TikTok Allowing Users to Upload Longer Videos in Challenge to YouTube
TikTok began letting users upload videos as long as 10 minutes, ramping up the platform's challenge to YouTube.
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TikTok began letting users upload videos as long as 10 minutes, ramping up the platform's challenge to YouTube.
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Japanese retail giant Rakuten has launched a new online marketplace, dedicated to NFTs. The site will allow people to buy and sell digital collectibles inspired by sports, anime, and entertainment categories. NFT minting feature is also in the pipeline to be added to the marketplace in the near future.
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Taiwan's semiconductor companies are complying with government export controls to Russia, put in place as part of sanctions on Moscow for invading Ukraine, the Economy Ministry said.
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Bitcoin and Ether were joined by Binance Coin, Ripple, and Polkadot on the loss wagon. Stablecoins such as Tether and Binance USD managed to reel in gains, but very small in magnitude.
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Google Play Pass has debuted in India over two years after its initial launch in the US. The service offers access to over 1,000 apps and games on Android, without ads and in-app purchases.
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Ukraine has raised almost $8 million (roughly Rs. 60 crore) in cryptocurrencies after posting appeals on social media for donations of Bitcoin and other digital tokens, according to blockchain analysis company Elliptic.
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Binance, which ranks among the world’s largest crypto exchanges by transfer volume, has decided to donate a sum of $10 million (roughly Rs. 75.5 crore) to NGOs and organisations leading the humanitarian effort in Ukraine. It has additionally launched an emergency fund for the affected nation.
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Alphabet's Google confirmed on Sunday it has temporarily disabled for Ukraine some Google Maps tools which provide live information about traffic conditions and how busy different places are.
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Apple is rumoured to return with the successor of iPhone SE (2020) on March 8 at an event where it's also expected to announce a refreshed iPad Air.
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Samsung at its MWC 2022 event unveiled the Galaxy Book 2 Pro, Galaxy Book 2 Pro 360, Galaxy Book 2 Business, and Galaxy Book 2 360.
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Nokia C2 2nd Edition, Nokia C21, and the Nokia C21 Plus were launched on Sunday (February 27). Alongside the three budget phones, Nokia brand licensee HMD Global unveiled the Nokia Wireless Headphones as its latest offering for the audio accessories market.
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The official website of the Kremlin, the office of Russian President Vladimir Putin, kremlin.ru, was down on Saturday.
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Facebook restricted Russian state media's ability to earn money on the social media platform as Moscow's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine reached the streets of Kyiv.
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Elon Musk said on Saturday that SpaceX' Starlink satellite broadband service is available in Ukraine and SpaceX is sending more terminals to the country whose Internet has been disrupted due to the Russian invasion.
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Google barred on Saturday Russia's state-owned media outlet RT and other channels from receiving money for ads on their websites, apps, and YouTube videos, similar to a move by Facebook after the invasion of Ukraine.
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Twitter is being restricted for some users in Russia, the social media company said in a tweet on Saturday, February 26.
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Ukraine is reporting a spike in radiation levels around Chernobyl since the Russian military has captured the nuclear power plant, which was the site of a major disaster in 1986.
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Taiwan says Russia Ukraine war is likely to have a limited impact on its capacity to produce and supply semiconductor chips.
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Nvidia, the most valuable chipmaker in the world, said on Friday that it is investigating a potential cyberattack.
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MWC organisers have announced that there will be no Russian showcase at the event this year and some Russian companies and their executives will be banned from attending because of international sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Russia has restricted access to Facebook in the country after Moscow accused the Meta-owned social media platform of censoring the state media over its military operation in Ukraine.
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Residents of China that engage in fundraising activities via cryptocurrencies will now be subject to jail time, if caught. China has banned crypto-based fundraising, making it a criminal offence. Along with prison sentence, violators may also have to pay hefty fines as part of the punishment.
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Motorola Edge+ (2022) was launched in the US on Thursday, with almost the same specifications as the Motorola Edge 30 Pro that was launched in India on the same day. The Motorola Edge+ (2022) is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC, and comes with support for Motorola’s Smart Stylus. It features mmWave 5G connectivity on Verizon models, according to the company. M...
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Dell said it expects PC backlog to balloon in the first quarter due to supply chain constraints and reported a quarterly profit miss, sending its shares down seven percent in extended trading.
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Meta has set up a special operations centre to monitor the conflict in Ukraine, and it launched a feature so users in the country can lock their social media profiles for security, a company official said.
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Google is removing a feature of Chrome for Android that for years helped people cut down on their mobile data usage.
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A Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS), a payload on-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, has detected solar proton events which significantly increase the radiation exposure to humans in space, ISRO said.
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Bitcoin and Ether, along with Binance Coin, Polkadot, Shiba Inu, and Dogecoin opened with losses. Stablecoins such as USD Coin and Tether have managed to bag small gains. The geo-political tensions between Russia and Ukraine are driving the trade market, where safe haven assets like gold and oil are raging but high-risk assets like cryptocurrencies are losing steam.
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Realme Narzo 50 is set to debut in India has the third smartphone in the Realme Narzo 50 series. The smartphone is confirmed to launch with a MediaTek Helio G96 SoC under the hood, and will offer Dynamic RAM expansion support, according to the company. It will sport a 120Hz display and is tipped to launch with a triple camera setup, according to recent reports. The Re...
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Twitter acknowledged it suspended in error some accounts relaying information about Russian military movements as the threat builds for an attack on Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s parliament and other government and banking websites were hit with another punishing wave of distributed-denial-of-service attacks Wednesday, and cybersecurity researchers said unidentified attackers had also infected hundreds of computers with destructive malware.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked up his company's efforts to build the metaverse, an immersive virtual world he has billed as the Facebook parent's future.
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Motorola Edge 30 Pro India launch date has been teased by Flipkart. The online marketplace has created a dedicated mobile webpage that shows February 24 as the launch date for the new Motorola phone. It is in line with previous reports and a teaser that was posted by both India and global divisions of Motorola on social media.
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PlayStation VR2 and PS VR2 Sense controller have been unveiled by Sony, showing gamers what to expect from the company’s next-generation VR headset. The new headset features a PS5 inspired design, with an orb-shaped circular design for the PS VR2 Sense controller. Sony is yet to reveal details regarding pricing and availability for the PS VR2 headset and PS VR2 Sens...
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Amazon Alabama workers who are prepping for a second round of voting in their bid to unionise have alleged that the e-commerce giant continues to interfere with the election process.
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Facebook Reels has been expanded globally to 150 countries in a move by Meta to more effectively rival short video apps like TikTok on all fronts. Meta had introduced Reels on Instagram in 2020.
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Realme 9 Pro 5G is set to go on sale in India today. The new Realme smartphone will be available for purchase in three different colour options. It comes with an initial price tag of Rs. 17,999 as well. Realme 9 Pro 5G is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 SoC. It features a triple rear camera unit.
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Mercedes-Benz expects to have factories producing exclusively electric vehicles (EVs) by the second half of the decade but will steer clear of building EV-only plants.
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OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G will go on sale in India for the first time today (February 22). The company’s latest mid-range smartphone is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 900 SoC, and comes with up to 8GB of RAM. OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G comes with a Fluid AMOLED display and a 90Hz refresh rate. The smartphone will be available for purchase from Amazon and from the company’s ...
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Along with Bitcoin and Ether, majority altcoins like Cardano, Ripple, Polkadot, and Solana saw substantial losses. Dogecoin and Shiba Inu also saw dips. Binance USD managed to bag very small gain.
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Poco M4 Pro 5G goes on sale in India today (Tuesday, February 22) for the first time. The Poco phone comes with a 90Hz display and carries dual rear cameras. It is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 810 SoC.
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Ukrainian authorities said they had seen online warnings that hackers were preparing to launch major attacks on government agencies, banks, and the defence sector.
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Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, launched late on Sunday in Apple's App Store, potentially marking the former president's return to social media after he was banned from several platforms last year.
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PS5 India February 22 restock — for Rs. 49,990 Blu-ray PlayStation 5, and Rs. 39,990 PS5 Digital Edition — is available at Amazon, Croma, Flipkart, Game Loot, Games The Shop, Reliance Digital, Sony Center ShopAtSC, and Vijay Sales.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab series is set to launch in India today, and the company will livestream the event starting 12:30pm. The South Korean tech giant’s latest flagship Galaxy Tab S8 series comprises the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8, as well as Galaxy Tab S8+ and Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra. Pricing for Galaxy Tab S8 series will be announced at the launch event today.
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Vivo V23e 5G price in India and specifications have been leaked online ahead of today’s launch. The Vivo phone is said to have the same list of specifications that came with its Thailand counterpart last year.
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Call of Duty is increasingly looking for ways to make it less fun for people to exploit the games, and the latest idea gives honest players a cheat of their own.
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Donald Trump's new social media platform Truth Social is planning a gradual rollout this week and should be "fully operational" by late March, potentially raising the former president's profile more than a year after he was banned by major social media.
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The number of arrests in a Rs. 40-crore cryptocurrency fraud in Nagpur in which over 2,000 investors were duped reached 11, a day after the main accused, his wife, and two associates were held from Lonavala in Pune, police said.
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Realme 9 Pro+ 5G will go on sale in India for the first time today (February 21) and the company’s latest midrange smartphone comes with a MediaTek Dimensity 920 SoC under the hood, paired with up to 8GB of RAM. The smartphone features a colour shifting design on the rear panel, and sports a Super AMOLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate. It will be available for pur...
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Redmi Note 11S was launched in India last week and it is now going on sale in the country for the first time today. The handset will be available for purchase in three colour options with an initial price tag of Rs. 16,499. Redmi Note 11S features an AMOLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate and is powered by a MediaTek Helio G96 processor. Launch offers on the Redmi No...
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Vivo V23e 5G will launch in India today at 12pm IST (noon). The smartphone's launch event will be livestreamed on Vivo's official Youtube channel. The third smartphone in the Vivo V23 lineup was globally launched in Malaysia in November and is expected to get similar specifications in India.
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Miko 3 AI-powered learning robot has been launched in India at a price of Rs. 19,999. It is aimed to meet educational and developmental dynamics of children aged 5 to 10 years by offering content from various platforms. It speaks eight languages, and offers access to coding lessons.
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Motorola Frontier smartphone’s leaked renders have tipped a 194-megapixel rear primary camera with a massive lens. The phone is tipped to come with a curved display that has hole-punch cutout in the top-centre for the front camera. The specifications of the phone were leaked in a previous report.
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Vivo Y15s (2021) was launched in India on Friday. The new Vivo phone was initially unveiled in Singapore last year. The Vivo Y15s (2021) is likely to face tough competition from models including the Moto E40 and Redmi 10 Prime.
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Samsung Galaxy S22 Series pre-booking will begin on February 23, and the company has announced offers and deals for customers pre-ordering the latest Galaxy S22 smartphones. The Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, and Galaxy S22 Ultra were unveiled at the company’s Galaxy Unpacked event on February 9.
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Intel is working on a blockchain chip that is claimed to reduce the environmental impact Bitcoin mining. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says that this crypto mining chip, currently under development, will be energy efficient. Intel claims the chip to be 1000 times better in per watt performance than mainstream GPUs for SHA-256 based mining.
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Redmi K50 Gaming Edition launched recently in China is expected to come to India and other global markets with Poco branding. The handset was recently spotted in an internal code that suggests Redmi K50 Gaming Edition will launch as Poco F4 GT in India. Both the handsets may have the same specifications.
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NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has completed its first year on the Red Planet and the space agency has published a new blog post to note the rover's achievements so far.
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European Union has accused Chinese courts of preventing European companies from protecting their telecom technology patents with a legal challenge against China at the World Trade Organization.
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US securities regulator has denied allegations that it was harassing Elon Musk and has written in a letter that they’re following a judge’s instructions in trying to speak with the Tesla CEO’s lawyers about his posts on Twitter.
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WeChat parent Tencent has expressed a strong disagreement with a US Trade Representative (USTR) decision to add WeChat to a list of notorious markets known for trade in counterfeit goods.
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Elon Musk has donated satellite terminals to help Tonga, the volcano-damaged Pacific island, reconnect with the world.
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Facebook parent Meta has told advertising agencies that mixed reality — the technology that merges the physical and digital worlds — could be a few years away.
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British Investment firm Fidelity International has introduced its first investment product that tracks Bitcoin in Europe called the Fidelity Physical Bitcoin ETP.
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Twitter has introduced a new pinned conversations feature allowing users to add up to six chats to the top of their Direct Messages inbox for easy access. These conversations will continue to remain in a separate section at the top of the inbox, across a user’s devices and on the Twitter website. The feature is already available on messaging services such as WhatsAp...
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Along with Bitcoin and Ether, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Ripple, and Cardano also registered losses. Only Tether and Binance USD among a few more coins saw minor gains.
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Stranger Things 4 Volume 1 premieres May 27 on Netflix, and Stranger Things 4 Volume 2 follows July 1. Stranger Things will end with a fifth and final season. The Duffer Brothers are already teasing spin-offs.
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Amazon has agreed to allow visa cards for payments on its sites worldwide without additional fees.
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FBI is launching a unit for blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure and the US Justie department has tapped a seasoned computer crimes prosecutor to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement team.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook’s remuneration is being questioned proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which has urged Apple investors to vote against the CEO’s bonus citing concerns around the magnitude and structure of his equity award.
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Realme C25 users can now apply for Android 12-based Realme UI 3.0 early access programme. A small set of people will be able to first experience new features of the upcoming OS on their Realme C25 smartphones, which launched in April last year with Android 11-based Realme UI 2.0.
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Twitter has announced support for Paytm as a payment provider for its Tips feature, allowing users to receive and send funds to each other using the payment platform. With the addition of Paytm support for Tips, users can make payments using UPI, credit and debit cards, netbanking, wallets, and more, according to Twitter.
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Spotify announced on Thursday that it has acquired Podsights and Chartable, two services that provide greater insights for advertisers and podcasting publishers.
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OnePlus is set to launch OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G, the latest addition to the company’s code edition (CE) smartphone lineup, alongside the OnePlus TV Y1S, OnePlus TV Y1S Edge smart TV models today. OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G features a MediaTek Dimensity 900 SoC under the hood, along with a 64-megapixel triple camera setup and support for 65W SuperVOOC charging. Meanwhile, On...
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Oppo Reno 7 5G to go on sale in India for the first time tonight. The flagship smartphone form Oppo was launched in India last week along with the vanilla Oppo Reno 7 Pro 5G. The smartphone sports a 6.4-inch full-HD+ AMOLED display with 90Hz refresh rate and is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 900 SoC.
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Cyberpunk 2077 next-generation upgrade for PS5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles has arrived in the form of Patch 1.5 after a long wait, with Polish developer CD Projekt unveiling it during a livestream event on Tuesday.
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Discord announced that it had “rolled back problem” shortly after the service, popular with gamers, went down on Tuesday. Over 44,000 users reported the outage on downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted reports.
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Sansad TV’s YouTube channel was restored on Tuesday after being blocked briefly “for violating YouTube's community guidelines”. The channel later said its YouTube account was compromised due to unauthorised activities by “some scamsters”.
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Ukraine authorities said on Tuesday that its defence ministry website along with those of its two largest state banks were under cyberattacks, as tensions persisted over the threat of a possible Russian invasion.
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Realme 9 Pro 5G and Realme 9 Pro+ 5G will launch in India today at 1:30pm IST. The launch event will be livestreamed on Realme's official YouTube channel. Realme 9 Pro+ has been confirmed to be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 920 SoC, paired with Arm Mali-G68 GPU.
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OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G is set to launch on February 17 and pricing for the upcoming handset has been shared by a tipster ahead of its debut. OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G is tipped to launch in two RAM and storage options. According to the tipster, the smartphone will be available in Bahama Blue and Grey Mirror colour options. OnePlus is yet to reveal India price and other detai...
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Oscars 2022 will be held at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on March 27, and Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall are in final negotiations to host the 94th Academy Awards ceremony.
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Poco M4 Pro 5G India launch is taking place today (Tuesday, February 15) through a livestream. The Poco phone debuted in Europe last year, with features including a 90Hz display and a MediaTek Dimensity 810 SoC.
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Foxconn, a major Apple supplier, has partnered with Indian conglomerate Vedanta to make semiconductors in the in India amid a global chip shortage.
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Asus ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro India launch will be held today (Tuesday, February 15).
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Moon Knight — the next Marvel series on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar, premiering March 30 — will be "loud", "brutal," and will "not pull back" from the violence. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has promised said that the upcoming six-episode limited series 'Moon Knight' is a lot edgier and will take the Marvel Cinematic Universe in an even darker direction.
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Vivo T1 5G was launched in India earlier this month and it is now going on sale in the country for the first time today, February 14. The handset will be available for purchase via the company website, Flipkart, and Vivo's partner stores. Vivo T1 5G features a display with 120Hz refresh rate and is powered by the Snapdragon 695 5G processor. Customers can choose the h...
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Prosecutors in the high-profile corruption case against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that police have found no unlawful use of phone surveillance technology against witnesses in the trial.
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The San Francisco 49ers have been hit by a ransomware attack, with cybercriminals claiming they stole some of the football team's financial data.
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Jio announced a joint venture with Luxembourg-based SES to provide satellite-based broadband services in India, a joint statement said.
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El Salvador has risked scoring funds from the IMF programme that would unlock financing for 2022-23, causing its ratings on Fitch to drop to “junk grade”. In its report, Fitch Ratings said that adopting Bitcoin as a legal tender was not surely an economically viable decision for the country.
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Honor, a former subsidiary of Huawei, will launch a new smartphone on February 28 during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 in Barcelona. Ahead of the launch, the company confirmed the processor of the upcoming device. The leaked Geekbench scores of Honor Magic 4 showed that the upcoming handset outperforms Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
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OneWeb announced the successful deployment of 34 satellites by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Centre.
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When Denyse Holt failed to text her daily Wordle score, her daughter knew something must be wrong. Hours later a police SWAT team rescued the 80-year-old Chicago woman from a naked home intruder who had been holding her hostage with a pair of scissors.
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Tecno is set to launch a new affordable smartphone as part of its Spark smartphone lineup, the company has revealed. The smartphone will feature 6GB of RAM and will be priced under Rs. 8,000 and will be available for purchase via Amazon, according to the company. The specifications, name, and pricing of the smartphone are yet to be revealed.
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Garmin Instinct 2 Solar and Standard Edition smartwatch along with Garmin D2 Air X10 Aviator smartwatch have been launched in the US. The wearables are aimed at people in different lines of work, including surfers, and pilots.
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Ethereum scaling startup Optimism announced that it had identified and patched a critical bug earlier this month which was discovered and fixed by an iOS jailbreak software Cydia developer and white-hat hacker Jay Freeman for which he was awarded a sum upwards of $2 million (roughly Rs. 15 crore).
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White House has issued a warning to the chip industry of possible retaliation by Russia to US export curbs, which could further exasperate a global chip shortage.
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Telegram has blocked 64 of its channels in Germany, local newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday.
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Apple is said to be raising the salary of its US retail employees by up to 10 percent, effective this month.
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NASA has shared the first picture sent back by the James Webb Space Telescope — as well as a selfie — that is now up and running. The new space telescope will eventually replace the aging Hubble Space Telescope that routinely sends magnificent images of the cosmos.
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NFT marketplace Cent, which was behind facilitating the sale of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet on the platform, has shut operations citing rampant fakes, plagiarism, and wash-trading.
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Intel has launched a new chip it says has been specially designed for blockchain activities such as Bitcoin mining and minting NFTs.
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Twitter was not accessible for thousands of users around the world on Friday. The issue was acknowledged by the social network and fixed shortly after.
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MX TakaTak will merge with ShareChat's Moj platform to create a community of 100 million content creators with access to 300 million monthly active users, a joint statement said.
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Oppo Reno 7 5G was launched in India earlier this month and it is now going on pre-orders in the country for the first time today, February 11. Users interested in buying Oppo's latest Reno 7-series smartphone can pre-book the device via the company website and Flipkart. Oppo Reno 7 5G features 90Hz refresh rate and is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 900 processor.
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Apple announced updates to AirTag tracking devices to prevent them from being used to secretly track people instead of just finding lost keys, wallets, or other items.
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Tesla is recalling nearly 579,000 vehicles in the US because a “Boombox” function can play sounds over an external speaker and obscure audible warnings for pedestrians.
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Twitter reported weaker-than-expected quarterly advertising revenue and user growth and forecast revenue short of Wall Street targets, indicating that its turnaround plan has yet to bear fruit.
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With Bitcoin and Ether registering gains, the overall crypto market marked a healthy improvement. Binance Coin, Ripple, and Cardano saw gains among others. USD Coin suffered marginal loss.
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OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G launch date has been set for February 17, the company announced on Thursday. The upcoming smartphone has been teased by the company in a short video on Twitter, showing the design and the camera module ahead of the official launch. OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G is tipped to sport a MediaTek Dimensity 900 SoC, along with a 6.4-inch AMOLED display, according...
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NASA raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to deploy about 30,000 satellites for its Starlink, as have some major companies.
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Airtel may take lead in hiking mobile call and services rates this year as it looks to increase average revenue per user to Rs. 200, a top official of the company said.
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Samsung is making the biggest change to its smartphone strategy in years by reorganising around its big-selling Galaxy S and foldable Galaxy Z series. The company plans to discontinue its Note lineup of stylus-equipped phones and instead distribute that capability across its portfolio while pushing premium foldables in its challenge to Apple.
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Sony is set to roll out its second PlayStation 5 system software beta today, which will offer the ability to test support for Open Parties and Voice Commands. Gamers will also be able to test improvements to the Game Base and user interface. Sony will introduce support for mono audio on headphones, while increasing the number of Screen Reader languages to 15. PlayStat...
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Infinix Zero 5G has been launched. The handset features a hole-punch display design and offers a refresh rate of 120Hz. Infinix Zero 5G is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 900 chipset coupled with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage. The phone packs a 5,000mAh battery with 33W fast charging support.
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Redmi Note 11 and Redmi Note 11S India launch is taking place today (Wednesday, February 9). Both Redmi Note phones come with features including 90Hz AMOLED displays and quad rear cameras. Additionally, Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi is launching the Redmi Smart Band Pro and Redmi Smart TV X43 at today’s launch.
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Bitcoin bulls have successfully returned the world's most popular digital currency’s price to the $44,000 (roughly Rs. 33 lakh) support level, boosted by encouraging occurrences although a run beyond $45,000 (roughly Rs. 35 lakh) may not happen just yet.
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Instagram has unveiled a host of new features, making it easier to remove content and review other user activity on the platform. These features were rolled out as a part of the Safer Internet Day initiatives by the Meta-owned photo-sharing app. The features can be accessed from a new section called Your Activity in the users’ profile.
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Vivo T1 5G will launch in India today at 12pm. The smartphone launched in China last year alongside Vivo T1x 5G. The Indian variant seems to be different from the Chinese variant, as both get different processors. The Indian variant will be powered by a Snapdragon 695 5G SoC as opposed to the Chinese variant's Snapdragon 778G SoC.
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The European Union announced a $48-billion (roughly Rs. 3,58,520 crore) plan to become a major semiconductor producer, seeking to curb its dependency on Asian markets for the component that powers everything from cars to hospital ventilators and game consoles.
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Apple is introducing a new feature that will allow businesses to accept credit card and digital payments with just a tap on their iPhone handsets, bypassing hardware systems such as Block's Square terminals.
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A Motorola Edge-series smartphone has been teased to launch in India later this month. It is being speculated to be Motorola Edge 30 Pro, essentially a rebranded version of Moto Edge X30 that launched in China in December.
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Tesla said it received a subpoena from the US securities regulator related to a settlement that required CEO Elon Musk's tweets on material information about the company to be vetted.
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Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former US President Donald Trump, is leaving the board of directors of Facebook-parent Meta.
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Facebook-parent Meta said it has no plans to pull its services from Europe, after raising the possibility amid an ongoing row over transferring European data to the United States.
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US firm Nvidia is scrapping its $40 billion (roughly Rs. 2,98,600 crore) bid to buy UK mobile chip technology powerhouse Arm from SoftBank after persistent objections from regulators.
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NASA has shared stunning new images that show how the universe looks when the data Hubble Space Telescope date is combined with that of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
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Bitcoin mimicked a stock market rally and gained nearly 16 percent on Friday to reach a two-week high, which is a nearly 27 percent increase from the year's low of $32,950 (roughly Rs. 24,59,500) on January 24.
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GTA 6, or the next instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series, is in ‘active development’, its developer Rockstar Games’ subsidiary Take Two Interactive announced via a tweet on Friday.
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Amazon workers in Alabama are trying new tactics to gather support in favour of unionising in a do-over election after Amazon was determined to have unfairly influenced the first election last year.
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Meta introduced a new ‘personal boundary’ on Friday after reports of sexual harassment in the Horizon Worlds metaverse raised questions about the VR experience.
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Amazon gained a whopping $190 Billion on Friday, recording the company’s biggest single-day gain of 13.5 percent, following a blockbuster quarterly earnings report.
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Wall Street Journal and New York Post owner News Corp said on Friday that it has been the victim of a major hack attack that targeted journalists and stole their data including draft articles.
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Apple plans to launch iPhone SE 3 with 5G capabilities and a new iPad at an event on or near March 8, Bloomberg has reported citing people familiar with the matter.
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Netflix has unveiled the first look of the films coming to the streaming service in 2022 and it includes Chris Evans-starrer The Gray Man and Knives Out 2 with Daniel Craig in lead.
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Bitcoin mimicked a stock market rally and gained nearly 16 percent on Friday to reach a two-week high, which is a nearly 27 percent increase from the year's low of $32,950 (roughly Rs. 24,59,500) on January 24.
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GTA 6, or the next instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series, is in ‘active development’, its developer Rockstar Games’ subsidiary Take Two Interactive announced via a tweet on Friday.
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Amazon workers in Alabama are trying new tactics to gather support in favour of unionising in a do-over election after Amazon was determined to have unfairly influenced the first election last year.
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Meta introduced a new ‘personal boundary’ on Friday after reports of sexual harassment in the Horizon Worlds metaverse raised questions about the VR experience.
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Amazon gained a whopping $190 Billion on Friday, recording the company’s biggest single-day gain of 13.5 percent, following a blockbuster quarterly earnings report.
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Wall Street Journal and New York Post owner News Corp said on Friday that it has been the victim of a major hack attack that targeted journalists and stole their data including draft articles.
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Apple plans to launch iPhone SE 3 with 5G capabilities and a new iPad at an event on or near March 8, Bloomberg has reported citing people familiar with the matter.
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Moto G Stylus (2022) has been launched in the US. The new Motorola phone comes with a stylus pen — similar to the past two generations of the Moto G Stylus. The Moto G Stylus (2022) also features a 90Hz display and triple rear cameras.
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After weeks of losses, Bitcoin value finally touched the mark of $40,000 (roughly Rs. 30 lakh) on Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber. Ether, Cardano, Solana, and Ripple also registered gains. Some altcoins including USD Coin and Tether saw price dips, but only minor.
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Amazon reported that its profits nearly doubled in the final three months of last year, even as it contended with surging costs tied to a snarled supply chain and labour shortages.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth dropped as much as $31 billion (roughly Rs. 2,31,600 crore), among the biggest one-day drops in wealth ever, after Meta’s fourth-quarter results fell short of analysts’ expectations.
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Meta is putting a lot of virtual eggs — and billions of dollars — into the metaverse basket, and Wall Street is pretty anxious about it.
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NFTs based on India’s first metaverse wedding were dropped on the Beyondlife.Club and witnessed rapid sales. The collection was launched by GuardianLink.io and was sponsored by Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber.
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Cardano developer Input Output has proposed increasing the network’s block size by 11 percent from 72KB to 80KB after network load surged above 90 percent with the launch of a number of decentralized apps (dApps) on the platform.
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An Indian cryptocurrency trader who amassed a $40-million (roughly Rs. 299 crore) fortune was kidnapped by a police officer and seven others who demanded he transfer his Bitcoin wallet to them, authorities said Wednesday.
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Realme 9 Pro and Realme 9 Pro+ India launch date is set for February 16, the Chinese company confirmed on Thursday. Realme Vice President Madhav Sheth separately indicated the Realme 9 Pro series price in India. Realme 9 Pro and Realme 9 Pro+ specifications have also been teased.
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The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group's powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to surveil journalists, dissidents. and human rights activists has long been established. It suggested its motivation was to “stay abreast of emerging technologies and tradecraft.”
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PayPal shares slumped nearly 17 percent as investors questioned the company's growth prospects after it disclosed a big hit to revenue from the impending loss of marquee client eBay.
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Spotify shares tumbled after the music streaming service — roiled in controversy over its star podcaster Joe Rogan — projected lower profit margins in the coming earnings period as subscriber growth slows.
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Facebook-parent Meta delivered a gloomy mix of a sharper-than-expected drop in profit, a decrease in users and threats to its advertisement business that plunged shares some 22 percent in after-hours trading.
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iPhone SE 3 smartphone has reportedly been imported to India for testing, ahead of the launch of the budget iPhone in India. The company has also imported two new iPad models ahead of its Spring Launch event, where the company is tipped to launch a new budget iPhone, a new iPad Air (5th generation), new M1 Mac mini, and a new iMac Pro with Apple Silicon.
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Verizon plans to turn on around 2,000 additional towers in February in the next phase of its C-Band 5G deployment after talks with US regulators, sources said.
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OnePlus Nord 2 CE Lite 5G is reportedly under development. A tipster has shared a few key specifications of the smartphone. The upcoming budget-oriented smartphone from OnePlus is said to be powered by Snapdragon 695 SoC, paired with up to 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of onboard storage.
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AMD forecast 2022 revenue above expectations, driving its shares up as much as 11 percent in after-hours trading, as stellar demand for its chips used in data centre servers is expected to continue to drive growth.
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Google's parent firm Alphabet announced quarterly profits that beat expectations and nearly doubled in 2021 — after a booming holiday season for the online advertisements giant facing anti-trust regulation scrutiny.
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