Technology
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iPhone Crash Detection triggers accidental 911 calls, causes chaos at US festival
San Francisco: iPhone Crash Detection feature caused chaos on the first day of the Bonnaroo festival in the US on June 15 by placing multiple accidental 911 (emergency services number) calls. Bonnaroo…
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IDEMIA selected as technology partner by DIAL for DigiYatra
New Delhi: Global leader in identity technologies and biometric solutions IDEMIA on Tuesday announced that it has been selected as the technology partner by GMR Group for DigiYatra. “DigiYatra” is an industry-led…
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India set to achieve $300 bn electronics manufacturing target: MoS IT
New Delhi: The government is right on the path to achieve the $300 billion electronics manufacturing target which will be a massive 20-25 times growth in almost a decade, Union Minister of…
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Subreddits adopt other protest forms as Reddit threats action on moderators
San Francisco: Many subreddits are adopting alternative forms of protest as Reddit threatened to take action against moderators. Those alternative methods of protesting include publishing only one kind of post, changing the…
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Nandan Nilekani donates Rs 315 cr to alma mater IIT Bombay
Bengaluru: Infosys Co-founder and Chairman Nandan Nilekani has donated Rs 315 crore ($38.5 million) to his alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. Nilekani earlier contributed Rs 85 crore to the…
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HP’s new gaming laptops to start from below Rs 60K
New Delhi: PC and printer major HP is geared up to launch a new gaming portfolio this week and the price range of new gaming laptops is expected to start from below…
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Short video app Chingari lays off 20% of workforce amid restructuring
New Delhi: Homegrown short-video making platform Chingari has laid off 20 percent of its workforce as part of organisational restructuring. In a statement to IANS, the company spokesperson said that it was…
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iPhone maker wants IP rights on Apple fruit in unique battle
London: Tech giant Apple is reportedly trying to gain intellectual property (IP) rights over depictions of apples, the fruit, which has left a fruit farmer’s organisation in Switzerland worried. According to a…
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Apple Watch saves woman from deadly blood clot: Report
San Francisco: An Apple Watch has saved a woman from a potentially deadly blood clot by waking her up from a nap, the media reported. One day when Kimmie Watkins wasn’t feeling…
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India’s eB2B market likely to reach up to $100 bn by 2030: Report
New Delhi: India’s business-to-business ecommerce market (eB2B) market is projected to reach $90-$100 billion by 2030, growing at compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40-45 per cent from $5-6 billion in 2022,…
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Google to soon open early access to AI notebook
San Francisco: Tech giant Google will soon open up early access to the artificial intelligence (AI) notebook ‘Project Tailwind’. The tech giant first previewed ‘Project Tailwind’ last month as an “AI-first notebook,”…
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WhatsApp rolling out enhanced media picker on Android beta
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out an enhanced media picker with numbered thumbnails on Android beta. Each selected item is now given a number by the new media picker,…
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Japanese govt aims to break Apple, Google app store monopolies
Tokyo: Japan has joined the list of countries determined to break Apple and Google’s monopoly on the app stores on their respective mobile operating systems. Recently, the Japanese government held its seventh…
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Microsoft Teams’ Collaborative notes feature now in public preview
San Francisco: Microsoft has announced that Teams’ new Collaborative notes feature is now available to everyone on the public preview channel. The feature is designed to enhance the meeting experience in the…
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Rishi Kumar says ‘human touch’ is something AI can never match up to
Mumbai: Young music composer Rishi Kumar has collaborated with comedian-actor-musician Alexander Babu and Qatar Influencer Fousiya for the Tamil Song ‘Naan Naan Dhaan’ for the streaming special ‘Alex in Wonderland’. The young…