Technology
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Huawei’s revenue loss slows down amid Cloud push
Shenzhen: Chinese conglomerate Huawei on Friday posted nearly 6 per cent loss in revenue for the first six months of the year and its device business, which includes smartphones, fell 25.4 per…
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Facebook sees massive drop in teen usage in last 7 years
New Delhi: A new survey of American teenagers (ages 13 to 17) by the Pew Research Center has revealed a worrying trend for Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook as the share of teens who…
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Apple asks suppliers to make 90 mn iPhone 14 units
San Francisco: Tech giant Apple seems confident despite analysts’ predictions and is reportedly asking its suppliers to build at least 90 million next-generation iPhones. In fact, Apple anticipates to assemble 220 million…
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Google expands AI-based content advisories to more searches
New Delhi: Google has announced to expand content advisories to searches where its AI systems don’t have high confidence in the overall quality of the results available for the search. Pandu Nayak,…
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Samsung likely to sell 9 mn Galaxy Fold 4, Flip 4 foldables this year
New Delhi: The new Galaxy Fold 4 and Flip 4 foldable smartphone may see sales close to 9 million units this year, helping Samsung’s foldables market share to jump to 80 per…
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4.2 mn EVs sold in first half of 2022 globally, China leads
New Delhi: The world saw sales of 4.2 million electric vehicles in the first half of this year, a 63 per cent growth from the same period last year, a new report…
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Google Meet updated with new features after merging with Duo
San Francisco: After announcing that Google has combined two of its video-calling apps — Duo and Meet — into a single platform, the tech giant said this upgrade gives everyone access to…
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Meta tests end-to-end encryption for individual chats on Messenger
New Delhi: Meta on Thursday announced that it is testing end-to-end encryption for individual chats on its Messenger app. The company is testing secure storage on Messenger, a new feature that allows…
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Google gets poll panel nod to keep politician emails out of spam in US
San Francisco: Google has received a go-ahead from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in the US to keep politician campaign emails from being marked as spam. Google will now allow candidates and…
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5G to catapult Indian gaming industry to new level, say experts
New Delhi: The upcoming 5G innovations in the country are set to take gaming to a whole new level in India which currently has more than 420 million active online gamers and…
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Elon Musk teases his own new social media site X.com
New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has teased the launch of a new social media website named X.com amid the legal battle with Twitter. X.com used to be the domain name of…
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Apple granted patent for temperature sensing system in wearables
Apple has been granted a patent for ‘temperature gradient sensing in portable electronic devices’ ahead of the release of its next generation Apple Watch Series 8. Notably, a key feature of the…
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Samsung to launch new foldable phones in India on Aug 16
New Delhi: Samsung on Thursday said its new foldable smartphones — Galaxy Z Fold4 and Galaxy Z Flip4 — will be launched in India on August 16, and people can pre-book their…
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IPO-bound OYO acquires Denmark’s holiday home chain Bornholmske Feriehuse
London: In line with its commitment to the ‘Invest in Denmark’ initiative, online hospitality major OYO has acquired Europe-based holiday homes operator Bornholmske Feriehuse, which aims to accelerate the growth of travel…
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Microsoft fixes 141 bugs, including 2 zero-day vulnerabilities
San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has released patches for 141 bugs in its August 2022 Patch update, including two previously undisclosed (zero-day) flaws, of which one is actively being exploited. The total…
