Technology
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Netflix’s ‘add a home’ feature to charge for password sharing
San Francisco: Popular video streaming giant Netflix has announced that it is testing a new way to undertake password sharing in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. The platform…
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IIT Kanpur team develops bio-inspired artificial muscle for space robots
Kanpur: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur on Tuesday announced the development of a bio-inspired artificial muscle for next-generation space robots and medical prostheses. Encouraged by the industry demand…
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US govt ‘tracking’ millions of people with cell phone location data
Washington: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used huge volumes of people’s cell phone location information quietly extracted from smartphone apps to track their movements on a scale not previously known, the…
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CARS24 sees high-profile exits as global CTO, business head move on
New Delhi: Pre-owned e-commerce platform CARS24 on Monday saw some high-profile exits, including its global CTO Jitendra Agrawal and business head Kingshuk Sanyal who have left the company to pursue other things.…
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Snapchat chat, video calling available for 1st time on web
New Delhi: Snapchat on Monday announced to bring features like chatting and video calling to desktop through a new web app for the first time. Snapchat for Web is a new way…
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Samsung’s new foldables likely to arrive on August 10
San Francisco: Samsung is likely to launch Galaxy Z Flip 4 foldable, along with other similar foldable device, Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro, on August 10 According to an image…
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Online interior design startup Modsy shuts down, lays off employees
San Francisco: Online interior design services startup Modsy has quietly shut operations and several customers have been left with unfinished renovations and project orders in process. San Francisco-based Modsy has abruptly ceased…
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After India, US aims to crackdown on VPN service providers
Washington/New Delhi: After India, the US lawmakers have now asked the Lina Khan-led Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to address abusive and deceptive data practices by hundreds of companies providing Virtual Private Network…
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Google Play to hide app permissions, makes developers responsible for data collection
New Delhi: Google is set to no longer show permissions it automatically gathers from apps on its Play Store, giving developers control over what they wish to disclose to users on data…
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Amazon sees $12 bn worth sales on Prime Day globally
San Francisco: Amazon saw sales worth at least $12 billion (according to third-party estimates) during its Prime Day event in the US and 15 more countries on July 12-13. It was the…
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Subway Surfers mostly downloaded in India, US in June: Report
San Francisco: India, with 14.7 per cent of all downloads, and the US, with 10.2 per cent, had the most Subway Surfers downloads in June of this year, says a new report.…
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Play Points to let users score discounts on Google Store products
San Francisco: Google has started rolling out a new programme to the Play Store that will let users use their Play Points toward purchases on the Google Store. According to Android Central,…
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Apple challenges injunction against self-preferencing services
San Francisco: Tech giant Apple has submitted a final filing in its ongoing legal battle with Epic Games, arguing that an injunction targeting anti-steering on the App Store should get tossed out.…
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Musk texted Parag Agrawal before terminating $44 bn Twitter deal
San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has reportedly texted microblogging platform Twitter’s CEO Parag Agarwal Ned Segal before pulling out of the $44 billion acquisition deal. Musk texted the Twitter executives that…
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Centre pulls up edtech firms for mis-selling courses to parents, IEC responds
New Delhi: After the Centre took serious note of mis-selling of courses to parents by edtech firms including BYJU’s and its group companies, self-regulatory organisation India Edtech Consortium (IEC) on Saturday said…
