Tech

New Delhi: In a bid to protect mangroves and local livelihoods in India, Apple on Friday announced a new initiative in the Raigad district of Maharashtra. The tech giant awarded a grant to the Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) to work with the local community to protect a 2,400 hectare mangrove forest in the region, […]

San Francisco: After facing fines from European consumer and market regulators, Google has introduced an equal “Reject all” and “Accept all” buttons for tracking cookies on its platforms. Anyone visiting Search and YouTube in Europe, while signed out or in Incognito Mode, will see a new cookie consent choice. “This update, which began rolling out […]

San Francisco: Social media platform Snapchat is growing faster than Facebook and Twitter and in its latest quarterly report, the platform said it grew its daily active users (DAUs) 18 per cent to 332 million (year-on-year). While Facebook (now Meta) had reported its first loss in the number of DAUs last quarter, Twitter’s monetizable DAUs […]

San Francisco: A new bug in Google Messages may leave your camera on in the background, quickly draining your battery and heating your device. According to 9To5Google, within the Google Messages app, there is an easy way to quickly snap a picture and immediately attach it to a message and send it to a friend. In […]

Hyderabad: Have you been facing problems with your SIM card of late? Is it playing spoilsport with no network, as if it has been blocked, with no calls or messages possible at all? Better report the issue immediately to your service provider. According to the police, chances are high that fraudsters have submitted forged identity […]

San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Boring Company has raised $675 million in the Series C round, bringing its valuation up to $5.7 billion. Boring Company is Musk’s project to build underground highways to alleviate traffic congestion. The round was led by Vy Capital and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, […]

New Delhi: Meta has announced that people in more than 30 countries can donate and create fundraisers directly in Instagram Reels for more than 1.5 million nonprofits. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, Meta (formerly Facebook) said that it is adding new features, including highlighting everyday actions and solutions people can take and […]

Helena: For the past year a company that “mines” cryptocurrency had what seemed the ideal location for its thousands of power-thirsty computers working around the clock to verify bitcoin transactions: the grounds of a coal-fired power plant in rural Montana. But with the cryptocurrency industry under increasing pressure to rein in the environmental impact of […]

Chennai: OneWeb, an Indo-UK joint venture satellite communications company, said on Thursday that it would launch its satellites using the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) rockets. In a statement, OneWeb, a joint venture between India Bharti Global and the UK government, said an agreement to this effect has been signed with NewSpace India Ltd, the […]

New Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram is going to tweak its algorithm to improve its ranking system and better highlight original content from creators, its head Adam Mosseri has announced. The social media platform will tweak its ranking algorithm to highlight original content more on its platform. “We’ve added new ways to tag and improved ranking: Product […]

New York: Former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s media company is reportedly ending its exclusive podcast deal with Swedish music streaming service Spotify. According to a CNN report citing sources, Higher Ground, the production company run by the former President and First Lady, is seeking a multi-million deal elsewhere as their deal with […]

Washington: A team of scientists has urged NASA to probe the ice giant Uranus and look for life on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, on priority in the coming decade. In a report, the team at National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), recommended NASA to focus on three high-level scientific themes: origins, worlds […]

New Delhi: Microsoft India on Wednesday announced two new initiatives to help startup entrepreneurs innovate and grow in the country. Under the Microsoft AI Innovate initiative, the company will introduce its second cohort of startups, as well as a new hackathon for startups to provide resources and support to developers for creating digital solutions. Microsoft […]

Jaipur: Tina Dabi, the first SC woman topper of the UPSC Civil Services Exam 2015, will tie the nuptial knot with senior IAS officer Dr Pradeep Gawande in a private ceremony in Jaipur on Wednesday. The ceremony will be held at a 5-star hotel in Jaipur while the wedding reception will be held on April […]

San Francisco: Swedish music streaming service Spotify has quietly shut down its Greenroom Creator Fund, a live audio app creator fund it had announced for creators last year with much fanfare. The company had promised that the creator fund would begin payouts “later in summer” 2021 to the creators in the US, according to Podnews. […]

Cupertino: Nearly 20 percent of all material used in Apple products in 2021 was recycled, the highest-ever use of recycled content, the company has announced. For the first time, certified recycled gold was used in the plating of the main logic board and wire in the front camera and the rear cameras of iPhone 13 […]

San Francisco: Google has denied reports that it unblurred satellite Maps imagery in Russia to allegedly open access to Russia’s military and strategic facilities for Ukrainians. A Twitter account named @ArmedForcesUkr tweeted a set of images that appear to show military equipment belonging to Russia. “Now everyone can see a variety of Russian launchers, intercontinental […]

Hyderbad: With the evolution of the internet, it’s a global workplace that now includes all five generations working alongside i.e., Maturists (Prior to 1945), Baby Boomers (1946 – 1964) , Generation X (1965 – 1980), Generation Y (Millennials) (1981 – 1994), Generation Z (1995 – 2012) and Generation A (2012 – 2025). Each of these […]

New Delhi: Nearly 89 per cent of Indians who surveyed believe that the government-led initiatives can play a critical role in enhancing nations’ cyber defences, a new report showed on Monday. While 60 percent of Indians identified lack of in-house implementation expertise as a barrier to implementation, only 35 percent of Indians claim to have […]

New Delhi: Samsung on Monday said it will launch Galaxy M53 5G, its next M series smartphone, on April 22 that may cost around Rs 25,000. Galaxy M53 5G comes with segment-best 108 MP camera, ‘Auto’ data switching and sAMOLED+ display. The ‘Auto’ data switching feature helps consumers stay connected through their secondary SIM seamlessly […]

Chennai: Telugu star Mahesh Babu has now bought himself an Audi e-tron, an electric car that had won handsomely at the 2022 World Car Awards. Balbir Singh Dhillon, the head of Audi India, on Instagram said, “Dynamic, inside & out. The future is electric and we welcome @urstrulymahesh to the #audiexperience.” Mahesh Babu too confirmed […]

San Francisco: As Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk puts pressure on the board of Twitter to let him acquire the micro-blogging platform for $43 billion, its Co-founder Jack Dorsey has finally broken the silence, labelling the board as “consistently the dysfunction of the company”. Dorsey, who left Twitter in November last year — handing […]

The last year has seen an incredible boom in the blockchain gaming sector, a genre of games where players can spend their time and resources to collect rewards that can then be traded using cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum) channels. Axie Infinity, a game designed by Vietnamese developers Sky Mavis is one of the most popular blockchain […]

New Delhi: Electric two-wheeler manufacturer Okinawa Autotech has recalled 3,215 units of its ‘Praise Pro’ scooters. “This voluntary campaign is in the wake of the recent thermal incident and in line with the company’s long-standing commitment to customer safety,” the company said in a statement. Recently, social media was a buzz with pictures of electric […]