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Realme X7 Max, Smart TV 4K launching today at 12:30 pm: Livestream and more

The Realme X7 Max and Realme Smart TV 4K launch event will livestream on Realme's social media platforms, including Facebook and YouTube

Regulate big tech but not at the expense of user rights: Mishi Choudhary

The heavy-handed ways in which the government has been behaving in shaping the narrative and curbing dissent make even genuine attempts at regulating big tech suspicious, says Choudhary

Maruti Suzuki digitises to click with buyers: How exactly does it work?

India's largest car maker is finding traction in the national roll-out of its digital financial services platform

'Mumbai model' demonstrates how tech can facilitate battle against Covid-19

The adoption of technology enabled India's financial capital to fight the pandemic's second wave efficiently

Explained: How the monitoring tool works to identify online pirated content

Intelligent tools are being deployed to detect content pirated from streaming platforms

$414 bn in profits can be gained by using cloud for biz growth: Research

The research shows that enterprises in the six regions surveyed can add up to $414 billion in net new profits

Smartphone shipments to reach 1.38 bn in 2021, highest since 2015

The shipments of smartphones are forecast to reach 1.38 billion units globally in 2021, an increase of 7.7 per cent over 2020 and its highest-ever level since 2015, a new report has showed

Google, Facebook updating websites to announce grievance officers: Report

Google and Facebook have begun updating their websites to reflect the appointment of the grievance officers under the new social media rules that came into effect recently

Twitter reportedly working on Facebook-like tweet reactions view

Micro-blogging platform Twitter is reportedly working on a Facebook-like tweet reactions view that includes adding some new emojis.

Govt nod to permission-compliant drone operations in 166 more green zones

These 166 green zones are in addition to the 66 green zones already approved by the ministry till date

Samsung pips Xiaomi to grab 2nd spot in global wearables market

Samsung shipped 11.8 million units of wearable products in the January-March period, up 35.7 percent from a year earlier.

Homegrown HiHi dating app gets 400k downloads in India since launch in Aug

Meotida Private Limited, the makers of the HiHi dating app announced the first 400k downloads since the app was released in Aug 2020

Apple delays podcasts subscriptions programme launch till next month

Apple has hit the delay button on its Podcast Subscription programme, and will now launch it next month after further tweaks

South Korea aims to develop exascale supercomputer system by 2030

South Korea will beef up its high-performance computing infrastructure to establish an exascale supercomputing system by 2030, the country's science ministry has said

WhatsApp won't limit functions if you don't accept new policy terms

In a U-turn, WhatsApp has said that it will not limit functionalities for users who do not accept the new privacy policy that went into effect on May 15

Twitter pauses blue badge verification, 'rolling' in applications

Inundated with applications, Twitter on Saturday paused its blue badge verification programme within a week of its launch, saying it is now rolling in verifications requests that has reached it

India is at the cusp of AI innovation: Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani

Says govt's focus on setting up transaction systems over past few years has created huge data sets across systems

Most social media firms comply with govt's IT rules; Twitter yet to follow

MeitY had written to all social media firms on Wednesday to share their compliance status with the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021

Twitter's paid service Twitter Blue confirmed, here's how much it will cost

Twitter Blue has officially arrived on iOS

SolarWinds hackers targeting 150 organisations with phishing: Microsoft

The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on US and foreign government agencies and think tanks this week using an email marketing account of the US Agency for International Development, Microsoft said.