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New Delhi: The ransomware attacks on high-profile targets such as corporations, government agencies and municipal organisations globally increased by a whopping 767 per cent in one year (from 2019 to…

Facebook is one of the most ‘loved’ or ‘hated’ social media platforms. Undeniably, one can find only a few persons who are away from the social media platform in this…

San Francisco: Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube is now making it easier for users to change their channel’s name without needing to make any sort of alterations to the associated…

New Delhi: A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking a complete stoppage of trials being conducted by WhatsApp Pay, a pilot mobile payments project floated by Facebook, unlawfully done on 1 million users in the country. The Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC) moved the plea alleging that WhatsApp has been […]

Washington: Bill Gates, the world’s second-richest person, has announced that he was stepping down from the board of directors of Microsoft, the company he co-founded in 1975 with the late Paul Allen. “I have made the decision to step down from both of the public boards on which I serve – Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway […]

Washington: The US space agency NASA on Thursday announced it has selected Elon Musk-run SpaceX, Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin and Dynetics (a Leidos company) to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis programme, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by […]

Bengaluru: E-commerce major Amazon on Thursday announced that its sellers will now be able to register on Amazon.in marketplace and manage their online business in Hindi. This will include everything from registering as an Amazon seller for the first time to managing orders, inventory management and accessing performance metrics, all of it in the language […]

Washington: Just as lighthouses have helped sailors navigate safely into the harbour for centuries, future space travellers may receive similar guidance from the steady signals created by pulsars. Scientists and engineers are using the International Space Station to develop pulsar-based navigation using these cosmic lighthouses to assist with wayfinding on trips to the Moon under […]

New Delhi: As Intelligence agencies in India red flag over 50 China-linked mobile apps over concerns related to safety and privacy of millions of Indian users, here are some cool and secure alternatives to some of the listed Chinese apps. ShareChat is an Indian video creation app similar to short-video making app Tiktok. The app […]

San Francisco: To help users decide whether they should believe what they see, Google has started showing a fact-check label under the thumbnail image results that people search. “When you tap one of these results to view the image in a larger format, you’ll see a summary of the fact check that appears on the […]

San Francisco: As traditional media outlets ask social media giants to give their dues for using their news content on their platforms, Google has revealed that news publishers keep over 95 per cent of the digital advertising revenue they generate when they use Google Ad Manager to show ads on their websites. Thousands of news […]

New Delhi: Google-owned YouTube appears to have taken an aim at TikTok as the Google-owned platform has now started testing a way to record multi-segment videos that run up to a maximum length of 15 seconds. The 15-second video format, made popular by TikTok, is now being increasingly tried by other social media platforms as […]

San Francisco: Google on Wednesday announced a new feature that will make it easy to find quick facts about what people see on Google images in the form of a Knowledge Graph. Starting first in the US, the feature would include people, places or things related to the image from the Knowledge Graph’s database of […]

San Francisco: TikTok has now raised the ante in the social media war with a plan to offer creators $2 billion globally in the next three years as it fights rivals like Instagram and YouTube. The TikTok move comes after the media said Instagram is reportedly offering financial incentives to some popular TikTok creators in […]

San Francisco: The massive Twitter hack earlier this month that spread a cryptocurrency scam by hijacking accounts of high-profile celebrities, politicians and businesses was a result of a phone spear phishing attack, the social media platform has revealed. “A successful attack required the attackers to obtain access to both our internal network as well as […]