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Pixel phone’s camera can now measure heart rate and respiration.

Pixel phone’s camera can now measure heart rate and respiration

Starting next month, the feature will be available in the company’s health-tracking platform Google Fit.

U.S. consumers are said to represent more than a third of total spending in the app to date, according to Sensor Tower.

Reddit app installs exceed 6 million in January on GameStop trading frenzy

Sowmya Ramasubramanian

Google’s new subsea cable to deliver 250TB data per second.

Google’s new subsea cable to deliver 250TB data per second

Aditya Saroha The cable that has a capacity to deliver 250 TB per second across the ocean was built in partnership with SubCom, the global partner for undersea data transport.

An administrator of the OGUsers site did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They have previously said the site bans trading accounts acquired through hacking.

Instagram removes hundreds of accounts tied to username hacking

Reuters Facebook, which said it was working with law enforcement, said many people involved in this practice were minors. It said it had sent cease and desist letters to about a dozen people behind the hacking and selling of about 400 accounts

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‘FAU-G’ game review: Is this a battle royale, with added masala?

Julian Almeida The wait is over, and the much-hyped FAU-G is finally here, in the form of its first campaign mode — and it offers a mixed experience

Teams users can easily get requests approved using the new Approvals feature. | Picture by special arrangement.

Microsoft Teams gets Approvals, Tasks publishing features

Ishan Patra Teams users can easily get requests approved using the new Approvals feature. It allows the users to create, manage, and share approvals.

Apple iMessage gets new security protection in iOS 14 update.

Apple iMessage gets new security protection in iOS 14 update

Aditya Saroha Named ‘BlastDoor’, the system is a sandbox mode that aims to prevent attacks carried out on the messages app.

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The Retina display of the MacBook Air M1

Apple MacBook Air M1 review: The innovation is strong with this one

Divya Kala Bhavani We took the M1-powered MacBook Air for a ride and our heads are still spinning. We get into why this ultrabook is a great base model from Apple.

The Seagate Expansion Card made exclusively for Xbox Series X|S consoles, being used in a Series X console

new launch Xbox gamers, the Seagate Expansion Card has finally come to India

Divya Kala Bhavani The expansion card, made exclusively for the Xbox Series X and S consoles, serves as a backbone to support complex next-generation games, while also reducing loading times

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This drone with a live moth antenna helps in search and rescue operations

Watch | This drone can smell obstacles using live moth antenna

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Pixel phone’s camera can now measure heart rate and respiration

Reddit app installs exceed 6 million in January on GameStop trading frenzy

Boeing to outsource IT work to Dell, eliminate 600 jobs

Parliament proceedings | Over 2.9 lakh cyber security incidents related to digital banking reported in 2020: Dhotre

Bosch says pandemic and chip shortage to weigh on carmakers in 2021

Robinhood lifts trading restrictions on all stocks, including GameStop

Realme expects 40% of phones sold in 2021 to be 5G devices

Realme will bring the latest 5G processors to products in the sub-Rs 20,000 segment so that users can experience the latest technology at versatile price points, Realme CEO added.

Instagram removes hundreds of accounts tied to username hacking

Facebook, which said it was working with law enforcement, said many people involved in this practice were minors. It said it had sent cease and desist letters to about a dozen people behind the hacking and selling of about 400 accounts

Google’s new subsea cable to deliver 250TB data per second

The cable that has a capacity to deliver 250 TB per second across the ocean was built in partnership with SubCom, the global partner for undersea data transport.

Apple near deal with Hyundai on autonomous cars: reports

The report said Apple wanted to work with an established automaker willing to allow the California tech giant to control the software and hardware that will go into the vehicle.

Facebook faces a reckoning in Myanmar after blocked by military

Facebook will have to decide how to play the delicate balance of protecting the democratic politicians and activists versus cooperating with the new regime to get services restored

Google Cloud appoints Bikram Singh Bedi as Managing Director for India

Bedi, a senior leader with over 26 years of leadership experience, will be responsible for leading Google Cloud's sales and operations teams in this dynamic market, a statement said.

Facebook's feud with Apple may dent ad revenue in 2021

Last year, Facebook and Apple locked horns over the iPhone maker’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature. Facebook called the feature an abuse of Apple's market dominance to stifle competition. This feud could hurt Facebook’s ad targeting strategy this year.

GM hit by chip shortage, to cut production at four plants

The chip shortage has led several automakers, including Volkswagen AG, Ford Motor Co, Subaru Corp , Toyota Motor Corp, Nissan Motor Co and Stellantis NV, to cut vehicle production.

Amazon plans AI-powered cameras in delivery vans to improve driver safety

Amazon said in the video that the cameras, developed by transportation technology company Netradyne, use artificial intelligence to provide warnings about speeding and distracted driving among other things.

5 challenges awaiting Amazon’s new CEO

On Tuesday, Amazon announced that Bezos would step aside this summer and assume the role of executive chairman so he can focus on new products and early initiatives being developed at Amazon.

Elon Musk's banter with Robinhood CEO triggers stampede for Clubhouse app

The interaction between the two entrepreneurs on the platform on Sunday came amid intense interest in news around Robinhood, the online brokerage caught up in a wild stockmarket battle between retail investors and big Wall Street funds.

Chip crunch to impact global auto production into third quarter, says IHS

AutoForecast Solutions, which tracks industry production plans, on Tuesday forecast production volume impact of 964,000 vehicles in 2021 due to semiconductor shortage.

Google Meet’s ‘green room’ checks your audio, video quality

It will allow users to check their appearance, microphone, and audio before the video call starts.

Two Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru

The resignations come as workers have demanded commitments to academic freedom and management change in Google's research organisation.

Amazon says, 750% increase in government demands for customer information

The e-commerce giant said it processed 27,664 information requests (excluding AWS) from different countries in the last six months of 2020 compared with 3,282 requests in the first half of the year.

Here’s how Wikipedia plans to tackle misinformation, harassment on its platform

With the new code, the foundation wants to create a global set of community standards for addressing negative behaviour on the site by laying out a set of guidelines of expected and unacceptable behaviour.

Microsoft announces HoloLens 2 for regulated environments

Companies can have different applications for the mixed reality device like to train and onboard new employees, provide workers with access to remote experts, and complete tasks faster with interactive 3D guides.

Xbox gamers, the Seagate Expansion Card has finally come to India

The expansion card, made exclusively for the Xbox Series X and S consoles, serves as a backbone to support complex next-generation games, while also reducing loading times

Vaccine passport | how secure is your data stored in it?

A vaccine passport is not physical passport like the name suggests, but an app. Users can download the app on their smartphones and enter details of their recent COVID-19 test result, temperature scans and inoculation information.

ByteDance's Douyin sues Tencent alleging monopolistic behaviour

ByteDance has asked the court to order Tencent to desist with such restrictions, ByteDance said. Douyin is the Chinese version of ByteDance's popular short video app, TikTok.

Robinhood app downloads soar despite trading restrictions

This data could help ease Robinhood investor concerns that trading curbs imposed last week to cope with the deluge in orders would cost the app users ahead of a planned initial public offering later this year.

Volkswagen plans to challenge Google with own autonomous car software

Volkswagen and Daimler are working on their own operating systems for autonomous cars to make sure they have a chance to compete with large tech firms such as Apple and Amazon in the area of electric vehicle data.

Volkswagen looks at direct buying to secure scarce chips

Volkswagen, which warned as early as Dec. 4 about the problem, currently sources chips via major suppliers such as Bosch and Continental and has no direct contractual or supply agreements with semiconductor makers.

Tesla to recall 135,000 U.S. vehicles under pressure from auto safety regulators

Many complaints had said Tesla required owners to pay to replace the unit once warranties expire. Tesla will replace the defective part and reimburse customers who paid to replace apart that failed because of lifetime wear.

Who is Andy Jassy, the next CEO of Amazon?

The long-time Amazon executive is set to replace founder Jeff Bezos.

Amazon’s Bezos to step down as CEO; Andy Jassy to take over the role

The transition, slated for the third quarter, will make current cloud computing chief Andy Jassy Amazon’s next chief executive officer.

Xiaomi launches remote charging device

The technology was developed based on "space positioning and energy transmission," Xiaomi said.

Apple MacBook Air M1 review: The innovation is strong with this one

We took the M1-powered MacBook Air for a ride and our heads are still spinning. We get into why this ultrabook is a great base model from Apple.

Apple's new privacy feature to roll out by early spring

Apple also introduced changes to product pages in App Store. With this, each app’s product page is required to provide users a summary of developers’ privacy practices.

SpaceX aims to launch ‘all-civilian’ trip into orbit

Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is to be joined by three other novice astronauts for a multi-day journey into space, including one lucky winner of a drawing.

Elon Musk, a new Wall Street oracle?

The business giant, who has expressed his contempt for investors betting on a decline in a company's shares, waded in on the GameStop affair by tweeting a link to the Reddit group WallStreetBets, which helped stock of the video game specialist take off.

All eyes on Alphabet's first-ever disclosure of Google Cloud profit

Wall Street analysts forecast fourth-quarter Cloud sales of $3.82 billion for Google, with expectations for the unit to cross $13 billion in annual sales, according to Refinitiv data.

Facebook to prompt users about personalised ads ahead of Apple privacy changes

The full-screen prompt will ask Facebook and Instagram users to allow their app and website activity to be used for personalized ads and to "support businesses that rely on ads to reach customers."

MediaTek launches 5G chip aimed at gaining U.S. market share

MediaTek's modem chip announced on Monday, called the M80, will also support what is called millimeter-wave technology, which is being used by U.S. carriers such as Verizon Communications Inc.

Google to shut down internal Stadia game development studios

The company said on Monday it was shutting down the unit due to the high costs involved in developing games that attract users.

Google to spend $3.8 million to settle accusations of hiring, pay biases

The allegations stemmed from a routine compliance audit several years ago required by Google's status as a supplier of technology to the federal government.

Chip sales rose 6.5% globally in 2020 after year-end rush

While U.S.-based companies represented nearly half of semiconductor sales, they represented only about 12% of chip manufacturing capacity in 2020. That is down from 37% in 1990, as most U.S. companies now source their chips from factories in Asia.

Elon Musk says bitcoin "on the verge" of being more widely accepted

Musk last week tweeted "Gamestonk!!," which many in the market interpreted as an apparent show of support for small investors. "Stonks" is a tongue-in-cheek term for stocks widely used on social media.

Studying e-cigarette using pattern with sensors and AI

The AI called Level is an onboard computer for the e-cig. It learns how people vape and then uses that data to predict when they will crave a nicotine hit.

EU to rule on Microsoft's $7.5 bln ZeniMax deal by March 5

The EU competition enforcer can clear the deal with or without concessions during its preliminary review or it can open a full-scale investigation if it has serious concerns.

Microsoft Teams gets Approvals, Tasks publishing features

Teams users can easily get requests approved using the new Approvals feature. It allows the users to create, manage, and share approvals.

Apple iMessage gets new security protection in iOS 14 update

Named ‘BlastDoor’, the system is a sandbox mode that aims to prevent attacks carried out on the messages app.

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