Technology

Flipkart, Axis Bank join hands to facilitate personal loans for customers

New Delhi: E-commerce major Flipkart on Friday announced that it entered into a strategic partnership with Axis Bank to facilitate personal loans for its valued customers, adding additional convenience and enhanced benefits…
Samsung’s Q2 profit down nearly 96% to hit 14-year low

Seoul: Samsung Electronics on Friday said its second-quarter operating profit likely plunged about 96 per cent from a year earlier, as a chip oversupply and slow demand persisted. The world’s largest memory…

OpenAI announces general availability of GPT-4 model

San Francisco: Microsoft-owned OpenAI has announced the general availability of its latest text-generating model GPT-4, through its API (Application Programming Interface). “Starting today, all paying API customers have access to GPT-4. In…
Apple’s TestFlight now supports visionOS apps

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple has updated the TestFlight application to bring support for visionOS apps, which indicates that developers will be able to test applications created for the Vision Pro headset…
TikTok launches subscription-based music service to take on Spotify, Apple

New Delhi: Amid the growing Twitter-Meta fight over Threads app, Chinese short-video making app TikTok has launched a subscription-based music streaming service to take on market leaders Apple and Spotify. The subscription-only…
Amdocs lays off 2,000 employees in 2nd job cut round this year

San Francisco: US-headquartered software and communications service provider Amdocs is reportedly laying off 2,000 employees, approximately 6.5 per cent of its workforce. In Israel where it was founded in 1982, Amdocs will…
YouTube testing new lock screen feature

San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube has announced that it is testing a new lock screen feature, which will allow users to disable touch input while watching a video. “Lock Screen disables touch input…

Meta’s Twitter rival ‘Threads’ crosses 95 mn posts, 50 mn profiles

San Francisco: Meta’s Twitter rival, Threads, has reached over 95 million posts and more than 50 million accounts. Users have already posted more than 95 million threads and dropped about 190 million…
Mastodon back after brief server outage

San Francisco: Decentralised social media platform Mastodon on Friday announced that its server is now back online after an outage caused due to domain suspension. According to The Verge, the server was…
Nothing introduces Ear (2) Black with 2 unique features in India

New Delhi: Ahead of its much-anticipated Phone (2) launch, consumer technology brand Nothing on Thursday announced a new black variant for its Hi-Res Audio certified and noise-cancellation earbuds, Ear (2), in India.…
Online search for Instagram Threads up over 3,233%, ‘Twitter Killer’ search up 250%

New Delhi: With Meta launching its Twitter competitor Threads on Instagram, online searches for the term ‘Threads’ exploded in the past 24 hours to up to a massive 3,233 per cent, including…
Samsung Health beta app includes smart ring support

San Francisco: Tech giant Samsung has released a new beta version of its Health application, which revealed that the company could launch a smart ring ‘Galaxy Ring’. According to a Reddit user,…
WhatsApp widely rolling out redesigned sticker, GIF picker on iOS

San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is widely rolling out a redesigned sticker and GIF picker on iOS. The official changelog of the application mentioned that an updated sticker tray with improved…
Threads using decentralised protocol clear victory for our cause: Mastodon CEO

San Francisco: Decentralised social media platform Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has said that Meta’s new microblogging platform Threads intends to become part of the decentralised social web by using the same standard…
Spotify ends Apple in-app payment for premium subscribers

San Francisco: Music streaming giant Spotify has started informing its users who have subscribed to its Premium service through Apple’s in-app purchase system that it will no longer support it as a…