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PlayStation Plus announces new lineup of free games for Jan 2021
San Francisco: Sony has announced that its gaming subscription service ‘PlayStation Plus’ users will get a new lineup of free games next month. “PlayStation Plus starts 2021 with a bang. PlayStation Plus members…
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Apple working on keyboard with reconfigurable displays on each key
San Francisco: Apple has patented a new reconfigurable keyboard for the Mac with a small display for each key, which will show different characters as per the user’s preferences. The iPhone maker has…
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Google adding four Stadia Pro games for Jan 2021
San Francisco: Google’s game streaming platform Stadia will receive four new games to its collection as part of Stadia Pro in January 2021. The games include Ary and the Secret of Seasons, Figment,…
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Google to shut down Android Things early next year
San Francisco: Google has announced that Android Things, a heavily stripped-down Android-based operating system for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, will shut down early next year. The Android Things Dashboard, which is used for managing…
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Twitter starts testing its Clubhouse-like voice chat rooms
San Francisco: Twitter has started testing its latest experiment, ‘Spaces’, a Clubhouse-like voice-based chat room. Users can create a ‘Space’ that their followers can join to participate in a conversation. Anyone on Twitter…
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Apple may embed antennas, Touch ID in future iPhone display
San Francisco: Apple is reportedly planning to bring iPhones with larger screens that could have Touch ID fingerprint reader and antennas embedded into the display. The iPhone maker might be working on offering…
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EA to buy racing games maker Codemasters in $1.2 bn deal
San Francisco: US-based video games firm Electronic Arts on Monday disclosed that it has reached an agreement to buy Codemasters in a deal worth $1.2 billion. Back in November, Take-Two Interactive, the owner…
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SpaceX receives $886mn from FCC to boost rural Internet access
San Francisco: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US has awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX $886 million as part of a programme to help bring high-speed broadband Internet to the country’s rural areas.…
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Sikh activist in San Francisco leads procession in support of Indian farmers
San Francisco: Solidarity pours in from across the world for the farmers protesting against the Indian government’s anti-farm bills. A massive turnout was seen on Saturday in San Franciso where a Sikh…
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Cisco ordered to pay $1.9bn in US patent infringement case
San Francisco: Networking giant Cisco has been ordered to pay a hefty sum of $1.9 billion in a cybersecurity-related patent infringement case brought by Virginia-based company Centripetal Networks. The US District Court…
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California nears milestone: 4 million acres burned in fires
San Francisco: California is poised to hit a fearsome milestone: 4 million acres burned this year by wildfires that have killed 31 people and incinerated hundreds of homes in what is already the…
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Apple launches one-year residency programme for AI, ML experts
San Francisco: Apple has introduced a residency programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to find niche experts in new-age technologies. The AI/ML residency programme invites experts in various fields to…
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TikTok inks first music distribution deal with UnitedMasters
San Francisco: Amid uncertainties surrounding its business in the US, TikTok has signed a deal which makes UnitedMasters, the first music distribution company to be integrated into the short video-sharing platform. The new…
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Amazon leads global infrastructure as a service market: Gartner
San Francisco: Amazon retained the top position in the worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market which grew 37.3 per cent in 2019 as organisations increased adoption of Public Cloud services, Gartner said…
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Cognizant headcount reduced by 10,500 employees in Q2
San Francisco: As global software major Cognizant implements a programme to improve cost structure amid Covid-19 and optimises its team, the headcount of the company reduced by 10,500 in the second quarter…
