Technology

  • Apple supplier Foxconn begins work on its 1st EV battery plant

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    Taipei, June 15 Largest iPhone manufacturer Foxconn on Wednesday broke ground on its first battery cell plant in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, the media reported. The move came after the company said it aims to become the first EV maker that is "not short on material supplies." "We ...
  • Tesla FSD Beta V.11 likely to be ready for wide release soon: Musk

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    San Francisco, June 15 Tech billionaire Elon Musk has estimated that his electric vehicle company Tesla's full self-driving (FSD) Beta version 11 would be ready for wide release by the summer of 2022. A user on the microblogging site Twitter asked Musk when FSD Beta version 11 would be rolling ...
  • Qualcomm acquires Cellwize to boost 5G adoption

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    San Francisco, June 13 Chip-maker Qualcomm has acquired Cellwize Wireless Technologies, a leader in mobile network automation and management, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will boost Qualcomm's as a leader in 5G Radio Access Networks (RAN) innovation and adoption. "The addition of Cellwize's best-in-class RAN automation technologies strengthens Qualcomm ...
  • TikTok’s parent company plans to enter VR space: Report

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    San Francisco, June 12 Short-video-making app TikTok's parent company ByteDance is most likely preparing to join the virtual reality (VR) space, media reports say. According to a source close to the issue, ByteDance aims to invest "tons of money" in VR-related content, citing a report from Protocol, The Verge reported ...
  • Netflix announces fresh games based on popular TV shows

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    New Delhi, June 11 Popular streaming service Netflix has announced new games for its gaming service that are tied to some of its popular TV shows like 'The Queens Gambit,' 'Shadow and Bone,' 'Too Hot To Handle' and 'Money Heist'. Netflix currently offers 22 games and plans to have 50 ...
  • Apple updates App Store criteria again to meet Dutch govt regulations

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    San Francisco, June 11 Following complaints from the Dutch government that said the company's actions to allow dating apps to use alternative payment methods on the App Store is 'insufficient', tech giant Apple has once again updated its App Store guidelines. Apple said that following productive conversations with the Netherlands ...
  • Subscription-based ‘Telegram Premium’ coming this month, confirms CEO (Ld)

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    San Francisco, June 11 Instant messaging platform Telegram's founder and CEO Pavel Durov has confirmed that a subscription-based offering, Telegram Premium, will be coming later this month. On Friday, Durov spoke about the upcoming premium version of Telegram. "After giving it some thought, we realised that the only way to ...
  • Tesla plans 3-way stock split to make its shares affordable

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    San Francisco, June 11 Elon Musk-run Tesla has asked its shareholders to approve a three-way stock split which will make its share more affordable. Tesla stock has jumped 43.5 per cent since the company's last stock split in August 2020. "The primary purpose of the Authorised Shares Amendment is to ...
  • Google Maps to show air quality around you

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    San Francisco, June 10 Tech giant Google has rolled out a new feature for Google Maps that will now show the air quality layer in the US on both Android and iOS users. According to 9To5Google, this will show users what to expect, air-wise: whether it's smoggy, smoky, otherwise bad, ...
  • Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe finds amino acids in asteroid samples

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    Tokyo, June 10 Japan's Hayabusa2 space mission, which brought to Earth samples from an asteroid in late 2020, has found more than 20 types of amino acids in it, according to Japanese space agency JAXA officials. In 2018, Hayabusa2 landed atop a moving asteroid named Ryugu and collected particles from ...