Tech

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 […]

Moscow: A data leak in Russia’s popular food delivery service Yandex Food has exposed personal information of 58,000 users, including those associated with the government’s secret police. Among the users affected are serving agents of Russia’s security services and military who even ordered food to their places of work using their official email addresses, according […]

San Francisco: Android 12 has brought a lot of additional features and now a new report has claimed that Google is working on a way to allow users to have dual-SIM capabilities on handsets running on Android 13 with a single eSIM chip. According to GSM Arena, through a feature called Multiple Enabled Profiles (MEP), […]

By Aditya Deshbandhu The last few years have seen a transformation in the way games are being purchased and acquired by the players. As games make the shift to becoming services, companies like Microsoft, Apple, and now Sony are looking at new ways to offer gamers the next game they would like to play in […]

Washington: Social media giant Twitter has started testing the ‘co-author’ tweet feature, just as Instagram rolled out in 2021 on its platform. As per TechCrunch, Twitter has confirmed it’s “exploring” a new feature that would allow two account to co-author a single tweet. App researcher Alessandro Paluzzi has been posting evidence of the feature’s development […]

New Delhi: Apple made history by grabbing Hollywood’s most coveted honour, as its original film ‘CODA’ won the Oscar for best picture at the 94th Academy Awards. ‘CODA’ marks the first time a streaming service has won the best picture Oscar, beating rival Netflix to the punch. Can this make Apple TV+ a household name […]

San Francisco: Electric vehicle company Tesla delivered 310,048 vehicles in the first quarter of 2022, despite what CEO Elon Musk says was an “exceptionally difficult quarter”, citing global supply chain issues and a brief closure at Tesla’s Shanghai factory. Tesla said the Model 3 and Y made up 295,324 of these deliveries, while 14,724 were […]

New Delhi: Tata Group has finally announced to launch its much-anticipated super app called aNeu’ on April 7, as it attempts to take on Amazon and Jio Platforms amid the stupendous growth in the consumer digital economy space in the ‘mobile-first’ country. The company revealed the launch date of ‘Neu’ on its app as well […]

San Francisco: The Discord servers of popular none fungible token (NFT) projects, including the Bored Ape Yacht Club, were targeted by scammers in the early hours of April Fool’s Day. Some users reported losing money to the bad actors who hacked the projects’ bots to post fake offers with links to their phishing websites, citing […]