Technology

  • Twitter whistleblower will depose in Musk-Twitter legal battle

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    San Francisco, Aug 29 So-called Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko will appear before the judge in a legal battle between Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform, the media reported on Monday. Former Twitter security chief Zatko has alleged that Twitter misled regulators about its security practices and actual number ...
  • IIT team develops edible coatings to extend shelf life of fruits, vegetables

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    Guwahati, Aug 29 Amid tonnes of crop waste in the country, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, has developed an edible coating material to extend the shelf-life of fruits and vegetables. This coating material, which will prevent wastage, was tested on vegetables and fruits ...
  • Musk begins fasting to stay healthy, did Dorsey advice him?

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    San Francisco, Aug 29 In an update to his eccentric food habits, tech billionaire Elon Musk said he feels healthier after fasting periodically, which he says has been adviced by a good friend and netizens are wondering if it may be former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. On the microblogging site, ...
  • SpaceX launches 54 Starlink satellites, lands rocket at sea

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    San Francisco, Aug 28 Elon Musk-owned SpaceX has launched 54 more of its Starlink broadband satellites in orbit and landed a rocket on a ship at sea on Saturday night. According to space.com, a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 54 Starlink spacecraft, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ...
  • Samsung testing next-gen Tensor, Exynos 1380 processors

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    Seoul, Aug 28 South Korean tech giant Samsung is testing a next-gen Tensor chipset that is said to be the third-generation Google Tensor chipset that will power the Pixel 8 series. The development board of the chipset has the code name 'Ripcurrent,' and the chip itself is codenamed 'Zuma,' reports ...
  • Netflix likely testing multiplayer feature in select mobile titles

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    San Francisco, Aug 28 Video streaming platform Netflix is working on features that will let customers play its mobile games against one another and rank themselves on gaming leaderboards. According to TechCrunch, starting last month, Netflix quietly launched the ability for users to create unique "game handles" in a subset ...
  • Google Duo gone, but its icon returns on Android

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    San Francisco, Aug 28 After rebranding its Duo video chat app as Meet, tech giant Google has brought back the original Duo icon and name as a separate shortcut that appears in the app launcher. Google decided to combine its two video calling services into one and selected "Meet" as ...
  • Google launches software to build apps that work across devices

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    New Delhi, Aug 28 Google has launched a new cross-device software development kit (SDK) that allows developers to build apps that work across Android and non-Android devices. The cross device software, compatible till the Android 8 version, is now available with a developer preview for Android phones and tablets, and ...
  • Cyber fraudsters use police commissioner’s photo to scam people

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    Guwahati, Aug 27 Guwahati police commissioner Harmeet Singh has fallen prey to cyber fraud as some unidentified fraudsters were using his photograph and sending messages by impersonating him on WhatsApp. The imposters used a photo of Singh as a display picture (DP) on WhatsApp while they sent messages to many ...
  • US likely to probe Apple over anti-market practices

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    San Francisco, Aug 27 After taking on Meta (Facebook) and Google with antitrust lawsuits, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly drafting an antitrust case against Apple, alleging that the company "abused its market power to stifle smaller tech companies, including app developers and competing hardware makers". According to ...