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Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft, during a tech summit in Bengaluru. File photo

Microsoft names CEO Satya Nadella as chairman

The top-level executive change comes just over a year after Bill Gates stepped down from the board

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Is Big Tech prioritising power over innovation

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The Long March-2F Y12 rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and three astronauts, takes off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for China's first manned mission to build its space station, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China on Thursday, June 17, 2021.

China launches crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12 in historic mission

AP Reuters The ‘Divine Vessel’, bound for the space station module Tianhe blasted off at 9:22 a.m. rom the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu province.

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British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web as an essential tool for high energy physics at CERN from 1989 to 1994.

World Wide Web’s source code to be auctioned as NFT

Sowmya Ramasubramanian Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in 1989 and wrote the first web browser in 1990, giving rise to a powerful tool billions of people today use to interact on the Internet.

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Indian microblogging site Koo launches Assamese service

Special Correspondent Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is the first to post in the language on the death anniversary of Anandaram Dhekial Phukan, one of the pioneers of Assamese literature

About 10.6 million Indians have registered on the platform to date, falling behind only the U.S.

Machine learning, blockchain emerge as top online courses in India: report

Sowmya Ramasubramanian Digital skills have become important today especially to stay redundant at a time when technology is powering most industries. The pandemic also displaced millions of workers worldwide.

Nigeria announced the suspension on June 4, days after the platform removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional separatists.

Nigeria's Twitter ban leaves some businesses in the lurch

Reuters Scores of small and medium-sized businesses across Africa's most populous nation - and largest economy - are reeling from the indefinite suspension of the social media site

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The ring with an integrated RFID chip can open a smart door.

A smart ring to replace your wallet, house key

Ishan Patra Concealed inside the ring is an RFID chip that can enable people to pay at the supermarket checkout counter, open a smart door, act as a health insurance card, or replace a key card at the hotel.

Alienware x17 and Alienware x15. | Picture by special arrangement.

Alienware launches new X-Series gaming laptops

Ishan Patra The Alienware x15 and Alienware x17 are the thinnest 15- and 17-inch gaming laptops from the company.

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Apple's Cook says proposed EU tech rules threaten security of iPhones

Google must face shareholder lawsuit claiming it hid security risks

Microsoft names CEO Satya Nadella as chairman

Is Big Tech prioritising power over innovation

China launches crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12 in historic mission

Big Tech critic Khan becomes U.S. FTC chair

World Wide Web’s source code to be auctioned as NFT

Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in 1989 and wrote the first web browser in 1990, giving rise to a powerful tool billions of people today use to interact on the Internet.

GM to boost spending on electric vehicles 30%, add two new battery plants

GM Chief Executive Mary Barra is scheduled to meet on Wednesday with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and otherkey Democrats to discuss EVs and vehicle emissions, the sources said.

Reports of Twitter losing intermediary status is based on incorrect reading of the law: Internet Freedom Foundation

#TwitterBanInIndia went viral on social media platforms after inaccurate reports emerged. Internet Freedom Foundation termed the interpretation as incorrect and requested users to exercise caution against such reports of any social media entity losing the “protective shield” of an “intermediary status”.

Chipmakers Qualcomm, MediaTek gain as Huawei HiSilicon struggles

HiSilicon is the only major smartphone processor vendor to see a decline in shipments. Its smartphone processor shipments declined 88% in Q1 this year.

Indian microblogging site Koo launches Assamese service

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is the first to post in the language on the death anniversary of Anandaram Dhekial Phukan, one of the pioneers of Assamese literature

Top U.S. senator fears Big Tech at home as Alexa, Nest dominate

Google contractually prohibits Sonos from using technology that allows users to switch between Amazon's Alexa and the Google voice assistant

UK watchdog looking into Apple, Google's dominance of mobile phone systems

The Competition and Markets Authority said it would undertake a "market study" into the matter to see whether the pair's effective duopoly was stifling competition and ripping off consumers, or hurting businesses like app developers.

Hyundai accelerates 'flying car' efforts, offer services around vehicles - COO

Hyundai is developing air taxis powered by electric batteries that can transport five to six people from highly congested urban centers to airports.

India to expedite Amazon, Flipkart antitrust probe as tech focus intensifies

The comments come as major U.S. technology firms including Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc are at loggerheads with the government over issues such as data privacy bills and policies some industry executives have called protectionist.

PM Modi to deliver keynote address at VivaTech

VivaTech is one of the largest digital and startup events in Europe, and it is held in Paris every year since 2016, the PMO noted

Machine learning, blockchain emerge as top online courses in India: report

Digital skills have become important today especially to stay redundant at a time when technology is powering most industries. The pandemic also displaced millions of workers worldwide.

Google, Facebook, Amazon call on SEC to mandate climate reports

To address climate change, the group said it is committed to taking bold steps within their operations, supply chains, products, technology and public engagement.

Amazon announces ML skills development programme in India

The e-commerce giant through its ML Summer School will conduct a three-day course starting in July that will cover a wide range of concepts in ML from fundamentals to advanced and link them to practical industry applications.

House panel on IT summons Twitter

To hear their views on steps taken to prevent misuse of social media and online news

Google opens Workspace for all Gmail users

Debuted in October last year, Workspace offers Gmail, Docs, Chat, Drive and a few others services.

World's first wooden satellite to be launched from New Zealand

The satellite, designed and built in Finland will orbit at around 500-600 km altitude in a roughly polar Sun-synchronous orbit.

U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data

The justices threw out a lower court ruling that had barred LinkedIn from denying hiQ access to the information that LinkedIn members had made publicly available.

Samsung enters Europe with Vodafone 5G network deal in Britain

European mobile operators are increasingly considering Samsung to replace China's Huawei as a supplier, with executives from Spain's Telefonica and France's Orange previously telling Reuters they had held talks with the firm.

El Salvador bitcoin transfers soar, but still a fraction of dollar remittances

The Central American country last week became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, with President Nayib Bukele touting the cryptocurrency's potential as a remittance currency for Salvadorans overseas.

Toshiba registers new quantum record

The experiment is a positive step towards the future quantum Internet, a global network of quantum computers connected by distance communication lines.

Nigeria's Twitter ban leaves some businesses in the lurch

Scores of small and medium-sized businesses across Africa's most populous nation - and largest economy - are reeling from the indefinite suspension of the social media site

Bitcoin jumps after Musk says Tesla could use it again

Musk has taken issue with the vast computing power required to process bitcoin transactions and in early June posted messages appearing to lament a breakup with bitcoin

Too many apps at work are making employees less productive: report

The findings come at a time when many companies worldwide are shifting to a permanent remote-working set up, making the use of technology more important than ever

The gaming highlights that ruled E3 2021

Mark your calendars, players! The pandemic has not stopped 2021’s biggest video games event, E3, from shelling out some gaming goodness, from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to the biggest Forza Horizon game yet

Microsoft working to bring the Xbox experience to more people globally

The Redmond, Washington-based firm is working with TV manufactures for an Xbox app, and building streaming devices that will be compatible with different screens.

Honeywell joins hands with Cambridge Quantum Computing to form a new company

According to Honeywell, the merger will be completed in the third quarter of 2021 and will set the pace for what is projected to become a $1 trillion quantum computing industry over the next three decades.

China's internet watchdog issues notices to 129 mobile apps for illegally collecting personal info

China has intensified efforts against personal information infringements through administrative and legal measures in recent years.

'Divine Vessel' to mark China's first human spaceflight since 2016

China, which aims to become a major space faring power by 2030, in May became the second country to put a rover on Mars,two years after landing the first spacecraft on the far side of the moon.

Google is using AI to design chipsets in just six hours

The new chips are said to be superior or comparable to those produced by humans in all key metrics including power consumption, performance and chip area.

Bills that could force Big Tech breakups unveiled in House

It concluded that the four tech giants have abused their market power by charging excessive fees, imposing tough contract terms and extracting valuable data from individuals and businesses that rely on them.

Globally people spent 86% more time on travel apps; India’s railway booking app among top installs list

The trend indicates the global travel market is witnessing a recovery, with an uptick in vaccinations and eased lockdown restrictions in several parts of the world

Musk says Tesla will accept bitcoin when miners use reasonable clean energy

Tesla will resume allowing Bitcoin transactions when there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners.

Can extradite cyber criminals to U.S only on reciprocal basis, says Putin

Biden to raise the issue of ‘cyberattacks’ in meet with Putin.

Data breaches expose emails, passwords of several government officials to hackers

IDs on @nic.in, @gov.in domains compromised

‘Zoom not focussed on competition, has enough ideas to execute for the next five years’

An exclusive interview with Velchamy Sankarlingam, Zoom’s President of Product and Engineering, dives into Zoom Events, ‘Zoom-bombing’ and security, and why the company is not worried about Apple’s FaceTime Links.

NaadSadhana app: from a simple tuner to a complex AI Indian Classical music creator

Pune-based musician-developer Sandeep Ranade discusses the evolution of his Artificial Intelligence music app NaadSadhana that helps Indian Classical musicians tune, synthesise and create music. The app won in the Innovation category at the Apple Design Awards during WWDC21.

Weekly Bytes | Tesla Model S ‘Plaid’ launch, Facebook building smartwatch, and more

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

German environmental groups file objection against Tesla gigafactory permit

The groups, Gruene Liga and NABU, said they will go to court if the state authorities fail to file for a permit suspension by June 16.

U.K. competition watchdog secures Google commitments on third-party cookies

Google had said its new technology - called the Privacy Sandbox - would allow users to receive relevant advertising without being tracked on an individual level.

Fall in e-waste generation in poor countries shows growing digital divide, report says

E-waste in poor countries is managed inappropriately by the informal sector in open burning and acid baths, which are polluting the environment and depleting valuable resources

In a first, Boeing's unmanned aircraft completes mid-air refuelling

During a test flight on June 4, a Boeing-owned unmanned MQ-25 T1 aircraft refuelled a U.S. navy F/A-18 fighter jet in mid-air.

Bharti Airtel's Ajai Puri re-elected as COAI chairman for 2021-22

The association "is optimistic about the future of the industry and the opportunities ahead, as 5G and allied technologies get closer to commercial deployment".

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