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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

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

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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.

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

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

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The company has received nearly 49,000 responses globally in 14 languages, the spokeswoman said.

Users have a say Twitter hears from record respondents over world leader rules

Reuters Twitter’s month-long survey asked questions like whether world leaders breaking Twitter's rules should face "greater or lesser" consequences then other users and whether it was ever appropriate for Twitter to permanently suspend the account of a current president or prime minister

Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message.

Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message

Aditya Saroha Hackers first send users an SMS message which says “REGISTER FOR COVID VACCINE from age 18+” and asks users to register with the ‘COVID-19’ app.

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Amazon is testing a new way to sell its “favourite concepts”

Ishan Patra To start with, the Seattle-based company has revealed three concepts compatible with Alexa — a smart sticky note printer, a smart nutrition scale, and a smart cuckoo clock.

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

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

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

Apple works with Chinese suppliers for latest iPhones

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

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

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Keep those lips sealed! Tech companies can now read them

Watch your mouth; tech giants such as Amazon, Sony and Google are leveraging Artificial Intelligence to build powerful lipreading technologies which are amassing concerns around privacy and Big Brother-esque surveillance

Clubbed together for comfort during COVID-19, here’s the rise of ‘unlabelled virtual wards’ on social media

Audio drop-in apps like Clubhouse and Spotify Greenroom are seeing spontaneous rooms of COVID-positive people, helping each other through quarantine virtually

Instagram to restrict some ads from reaching minors

The move comes as the image-sharing platform continues to face criticism for neglecting the safety of children.

Amazon announces several features, tools for developers to boost Alexa

The retailer said the features will make it easier for developers to personalise experiences and monetise opportunities to drive growth.

Facebook brings Instagram, Oculus execs to set up new AR product

It will be a “collection of digital worlds”, enabling users to explore seamlessly between various virtual reality experiences, Andrew Bosworth, VP, AR/VR at Facebook, explained in a social media post.

Malware can be injected into AI models, research shows

Researchers reckon that with widespread application of AI, utilising neural networks to inject malware could become a new way to run malicious campaigns.

Explained | Right To Repair movement and how Big Tech is reacting to it

With products becoming difficult to repair, activists and consumer organisations are advocating the ‘Right to Repair’ movement, which aims to enable consumers to repair their electronics products by themselves or third-party technicians.

How to disable Microsoft 365 update messages

The frequency of update messages could get annoying while working on certain tasks.

Austrian activist Schrems’ Facebook complaint referred to EU court

The civil case revolves around Schrems’ assertion that Facebook deprives users of the rights and protections they enjoy under the EU’s privacy law, the GDPR, by treating consent as a contract that empowers it to use their data to deliver targeted ads.

Getting the cap on the bottle: Inside P&G's robot ambitions

P&G is a model and its use of high-speed automation and robots is a key to its success.

Tencent snaps up British video game developer Sumo in $1.3 bln deal

The deal comes days after China's market regulator decided to block Tencent's plans to merge videogame streaming sites, Huya and DouYu, on antitrust grounds.

A new way to encrypt photos on the cloud

A new model by researchers at Columbia Engineering can encrypt photos uploaded to cloud services including Google Photos and iCloud without making any change to the services.

NFT Music: the gatekeepers are changing

How NFTs are creating a new idea of patronage and empowering musicians

NFT | 90% art, 10% music: WazirX on top NFT categories in India

Nischal Shetty of WazirX on top NFT categories in India, and why he is making room for influencers

TikTok breaks into Facebook’s exclusive domain with 3 billion installs

TikTok has thrived despite threat of government bans in some countries.

Dogecoin creator says crypto industry financially exploits the vulnerable

Jackson Palmer took to Twitter to explain why he would not return to the cryptocurrency industry, stating it is built to amplify the wealth of the rich by exploiting the poor.

Netflix hires former Facebook exec as gaming VP to focus beyond films, shows

Netflix's expansion comes at a time when the company is looking at new ways to draw in subscribers in an attempt to stave off fierce competition from the likes of Disney+, Apple TV+ and HBO Max.

EU watchdog rejects call to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data

The regulator in the city-state of Hamburg announced in May that it was banning the social network from processing personal data from WhatsApp users because it views the messaging app's new terms of use as illegal.

Twitter shuts down Fleets within a year of launch

Twitter said the feature hasn’t seen an increase in the number of new people joining the conversation.

Instagram rolls out new security feature to help protect hacked accounts

The update comes as the app sees a rise in malicious accounts sending direct messages to users to try and access sensitive information like account passwords.

Google Cloud announces second ‘Cloud Region’ in India

With this new region, Google Cloud customers operating in India will benefit from low latency and high performance of their cloud-based workloads and data, the company said.

China tightens control over cybersecurity in data crackdown

Foreign vendors that sell routers and some other network products in China are required to disclose to regulators how any encryption features work.

Google Meet to limit time on group calls for free accounts

Google users with free accounts will now have a 60-minute limit on group calls on Google Meet, rather than the previous 24-hour duration.

Bank of England to crack down on 'secretive' cloud computing services

Earlier the BoE's Financial Policy Committee said additional policy measures were needed to mitigate financial stability risks in cloud computing.

Hackers exploit Kaseya ransomware attack to launch spam campaign

Researchers at Malwarebytes say they found an email that poses as a patch for the Kaseya attack, but contains a malicious link and an attachment, purporting to have come from Microsoft.

Google fined 500 million euros by France’s antirust regulator

News publishers APIG, SEPM and AFP accuse the tech company of having failed to open talks in good faith with them to find common ground for the remuneration of news content online, under a recent European Union directive that creates so-called "neighbouring rights".

Does 5G have potential to be a harmonising technology layer?

There is plenty we need to know about 5G and the spectrum. Jefferson Wang, Accenture Global 5G Lead speaks about the value-chain of a 5G network in the ‘future home’ and what this could mean for smart cities

Explained | What is a bitcoin hardware wallet and how it works?

Hardware wallets like Trezor and Ledger have become a popular option for crypto asset owners owing to its security and convenience.

WhatsApp targeted in EU consumer complaints over privacy changes

The BEUC and eight of its members said WhatsApp was unfairly pressuring users to accept its new policies.

New tool limits disruptions caused by space operations, FAA says

The tool, called the Space Data Integrator, will replace a system in which much of the work of giving telemetry data about space vehicles to air traffic control managers is done manually.

How Vietnam's 'influencer' army wages information warfare on Facebook

Social media researchers say the group may be the largest and most sophisticated influence network in Southeast Asia. And it is now playing a prominent role in the country's intensifying conflict with Facebook.

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