Technology

Jaydeep Gohil, a 25-year-old from Surat, has become a TikTok sensation. Better known as “Hydroman”, Gohil performs underwater on popular songs. His unique performance has helped him gain over 4 million followers on the platform. An 18-year-old Yuvraj Singh aka Baba Jackson from Delhi gained everyone’s attention when Hrithik Roshan complimented him […]

Elon Musk bought 13,037 Tesla Inc. shares for $10 million on February 14, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk purchased the shares at an average of $767 each, raising his holding to 34.1 million, or 18.5% of the Palo Alto-based company. Tesla’s shares have soared […]

Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said. The shift, prompted by Britain’s exit from the EU, will leave the sensitive personal information of tens of millions with less protection and within easier […]

E-commerce platform Paytm Mall on Wednesday said it ventured into exports with the aim of becoming India’s largest trading house for “Made in India” products, while targeting Rs 500 crore gross merchandise value (GMV) in the first two years of operations. “We have entered into exports with an objective to […]

Chinese company Xiaomi has been granted a patent for smart masks that would come equipped with sensors and a chip to gather real-time data collection about the air you breathe. The sensor would record data such as total wearing time, pollution absorption, breathing volume and breath counts. The design consists […]

Twitter has announced a new feature that will help users dig through their tweets faster to update an older post with an update. The feature called ‘Continued Thread’ that makes it easier to connect an in-progress tweet to an earlier post. Compose your tweet and then pull down to view […]

Elon Musk has called for regulating all companies, including Tesla, which are working in the field of developing advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI). Responding to an article about independent research lab OpenAI by MIT Technology Review, Musk tweeted: “OpenAI should be more open in my opinion. All orgs developing advanced AI should be […]

Microsoft has begun testing its free open-source software called “ElectionGuard” in a small Wisconsin town in the US that aims to make voting more secure, verifiable and efficient. “ElectionGuard” will enable end-to-end verification of elections, open results to third-party organisations for secure validation, and allow individual voters to confirm their […]

Shares of Apple Inc fell 2 % on Tuesday and dragged the stocks of its suppliers across the globe lower, after the iPhone maker warned of lower sales in the current quarter acknowledging that the coronavirus outbreak was pressuring its supply chain. The drop in Apple’s stock is set to wipe nearly $30 billion […]

At a time when the deadly coronavirus is taking a toll on the tech industry with the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020 getting cancelled, a coronavirus-themed spam is spreading Emotet malware, security researchers said on Tuesday. According to researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Research, the coronavirus-themed campaign targeted Japan, in malicious email […]

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros on Tuesday called for the removal of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Shreyl Sandberg over the company’s policy on political ads in the US presidential election year. In a letter to The Financial Times, Soros said that it is time for both to go. “The company doesn’t […]

   EU industry commissioner Thierry Breton said on Monday it was for Facebook to adapt to Europe’s standards, not the other way round, as he criticised the US social media giant’s proposed internet rules as insufficient. The blunt comments came after a short meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two days […]