Technology
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Google ordered to pay $1.1 mn to female executive over gender discrimination
San Francisco: Google will have to pay $1.1 million to a company executive who filed a complaint against the tech giant for gender-based discrimination, a jury in the US has ruled. The…
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Startup employees fled for bigger companies during Covid pandemic: Study
Toronto: Startup workers fled for bigger, more established companies during the pandemic, revealing the vulnerability of early-stage firms in downturns, new research has shown. Digging into the data for nearly 180,000 users…
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Samsung announces new Galaxy Tab A9 series in India
New Delhi: Samsung on Monday announced its new Galaxy Tab A9 series in India, which will come in two sizes — one with an 8.7 display and the other in an 11-inch…
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Insta’s new feature will let you turn photos into stickers for reels, stories
New Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram is testing a new “sticker creation” feature, which will let users turn their photos into custom stickers to use in Reels or Stories. Instagram head Adam Mosseri gave…
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Apple may announce new iMac by October-end: Report
San Francisco: Apple may be planning to announce a new 24-inch iMac at the end of this month, media report said. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the tech giant may make the…
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Israel-Hamas war: Verified users responsible for 74 per cent of misinformation on X
New York: Verified users with Blue badges are the ones spreading the vast majority of misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war on X (formerly Twitter), a new study has claimed. During the first…
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WhatsApp Business tests new ‘quick action bar’ feature on Android
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new “quick action bar” feature on its Business app for Android, which will let users “quickly perform different actions”. According to WABetaInfo, a new…
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iPhone’s Crash Detection feature saves couple in car accident: Report
San Francisco: Apple’s Crash Detection feature, which the tech giant introduced with the iPhone 14, has helped a couple driving a BMW in a recent car accident, the media reported. According to…
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SpaceX aims for 12 launches a month as it eyes satellite-based phone service
San Francisco: Elon Musk-run aerospace company SpaceX aims for 12 launches per month, or one launch in less than three days, the media reported. A company official told ArsTechnica that it is…
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Turbulence, controversies dog Elon Musk’s 1st year as X owner
San Francisco: Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October last year after a months-long tumultuous phase. One year on, controversies associated with the platform (now called X), amid the non-stop…
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Malvertisers targeting users searching for popular software via Google Ads: Report
New Delhi: A malvertising campaign has emerged that takes advantage of Google Ads to direct users searching for popular software to fictitious landing pages and distribute next-stage payloads, a new report has…
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Vietnam-based hackers target India, US & UK with potential malware: Report
New Delhi: Vietnam-based cybercrime groups are targeting digital marketing firms based in India, the US and the UK by hijacking Facebook business accounts in a malicious campaign, a new report has found.…
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Google ordered to pay $1.1 mn to female executive over gender discrimination
San Francisco: Google will have to pay $1.1 million to a company executive who filed a complaint against the tech giant for gender-based discrimination, a jury in the US has ruled. The…
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Global IT spending projected to cross $5 trillion in 2024
New Delhi: Global IT spending is projected to reach $5.1 trillion in 2024, an increase of 8 per cent from 2023, according to a new report. While generative AI (GenAI) has not…
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Hackers stole customer access tokens from Okta’s support unit, admits firm
San Francisco: Identity and access company Okta has identified “adversarial activity” that leveraged access to a stolen credential to access Okta’s support case management system. The threat actor was able to view…
