Technology
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India’s smartphone market sees 2% drop in 2023, shipped 148.6 mn units: Report
New Delhi: India’s smartphone market has maintained stability with 148.6 million shipments overall in 2023, witnessing a minor drop of two per cent, a new report has said. According to the market…
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After Netflix, YouTube chooses not to release dedicated app for Vision Pro
San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube has now followed the footsteps of streaming giant Netflix, as it decided not to release a dedicated app for Apple’s highly-anticipated mixed reality (MR) headset ‘Vision Pro’. Similar…
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India saw 15% spike with 2,138 weekly cyberattacks per organisation in 2023: Report
New Delhi: India has recorded a spike of 15 per cent in cyberattacks within APAC (Asia-Pacific), with 2,138 weekly attacks per organisation in 2023, a new report revealed on Friday. According to…
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Wayfair to slash 1,650 jobs from its global workforce
San Francisco: E-commerce company Wayfair has announced to lay off 1,650 employees, or 13 per cent of its workforce globally, to reduce costs. The latest job cuts are expected to provide the…
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Russian govt threat actors hacked company’s exec emails: Microsoft
New Delhi: Microsoft has claimed that about two months ago, Russian state-sponsored threat actors gained access to its corporate networks and obtained emails belonging to executives and certain staff members in its…
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Elon Musk’s X rolling out audio, video calls for Android users
New Delhi: Elon Musk-run X is rolling out the feature to make audio and video calls directly from the app for Android users. According to a post made by one of the…
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Apple to pay iPhone 7 users who faced ‘loop disease’ audio issues
San Francisco: Apple has reached an agreement to settle a US class action lawsuit, in which the company will be paying $35 million to iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus users, who…
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JetSetGo signs $1.3 billion deal for 280 hybrid-electric aircraft
Hyderabad: Air service operator JetSetGo on Friday signed a deal with three global aviation tech firms for 280 hybrid-electric aircraft worth over $1.3 billion. The company is set to acquire 150 aircraft…
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Meta documents show 100K kids sexually harassed daily on FB, Insta
San Francisco: A recent court case concerning child abuse on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps claimed that an internal company estimate from 2021 indicated that up to 100,000 children were subjected to…
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Amazon reduces nearly 5% of workforce at its Buy with Prime unit
San Francisco: Amazon has said that it is laying off nearly 5 per cent of its workforce at its Buy with Prime unit, the media reported. The latest job cut will include…
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AI finds lunar rocks with unique dust; may help decode Moon’s magnetic past
London: An international research team has for the first time discovered anomalous metre-sized rocks on the lunar surface that are covered in dust and presumably exhibit unique properties — such as magnetic…
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AWS to invest over $15 bn in Japan to expand data centres
Tokyo: Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, on Friday announced that it will invest about $15.5 billion (about 2.3 trillion yen) in Japan over five years between…
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PM Modi to inaugurate Boeing India’s tech centre campus near Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Friday inaugurate American aircraft manufacturer Boeing’s new global engineering and technology centre campus near here, official sources said. Built at a cost of Rs 1,600 crore,…
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Google Cloud AI to power Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S24 series
San Jose: Samsung and Google Cloud have announced a new, multi-year partnership to bring Google Cloud’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to its smartphones, starting with the new Galaxy S24 series. Samsung…
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Expect more job cuts at Google this year, Sundar Pichai tells employees
San Francisco: Google CEO Sundar Pichai has reportedly warned employees to brace themselves for more job cuts this year. Google, which has let go over a thousand employees across various departments in…
