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New Delhi: In a bid to help Indian students create solutions for real-world problems, Google on Wednesday announced three teams as winners of its Build for Digital India programme launched in partnership with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) last year. The three winning teams were selected from over 7,000 students from more […]

New Delhi: The Government of India recently banned 59 Chinese apps on concerns over the safety and security of user data and privacy of Indians. However, the biggest doubt on everyone’s mind is, why the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG or the Call of Duty Mobile battle royale game did not find any mention in the […]

Using Chinese apps has always been a cause for worry due to security reasons. Similarly, with China dumping its low-quality goods in India and using the cash to strengthen its position both financially as well as at the borders, the ban on Chinese goods is the need of the hour. A few days ago, the […]

San Francisco: Twitter has joined efforts to do away with racially loaded terms such as master, slave and blacklist from its coding language in the wake of the death of African-American George Floyd and ensuing Black Lives Matter protests. The project started even before the current movement for racial justice escalated following the death of […]

Chennai: Indian space agency on Friday released an image of Phobos, the closest and biggest moon of Mars clicked on July 1 by the Mars Colour Camera onboard the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM). According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the image was clicked by MOM when it was about 7,200 km from Mars […]

New Delhi: WhatsApp on Saturday launched its first brand campaign in India that chronicles real-life stories about how Indians communicate with their closed ones on a daily basis on the popular messaging application. The campaign monikered ‘It’s Between You’ highlights WhatsApp’s commitment to privacy, the company said in a statement. “With WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, we […]

San Francisco: Gmail users around the world were complaining about spam messages flooding their inbox over the weekend as the Google service was apparently suffering from a widespread problem with its email filters. Several Gmail users took to Twitter and other social media platforms like Reddit to convey they were being bombarded with spam messages. […]

New Delhi: Facing social media onslaught over it being a Chinese company, US-based video meet platform Zoom on Monday said that they are clear about its identity and plan to significantly invest and hire local talent in the country over the next five years. Velchamy Sankarlingam who is President of Engineering and Products at Zoom […]

San Francisco: Google on Monday launched a free training programme for small-to-medium sized news publishers that would be available first in Europe and will roll out to more regions in the coming months. Called the Digital Growth Programme under the Google News Initiative (GNI), it has been created to help establish and grow the online […]

New Delhi: With the ban on TikTok creating a huge vacuum for the 15-second videos in the Indian Internet space, Facebook-owned Instagram on Wednesday announced the extension of the testing of Reels which allows users to record, edit and share short multi-clip videos, to India. With Reels, Instagram users can share short videos with their […]

San Francisco: Microsoft has introduced a new platform security technology to prevent data corruption techniques being adopted by cybercriminals to target system security policy and tamper with data structures on Windows 10 devices. Called Kernel Data Protection (KDP), the technology prevents data corruption attacks by protecting parts of the Windows kernel and drivers through virtualization-based […]

New Delhi: WhatsApp has so far been a great experience for billions of users globally where there are no ads in-between chats, no distractions like promoted posts and in-app pop-ups, but integration with the rest of Facebook family of apps may mar the beauty of this end-to-end-encrypted mobile messaging platform. The world of social media […]

Seoul: Google’s video-sharing platform YouTube will cooperate with South Korea to closely monitor and prevent the spread of fake news and illegal content. Google’s Senior Vice President Neal Mohan made the comments during a videoconference with Han Sang-hyuk, chairman of the Korea Communications Commission (KCC). The remarks came after Han requested such cooperation, considering fake […]

New Delhi: Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi) on Sunday said it has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model for drug repositioning in the treatment of Covid-19. This means that instead of manually going through ever available drug and checking its effectiveness against Covid-19 (which is a painstakingly long process), one can now rely on […]

San Francisco: Facing the worst-ever scam in the history of social media, Twitter on Thursday acknowledged hackers have taken control of its internal system and tools as they made over $100,000 in bitcoin scam (the figure was still growing) after hijacking several top-notch Twitter accounts. The cybercriminals sent bogus tweets from high-profile people like Joe […]