Technology
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Microsoft to remove some old File Explorer features on Windows 11
San Francisco: Microsoft has stated that some of the old settings under Folder Options in File Explorer will be removed as part of an effort to reduce the number of File Explorer…
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Future iPhones may be scratch resistant
San Francisco: Apple will reportedly bring scratch resistance feature to future iPhones. A patent for “Spatial Composites”, which refers to integrating metal or ceramic with a chassis for scratch resistance, has recently…
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Rolls-Royce unveils its 1st all electric car at $486K
Seoul: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars on Friday unveiled the brand’s first all-electric model, named Spectre, in South Korea as it sees further room to grow in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. South Korea is the…
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Mercedes-Benz adds ChatGPT to voice control of its vehicles
San Francisco: Luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz has expanded the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and added OpenAI’s ChatGPT into the voice control of its vehicles as the next step. “By adding ChatGPT,…
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Adobe Acrobat turns 30 as people opened over 400 bn PDFs in Acrobat in 2022
New Delhi: It was 30 years ago that Adobe co-founder Dr John Warnock and his team invented the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Acrobat that allowed sharing of text and images…
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WhatsApp working on multi-account feature on Android
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a multi-account feature on Android that will allow users to access multiple accounts from the same device. According to WABetaInfo, the company is working…
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‘Hey Disney!’ voice assistant now available for Echo devices in US
San Francisco: Amazon and Disney have announced that the new voice assistant ‘Hey Disney!’ is now officially available for Echo devices in the US. The new voice assistant is built on Alexa…
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Virgin Galactic to roll out commercial service from June 27
San Francisco: Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is aiming to launch its first-ever commercial spaceflight service beginning June 27, the company has announced. The company has set a launch window of June 27…
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AI technologies will take away 8 lakh jobs in Hong Kong by 2028
Hong Kong: Artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies will take away nearly 8 lakh jobs, or 25 per cent of the total workforce in Hong Kong by 2028, a study has forecast. Data entry…
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Twitter suspends PlainSite and its founder’s accounts under new CEO
San Francisco: Twitter under new CEO has suspended the account of online database provider PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, who is a known Tesla and Elon Musk critic. According to a…
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Russian ransomware group reveals more victims of MOVEit mass hack
San Francisco: The Russia-linked ransomware group Clop, which exploited a critical security vulnerability in a popular corporate file transfer tool, has listed several other victims of its mass hack, that also include…
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Singapore to deploy more police robots in the absence of manpower
Singapore: After over five years of small-scale trials, Singapore will now “progressively deploy” more police robots across the city-state. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said on Thursday that the robots were placed…
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Instagram broadcast channels now rolling out globally
San Francisco: Meta has announced that it is rolling out the broadcast channels on Instagram globally, along with a new ‘Collaborators’ feature which allows creators to invite other creators (or fans) to…
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Reddit was never designed to support 3rd-party apps: CEO
San Francisco: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has said that the social discussion platform was never designed to support third-party applications. In protest to the application programming interface (API) changes, thousands of Reddit…