Tech

San Francisco/New Delhi: TikTok’s meteoric rise has baffled Meta (formerly Facebook) as the Chinese short-video app is set to overtake the global advertising share of micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing platform Snapchat this year. Moreover, TikTok is predicted to catch up with Google-owned YouTube by clocking $23.6 billion in ad revenue by 2024, reports The […]

New Delhi: Elon Musk, who is now on the board of Twitter after acquiring 9.2 per cent stake in it for nearly $3 billion, took a fresh dig at the Parag Agrawal-led platform, asking if the micro-blogging platform is dying as several high-profile accounts do not tweet frequently. Sharing a list of 10 most-followed Twitter […]

San Francisco: Taking advantage of Tesla’s seven-day, no-questions-asked return policy at the time, a customer who returned his Tesla Model X in early 2020, is still making payments on a $116,000 vehicle that he does not possess from past two years. Danny Roman bought a new car and took delivery of the car on February […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple is likely working on a dual-port USB-C wall charger and it may see a release in the near future as an analyst has claimed it will soon be entering mass production. On Friday, a support document briefly posted then removed from Apple’s website described the unreleased Apple 35W Dual USB-C […]

London: The privacy changes that Apple made in iOS 14 to stop apps from tracking users’ data have not fully stopped developers from the illegal practice and several apps are still tracking data despite the user having asked the apps not to be tracked, a study has revealed. The study of 1,759 iOS apps from […]

New Delhi: Music streaming service Spotify is testing a personalised feed on the app’s home screen like Chinese short-video making platform TikTok to help users discover music easily. It is testing a new experience for Spotify users (across the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) where they can find new music and check out […]

San Francisco: Popular social network Snapchat has announced that it is rolling out a new ASL Alphabet lens to encourage users to start learning American Sign Language. The company said that it is constantly working to expand the ways Snapchatters can express themselves and make connections through its Camera. “We hope that Lenses not only […]

San Francisco: In a bid to make it easy to add alt text to image uploads, micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that its new accessibility features, ALT badge and improved image descriptions, are now available globally. The company said that image descriptions, also called alternative text, are an easy way to make Twitter accessible to […]

New Delhi: In a fresh battle, BharatPe founder and former managing director Ashneer Grover has threatened a legal action against CEO Suhail Sameer and the board for his comments on professional networking platform LinkedIn against his sister Ashima Grover, along with seeking a resignation from Chairman Rajnish Kumar. In a letter written to BharatPe Board, […]

New Delhi: Google has introduced multi-search on its platform that allows people to use text and images at the same time to find the most relevant results. Currently available as a beta feature in English in the US, multisearch allows people to search with both images and text at the same time, to help them […]

San Francisco: Game developer Epic Games and toy company The Lego Group are building a new, family-friendly virtual world. The companies have not revealed too many details just yet, though they plan to “shape the future of the metaverse to make it safe and fun for children and families,” reports Engadget. The companies have agreed […]

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 […]