Facebook’s six-hour outage the previous day shows the repercussions from relying on just a few big players and underscores the need for more rivals, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Tuesday. The outage prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, the largest
Month: October 2021
Law enforcement agencies have announced the arrest of two “prolific ransomware operators” in Ukraine who allegedly conducted a string of targeted attacks against large industrial entities in Europe and North America since at least April 2020, marking the latest step in combating ransomware incidents. The joint exercise was undertaken on September 28 by officials from
US-Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany, and Giorgio Parisi of Italy on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for climate models and the understanding of physical systems, the jury said. Manabe and Hasselmann share one half of the prize for their research on climate models, while Parisi won the other half for his
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Memgraph, a real time graph database provider, today announced that it has raised $9.34 million in seed funding led by Microsoft’s M12. The company also launched its community and enterprise editions into general availability. Graph databases underpin many modern applications,
TicWatch Pro X was launched in China on Monday. The latest smartwatch by Mobvoi is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 SoC paired with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. TicWatch Pro X runs Google’s Wear OS and sports a dual-display design with a 1.39-inch AMOLED display and an FSTN LCD screen. Being a
Apple is commemorating the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing with a special homepage takeover on its website that features old memories of the company’s co-founder. The homepage welcomes visitors with a short video that includes pictures of Jobs, along with his inspirational quotes. There is also a statement from the Jobs family to express their
In this article TSLA Tesla Chief Executive Office Elon Musk speaks at his company’s factory in Fremont, California. Noah Berger | Reuters A San Francisco federal court decided that Tesla must pay a former worker, Owen Diaz, around $137 million after he endured racist abuse working for the company, his attorneys told CNBC on Monday.
The PlayStation 4 was one of the most popular consoles of its generation and still has a big following in India. There are some excellent deals available on PS4 games that you can pick up now. If you are looking to add to your collection of PlayStation 4 games, here are a few popular options for
Apologising for the disruption in the services of Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram, tech giant’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stated that services are returning online on Tuesday. “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are coming back online now,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. “Sorry for the disruption today – I know how much you rely on
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday discovered misconfigurations across older versions of Apache Airflow instances belonging to a number of high-profile companies across various sectors, resulting in the exposure of sensitive credentials for popular platforms and services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Binance, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), PayPal, Slack, and Stripe. “These unsecured instances expose sensitive
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Beacon, a U.K.-based digital supply chain and freight platform maker, revealed on October 4 that it has raised $50 million in a series B funding round, led by Northstar.vc. Beacon’s software is designed to optimize digital supply
Xiaomi Civi smartphone was launched in China last week with a 6.55-inch full-HD+ display and Snapdragon 778G SoC under the hood. Now, a new Xiaomi smartphone with model number 2109119BC has been spotted on TENAA with some similar specifications as the vanilla Xiaomi Civi. The new handset is speculated to be dubbed Xiaomi Civi Pro.
Facebook services appear to be down at 9pm on Monday, according to reports on outage tracker Down Detector. The tracker noted widespread outages including Twitter, Google, and Jio; but while we were able to access the other sites, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger were the only ones that were persistently unavailable when Gadgets 360 staff
A Facebook executive said in an interview on Sunday with CNN that the company does not believe that its social media service is a primary contributor to the political polarisation that has become widespread in the United States. The company’s vice president of policy and global affairs, Nick Clegg, spoke ahead of an expected Sunday
In this article FB Tom Weller | DeFodi Images | Getty Images Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down. The websites and apps for all of the services were responding with server errors, and reports on DownDetector.com showed the outages appear to be widespread but it’s unclear if it impacts all users or just some locations.
Looking for some new PC games to buy but not sure what to pick up on your favourite e-commerce platform? We’ve got a list of some of the most popular options across a variety of different genres, to make it easier to choose. Whether you’re looking for a rollicking superhero adventure, or a sports simulation,
A newly discovered data exfiltration mechanism employs Ethernet cables as a “transmitting antenna” to stealthily siphon highly-sensitive data from air-gapped systems, according to the latest research. “It’s interesting that the wires that came to protect the air-gap become the vulnerability of the air gap in this attack,” Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of R&D in
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Forty-six percent of software development executives see the need to up-level capacity with automation as a top concern. Tempo’s time management survey revealed that managing team capacity is a priority, and software development leaders are looking to automation to increase
Myntra’s Big Fashion Festival is now live. There are some interesting deals on wearables that the sale has to offer. The sale which began on October 3 will go on only till October 8, so make sure you grab whatever interests you before that. Whether you are looking to gift a wearable to your loved
Realme GT series will be the first smartphones from the company to receive Realme UI 3.0, based on Android 12, which has also been confirmed to launch in India soon. Other smartphones will soon receive the Android 12-based Realme UI 3.0 update. The new OS will also be releasing soon globally, and was announced a
Discord, the Slack-like chat app, recently said that it’s going to sunset its Stage Discovery tool on October 4, less than six months after it launched. Rolled out in June, Stage Discovery was designed to help users find its social audio rooms called Stage Channels. It used machine learning to curate a list of channels
Starlink, the satellite-based Internet service operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is set to go live in India by focussing on ten rural Lok Sabha constituencies, a company’s executive revealed. SpaceX aims to provide high-speed Internet access in remote areas using a constellation of satellites under Starlink. The Hawthorne, California-based company is projecting to offer “near
A gigantic comet — one of the largest ever seen — is heading toward the solar system. The comet, named Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB), was discovered earlier this year and will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 10 years from now, around 2031. However, the comet poses no threat to the Earth. It is likely
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! One Identity, an identity and access management (IAM) company owned by Quest Software, has acquired rival IAM platform OneLogin. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded out of San Francisco in 2009, OneLogin markets a slew of identity products
Apple Watch Series 7 price in India has been suggested by Flipkart ahead of an official announcement. The latest Apple Watch model was unveiled last month, alongside the iPhone 13 series as well as the new iPad and iPad mini models. Unlike previous launches, Apple didn’t reveal the pricing of the Apple Watch Series 7
The iPhone 14 series is still a year away from launching but leaks and reports about the next smartphone models are already underway. A report by MyDrivers suggests that the iPhone 14 might also get a 2TB storage option. The report claims that 14 series will come with double the maximum storage available on this year’s
A Monzo debit card being used at a payment terminal. Monzo LONDON — British financial technology firm Monzo has withdrawn its application for a U.S. banking license following discussions with regulators at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The London-headquartered mobile banking app said it “isn’t the outcome” it initially set out to
If you’re looking to buy a new television right now, Amazon has a number of deals that might be attractive. The Amazon Great Indian Festival 2021 is now underway, and there are numerous deals for buyers looking to capitalise on the sales and festive season in India. Our selections cover options across the price range,
Far Cry 6, the sixth main instalment in the Far Cry series, is all set to release this week. Developed by Ubisoft Toronto, Far Cry 6 will be available on Amazon Luna, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Stadia. In the game, you play as local guerrilla Dani Rojas
WhatsApp is found to be upgrading the existing voice messages function on its platform with a global voice message player that would allow you to listen to voice messages when you look at your recent chats. The update is reportedly in development for beta testers at the present stage. Separately, WhatsApp is reported to have