Category: Internet

US memory chip firm Micron Technology said on Thursday it would invest up to $825 million (roughly Rs. 6,760 crore)in a new chip assembly and test facility in Gujarat, India, its first factory in the country. Micron said that with support from the Indian central government and from the state of Gujarat, the total investment […]

Elon Musk is eager to bring his Starlink satellite broadband to India, but the world’s richest man faces strong resistance from Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s wealthiest, who runs Indian telecom giant Reliance Jio.Following a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the US on Tuesday, Musk said he was keen to launch Starlink in India […]

Nintendo just revealed its next major Super Mario game at its Direct showcase event, held late Wednesday. Dubbed Super Mario Bros. Wonder, it’s a 2D side-scrolling game that brings a slew of new mechanics to the beloved platformer, such as a new power-up that turns the titular Italian plumber into an elephant. It marks the […]

The EU commissioner in charge of enforcing Europe’s new landmark rules on online content is heading to San Francisco on Thursday to ensure that the big platforms are ready. The two-day visit by Thierry Breton comes just weeks before the European Union’s Digital Service Act (DSA) comes into full force for the world’s biggest platforms, […]

US Senate Majority Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called for “comprehensive legislation” to advance and ensure safeguards on artificial intelligence (AI) and will hold a series of forums later this year. “If the government doesn’t step in, who will fill its place? Individuals and the private sector can’t do the work of protecting our country,” Schumer […]

An Australian cyber regulator on Thursday said it has demanded Twitter explain its handling of online hate as the microblog has become the country’s most complained-about platform since new owner Elon Musk lifted bans on a reported 62,000 accounts. The demand builds on a campaign by the eSafety Commissioner to make the website more accountable […]

Twitter has resumed paying Alphabet’s Google Cloud for its services, according to a person familiar with the matter. Bloomberg News reported the news earlier on Wednesday. A report from Platformer earlier this month said Twitter had refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract came up for renewal. Linda Yaccarino, the social media […]

The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Amazon.com of enrolling millions of consumers into its paid subscription Amazon Prime service without their consent and making it hard for them to cancel, the agency’s latest action against the ecommerce giant in recent weeks. The FTC sued Amazon in federal court in Seattle, alleging that the […]

Microsoft on Wednesday introduced a new computing service aimed at helping chemical companies speed up the research and development of new materials. Azure Quantum Elements, as the service is called, relies on computing power to help chemical companies simulate huge numbers of possible combinations of atoms. The point is to use computers to explore possible […]

Alphabet‘s Google must pay patent holding company Personal Audio LLC $15.1 million (nearly Rs. 120 crore) for infringing two patents related to audio software, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Wednesday. Personal Audio had argued that Google’s music app Google Play Music featured playlist downloading, navigation and editing features that […]

Alphabet‘s Google formally filed a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday saying Microsoft used its dominant position in enterprise software to push customers towards its cloud services, The Information reported on Wednesday. Microsoft used the licensing terms in its Office 365 productivity software to lock customers into separate contracts with its Azure […]

Amazon customers can now use their Rs. 2,000 notes to top up their Amazon Pay balances during cash-on-delivery orders, as it offers a doorstep solution to ease the stress of exchanging such currency.  Customers can deposit cash of up to Rs. 50,000 per month, including notes of Rs. 2,000 denomination, Amazon said. The cash load […]

Instagram has now introduced a new feature that allows users to download Reels shared by public accounts. The announcement regarding the feature was made by Instagram head Adam Mosseri in his Instagram broadcast channel. The feature is currently rolling out to users based in the US only. Until now, Instagram allowed users to directly share […]

Microsoft and Google have recently made big investments in two of the most valuable companies in artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, has received a staggering investment of $10 billion (roughly Rs. 81,807 crore) from Microsoft, while Google has invested $300 million (roughly Rs. 2,460 crore) in Anthropic. The companies’ financial support for AI has pushed […]

Finally, the trailer of the much anticipated second edition of the International Emmy-nominated anthology Lust Stories 2 is out. Taking to Instagram, Tamannaah Bhatia treated fans to a trailer. Sharing the trailer, she wrote, “How much lust is 2 much lust? Find out for yourself, because #LustStories2 is coming on 29th June, only on Netflix!#LustStories2OnNetflix.” […]

Electronic Arts is undergoing a massive internal restructuring, splitting EA Games’ studios into two separate organisations. The shakeup has now formed separate divisions EA Sports and EA Games, with the latter further being rebranded to EA Entertainment. As the name suggests, EA Entertainment will build upon owned blockbuster IPs, as well as licensed ones through […]

YouTube will launch its first official shopping channel for live commerce in South Korea on June 30, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday. South Korea already has a booming live-streaming commerce business led by tech giant Naver, making it a prime test market for the global heavyweight as the Alphabet-owned company focuses on becoming more […]

Spotify HiFi, the company’s lossless audio streaming tier, will reportedly be launched by the streaming service soon. The company initially revealed its lossless streaming audio tier over two years ago, but is yet to make an official announcement regarding its release date. The new lossless tier will compete with streaming services like Apple Music and […]

Netflix is making changes to its viewership measurement system, for better transparency. The streamer will now rank its programming’s average viewership as ‘views’, which is hours viewed divided by the runtime of the film or series. Previously, its Top 10 lists were simply based on hours watched, which was an inaccurate portrayal of a title’s […]

France’s Teleperformance signed a $185 million (roughly Rs. 697 crore) deal with Microsoft to launch its proprietary TP GenAI, the outsourcing group said on Tuesday, ahead of its artificial intelligence investor day. Teleperformance will host on Wednesday a virtual meeting with its AI experts to let investors peek behind the curtains of its efforts in […]

OpenAI, creator of the widely popular chatbot ChatGPT, plans to launch a marketplace that will allow developers to sell their AI models built on top of its own AI technology, news site the Information reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of discussions at the company. Enterprise customers using ChatGPT often tailor the technology to […]

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick are among the witnesses planned for a five-day evidentiary hearing set to begin this week on the Federal Trade Commission’s legal bid to block the deal, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The FTC is seeking a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft from completing […]

Twitter employees sued the social media company claiming it refuses to pay 2022 bonuses, despite promises that they would be paid out at 50 percent of their target amounts. Twitter has a cash performance bonus plan that is paid out annually and in the months leading up to Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company in […]

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the electric carmaker is looking to invest in India “as soon as humanly possible.” His comments followed a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York during Modi’s state visit to the United States. A source previously told Reuters that Musk would brief Modi […]

Gannett, the largest US newspaper chain, on Tuesday sued Google, accusing the social media company of violating federal antitrust law by trying to monopolize the market for online advertising. The publisher of USA Today and more than 200 daily newspapers in a complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan said media are suffering because Google […]

Alphabet‘s Google on Friday sued a Los Angeles man and his companies in San Jose, California federal court, claiming he created hundreds of fake business listings on its platforms and sold them to real businesses to lure in unsuspecting customers. Fake reviews have been a recurring problem on internet commerce sites. Google said in a […]

ESports has long been derided as “not a real sport”. But now, an Olympic-organised event is being dismissed by competitive gamers as not real eSports. Many long-time backers of big-money digital contests, which are edging their way towards elite-level recognition, are puzzled by the choice of games at the inaugural Olympics Esports Week that kicks […]

WhatsApp is rolling out a feature designed to protect users from unwanted calls on the messaging platform. The Meta-owned app will allow users to simply toggle a setting that will silence calls from spam and nuisance callers. These calls typically come from numbers that are not part of a user’s contact list, and the new […]

European antitrust regulators are preparing to launch a formal investigation into software giant Adobe’s $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,64,200 crore) buyout deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma later this year, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. EU authorities plan to push forward with a detailed investigation, over anti-competition concerns, which could take many months and may ultimately […]

Meta announced Voicebox, its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can generate speech from text last week. The latest tool by Facebook parent Meta is claimed to produce high-quality audio clips and edit pre-recorded audio while preserving the content and style of the audio. It is said to be multilingual and claimed to deliver speech […]