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Yahoo Shuts Down News Websites, Digital Content In India Over New FDI Rules.

Yahoo News And Digital Content Shuts In India: This includes Yahoo News, Yahoo Cricket, Finance, Entertainment and MAKERS India. This, however, will not affect users' Yahoo e-mail, and search experiences in India. New Delhi:  Yahoo has shut down its news websites in India due the new f

Intel Architecture Day 2021: Intel Unveils XeSS Image Upscaling Technology.

  Alongside a sneak peek at their forthcoming Xe-HPG architecture, the other big reveal today from Intel’s consumer graphics group comes from the software side of the business.  Those into graphics have already begun to visit site after the reveal. Along with preparing Intel’s software s

Elon Musk says Tesla will build a humanoid robot prototype by next year.

Tesla will build a humanoid robot called Tesla Bot, CEO Elon Musk announced on Thursday.   The Tesla Bot is an example of Musk’s showmanship, in which he announces that Tesla is working on exciting products scheduled for years into the future to energize backers including employees,

Zen 4 Madness: AMD EPYC Genoa With 96 Cores, 12-Channel DDR5 Memory, and AVX-512.

Leaked and geeked! In a recent Gigabyte hacking event that happened a bit over a week ago, attackers stole 112GB of data from the Gigabyte server. This included confidential files of the upcoming products and information shared under NDAs and contracts. Today, according to a new report, infor

Boston Dynamics' latest video shows its Atlas humanoid robot has moves like Simone Biles.

Boston Dynamics, the company known for its robotic dogs, now has a humanoid robot capable of doing gymnastics. The robotics company previously has shown how its robot dogs can go down stairs and open doors. Some police departments have begun using the robot dogs, typically called Spot, to help pa

Intel enters the PC gaming GPU battle with Arc

Intel is branding its upcoming consumer GPUs as Intel Arc. This new Arc brand will cover both the hardware and software powering Intel’s high-end discrete GPUs, as well as multiple hardware generations. The first of those, known previously as DG2, is expected to arrive in the form of codename “Alche

Tesla’s Autopilot faces US investigation after crashes with emergency vehicles

Investigators to review 765,000 vehicles made since 2014 NHTSA identifies 11 crashes involving first responder vehicles The US government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s driver-assistance system known as Autopilot after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles.

WhatsApp sues Indian government over new IT laws, says ‘encroaches privacy’

New Delhi, May 26: In the purview of the new IT laws passed, WhatsApp has sued the Indian government stating that the new laws will severely undermine the privacy of their users. The news IT laws give the Indian government greater power to monitor online activity, including on encrypted apps like

India plans to open 100 airports at a cost of Rs 1 lakh crore by 2024: Report

India is planning to start 100 additional airports by 2024, as part of a plan to revive economic growth in Asia’s third-largest economy, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The proposal, which includes starting 1,000 new routes connecting smaller towns and villages, was discussed at

Facebook sues Israel’s NSO on alleged WhatsApp malware hack

WhatsApp and its parent Facebook Inc. sued spyware manufacturer NSO Group, alleging that the Israeli company used malware to hack into the mobile phones of 1,400 people and conduct surveillance. Between January 2018 and May of this year, NSO created WhatsApp accounts that it used to send maliciou

Chemistry Nobel goes to three scientists for developing lithium-ion batteries

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to John D Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries, the Nobel Committee said on Wednesday. Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionised our lives and are used in everything from mobile phones t

Three scientists share medicine Nobel for discovery of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovery of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen. William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza have been jointly awarded the Nobel for their work of identifying molecular machinery that regula

‘Joker’ malware has infected 24 Android apps and is stealing your money

A new malware called the ‘Joker’ is now plaguing Android apps and can reportedly steal money from your account by presenting itself as a premium subscription. The malware has been named after the iconic Batman villain, Joker. According to an analyst at CSIS Security Group named Aleksejs Kuprins, the

2.1 km from moon's surface, Vikram goes silent

ISRO has lost contact with Chandrayaan 2’s lander Vikram and rover Pragyan housed inside it, a senior official associated with the moon mission said here on Saturday. Earlier in the day, ground stations lost contact with the lander during its powered descent to the lunar surface minutes before th

Your Android phone could be hacked by a single text message

As it turns out, you should be wary of the text messages that land up in the inbox in your Android phone. A major security vulnerability in the Android operating system has left a billion phones vulnerable to getting hacked, by a plain and simple text message. Check Point Research, the Threat Intell

Apple Watch likely to get sleep tracking feature soon

Apple is hosting a special launch event at the Steve Jobs Theatre at its headquarters on September 10 where the company is expected to launch the next generation iPhones consisting of the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max. Now a new report suggests that Apple would launch the next g

6 CamScanner alternatives that are actually better in functionality

CamScanner was used by millions of users for scanning documents. That was until an update in the app was found to contain malicious malware that would bring intrusive ads to your Android smartphone. Google has taken down the app until the company gets rid of the module. Until then here are some of t

Google Play Store adds UPI as a payment option for users in India

UPI, short for Unified Payments Interface, is an initiative and facility offered by the Government of India to promote the use of digital payment solutions in the country. With UPI, users can transfer a limited amount of cash instantly between bank accounts. While this amount may not be sufficient f