San Francisco | Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on voice status on iOS beta for an upcoming iOS update. It provides users the ability to share voice notes to their status updates, reports WABetaInfo. According to the report, the microphone icon will show up when users don’t enter any text and it will allow […]
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Apple Watch saved life of 17-year-old boy who fell in 150-feet deep forest valley
New Delhi | Apple Watch has once again saved a life, this time of 17-year-old Smit Metha who hails from Maharashtra’s Raigad and studies in Pune. Apple CEO Tim Cook has shared his best wishes for Metha’s speedy recovery. In July this year, Metha, who is a NEET aspirant, went on a trek with three friends […]
Twitter rival Koo announces 4 new features
New Delhi | Homegrown micro-blogging platform Koo on Friday announced four new features — 10 profile pictures, save a Koo, schedule a Koo and save drafts. In a statement, the platform said that the “10 profile pictures” feature will allow users to upload up to 10 images which can be auto-played when someone visits the user’s […]
Musk dissolves Twitter’s board, is now the sole director
San Francisco | Chief Twit Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s board of directors after his takeover of the company, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Monday. Musk, according to the filing, became “the sole director of Twitter”, reports CNN. It confirms that instead of joining Twitter’s board of directors, Elon Musk […]
How three young informants made tech giant Google cough up Rs 1,338 cr fine
Srinagar | Three young informants, Umar Javeed, Aaqib and Sukarma Thapar finally forced the tech giant, Google to cough up a whooping fine of Rs 1,338 crore for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets with its Android mobile operating system. While Umar Javeed and Sukarma Thapar were then working as research associates with the CCI, […]
Musk is now Twitter boss, fires Indian-origin CEO Agrawal, other top executives
San Francisco | Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally taken over as Twitter boss and his first job was to reportedly fire Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, the company’s policy chief Vijaya Gadde and others. According to a CNBC report citing sources on Friday, Agrawal and Segal have left the company’s San […]
Android phones beat iPhones in early quake warning in US
San Francisco | Android phones’ built-in earthquake detection functionality, tested during a 5.1-magnitude earthquake near California’s San Jose on Tuesday, seems to have passed with flying colours, and also beat iPhones at alerting users. According to Android Authority, Dave Burke, Google’s vice president of engineering for Android, tweeted a neat visualisation showing loads of Android phones […]
Apple Watch saves doctor’s life who took a hard fall
San Francisco | An Apple Watch has reportedly been credited with saving the life of a doctor, who fell from the side of his house while power washing. According to NBC Chicago, while washing the bricks of his house, Thomas Ficho tried to reach higher by using the cover on the window well as a stepping […]
CCI slaps Rs 935 crore fine on Google, 2nd penalty in 1 week
New Delhi | The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday slapped its second penalty on Google within a week — this time to the tune of around $113 million (Rs 936 crore) — for abusing its dominant position with respect to its Play Store policies. Last week, the market watchdog had imposed a penalty […]
WhatsApp suffers major outage in India
New Delhi | Meta-owned WhatsApp went down on Tuesday across the globe, including several parts of the country, as multiple users reported they cannot access the messaging service or get a single tick even for delivered messages. According to Down Detector, over 85 per cent of people reported problems while messaging, 11 per cent while using […]