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functional and aesthetic top right : The four-legged Bandicoot thats replacing human beings employed in manual scavenging

Kochi Design Week is all-inclusive this time round

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Better by Design: The second edition of the Kochi Design Week (KDW) includes infra, policy, architecture, food, fashion and lifestyle in its founding definition

Kerala to churn out 20,000 blockchain experts in next 2 years

Design experts share their thoughts on technology's growth over the last 10 years

Praveen Sudevan The decade that was: Four design experts from around the globe share their thoughts on technology over the last 10 years

The users on Windows Phones will be locked out forever after December 31, said Facebook

WhatsApp won’t work on millions of devices from next year

IANS From February 1, 2020, any iPhone running iOS 8 or older will no longer be supported, along with any Android device running version 2.3.7 or older, Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, said

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Anurag Kashyap, Tabu and Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Audible Suno

Voices of Bollywood on Audible Suno

Anahita Panicker The latest from Audible Suno is Thriller Factory, helmed by Anurag Kashyap, and is one of over 60 exclusive Indian shows

Facebook said it is also adding access to thousands of shows and movies through new streaming partners on Portal TV, including Amazon Prime Video in the US, UK, Canada and France along with FandangoNOW and Sling TV, which were recently added in the US

Facebook Portal will now work with just WhatsApp login

IANS Facebook’s video calling device Portal will now work with just a WhatsApp account, allowing users to make video calls to friends and family and access features like ‘Story Time’ even if they don’t have a Facebook account

Too Much Equal? Feminist memes and Instagram

Shilpa Nair Anand The discourse on the Instagram page ‘Too Much Equal’, dedicated to feminism, has more male contributors

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Close the decade with Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition in glorious 4K

Julian Almeida Return of the masterpieces

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies plans to equip more of its products with its Harmony operating system (OS) next year, and will promote them at home and abroad, a Huawei spokesman said

Huawei to roll out Harmony operating system to more products next year, but not phones and tablets

Reuters Huawei unveiled its proprietary OS in August as a possible alternative to Google’s Android, as it copes with trade restrictions by the United States that threatens to cut its access to technology made by U.S. firms

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Re-writing women’s history

Fastest finger first

Lok Sabha Election 2019

War of hashtags: how pro-Modi & anti-Modi bots went berserk

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Have you tried the ‘car alarm’ challenge?

gamespot Technology

Of crafted realms and chaos

fem-tech Technology

Finally, the disruption of fem-tech

In Human Resources parlance, what is an 'airport test'?

In HR parlance, there is something called the ‘airport test’ carried out — either intentionally or unintentionally — by people conducting interviews

Cookies, not the monster you may think

Follow the crumbs to a better understanding of data protection and privacy

Real deal

As ‘The Matrix’ completes 20 years, a look at the underrated and unsung ‘Dark City’ that was released a year before Neo took the red pill

Political ad spending on Facebook crosses ₹10 crore; BJP supporters continue to lead

Till the previous week (ending March 23), the number of such ads was 41,974, while the total spending was ₹8.58 crore.

Ready your systems, gamers

The first Gamerconnect Express event in the city will have console-lovers rushing to the venue

South Korea launches 5G networks early to secure world first

Seoul has made the 5G rollout a priority as it seeks to stimulate stuttering economic growth.

Telemedicine, roboticised doctors?

Doctors using video-chat robotics to discuss sensitive and confidential health issues gives a whole new meaning to ‘clinical’

Here’s an app that enables peer-to-peer courier delivery

Golintu functions at a fraction of the cost of regular couriers and also reduces carbon footprint

When programs become dodos

For two years now, I have said much in this column that hopefully helps some of you carry out business that grows at a pace that people want to call

WhatsApp makes group chats more secure, gives users more control

The new privacy feature will allow its users to decide whether they want to get added to groups

Let’s talk old school tech

With ‘vintage’ being a buzzword for 2019, in the realm of tech, there is an air of collectibility exuded from these throwback gadgets

Hackers linked to Chinese intelligence may be behind ASUS computer attack

Kaspersky Labs suspects Barium APT also targeted Microsoft in 2017: State Cyber department’s report

On zero-day attacks and phishing

Chatting with Chris Young, CEO of McAfee, it’s reiterated hackers are always innovating, keeping users on their toes

WhatsApp launches ‘tipline’ to tackle rumours ahead of elections

WhatsApp is working with India-based media skilling startup PROTO for the helpline

India's ASAT missile test created 400 pieces of debris, endangering ISS: NASA

But the risk will dissipate over time as much of the debris will burn up as it enters the atmosphere.

Virtual assistants may not be ideal for generating revenue

Regulators require tech firms to mention if the results are ‘Sponsored’ or ‘Advert’

With 1.5 billion users a month, Gmail turns 15

Google in January released a new interface design for the mobile version of Gmail that includes new visual implementations

Are we being responsible Netizens?

Being a cohesive community now means we watch over the little ones left adrift on cyber waters

A pirate’s life

The good news is, there’s a new One Piece game out now... but the bad news is it may not be all that great

Facebook purges pages for ‘coordinated’ fake behaviour

Congress says ‘no official pages’ run by it have been purged

India gets surveillance satellite

PSLV-C45 successfully puts 28 other satellites too in orbit

Self-driving cars learn to navigate the unknown

Capability built to learn from the past

Facebook chief calls for ‘more active’ govt. role in internet regulation

He urges countries to adopt versions of European rules to safeguard user privacy

PSLV to launch military’s monitor in the sky

First electronic intelligence satellite to locate hostile radars will go into orbit

Apple pulls plug on wireless charging mat

AirPower was announced in 2017

This prank is getting users locked out of their Twitter accounts

Twitter users have been getting locked out of their accounts for changing their birth year to 2007 in hopes that the date change will unlock new

Facebook sorry for listing Kashmir as a country

Facebook on Wednesday apologised for erroneously naming Kashmir as a separate country in a blog post that listed countries targeted by an Iranian

Artificial intelligence pioneers win ‘Tech Nobel’

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun tapped into their own brainpower to make it possible for machines to learn like humans.

Google Maps now shows speed cameras in India

Around the globe, Google Maps has been providing information on speed limits on roads and the locations of speed cameras. Now, the mapping service has

Narendra Modi announces success of Mission Shakti, India’s anti-satellite missile capability

Addressing the nation, the Prime Minister said India’s action was not directed against any country.

Apple TV Plus: all you need to know

Apple announced its own TV and movie streaming service on Monday, enlisting such superstars as Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston and Steven Spielberg to

What is the #MicrowaveChallenge all about

Warm me up!Last week, while regular people made plans to go out into the ‘real world’ and socialise, Internet-dwelling folk were spinning about to

‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice’ review: multi-level Ninja stealth

The much-awaited Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice proves that the Souls formula works equally well with a stealth action game

Google Toolbar, Chrome’s inception

What started as an add-on to improve the browsing experience has now become practically redundant

Google Stadia: Now, game without a console

Google wants a big fat piece of that gaming pie, breathing new life into the gaming console courtesy Stadia, which promises to cut down on hardware costs and piracy

Apple enters video streaming, unveils credit card & news app

The company is pushing digital subscriptions as it searches for new growth

55% internet users scared of airing political views: report

Report from the Reuters Institute shows that online news and social media has outpaced print among English-speaking Indian Internet users

Visakhapatnam-based techie makes a water drone to save people from drowning

Saif Sea, a city-based technology start-up, has developed a water drone to save people from drowning

Facebook stored millions of passwords unprotected

Facebook says it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text for years. But it says there is no evidence that employees abused access

Google honours Bach with first AI powered Doodle

Want to create your own music? Try Google’s first ever Artificial Intelligence (AI)—powered Doodle, dedicated to celebrate the birth anniversary of

Facebook admits storing passwords in plain text

The social network’s handling of user data has been a flashpoint for controversy since it admitted in 2018 that Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, used an app that may have hijacked the private details of 87 million users.

Social media platforms present voluntary ‘code of ethics’

Social media platforms and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) on Wednesday presented a ‘Voluntary Code of Ethics for the General

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