Technology

5 automakers to recall over 92K vehicles over faulty parts

Seoul: Hyundai Motor, BMW Korea and three other companies will voluntarily recall more than 92,000 vehicles to fix faulty components, the transport ministry said on Wednesday. The companies, including Mercedes-Benz Korea, Volkswagen…
Paytm boosts merchant payments leadership with 79 lakh devices, adds 4 lakh in June alone

New Delhi: Leading payments and financial services company Paytm on Wednesday said it achieved a new milestone in merchant payments with 79 lakh devices deployed while the gross merchandise value (GMV) for…

Microsoft thinks Sony may launch PS5 Slim this year

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has said that Sony is expected to release a PlayStation 5 (PS5) Slim model later this year at $399.99. As a part of the Federal Trade Commission…
OpenAI disables Browse with Bing in ChatGPT

San Francisco: OpenAI has disabled Browse with Bing beta feature in ChatGPT, which was available to Plus subscribers. This feature allowed ChatGPT to search the internet to help answer questions that benefit…
Mozilla releases last Firefox update for old versions of Windows, macOS

San Francisco: Mozilla has released the last major Firefox browser update for old versions of Windows and macOS. “In January 2023, Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 and Windows 8. As a…
Twitter clarifies sudden move to ‘temporarily’ apply rate limits

San Francisco: Twitter has clarified its sudden move to “temporarily” apply rate limits on the micro-blogging platform. The company said on its Business blog: “To ensure the authenticity of our user base…
Meta’s Twitter competitor ‘Threads’ may not launch in EU

London: Meta (formerly Facebook) will reportedly not launch its new Twitter competitor “Threads” in Ireland or the European Union (EU) in the foreseeable future. According to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) spokesperson,…

Google’s mental health & wellbeing manager loses job

New Delhi: Ironic it may read but a mental health and wellbeing manager working at Google for the last 10 years, is among 12,000 people who were handed out pink slips in…
Toyota claims battery breakthrough that could boost electric cars

London: Toyota says it has made a technological breakthrough that will allow it to halve the weight, size and cost of batteries, in what could herald a major advance for electric vehicles, a…
Hacker encrypting data in ransomware attack against most manufacturing firms

New Delhi: More than two-thirds (68 per cent) of manufacturing companies hit by ransomware attacks globally had their data encrypted by hackers, a report showed on Tuesday. This is the highest reported…
Garmin announces 2 new smartwatch series in India

New Delhi: Leading wearable brand Garmin on Tuesday announced the launch of its two new outdoor smartwatch series in the country. The new fenix 7 Pro and epix Pro series will be…
Twitter rival Bluesky reopens sign-ups

San Francisco: Twitter rival Bluesky, backed by Jack Dorsey, announced that it has reopened the sign-ups that the company disabled a few days back. “We just enabled account sign-ups again, so any…
HPE to manufacture high-volume servers worth $1 bn in India

New Delhi: Enterprise IT company Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on Tuesday announced plans to begin manufacturing some of its high-volume servers worth $1 billion in the country. HPE plans to manufacture high-volume…
Amazon introduces new product customisation feature in India

New Delhi: Amazon India on Tuesday introduced a new free self-serve product customisation feature “Customise Your Product”. The new feature is now available across a wide selection of more than 10,000 products…
Mastodon sees 294K increase in active users over weekend: CEO

San Francisco: Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has said that the number of active users across the decentralised social media platform “rose” by 2,94,000 over the weekend. Rochko posted on Monday, “So, weekend…