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Amazon sellers can now register, manage online business in Hindi

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 […]

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Cosmic lighthouses to help space travellers find ways to Moon, Mars

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 […]

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Safe Indian Alternatives To ‘Red Flagged’ Chinese Apps

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 […]

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Google Brings Fact-Check Label To Images In Search

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 […]

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Google Says News Publishers Retain 95% Of Revenue With Its Ad Manager

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 […]

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YouTube Targets TikTok With New 15-Second Video Test

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 […]

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Google To Introduce Quick Facts Feature For Images

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 […]

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TikTok Plans $2 Billion Fund For Creators As Competition Grows

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 […]

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Twitter Says ‘Phone Spear Phishing Attack’ Led To High-Profile Hacks

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 […]

Cyberattacks: Healthcare, Retail Sectors Among Most Targeted
Cyberattacks: Healthcare, Retail Sectors Among Most Targeted

San Francisco: Organisations in the business and professional services, retail and hospitality, financial, healthcare and high technology were the top targets of cybercriminals in 2020, said a new report on…

Where Are Phishing Emails More Likely To Originate From?
Where Are Phishing Emails More Likely To Originate From?

New Delhi: Security researchers have found that phishing emails are more likely to originate from certain countries in parts of Eastern Europe, Central America, the Middle East, and Africa. The…

Over 33% ICS Computers Faced Cyberattacks In H2 2020: Report
Over 33% ICS Computers Faced Cyberattacks In H2 2020: Report

New Delhi: Globally, the percentage of attacked ICS (industrial control system) computers in the second half of 2020 was 33.4 per cent, said a new report from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.…

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Twitter Resolves Geotag Issue After Showing J&K As Part Of China

New Delhi: After courting controversy for wrongly showing Jammu and Kashmir as part of China, Twitter on Monday said it has resolved the issue. “We became aware of this technical issue on Sunday, and understand and respect the sensitivities around it. The teams have worked swiftly to investigate and resolve the concerned geotag issue,” a […]

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Facebook Worldwide Removes Thousands Of Fake Accounts

San Francisco: Facebook has removed 1,196 accounts and 994 malicious accounts from Instagram, along with 7,947 Pages and 110 Groups involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour. In October, Facebook removed 14 networks of accounts, Pages and Groups. Eight of them — from Georgia, Myanmar, Ukraine and Azerbaijan — targeted domestic audiences in their own countries and […]

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Twitter Unveils Emojis To Raise Awareness On Women's Rights

San Francisco: In partnership with UN Women and the UN Human Rights Office, Twitter is launching custom emojis to spread awareness on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Wednesday and Human Rights Day on December 10. The emojis will appear when people tweet with the hashtags #GenerationEquality, #OrangeTheWorld, #16Days, #HumanRightsDay, and […]

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