Technology
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Department of Space to get Rs 12,543.91 crore for FY24
New Delhi: The government has proposed an allocation of Rs 12,543.91 crore to the Department of Space for year 2023-24. The allocation is for the Department of Space and other organizations under…
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Amazon job cuts hit staffers in grocery, robotics, payments, AWS divisions
San Francisco: Amazon announced job cuts of around 18,000 employees last month, and those who lost their jobs were from various divisions of the company, including AWS, healthcare, payments, real estate, and…
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Budget 2023: 2 AI centres of excellence, 100 5G labs for developing apps
New Delhi: Three centers of excellence for artificial intelligence in top educational institutions and 100 labs in engineering institutions for developing applications using 5G services will be set up, Union Finance Minister…
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US to train Indian astronauts, cooperate on planetary defence
New York: The US will provide advanced training for an Indian astronaut and the two countries will cooperate on planetary defence against dangerous asteroids and comets, according to the White House. Strengthening…
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US NSF signs $50 mn pact with Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Samsung for chip design
San Francisco: The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that it has signed a $50 million pact with Ericsson, IBM, Intel and Samsung to support the design of the next-generation semiconductors.…
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Why Apple’s Tim Cook has not cut workforce amid mass layoffs
San Francisco: As every Big Tech company has announced job cuts running into thousands, Apple is yet to do so and may not plan to terminate employees as it never hired at…
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WhatsApp faces privacy setting issue globally on iOS
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is facing a server-side issue, making it impossible to update the privacy setting “who can see when I’m online,” globally on iOS. This outage is not…
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Instagram expands ‘Notes’ feature to Europe, Japan
San Francisco: Social media platform Instagram has expanded its ‘Notes’ feature, a way for users to share their thoughts, to Europe and Japan. The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, made the announcement…
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Online marketplace OLX Group to slash over 1,500 jobs globally
New Delhi: Joining the mass layoff season, online marketplace OLX Group is slashing 15 per cent of its workforce, or more than 1,500 employees, globally including in India as part of restructuring…
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iPhone 14 Crash Detection false alarms causing problems in Japan
Tokyo: False alarms by Apple’s iPhone 14 series’ Crash Detection feature are causing problems in Japan, with fire departments near skiing areas getting more emergency call-outs than usual because of the automated…
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Acer launches new laptop with latest AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor in India
Bengaluru: Taiwanese electronics company Acer on Monday launched its new laptop which features the latest AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor, a 15.6-inch Full-HD display and much more, in the country. The new…
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Google terminates thousands of accounts pushing Chinese disinformation
San Francisco: Google’s Threat Analysis Group has terminated thousands of accounts associated with a group known as “Dragonbridge” or “Spamouflage Dragon” that disseminated pro-Chinese disinformation on various platforms. According to the tech…
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Apple sells 2 mn iPhones in India in holiday quarter, logs 18% growth
New Delhi: Apple sold 2 million iPhones in India in the holiday quarter (Q4) of 2022, registering 18 per cent growth (quarter-on-quarter) for its flagship device, new data showed on Monday. The…
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Blocked out of system in the middle of call: Sacked Google recruiter
New Delhi: Among the 12,000 workers laid off by Google, an employee who worked as a recruiter said he got sacked by the company in the middle of an interview. Dan Lanigan…