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Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai signed ‘big deal’ to carve up ad market: Report
San Francisco : A serious anti-trust complaint in the US has reportedly revealed that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were allegedly involved in an ad collusion plot, a charge that both tech giants…
Google calls for govt help to secure critical open-source software
Washington : Google has called for a public-private partnership to identify a list of critical open source projects and find new ways of identifying software that might pose a systemic risk, as the world grapples with the recent log4j open…
Twitter Spaces recording rolls out to all Android, iOS users
San Francisco : Micro-blogging site Twitter has started rolling out a new feature allowing all Android and iOS users to record Spaces."Recording has launched to everyone on iOS and Android! hope you've gotten used to the sound of your own…
YouTube still being ‘weaponised’ by unscrupulous actors: Fact-checkers
New Delhi : More that 80 top fact-checking organisations, including from India, have written to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, saying that the platform is allowing itself to be "weaponised by unscrupulous actors" to manipulate and exploit…
Nigeria lifts ban on Twitter after 7 months
Nigeria : The Nigerian government has lifted the ban on Twitter, imposed in June last year, saying the micro-blogging platform has agreed to set "a legal entity" in the west African nation during the first quarter of this year.The Nigerian…
I&B ministry Twitter account hacked, restored later
New Delhi : The Twitter account of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was compromised on Wednesday.The account, however, was restored later on. The hacker renamed the account as Elon Musk and tweeted a great job.The account…
Meta employees will need Covid booster jabs to return to office
San Francisco : Meta (formerly Facebook) has said that employees who have received Covid booster jabs will only be allowed to enter office premises when it finally reopens.Meta has already said that employees in the US would have to be…
Google working on tap-to-transfer feature for media in Android 13
San Francisco : Android 12 has brought a lot of additional features and now a new report has claimed that the next gen Android 13 platform will allow apps to transfer media to nearby devices with a tap.UI demos made by Google to show off a…
Apple iMessage should not benefit from bullying: Google
San Francisco : Google has accused Apple of bullying its way into smartphone texting, saying that the iPhone maker deliberately creates peer pressure among the teens to use iMessages and shun Android-based texting.Apple's messaging service…
Google Doodle celebrates 80th birth anniversary of Stephen Hawking
San Francisco : On his 80th birth anniversary on Saturday, Google has paid tribute to late physicist Stephen Hawking with a Doodle.The two and a half minute-long animated video includes narration in the physicist's own computer-generated…