David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Facebook on Thursday announced that it has changed its company name to Meta. The name change, which was announced at the Facebook Connect augmented and virtual reality conference, reflects the company’s growing ambitions beyond social media with the metaverse, a classic sci-fi term Facebook has adopted to
Month: October 2021
Although Xiaomi and its Redmi sub-brand have much of the budget and mid-range television segments in India covered, its focus will always be on value for money, and that applies to the high end as well. Big screens, plenty of features, thoughtful software, and discrete design have largely defined the Mi TV range. The company’s
Battlegrounds Mobile India developer Krafton has announced a partnership with Denis Villeneuve’s latest sci-fi movie Dune. With this collaboration, Battlegrounds Mobile India players will get special Dune-themed rewards. The Dune crossover will be live in the game till the second week of November and will be hosted in the game’s EvoGround mode. Earlier this week,
Yugabyte, the company behind the distributed Structured Query Language (SQL) database YugabyteDB, today announced that it raised $188 million in a series C round, bringing the company’s total raised to $291 million with a $1.3 billion valuation. CEO Bill Cook says that the capital will be used to further grow Yugabyte’s field and engineering teams
Over 70% of Wi-Fi networks from a sample size of 5,000 were hacked with “relative ease” in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, highlighting how unsecure Wi-Fi passwords can become a gateway for serious threats to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises alike. CyberArk security researcher Ido Hoorvitch, who used a Wi-Fi sniffing equipment costing about
Zoom has now extended its live translation feature to all users — free and paid. The feature that auto-generates closed captions during video calls was earlier only available to paid Zoom Meetings users. The option to enable subtitles will be available for Zoom video calls and as well as webinars. The San Jose, California-based video
After spending nearly half a year, every year, gathering and calculating carbon emissions data on spread sheets, Salesforce.com’s climate team was fed up. So in 2017 they built an app to crunch the numbers – and now they sell it for $4,000 (roughly Rs. 3 lakh) a month. As global companies prepare pledges to help
Redmi Watch 2 was launched on Thursday — alongside the Redmi Note 11 series. The new smartwatch, which is the successor to the original Redmi Watch, comes with a larger AMOLED display over a TFT screen available on the earlier model. The Redmi Watch 2 also carries up to 12 hours of battery life. Alongside
Honor X30 Max and Honor X30i were launched on Thursday as the company’s latest smartphones. Both new Honor X30 models come with MediaTek Dimensity chipsets and have up to 256GB of onboard storage. In terms of distinction, the Honor X30 Max carries a massive 7.09-inch display and dual stereo speakers to target consumers looking for
Mountain View, California-based Viakoo, a company that automates IoT security for enterprises, today announced it has raised $10 million in a series A round of funding led by Shasta Ventures and existing investors Stanley Black & Decker, PivotNorth Capital, and Blue Fog Capital. As the number of IoT devices continues to increase at home and
A cyber attack in Iran left petrol stations across the country crippled, disrupting fuel sales and defacing electronic billboards to display messages challenging the regime’s ability to distribute gasoline. Posts and videos circulated on social media showed messages that said, “Khamenei! Where is our gas?” — a reference to the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Instagram Link Stickers, which let users include hyperlinks in Stories in the form of stickers, will now be available to use for everyone on the popular photo-sharing platform. The Facebook-owned social media platform announced the news via Twitter on October 27. Instagram had started testing Link Stickers in June, but until now the feature has
With so much research getting published every day all over the world, a super-smart search engine has become essential to help parse through seemingly endless scores of academic papers. Faced with the challenge, a technologist has found a way to unlock the world’s research papers for easier computerised analysis. He has released an index of
Redmi Note 11 series is set to launch today. The new smartphone series by Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi is expected to have three distinct models — the regular Redmi Note 11 as well as the Redmi Note 11 Pro and Redmi Note 11 Pro+. While the official launch is a few hours away, a Vietnamese source
Google Pixel 6 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max have been pitted against each other in a new test video that measures how powerful the new premium devices are. The test shows that day-to-day apps open faster in the latest Google phone while Apple wins when it comes to video-editing apps and games. Overall, the
Indian digital payments leader Paytm has boosted the size of its initial public offering to Rs. 18,300 crore from Rs. 16,600 crore, as existing shareholders look to sell more stake ahead of the country’s largest stock market listing. Paytm was likely to target a price band of Rs. 2,080 – Rs. 2,150 per share for the
In this article AMZN Amazon bought the naming rights to rename Key Arena to Climate Change Arena. Source: NHL Seattle If Amazon is going to achieve its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, it’s going to need to rely on new technology. To spur the process along, the company has a $2 billion venture
Samsung said on Thursday it expects component shortages to affect chip demand from some customers in the current quarter, after reporting its highest quarterly profit in three years. The warning comes as producers of goods from televisions to cars have faced a host of supply chain issues ranging from a shortage of logic chip parts,
A new cybersecurity training range with a software platform powered by Cyberoperations Enhanced Network and Training Simulators (CyberCents) has opened in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The next-gen training facility at the Alan B. Levan Center at Nova Southeastern University is aimed at filling the cybersecurity skill gaps that currently exist globally. It’s located at the NSU
One of the side effects of today’s cyber security landscape is the overwhelming volume of data security teams must aggregate and parse. Lean security teams don’t have it any easier, and the problem is compounded if they must do it manually. Data and log management are essential for organizations to gain real-time transparency and visibility
Twitter on Tuesday reported its quarterly revenue grew 37 percent and avoided the brunt of Apple privacy changes on advertising that hobbled its rivals, sending its shares up 3 percent. The social networking site has been working to add new features such as audio chat rooms to attract users, and also rolled out improvements to its advertising
WhatsApp users on iOS will now be able to transfer their chat history to more Android devices. Earlier, this feature was only available for Samsung Galaxy smartphones and now is available for all Google Pixel smartphones. Google also mentions that this feature will also become available for smartphones that are launched with Android 12 out-of-the-box.
Engineering students in India will be able to learn and train themselves in virtual reality (VR), the next frontier in the emerging technology space, at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, starting next year. The premier institute and Japanese firm Monolith have joined hands to launch an advanced diploma programme on VR for the first time
In this article TWTR Jack Dorsey creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square speaks on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Twitter shares tumbled about 10% on
South Korea’s LG Display on Wednesday saw its third-quarter operating profit more than triple as strong television demand boosted panel prices but said it expects the buying spree prompted by the pandemic to slow next year. The Apple supplier posted an operating profit of KRW 529 billion (roughly Rs. 3,390 crore) or the July-September quarter versus KRW
Conversational AI company LivePerson today announced that it acquired two companies for an undisclosed sum: VoiceBase and Tenfold. VoiceBase provides speech recognition and conversational analytics, while Tenfold develops a platform for integrating communication systems with customer relationship management software and support services. LivePerson CEO Rob LoCascio says that folding VoiceBase and Tenfold into its existing
A new spam email campaign has emerged as a conduit for a previously undocumented malware loader that enables the attackers to gain an initial foothold into enterprise networks and drop malicious payloads on compromised systems. “These infections are also used to facilitate the delivery of additional malware such as Qakbot and Cobalt Strike, two of
In the technology industry, the concept of metaverse — a range of virtual experiences — is becoming a buzzword. It generally refers to shared virtual environments that people can access via the internet. Most technology companies, including Facebook, have invested heavily in it. The social media giant says it is planning to invest up to
NASA’s main workhorse for deep-space observation has faced a new technical issue this week that has forced scientists to pull it into “safe mode”. The safe mode is designed to keep the Hubble Space Telescope, which has revealed several mysteries of outer space, stable and allow scientists to work on it to address whatever problem
Sony on Tuesday unveiled a new virtual reality (VR) headset called Xperia View along with launching the Sony Xperia Pro-I smartphone. Xperia’s first VR headset is not a standalone device and only works with Sony Xperia 1 II and Xperia 1 III smartphones. The audio device offers 120 degrees of horizontal vision to support the
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