Category: Internet

Ahead of the annual Summer Game Fest event, creator Geoff Keighley has announced the full list of partners expected to showcase their titles. The list includes 43 publishers and developers, including heavy hitters like PlayStation, which still hasn’t confirmed any exact dates or events for its summer months. The publisher, alongside Xbox, previously pulled out […]

Social networking firm LinkedIn announced Tuesday that it will close down its last service available in China, citing “fierce competition and a challenging macroeconomic climate”. Microsoft-owned LinkedIn was one of the few US technology companies to successfully operate a social media site in China, where the internet is heavily regulated and censored. The company had […]

The government is seeking to tax Netflix’s income earned from streaming services in the country, the Economic Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. In a draft order, income tax authorities attributed an income of about 550 million rupees ($6.73 million) to Netflix’s Indian permanent establishment (PE) in the assessment year 2021-22, […]

Google I/O 2023 saw the arrival of several new AI-powered features and improvements that are making their way to the company’s products and services, and the firm has already begun a public preview of some of these features. The company announced handy new AI tools that are centred around its search service, a Duet AI […]

Italy’s antitrust agency AGCM said on Thursday it had opened a probe into US technology giant Apple Inc for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the apps market. The watchdog said Apple penalised third-party app developers by imposing “a more restrictive privacy policy” than it applies to itself, from April 2021. Furthermore, external app […]

A Russian court fined Alphabet‘s Google RUB 3 million (nearly Rs. 31 lakh) on Thursday for failing to delete YouTube videos it said promoted “LGBT propaganda” and “false information” about Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported. Over the last year Moscow has levied dozens of fines against Western tech companies as part […]

Italy’s competition watchdog AGCM is trying to close a legal loophole that has allowed several companies to evade antitrust fines and may help Amazon in an ongoing appeal, a legal expert and two sources told Reuters. The European Commission is closely following the matter, which has potential implications for a record EUR 1.1 billion (nearly […]

Twitter on Thursday announced the launch of its encrypted DMs feature, which is aimed at securing messages on the platform. While this is Twitter’s first move in its goal of supporting end-to-end encrypted messages on the service, the company has warned that the current implementation has multiple limitations. Only verified users can start encrypted chats, […]

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart leads the pack of new titles coming to the PlayStation Plus Extra and Deluxe/ Premium catalogue, this month. Starting May 16, all higher-tier PS Plus subscribers will gain access to Insomniac’s inter-dimensional platformer, where you summon portals to bounce between planets and gun down alien pirates in an effort to […]

The IT Ministry will send a notice to WhatsApp on the issue of spam calls from unknown international numbers, Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday said, asserting that the onus of ensuring user safety lies with the digital platforms. The digital platforms are responsible and accountable for ensuring the safety of ‘digital […]

European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, following a crunch vote on Thursday where they agreed tougher draft legislation. The European Union’s highly anticipated AI Act looks set to be the world’s first comprehensive legislation governing the technology, with new rules around the use of […]

Google I/O 2023 kicked off on Wednesday as Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai took to the stage to reveal several new changes coming to the company’s apps and services. Google’s annual developer conference for 2023 is quite focussed on artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the firm announced several new AI-powered features that are coming […]

US network gear maker Cisco on Wednesday announced it will manufacture products, including routers and switches, in Tamil Nadu to meet rising demand from Indian customers and to diversify its global supply chain. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins also outlined plans targeting $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8.209 crore) of combined exports and domestic production from here amid the […]

A new study claimed Wearable devices such as smartwatches could be used to detect a higher risk of developing heart failure and irregular heart rhythms in later life. The peer-reviewed study, published in The European Heart Journal — Digital Health, looked at data from 83,000 people who had undergone a 15-second electrocardiogram (ECG) comparable to […]

Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions and [Guneet Monga Kapoor’s Sikhya Entertainment have reportedly entered a strategic alliance to produce content across theatrical and digital formats. As per Deadline, the parties would reveal details in the next couple of months, and aim to set new benchmarks within the industry. The two production companies previously worked together on […]

EU antitrust regulators are seeking more information on Apple’s mobile payment system, the European Commission said on Wednesday, a sign that the enforcer is looking to close any loopholes and boost its case against the iPhone maker. The EU competition watchdog last year accused Apple of restricting rivals’ access to its tap-and-go technology, Near-Field Communication […]

Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday demonstrated an updated core search product that embeds more AI in its answers as the company looks to banish doubts that it is losing ground to Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Bing search. Google already has a Bard chatbot that competes with ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI that has generated huge excitement among users […]

Alphabet‘s Google rolled out more artificial intelligence for its core search product, hoping to create some of the same consumer excitement generated by Microsoft‘s relaunch of rival search engine Bing in recent months. At its annual I/O conference in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, Google offered an updated version of its namesake engine. Called the […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will make his first appearance before a Senate panel next week as the US Congress grapples with how best to regulate artificial intelligence as the technology becomes more powerful and widespread. Altman will testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology & the Law on Tuesday on what laws might […]

Microsoft will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards, Insider reported on Wednesday, citing an internal email by CEO Satya Nadella. The tech giant did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. “Last year, we made a significant investment in compensation driven by […]

Retail giant Walmart on Wednesday said India’s unique ecosystem of suppliers will help the company in achieving its goal of exporting goods worth $10 billion (nearly Rs. 81, 950 crore) from the country annually by 2027. Addressing Indian suppliers and partners, Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon reaffirmed the roadmap for strengthening partnerships with Indian […]

Spotify, in an attempt to control the proliferation of computer-generated music on its platform, removed seven percent of the songs published by AI music company, Boomy. The move from Spotify came after Universal Music nudged the Swedish music mammoth about having noticed suspicious activities picking pace around Boomy’s content, especially in-terms of listener figures. Meanwhile, […]

Celebrate Mother’s Day 2023 with a thoughtful tech gift your mom will truly appreciate. We’ve curated a list of amazing gadgets, from smartphones and smartwatches to hairstyling tools and sewing machines, tailored for moms with diverse interests. Our selection combines style and convenience to help you find the perfect gift. Plus, we’ve included irresistible discounts […]

Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday is expected to unveil more artificial intelligence in its products to answer the latest competition from Microsoft, which has threatened its perch atop the nearly $300-billion (roughly Rs. 24,603 crore) search advertising market. Through an internal project code-named Magi, Google has looked to infuse its namesake engine with generative artificial intelligence, technology […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday slammed Meta after executives said it would block news for Canadian Facebook and Instagram users in response to a proposed law that would require digital giants to pay for local journalism content. In February, Google announced it also tested restricting Canadians’ access to news in preparation for the passing […]

Amidst the buzz surrounding his acclaimed performance in HBO’s The Last of Us, Pedro Pascal has now reportedly signed on to lead a new film by the director of Barbarian, Zach Cregger. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the film is titled ‘Weapons’ and is described as an ‘interrelated, multistory horror epic’ that is tonally similar […]

Paytm on Tuesday announced that it was introducing support for UPI Lite on iOS. During a live event, Paytm CEO and Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma announced that the company’s associate Paytm Payments Bank was also adding support for RuPay credit cards on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), along with other features that will allow users to split […]

The 2023 edition of Call of Duty is reportedly eyeing a reveal in early August. As per Insider Gaming, Activision is planning to showcase its next entry in the marquee shooter franchise on August 1, via an in-game event. The format isn’t out of fashion for the publisher, who previously unveiled Call of Duty: Black […]

Amazon, Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft, and other non-European Union cloud service providers looking to secure an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data can only do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company, according to an EU draft document seen by Reuters. US tech giants and others involved in the joint venture can only […]

Google I/O 2023 is set to begin tonight, and the company’s annual developer conference will be streamed live this year. While Google typically announces the next version of its Android operating system along with changes to the company’s mobile apps and application development tools, we can also expect the search giant to launch and unveil […]