Monday, December 11, 2023
NEW DELHI — Google will start deleting those personal accounts, which have been inactive for two years, from this week. The tech giant announced this policy in May, saying, the company will purge the content in inactive accounts within Google Works...
28 Nov 2023
WASHINGTON — In a historic first, NASA has tested next-generation Mars helicopter design on both Earth and the Red Planet. On Earth, the US space agency tested a new rotor that could be used with future Mars helicopters at NASA’s Jet Propulsi...
26 Nov 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out the ability to send view once photos and videos from desktop apps, a feature which was initially removed one year ago. The company removed the feature from WhatsApp Web and Desktop for a...
26 Nov 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will display profile information within users’ conversations under the contact name on Android. Specifically, the profile info will be visible when the contact is...
25 Nov 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — X Corp owner Elon Musk will reportedly visit Israel next week and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a sign of solidarity amid antisemitism controversies. According to Fox Business, Musk is expected to visit the Gaza Str...
25 Nov 2023Instagram has introduced a new feature enabling users to directly download public Reels from the app. Initially unveiled with restricted access in the US back in June, the feature has now been made accessible to users globally, as confirmed by Instag...
23 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — A group of travellers in the US was left stranded in the desert for hours after allegedly taking a shortcut suggested by Google Maps. To avoid traffic, the travellers group from California allegedly took Google Maps’ suggestion wh...
23 Nov 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — A secret AI project named ‘Q’ (pronounced Q-Star) at OpenAI that could threaten humanity may have been the reason behind Sam Altman’s ouster as CEO from the ChatGPT-developing company. According to reports, several...
23 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Chip-maker AMD on Wednesday extended PyTorch (a machine learning framework) and ROCm (open software platform) support to Radeon RX 7900 XT GPUs to bring even more options for artificial intelligence (AI) developers and researchers. The ...
22 Nov 2023NEW DELHI — The market size of wearable technology in the medical sector in 2023 is projected to exceed $100 billion and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15 per cent up to the year 2030, according to a report on Tuesday. Wear...
21 Nov 2023SAN FRANCISCO — In another dramatic development, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Monday announced the company is hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman to pursue its advanced AI research. Altman, who was fired ...
20 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Jack Dorsey-backed social media network Bluesky, an alternative to Twitter/X, has reached 2 million users despite remaining an invite-only app. The company said it will launch a public web interface by the end of this month that will he...
17 Nov 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — Epic Games on Thursday introduced voice reporting in its popular game Fortnite to take action against players using voice chat to bully, harass, discriminate, or engage in other inappropriate behaviour. Now, in addition to being abl...
16 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Elon Musk-run X Corp (formerly Twitter) banned a record 2,34,584 accounts in India between September 26 and October 25, mostly for promoting child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity. The micro-blogging platform, going through...
15 Nov 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta-owned Instagram is expanding its Close Friends feature beyond Stories and Notes to feed posts and Reels. Now, users will be able to share Reels and feed posts with a smaller, more trusted group instead of everyone who follows t...
15 Nov 2023
SEOUL — Samsung Electronics on Tuesday showcased its latest updates to software and services, including its new generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, Samsung Gauss, at an annual tech conference. At the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) Ko...
14 Nov 2023Nvidia has recently unveiled the HGX H200, the newest addition to its AI hardware lineup featuring the Nvidia Hopper architecture. Scheduled for release in Q2 2024, the H200 Tensor Core GPU introduces the new HBM3e memory technology, a significant up...
13 Nov 2023
SEOUL — Observer-1A, an observation satellite developed by South Korean startup Nara Space Inc., has successfully entered orbit and made communication with Earth, its developer said on Monday. Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenber...
13 Nov 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple will upgrade the entire lineup of iPad in 2024 and add a new larger 12.9-inch iPad Air along with the 10.9-inch model, a leading analyst has said. Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities, in his latest outlook, predicted t...
13 Nov 2023Netflix has unveiled the first teaser for the long-awaited anime adaptation of the iconic ‘The Terminator’ franchise. Developed by Production I.G in collaboration with Skydance and Matthew Tomlin, this groundbreaking series was officially...
12 Nov 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new secret code feature for locked chats on Android to some beta testers. According to WABetaInfo, a new settings section might be available within the list of users’ locked chat...
12 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Almost half (43 per cent) of organisations in the Asia-Pacific region are currently exploring potential Generative AI use cases, with 55 per cent of financial organisations and telecom firms investing in GenAI technology in 2023. With t...
12 Nov 2023
NEW YORK — A team of astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way that has been observed to date. Until now it was believed that barred spiral galaxies like...
11 Nov 2023
NEW DELHI — Nearly 2.5 lakh employees have been laid off so far this year in the global technology and startup sector, as the tech layoffs continue unabated for the past two years. Nearly 1,106 tech companies have sacked 248,974 employees (till Nov...
11 Nov 2023In a surprising move, Valve has unveiled an updated version of its popular handheld gaming device, the Steam Deck. The upgraded version, aptly named the Steam Deck OLED, brings in much-needed improvements including an OLED panel, a better processor a...
10 Nov 2023
