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Walmart joins IIT Madras to accelerate research and skilling in India
Chennai: Walmart Global Tech (WGT) on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras aimed at accelerating research as well as skilling in new areas of…
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Twitter launches Dark Web Tor service amid Russian censorship
New Delhi: Blocked by the Russian government, Twitter has entered the Dark Web and people can now access the platform via a Tor Onion service to bypass the censorship. Russian users can…
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South Korea’s Cabinet approves revised enforcement decree on in-app payment law
Seoul: South Korea’s Cabinet has approved a revised bill that would ban app store operators from forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems, the country’s telecommunications regulator said. The revision…
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AWS rejects new sign-ups, Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia
New Delhi: Amazon’s cloud-computing unit, Amazon Web Services announced that it is no longer accepting new customers based in Russia or Belarus, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Amazon said that AWS has…
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Amazon using Chinese suppliers with ties to forced labour in Xinjiang: Report
New Delhi: Amazon is reportedly employing suppliers in China with links to forced labour of ethnic minorities from the Xinjiang region. A report from research group the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), has…
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Google ML can help discover new antibodies, enzymes, foods
New Delhi: Alphabet (Google’s parent company) subsidiary DeepMind has shown that Machine Learning (ML) can predict the shape of protein machinery with unprecedented accuracy, paving the way for researchers to discover new…
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Chip makers stare at fresh wave of uncertainty
New Delhi: The Ukraine crisis brings fresh wave of uncertainty to the global semiconductor industry as small and medium chip producers may place multiple orders to offset the risk, resulting in the…
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M2 Silicon chip evidence spotted ahead of Apple event
San Francisco: The evidence of the M2 chip for the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and other Macs has been spotted ahead of Apple’s event on Tuesday. Mark Gurman in his latest Power…
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Australia’s social media anti-trolling bill raises alarm for Big Tech
Sydney: Big Tech companies like Meta, Twitter and YouTube have decried Australia’s proposed social media anti-trolling bill, stressing that it would put an “unprecedented level” of defamation risk on social media platforms.…
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Activision Blizzard sued over employee’s death due to sexual harassment
San Francisco: Gaming company Activision Blizzard, acquired by Microsoft for nearly $69 billion recently, is being sued by parents of an employee who died by suicide in 2017, blaming the death owing…
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YouTube Music users can now share songs with Snapchat on Android
New Delhi: Snapchat sharing for YouTube Music was enabled on iOS in October and now a new report has claimed that it is available on Android. The first indication that YouTube Music…
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TikTok suspends livestreaming in Russia
New Delhi: The short-video social media platform TikTok has suspended new content and livestreaming abilities on its platform in Russia due to country’s new “fake news” law. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently…
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Samsung reportedly hacked by foreign entity, confidential data leaked
Seoul: Samsung Electronics has allegedly been hacked by a foreign hacking group, which breached its confidential source code and other classified data, industry sources said. Data extortion entity Lapsus$ has claimed that…
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Russia blocks Facebook, Meta hits back with pausing all ads
New Delhi: In an alarming censorship, Russia has blocked access to Facebook in the country. In response, its parent company Meta has paused all ads in Russia. Meta said that due to…
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Twitch to ban users who share ‘harmful misinformation’
New Delhi: Streaming platform Twitch has said it will ban harmful misinformation actors from using its service. Updating its spam, scams and malicious conduct policy, the platform said it would prohibit users…
