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Before cage match, Zuckerberg's Twitter rival Threads to enter the ring

With the launch, Meta is seeking to take advantage Twitter's problems since the social media service was taken over last year by Elon Musk

UN council to hold first meeting on potential threats of AI to global peace

These scientists and experts have called on the world to act, declaring AI an existential threat to humanity on a par with the risk of nuclear war, the UN chief said

After drone spotted over PM's residence, attention on counter-drone systems

Grene Robotics has built an entire counter-drone system called Indrajaal. The company claims that Indrajaal can detect, identify, track, target, and destroy a hostile drone system

iPhone users to soon get satellite-powered internet and voice calls: Report

The feature has assisted in the rescue of several people who have become stranded in remote areas

WhatsApp bans more than 6.5 million accounts in India under new IT rules

Meta-owned, WhatsApp banned over 6.5 million accounts in India in the month of May 2023. The company took action to comply with the new IT Rules 2021

Here's how to transfer WhatsApp chats on a new device without cloud backup

While transferring chats using the cloud has been the norm, this new, quicker method is sure to be handy for users

Flipkart offers Rs 20,000 discount on Apple Airpods Max and Airpods Pro

The e-commercial giant is rolling out massive discounts on Apple AirPods Max headphones for up to Rs 19,900, while Airpods Pro is being given away on discounts of Rs 8000

WhatsApp may soon allow users to send videos in high-quality: Details here

WhatsApp would continue to use the standard quality setting by default, but allow users to select the high-quality option each time they want to share a video

Centre considers building broadcast stack for direct-to-mobile services

Public service channels that are shown on Doordarshan will be available on mobile phones once the stack has been set up

No country can progress without embracing technology: EAM Jaishankar

No nation can become developed without embracing technology and research and development, the minister said

Apple forced to make cuts to Vision Pro's production forecasts: Report

Both projections imply a significant cut to production from an earlier internal sales target of 1 million units of the headset in the first 12 months

Lower penetration, affordability to make India top wearables market in 2023

While India has big numbers to its credit, wearables sold in North America and China are relatively costlier and come with high-level operating systems such as Apple's WatchOS and Google's Wear OS

Musk puts temporary reading limits on Twitter to stop data scrapping

The move came amid reports of many users complaining of an outage. Many users said that they were receiving error messages on their timelines like 'cannot retrieve tweets' and 'rate limit exceeded'

Nokia renews patent license agreement with Apple, covering 5G, other tech

The deal, which enables Apple to use the Finnish company's technology in its products, covers Nokia's inventions in 5G and other technologies

Twitter blocks people from viewing tweets, profiles unless registered

In April, Musk temporarily disabled likes, replies and retweets if a tweet had a link to Substack, the newsletter platform. After complaints, Musk then reversed that change

uGMRT: The radio telescope that was key in detecting Universe's vibrations

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is among the six most largest and sensitive radio telescopes in the world

Twitter under Dorsey was biased in tackling misinformation: MoS IT

Rajeev Chandrasekhar lauds Karnataka HC dismissal of Twitter plea against govt's orders to block tweets and accounts related to farmers' protests in 2020 and 2021

Asus Zenfone 10 launched on June 29, check features, price, and more

ASUS launched its all-new ZenFone 10 on June 29 in European countries. The company has introduced wireless charging for the first time

WhatsApp Desktop users may soon be able to add 32 people to video call

Previously, WhatsApp users on the Windows desktop application could add a maximum of eight participants on video calls and up to 32 in audio calls

Artificial intelligence: Why India risks falling behind in the tech race

India's startup landscape is caught in a time warp, with embarrassed investors marking down their stakes in Byju's, an online education company collapsing under the weight of its own reckless growth