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Metaverse | What is the ‘next generation of Internet’ Zuckerberg and Nadella are talking about?

Sowmya Ramasubramanian

Tech giants are all set to establish the metaverse, a form of mixed reality integrated with the Internet.

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T-Hub and HCL Technologies have announced a collaboration. File Photo.

T-Hub, HCL announces to collaborate on Quantum Computing and Deep Tech.

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ByteDance did not offer immediate comment.

ByteDance to lay off staff, close businesses over China tutoring clampdown

Reuters The move comes after China imposed sweeping regulations on the private-tutoring sector.

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Both Nintendo and Sony have warned that shortages of semiconductors could hurt game console output beyond current targets.

Nintendo reports slump in quarterly sales for its flagship Switch console

Reuters Nintendo saw sales of Switch Lite units more than halve to 1.14 million during the April-June quarter but maintained its full-year forecast for Switch hardware at 25.5 million units.

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Google Maps now allows iOS users to share their live location from iMessage. | Picture by special arrangement.

Google Maps app in iOS gets dark mode, live location sharing from iMessage

Ishan Patra Using the iMessage feature, users will be able to quickly share their live location with their friends and family. All they need to do is tap on the Google Maps button in iMessage and select share real-time location.

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Amazon is offering people $10 in credit for their palm print

Ishan Patra The biometric system, which was introduced last year, enables people to use their palm to make payments at select Amazon Go, 4-star, Books, and Pop Up stores.

Instagram's new 'Sensitive Content Control' feature

Why some users are upset with Instagram’s new 'sensitive content' feature?

Sowmya Ramasubramanian Instagram introduced a new ‘sensitive content control’ feature last month aimed at allowing users to control what they see in their Explore feeds. But some users are not happy.

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Amazon launches smart soap dispenser in the U.S.

Ishan Patra After dispensing soap, the device’s timer starts ticking down to help people give their hands a thorough scrub.

The Tensor processor will power Google's new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones

Google to launch own chip for new Pixel smartphone

Abhishek Chatterjee The search giant also claimed that with Tensor’s new security core and Titan M2, Pixel 6 will have most number of hardware security layers compared to any other smartphone.

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Last month, Apple forecast slowing revenue growth as a global chip shortage starts to affect iPhone production.

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Metaverse | What is the ‘next generation of Internet’ Zuckerberg and Nadella are talking about?

T-Hub, HCL to collaborate on Quantum Computing and Deep Tech.

Nintendo reports slump in quarterly sales for its flagship Switch console

ByteDance to lay off staff, close businesses over China tutoring clampdown

Walter Isaacson to write biography of Elon Musk

Amazon launches smart soap dispenser in the U.S.

Microsoft to require U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated

The company’s new vaccine mandate won’t be imposed outside of the U.S. due to legal and vaccine distribution differences, the memo said.

U.S. lawmaker says Facebook move to cut off researcher access is ‘deeply concerning’

Facebook said on Tuesday it had cut off the personal accounts and access of the NYU researchers, who were studying political ads on the site, because of concerns about other users’ privacy.

LinkedIn must face narrowed U.S. lawsuit claiming it overcharged advertisers

The advertisers sued after LinkedIn said on Nov. 12 that its engineers had three months earlier found and then fixed software bugs that may have led to more than 4,18,000 overcharges.

Millions of views and millions of bucks: The profitable pull of game-streaming in India

Livestreaming video games continues its meteoric rise across India, so much so that people are ready to give up their careers to do it full-time — be it a doctor who needs to pay for his medical degree or a financier earning a year’s worth of salary in one month

Google to launch own chip for new Pixel smartphone

The search giant also claimed that with Tensor’s new security core and Titan M2, Pixel 6 will have most number of hardware security layers compared to any other smartphone.

Watch | The Right to Repair movement

A video explainer on the global right to repair movement

Google Maps app in iOS gets dark mode, live location sharing from iMessage

Using the iMessage feature, users will be able to quickly share their live location with their friends and family. All they need to do is tap on the Google Maps button in iMessage and select share real-time location.

Dark mode on devices may not save much battery life, study says

Dark mode has been marketed as a battery-saving setting on smartphone and laptops, but a Purdue Univeristy study suggests otherwise.

Amazon is offering people $10 in credit for their palm print

The biometric system, which was introduced last year, enables people to use their palm to make payments at select Amazon Go, 4-star, Books, and Pop Up stores.

Apple works with Chinese suppliers for latest iPhones

Luxshare has won orders over its Taiwanese rivals Foxconn and Pegatron Corp, and will start building the iPhone 13 Pro this month, the paper said.

U.S. SEC Chair Gensler calls on Congress to help rein in crypto ‘Wild West’

Cryptocurrencies reached a record capitalisation of $2 trillion in April as more investors stocked their portfolios with digital tokens, but oversight of the market remains patchy.

Kaseya ransomware attack sets off race to hack service providers - researchers

An affiliate of a top Russian-speaking ransomware gang known as REvil used two gaping flaws in software from Florida-based Kaseya to break into about 50 managed services providers that used its products.

Chinese crypto addresses sent $2.2 billion to scams, darknets in 2019-2021

Most cryptocurrency-based money laundering involves mainstream digital currency exchanges, often through over-the-counter desks whose businesses are built on top of these platforms.

Why some users are upset with Instagram’s new 'sensitive content' feature?

Instagram introduced a new ‘sensitive content control’ feature last month aimed at allowing users to control what they see in their Explore feeds. But some users are not happy.

Windows 365 is now available in India starting at ₹ 1,555 per user

The plans for both categories start with a basic configuration of one vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage.

China regulator targets auto chip distributors with price-gouging probe

The firms were suspected of driving up prices, based on price monitoring and reporting clues, it added in its statement, and vowed to investigate and punish illegal acts such as hoarding, price-gouging and collusion.

Tencent vows fresh gaming curbs after 'spiritual opium' attack zaps $60 billion

China's largest social media and video game firm saw its stock tumble more than 10% in early trade, wiping almost $60 billion from its market capitalisation.

Twitter partners with Reuters, AP to combat misinformation

Credible news from Reuters and AP will help Twitter contextualise developing discourse so that misinformation can be ruled out before it becomes viral.

Intel’s new modular desktop PC designed for gaming, streaming

The Intel NUC 11 Extreme Kit offers two eight-core CPU options – a Core i9-11900KB and a Core i7-11700B – along with support for full-size discrete graphics cards and a full range of input and output ports.

Ericsson wins 5G radio contracts in China

Ericsson, which had warned that it would lose market share in China due to the ban of Chinese equipment suppliers in Sweden, saw its share in China Mobile drop to 2% from 11% last year, while Nokia got 4% of the contracts announced in July.

Facebook’s Kustomer deal may hurt competition, EU regulators say

The EU executive, which acts as the bloc's competition enforcer, said the deal may result in Facebook blocking rivals’ access to its units WhatsApp, Messenger or Instagram, which are key to customer relationship management software.

e-RUPI | How India’s new welfare-focused digital payment system works?

The digital token-style system is seen as a way to spot potential gaps in the existing welfare payments infrastructure and fix them.

Researchers use AI to look for alien civilisations

The team will use a network of mid-sized, high-resolution telescopes and detector arrays with suitable cameras and computer systems as part of their research to find alien civilisations.

Global cloud infrastructure market grows as digital transformation accelerates

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud retained the top three spots and accounted for 61% of total spending in the June ending quarter.

Ariana Grande announces her next tour — and it’ll be happening on Fortnite

Pop star Ariana Grande steps into the metaverse of Epic Games’ Fortnite for her Rift Tour of gamified virtual concerts and experiential add-ons

Twitter to reward users spotting bias in its image-cropping algorithm

Twitter admitted in May the saliency algorithm displayed racial and gender bias, and ditched it stating cropping an image is a decision best made by people.

Twitter's Dorsey leads $29 bln buyout of lending pioneer Afterpay

The Afterpay founders said the deal marked "an important recognition of the Australian technology sector as homegrown innovation continues to be shared more broadly throughout the world".

‘The Ascent’ game review: Cyberpunk action finally done right

Offering a richly-designed world and immersive combat, The Ascent changes your mind about not needing a twin-stick cyberpunk shooter in your life

Amazon hit with record EU data privacy fine

Globally, regulatory scrutiny of tech giants has been increasing following a string of scandals over privacy and misinformation, as well as complaints from some businesses that they abuse their market power.

Musk says "Epic is right," takes sides in battle with Apple

Musk late on Friday said that though he likes using Apple products, the iPhone maker is "overcharging with App Store".

Zoom reaches $85 million settlement over user privacy, ‘Zoombombing’

Subscribers in the proposed class action would be eligible for 15% refunds on their core subscriptions or $25, whichever is larger, while others could receive up to $15.

Explained | How will consumers benefit from ‘Right to Repair’?

What has the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ruled? Are tech giants violating antitrust laws?

India's smartphone market records highest shipments ever in the first half of 2021

The share of 5G smartphones is constantly increasing, crossing 14% in the June-ended quarter. Realme was the top 5G smartphone brand with 23% market share followed by OnePlus.

Weekly Bytes | BMW’s cargo bike and e-scooter concepts, NASA picks SpaceX for Jupiter’s moon mission, and more

Here's our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size.

Parliament proceedings | ISRO-NASA joint satellite project NISER proposed to be launched early 2023: Jitendra Singh

India and the U.S. had agreed upon this mission during then President Barack Obama's visit to India in 2015

Oral-B iO review: speak to the ₹16,000 toothbrush

With Artificial Intelligence features and a sleek design, the Oral-B iO series powers up the fight against bad brushing habits

Intel launches ‘AI For All’ initiative in partnership with CBSE

Based on Intel's ‘AI For Citizens’ programme, 'AI For All' is a 4-hour, self-paced learning programme that demystifies AI in an inclusive manner.

HC to hear in August pleas of Facebook WhatsApp challenging new IT Rules

WhatsApp said the traceability provision is unconstitutional and against the fundamental right to privacy.

Tokyo Olympics | Games-related streaming app downloads surge

Apps with streaming rights saw up to a 13 times rise in downloads during the first week of the games, according to app intelligence firm App Annie.

Google removed over 1.50 lakh content pieces in May, June on user complaints

Report follows the new IT rules that came into force on May 26.

LinkedIn allows employees to work fully remote, removes in-office expectation

The updated policy, offering the flexibility to work remotely full-time or work at an office part-time, will apply to LinkedIn's global workforce of more than 16,000 employees.

From Facebook to Twitter, Big Tech sees social commerce driving sales growth

Facebook, widely considered the leader in social commerce,and Google helped retailers bring in sales in the last quarter.

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