Technology
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 may come in 3 online-exclusive colours
San Francisco: Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 smartphones’ colours leaked ahead of the launch scheduled for next month, which revealed that Z Fold 5 will come in…
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WhatsApp widely rolling out new community entry point on iOS
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is widely rolling out a new community entry point shortcut on iOS. The official changelog of the app’s update still mentions features from some previous updates,…
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Microsoft says early June outages were DDoS attacks
San Francisco: Microsoft has announced that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were the reason behind the services’ outages earlier this month. “Beginning in early June, Microsoft identified surges in traffic against some services…
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Google Doodle honours Indian biochemist Kamala Sohonie
New Delhi: Google on Sunday remembered Indian biochemist Dr Kamala Sohonie with a Doodle on her 112th birth anniversary, who in 1939 became the first Indian woman to receive a PhD in…
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91% Indian firms faced ransomware attacks in 2022: Report
New Delhi: Information security company, CyberArk, on Sunday said that more than 91 percent of the Indian organisations experienced ransomware attacks in 2022 while 55 percent of the affected organisations reported paying…
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Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air: Bigger, better, and more powerful
New Delhi: Those who have tried their hands on the 13-inch Apple MacBook Air for productivity, creativity and entertainment, the smooth and powerful experience has just got bigger and better, with the…
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Reddit’s daily traffic declines amid subreddit protests: Report
San Francisco: During the subreddits’ protest against the company’s new application programming interface (API) pricing changes, Reddit’s average daily traffic reportedly fell as compared to the last month. According to Engadget, citing…
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Twitch unveils program to increase streamers’ earnings
San Francisco: Streaming platform Twitch has announced a new programme ‘Partner Plus‘ which will help streamers to make more money who meet the qualification criteria. “This new Partner Program benefit will offer…
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Meta unveils ‘Voicebox’: AI model for speech generation
San Francisco: Meta has developed a cutting-edge generative AI model ‘Voicebox’, designed to revolutionise the field of speech generation. “We’ve developed Voicebox, the first model that can generalise to speech-generation tasks it…
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Jamal Khashoggi’s widow sues NSO Group over phone hacking
Hanan Elatr, the widow of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has filed a lawsuit against Israeli company NSO Group for using Pegasus software to spy on her messages in the months before her…
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Millions hooked to mobile games; India to become $7bn market by 2025
New Delhi: Mobile gaming has come a long way since the early days of the ‘Snake’ game on Nokia phones to next-generation smartphones offering high-definition graphics and immersive gameplay that rival even…
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Beware of BGMI: Return triggers fears of addiction, mental health issues
New Delhi: Banned for more than a year, the Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), the popular battle royale game that enthralled the country’s gaming community, is back, albeit with a government rider where…
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Scammers skim crores off online gamers, cops reveal ‘methods’
New Delhi: At a time when online gaming is captivating millions around the world, scammers are also extracting crores from players, mostly children and teenagers, while cops are warning the public revealing…
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AR-VR, e-sports & Cloud: Gaming has gotten bigger & more worrisome
New Delhi: As healthcare providers and parents continue to fight growing video game addiction among kids, the next big threat is already here in the form of augmented reality/virtual reality (AR-VR) based…
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US regulator gives nod to Amazon’s $1.7bn iRobot acquisition
San Francisco: The UK’s antitrust regulator has cleared Amazon’s proposed $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, which designs and builds consumer robots, including robot vacuum cleaners sold under the ‘Roomba’ brand. The Competition…
