New York Stock Exchange. But the company would also likely get freed from having to give regular updates about its […]

Washington: A potentially hazardous giant asteroid is set to zoom past Earth with a 37,400 km/h speed on Thursday, according to NASA. The asteroid, named 418135 (2008 AG33), has an estimated diameter between 350 to 780 metres, revealed NASA’s Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). NASA defines any space object that comes within 193 […]

Mumbai: Tiger Shroff’s dialogue ‘Choti bachi ho kya?’ from his debut film ‘Heropanti’ has become the internet’s new meme fodder, and now a popular condom brand has also jumped onto the bandwagon tweaking the actor’s iconic line. Condom brand Durex recently took to Instagram and shared a post, raising awareness about protected sex adding a […]

Hyderabad: Amul India never fails to impress the internet users with its quirky doodles on important and trending topics such as celebrity weddings, sports, business, politics and even wars. This time, it has made a witty topical advertisement on tech billionaire Elon Musk, after he bought a 100 per cent stake in Twitter for 44 […]

Hyderabad: Technology giant Google on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Telangana government to bring benefits of digital economy to youth and women entrepreneurs. As part of the partnership, Google will collaborate with the State through its various arms to extend scholarships for Google Career Certificates to Telangana’s youth, support women entrepreneurs […]

New Delhi: Digital payments company PhonePe on Thursday announced exciting offers on the purchase of gold and silver via the app on the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya. Users can buy the highest purity 24K gold through the app and choose to either accumulate it in bank grade insured lockers with zero hassle of storage […]

New Delhi: Google has allowed people to request removals of additional types of information from its Search results, including personal contact information like a phone number, email address, or physical address. Google Search currently allows people to request the removal of certain content, with a focus on sensitive content that can cause direct harm to […]

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 […]