Technology
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Spotify testing new feature for user-made playlists
San Francisco: Music streaming service Spotify is testing a new feature for listeners to discover music they love with a collection of playlists curated by select Spotify users and influencers. The Featured…
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Epic Games raises $144 mn for Ukraine relief
San Francisco: Fortnite maker Epic Games has raised a total of $144 million for Ukraine relief efforts in just two weeks, media reports say. Ahead of its most recent season, developer Epic…
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Hackers hit email marketing giant Mailchimp, access crypto wallets’ data
San Francisco: Hackers have stolen data from more than 100 clients of email marketing giant Mailchimp after they broke into its services, using the data to mount phishing attacks on the users…
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Lenovo to hire 12K R&D professionals
New Delhi: Global conglomerate Lenovo has announced plans to hire 12,000 R&D professionals over the next three years, as it focuses on technologies from edge computing to metaverse. Alongside its R&D commitments,…
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‘Do you want an edit button?’ tweets Musk as Parag Agrawal replies
New Delhi: A day after revealing that he has a 9.2 per cent stake worth about $3 billion in Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday asked his more than 80 million…
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Meta deletes 23.6 m pieces of bad content in India on FB, Instagram
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) took down 21.2 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 2.4 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in the month of…
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NASA satellites detect 1st ever decline in human CO2 emissions
Washington: A team of scientists at NASA has for the first time ever spotted regional fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) across the globe due to emissions from human activities during the…
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Android 13 will reportedly allow two carrier connections on one eSIM
San Francisco: Android 12 has brought a lot of additional features and now a new report has claimed that Google is working on a way to allow users to have dual-SIM capabilities…
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Russian food delivery app data leak exposes secret police info
Moscow: A data leak in Russia’s popular food delivery service Yandex Food has exposed personal information of 58,000 users, including those associated with the government’s secret police. Among the users affected are…
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Jack Dorsey regrets playing a role in centralising Internet
New Delhi: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, a strong proponent of open and decentralised social media, has regretted his involvement in creating a centralised Internet. In a tweet, Dorsey who now focuses on…
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Apple reportedly testing 9-inch foldable device
San Francisco: Apple is reportedly testing a 9-inch foldable device, according to one supply chain insider. Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities said that despite his earlier prediction that a foldable iPhone…
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Tesla to keep China plant shut due to COVID-19 restrictions
Beijing: Elon Musk-run Tesla, which delivered over three lakh vehicles in Q1 this year despite an ‘exceptionally difficult quarter,’ has been forced to keep its factory shut in Shanghai amid strict lockdowns.…
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Homegrown Boult Audio launches affordable earbuds
New Delhi: Homegrown audio accessories brand Boult Audio on Monday launched ‘AirBass ENCore X’ earbuds in the Indian market. The earbuds will be available for a price of Rs 1,799 on www.boultaudio.com…
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Apple may add 11-Inch MacBook Air model to obsolete products list
San Francisco: Tech giant Apple is expected to add two MacBook Air models and one MacBook Pro model to its obsolete products list on April 30. According to an internal memo obtained…
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Panasonic to invest $4.9 b in EV batteries, supply chain software
New Delhi: Panasonic is joining the high-growth electric vehicles market, with plans to invest nearly $4.9 billion in automotive batteries, supply chain software and cyber physical systems, among others. The Japanese company said…
