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The California-based company introduced the Android version of the app last month for a chunk of the non-iOS market.

Clubhouse to let content creators in India make money off the platform

Sowmya Ramasubramanian

Creators will also be allowed to design services for creative assets, promote within and outside Clubhouse, and help build an audience.

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How to stop Facebook from tracking your online activity

Sowmya Ramasubramanian

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

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 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.

Amazon's concept smart sticky note printer features voice-to-print technology. | Picture by special arrangement.

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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Clubhouse to let content creators in India make money off the platform

How to stop Facebook from tracking your online activity

Microsoft names CEO Satya Nadella as chairman

Big Tech critic Khan becomes U.S. FTC chair

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

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

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”.

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

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.

House panel on IT summons Twitter

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

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.

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

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.

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

‘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.

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

Facebook’s global ads chief quits after 10-year stint

Everson played a key role in scaling up the social network’s ad business, making it one of the largest advertising platforms

Google to build the longest undersea cable in the world

With the new cable, the tech giant aims to bolster internet connectivity to users in South America and enhance its existing cable investments in the region.

Can cyber insurance secure your organisation’s data

Several companies are considering taking cyber insurance to seek protection against huge financial losses, especially after the prevalence of large-scale cyberattacks including the recent ones on SolarWinds and the U.S. Colonial Pipeline

Explained | What is CDN and how is it linked to the massive internet outage?

CDN delivers content from the website to users in different geographies in a quick, reliable, secure and efficient way.

U.S. Senate passes sweeping bill to address China tech threat

The measure authorizes about $190 billion for provisions to strengthen U.S. technology and research - and would separately approve spending $54 billion to increase U.S. production and research into semiconductors and telecommunications equipment.

PC emerges as India’s most preferred gaming device: HP

‘Women, students, GenZ youth want to make career in gaming.’

Facebook’s new interface to reveal how much Apple, Google charge creators

Facebook and Apple have been at loggerheads since the rollout of Apple’s iOS 14.5 software update that allows users to disallow apps from tracking their activity.

Will provide details of compliance officer in a week: Twitter tells government

The government had sent out “one last notice” to Twitter seeking immediate compliance with the new IT rules.

Twitter blocks JazzyB, three other accounts

Users checking JazzyB and L-Fresh the Lion’s account are shown a message saying “account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand”.

KaiOS feature phones to get WhatsApp VoIP

To activate the new feature, KaiOS users will need to update the current version of WhatsApp on their devices by accepting the update notification within the app

Fastly, the cloud company behind a global internet outage

Fastly said it was investigating an issue with its CDN services at 0958 UTC (GMT) on Tuesday.

Guardian, NYT, Reddit websites go down in massive Internet outage

The mass outage is said to have been caused by an issue with Fastly, a U.S-based cloud platform that powers several internet companies.

Apple WWDC21 | Top 10 takeaways from the keynote

The roughly 90-minute virtual WWDC 2021 keynote produced many updates so we make it easy to digest; from FaceTime going universal to granular privacy controls for users

Live updates from Apple WWDC21 keynote: iOS15, iPadOS, macOS Monterey, watchOS8, privacy features, and more

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2021 ‘Glow and Behold’ keynote sees the announcement of iOS15, watchOS8, macOS Monterey, improved Health data features, new App Privacy Report and better developer tools for app-makers

France fines Google 220 mn euros over online ad dominance

Google had already been fined 150 million euros by the French regulator in December 2019 over "opaque" operating rules for its advertising platform, which were deemed to be applied in "an unfair and random manner"

Skin in the game: Video chat apps tout 'inclusive' AI features

The tech industry has long been under fire for a poor record on workplace diversity and a failure to recognize the ways in which product design can perpetuate discrimination

Twitter owner’s firm launches solar-powered bitcoin mining facility in U.S.

Square will invest $5 million in the facility that will “demonstrate how bitcoin mining in conjunction with renewable energy can help drive clean energy transition”.

German competition authority launches probe into Google's news showcase

The case is the second to be opened against Google in a matter of days, after the German antitrust body launched a probe into whether the U.S. search giant was exploiting its market dominance in the way it handles user data.

Smartwatch data can be used to predict underlying illness, study says

Smartwatch data also gave more consistent heart-rate readings than those taken in the labs, the team said in the study

Twitter’s new subscription service will let you undo your tweet

The micro-blogging platform has rolled out the initial version of 'Twitter Blue' to users in Canada and Australia. The company did not mention when it will be available in other countries.

Using augmented reality to advertise products could mislead consumers, study says

Advertisers could also distort a consumer’s sense of reality by overlaying graphics on someone’s AR glasses to change what they are seeing

Huawei unveils operating system in fight for survival

Move follows U.S. blocking use of Android for firm’s mobiles

Google Photos alternatives you can try

Users with the Apple ecosystem can opt for Apple photos as it offers seamless integration across Apple, and multiple editing features.

Advanced AI speech tech could be used to generate disinformation online, study finds

The system was able to produce over 15 tweets denying the occurrence of climate change from just few human prompts, indicating how easily it could sway a reader’s opinions

Beware Coronavirus-themed cyber-attacks, urges McAfee

McAfee’s ‘2021 Consumer Security Mindset Survey’ reveals much of 2020 saw an average of 648 new cyber-threats per minute. Plus, some security tips for all netizens:

Twitter halts 'blue tick badge' verification days after relaunch

The social network introduced new guidelines for verified accounts on the platform, intended to “encourage healthy conversations for the betterment of the Twitter community overall”, the company had said in a statement.

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