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Facebook, Instagram face another global outage in less than a month

Facebook and Instagram went down for millions of its users for couple of hours in various parts of the world early Friday morning

INALSA to launch Flipkart-exclusive Robot Vacuum Cleaner in India on Apr 10

INALSA is launching its Robot Vacuum Cleaner in India on April 10, and it will be available online exclusive on home-grown e-commerce platform Flipkart

US adds seven Chinese computer makers, research labs to export blacklist

The Biden administration has added seven Chinese supercomputer research labs and manufacturers to a US export blacklist in a spreading conflict with Beijing over technology and security

Elon Musk-backed 'Neuralink' shows how monkey plays Pong with mind

Elon Musk-run brain-machine interface company Neuralink on Friday posted a YouTube video where a monkey can be seen playing a video game by navigating an on-screen cursor using his mind

Tom Holland to lead first season of Apple's new series 'The Crowded Room'

Actor Tom Holland's seasonal anthology series will debut on Apple TV Plus

After Facebook, LinkedIn faces massive 500 mn users' data leak: Report

Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn is now facing a massive data leak of 500 million users that is allegedly being sold online

Muslim civil rights group sues Facebook over hate speech: Details here

A civil rights group said CEO Mark Zuckerberg made false and deceptive" statements to Congress when he said the giant social network removes hate speech and other material that violates its rules

Kremlin asks Russian IT to develop Zoom's domestic alternatives: Know more

Zoom's decision to stop access to its service for Russian state agencies should lead to the development of domestic alternatives, said Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov

Epic Games case: Apple to argue it faces competition in video game market

Epic sued Apple last year in federal court in California, alleging the 15% to 30% commissions that Apple charges for the use of its in-app payment systems

Non-fungible tokens: Latest craze among crypto-rich art collectors

Retail investors should stay away given the high volatility

Unconfirmed 'Pixel Buds A' earbuds show up inadvertently on Google website

Google has accidentally revealed an image of its upcoming Pixel Buds A in a dark green colour variant

Intel launches 3rd Gen Xeon scalable processors for data centres

Intel on Wednesday launched its new 3rd Gen "Ice Lake" Xeon Scalable processors for data centres around the world including in India

Apple News Plus service could reach 19 million subscribers by 2023: Analyst

Apple's subscription news and magazine service Apple News Plus could reach 19 million paid subscribers by 2023, according to an analyst

Google announces new app review process to curb policy violations

Google has introduced a new app review process for both developers and advertisers to help them resolve issues upfront and lessen the likelihood of future policy violations

WhatsApp for Business gets new feature to improve shopping experience

WhatsApp on Wednesday announced two new features to make it easier for people to know whats available and for entrepreneurs to quickly sell their products on WhatsApp for Business

This aerospace engineer's firm saves fishermen's lives using satellite tech

Thousands of fishermen perish at sea every year due to poor connectivity technology. Parthsarathi Trivedi is addressing this issue via his firm Skylo Technologies, which runs a satellite-based network

WhatsApp's competitor Signal tests peer-to-peer payments via cryptocurrency

Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced that it is working to let users send money in cryptocurrency to friends and relatives

Samsung Electronics expects $8.3 bn in Q1 earnings on strong mobile biz

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday expected a market forecast-beating earnings for the first quarter of 2021, estimating its operating profit at $8.3 billion for the first three months of the year

Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues' firings: Details here

Though at least two Google engineers had earlier resigned to protest the dismissal of artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Timnit Gebru, Bengio is the highest-profile employee yet to depart

Data on 530 mn users reported in leak 'scraped' before Sep 2019: Facebook

Facebook said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 mn users stemmed from misuse of feature in 2019, and that the company had plugged the hole after identifying problem at the time