Category: Internet

If you are a Shah Rukh Khan fan living in Bangladesh and wanting to see his movie on the big screen, then there’s good news for you. After breaking all box office records in India, Pathaan is now all set to release in the neighbouring country. As per Variety, in February this year, a consortium […]

India is at the vanguard of the digital revolution and its financial inclusion journey can be an example for other developing countries to look at, senior UN officials and economists have said. Speaking on Thursday at the ‘India Roundtable on Financial Inclusion’, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj said the country takes […]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is the latest TV series moving forward with production amidst the ongoing writers’ strike. However, the production will happen without its showrunners on set. As per Variety, the series has 19 days of filming remaining but per the rules set by the Writers Guild of America […]

Block posted a rise in first-quarter revenue on Thursday as its popular payments platform Cash App continued to drive growth, a metric investors will watch closely following U.S. short-seller Hindenburg Research’s disclosure in March of short positions in the firm. Shares of Block, formerly called Square, were up more than 1 percent in extended trading […]

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global posted a smaller-than-feared loss in the first quarter, benefiting from cost cuts and diversification of revenue sources, sending its shares up 7 percent in extended trading on Thursday. The company has benefited from its deal for One River Digital Asset Management to ramp up product offerings in subscription and services revenue, […]

Karl Urban is reportedly in final talks to join the cast of the Mortal Kombat sequel. As per The Wrap, The Boys star is joining the sequel to New Line’s 2021 live-action adaptation in the role of Johnny Cage, the confident action movie star with immense martial arts background. Simon McQuoid will return to direct […]

Advertisers are committed to continue spending on TikTok due to its immense popularity with users despite threats of a potential ban in the U.S. over national security concerns, ad experts said. The steadfastness comes as TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, is fighting to prevent a ban in the U.S. after lawmakers […]

Microsoft has offered to charge different prices for its Office product with and without its Teams app to stave off a possible EU antitrust investigation and fine, two people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft has been seeking to address the EU competition enforcer’s concerns since last year after Salesforce-owned workspace messaging app Slack complained […]

Elon Musk’s brain-implant venture has filled an animal-research oversight board with company insiders who may stand to benefit financially as the firm reaches development goals, according to company documents and interviews with six current and former employees. Such oversight boards are required by federal law for organizations experimenting on certain types of animals. The panels […]

President Joe Biden attended a White House meeting with CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet‘s Google and Microsoft, on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally. Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public’s […]

It’s that time again when we sit down and discuss the biggest games coming out each month. To kick things off, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is undeniably the highlight of May, opening gates to the floating Sky Islands above an even more expanded Hyrule kingdom. Play around with new sandbox abilities […]

Britain’s competition regulator said on Thursday it would start examining the impact of artificial intelligence on consumers, businesses, and the economy and whether new controls were needed on technologies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. While research on AI has been going on for years, the sudden popularity of generative AI applications such as ChatGPT and Midjourney […]

Netflix only has one Indian original in store for us in May — The Tailor May 3Jewish MatchmakingTu Jhooti Main Makaar May 4SanctuaryQueen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story May 5The Emoji MovieThreeMeter May 7A Quiet Place May 9Hannah Gadsby: Something Special May 10Missing: Dead or Alive?High CrimesQueen CleopatraDance Brothers May 11One Night StandRoyalteen: Princess MargretheUltraman: Season […]

The Indian cyber security agency has issued a warning against the “Royal ransomware” virus that attacks critical sectors like communications, healthcare, education, and even individuals and seeks pay-off in Bitcoins for not leaking personal data in the public domain. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In has stated in the latest advisory that this […]

After nearly a decade of groundwork and a year of announcing support for the same, Google has finally begun rolling out support for the passkeys authentication system, that it claims is more secure than standard passwords and even a 2-step verification (2SV). Apple, Google, and Microsoft, a year ago, together announced that they would begin […]

Microsoft on Thursday expanded public access to its generative artificial intelligence programs, despite fears that tech firms are rushing ahead too quickly with potentially dangerous technology. The AI-enhanced features of the company’s Bing search engine and Edge internet browser are now open for anyone to use, Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president, said in a blog […]

Social media giant Meta’s Facebook took action against around 45 percent of complaints it received from users and Instagram against 64 percent of grievances raised by users in March 2023, according to the company’s latest India Monthly Report. As per the category-wise information disclosed by Meta, Facebook acted only on around 8 percent of grievances […]

Microsoft will host its Xbox Games Showcase on June 11 — as confirmed before — and ahead of the event, the company has dropped timings and other details for the same. The showcase will be held live across Xbox’s official YouTube and Twitch channels, at 10:30pm IST in India/ 10am PT in the US. The […]

The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Meta’s Facebook of misleading parents about protections for children and proposed tightening an existing agreement on privacy to include a ban on making money from minors’ data. Specifically, the FTC said Facebook misled parents about how much control they had over who their children had contact with in […]

Britain’s antitrust regulator on Wednesday refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it had no power to open an investigation into Apple’s mobile browser and cloud gaming services. Apple won an appeal in March against the decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to open a full investigation into the dominance of Apple […]

Dune: Part Two trailer is finally here — in English and Hindi. Warner Bros. has dropped the first footage for the much-anticipated sequel from Denis Villeneuve, transporting us back to the desert planet Arrakis, as Paul Atreidis (Timothée Chalamet) plots his revenge against the Harkonnen family. Previously slated to hit theatres on November 17, the […]

The Federal Trade Commission’s chief said the agency was committed to using existing laws to rein in some of the dangers of artificial intelligence, such as enhancing the power of dominant firms and “turbocharging” fraud. “Although these (AI) tools are novel, they are not exempt from existing rules, and the FTC will vigorously enforce the […]

Alphabet’s Google LLC won a jury trial on Tuesday in a long-running patent lawsuit in Delaware federal court over features in Google’s smartphones and apps. The jury decided that Luxembourg-based patent owner Arendi SARL’s patent was invalid and that Google did not infringe it, according to the verdict made public on Wednesday. Attorneys for Arendi […]

Apple will likely report a more than 4 percent drop in revenue, its second straight quarterly decline, weighed down by consumers shunning non-essential purchases such as iPhones and Mac computers and slowing growth at its services business. The results on Thursday from the world’s most valuable company will follow better-than-expected earnings from U.S. technology peers, […]

VLC, the popular open-source cross-platform multimedia player, has rolled out an update for for its app on iPhone, bringing in several new features including a redesigned UI, along with support for Apple CarPlay. With the latest update, the app can now be accessed via Apple’s CarPlay platform as well. It will allow users to easily […]

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Tuesday announced the addition of a new facility on its website and mobile app to allow residents to verify their mobile numbers and email IDs seeded with their Aadhaar. The development comes after the Aadhaar custodian noticed that in some instances, residents were not aware or sure […]

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2023 is set to kick off in a few hours and the ecommerce platform’s sale is set to bring deals, discounts, and offers on a wide range of consumer electronics and other products. Just like previous sales, Amazon Prime members will have access to the sale a few hours before everyone […]

Uber shares rocketed higher early Tuesday after the ride-hailing and delivery company reported a jump in revenues amid rising demand. Pointing to robust activity in numerous markets, the company reported a 29 percent jump in first-quarter revenues to $8.8 billion (roughly Rs. 72,000 crore), with much higher gross bookings in both mobility and delivery. Uber […]

Journalism is being battered by propaganda and increasingly sophisticated fakes, aided by AI software and a failure of oversight from tech companies, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Wednesday. Overall, the environment for journalists was rated as “bad” in 70 percent of the 180 countries in the NGO’s annual ranking, and “good” in just eight countries. […]

Of the dozens of listed companies talking up the potential of ChatGPT-like technologies, Chegg is among the first to publicly state just how deleterious the trend could be for its business. It needn’t be, though management seems ready to ride the wave of this new innovation rather than swim against the current. Chegg describes itself […]