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Apple announces new iCloud web for beta users
New Delhi: Tech giant Apple on Thursday announced newly designed iCloud web interface for beta preview. Apple users can access the private information they keep in iCloud from any location through the…
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Google Workspace Individual to get 1 TB storage
San Francisco: Google has announced that it will soon introduce more features for “Workspace Individual” users, including an increase in storage capacity and advances in email personalisation for all customers. The Workspace…
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Meta to release consumer-grade VR headset next year
San Francisco: Meta has announced plans to launch another consumer-grade virtual reality headset next year. At the company’s earnings call late on Wednesday, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the…
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Microsoft claims Xbox Game Pass profitable, despite slow growth
San Francisco: Microsoft has claimed that the Xbox Game Pass is profitable, despite a slow subscription growth. According to The Verge, about 15 per cent of the company’s total Xbox content and…
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Samsung logs sharp drop in profits, reaffirms no production cut
Seoul: Samsung Electronics on Thursday posted a sharp drop in profits for the third quarter, as its main semiconductor business faced major headwinds from weakening memory chip prices and demand. The world’s…
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Apple may release 16-inch iPad next year
San Francisco: Apple might release a 16-inch display iPad next year, a media report said. According to The Verge report, there were rumours about an iPad with a 14-inch to 15-inch screen,…
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Meta logs another revenue decline amid concerns over metaverse plans
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has posted another quarterly revenue decline as investors begin to lose faith in its loss-making, billion-dollars metaverse dream. In the third quarter (Q3), Meta’s revenue declined 4…
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Turkey fines Meta $18.63 mn for violating competition law
Ankara: Turkey’s Competition Authority announced on Wednesday that it has fined Meta Platforms Inc. 346.72 million liras ($18.63 million) for violating competition law. The company merged the data collected from its three…
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Ethereum’s dominance in crypto market up 20% after the ‘Merge’
New Delhi: The dominance of Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, is up 20 per cent in the global crypto market following the ‘Merge’, a report shpowed on Wednesday. The historic…
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Android phones beat iPhones in early US quake warning
San Francisco: Android phones’ built-in earthquake detection functionality, tested during a 5.1-magnitude earthquake near California’s San Jose on Tuesday, seems to have passed with flying colours, and also beat iPhones at alerting…
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Apple iMessage, FaceTime now up after brief outage
San Francisco: Apple has said that iMessage and FaceTime are now up after a brief downtime. According to The Verge, the tech giant claims to have resolved the issue with both the…
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Samsung’s new ‘Maintenance Mode’ update will keep users’ data safe while servicing
Seoul: Tech giant Samsung has introduced a “Maintenance Mode” feature for Galaxy devices with One UI 5 installed, which will protect users’ personal data during servicing of the phone. The new Maintenance…
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Apple gives Meta another jolt, puts 30% tax on ‘post boosting’ on App Store
San Francisco: Apple-Meta war over App Store has intensified with new updates that require iOS developers to give Apple 30 per cent cut on the sales of ‘boosts’ for posts in a…
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Musk to sign takeover deal as Twitter employees slam his layoff threat
San Francisco: Elon Musk has reportedly told investors and bankers that he is going to close the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal by Friday, as employees at the micro-blogging platform protest his…
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Spotify says Apple is destroying its audiobook store by ‘choking competition’
San Francisco: Leading music streaming platform Spotify has said that Apple is ruining its audiobook store by “choking competition”. Apple’s limitations are harmful to both creators and users, as it continues to…
