Twitter held talks in recent months to acquire Clubhouse, the buzzy audio-based social network, according to people familiar with the matter. The companies discussed a potential valuation of roughly $4 billion (roughly Rs. 29,740 crores) for Clubhouse, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. Discussions are no longer ongoing, and it’s
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The images capture drama billions of years ago in the early Universe – glinting galaxies, glowing with stars that have exploded into supernovas and blazing jets fired from black holes. Europe’s giant LOFAR radio telescope has detected stars being born in tens of thousands of distant galaxies with unprecedented precision, in a series of studies
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. “Offensive AI” will enable cybercriminals to direct attacks on enterprises while flying under the radar of conventional, rules-based
Jon Stewart’s Apple TV+ series now has a title: The Problem with Jon Stewart. Apple TV+ announced Wednesday that The Problem with Jon Stewart — a new current affairs series with hour-long episodes from the serial Emmy winner — will premiere in autumn 2021 on its streaming platform. Each episode will tackle one topic that
In this article TSLA This photo of a production version of Tesla’s Model Y was included in the company’s Q4 2019 earnings report. Tesla Tesla has refunded customers who they charged twice for new vehicle purchases made at the end of the first quarter, CNBC has learned. The refunds followed CNBC’s reporting on the duplicate
Oppo seems to have a mobile gaming controller that has an earphone storage compartment in the pipeline. An older patent filed back in September of 2019 for this device with filing number CN112451961A was spotted and the image in the patent shows an Xbox style controller with a phone mount attached to the top and
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered yet another piece of wormable Android malware—but this time downloadable directly from the official Google Play Store—that’s capable of propagating via WhatsApp messages. Disguised as a rogue Netflix app under the name of “FlixOnline,” the malware comes with features that allow it to automatically reply to a victim’s incoming WhatsApp messages
Facebook said Tuesday that hackers “scraped” personal data of some half-billion users back in 2019 by taking advantage of a feature designed to help people easily find friends using contact lists. A trove of information about more than 530 million Facebook users was shared over the weekend at a hacker forum, prompting the leading social
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Global information technology spending will grow 8.4% to $4.1 trillion in 2021, driven in part by enterprises accelerating
A new Android malware has been discovered that existed as an app on Google Play and is claimed to spread via WhatsApp conversations. Called FlixOnline, the app pretended to allow users to view global Netflix content. It was, however, designed to monitor the user’s WhatsApp notifications and send automatic replies to their incoming messages with
Google Chrome for iOS is getting an update after a four-month hiatus, as per a report. It is an incremental update in Chrome 87 that primarily focuses on bug fixes. The update is being rolled out for iPhone and iPad globally. What’s noteworthy about this update is that Google usually releases a refresh every six
Google on Tuesday announced that its open source version of the Android operating system will add support for Rust programming language in a bid to prevent memory safety bugs. To that end, the company has been building parts of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) with Rust for the past 18 months, with plans in
WhatsApp has now enabled businesses to create and manage their catalogue from WhatsApp Web or desktop clients — adding to the same functionality that was available on mobile devices earlier. The instant messaging app owned by Facebook has also introduced the ability to let business users hide items from their catalogue that are unavailable and
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for free or grab a discounted VIP pass today. Incentive compensation platform CaptivateIQ today announced that it raised $45 million in series B financing led
OnePlus Watch is the company’s first smartwatch, and it was launched alongside the new OnePlus 9 series last month. The OnePlus Watch has a circular dial and offers features such as SpO2 oxygen saturation tracking, heart-rate tracking, and fast charging. It also claims to offer a week’s worth of battery life even for the most
Mi 11 Ultra is all set to launch in India on April 23. It debuted in China last month and the biggest talking point is its always-on secondary display on the back. The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 888 SoC and packs a 5,000mAh battery wired as well as wireless fast charging support. The
The logos of Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and TikTok displayed on a computer screen. Denis Charlet | AFP via Getty Images Despite an initial falloff due to the Covid pandemic, digital advertising spending grew 12.2% year over year in 2020, according to a new report commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and conducted by
Dell G15, G15 Ryzen Edition, and Alienware M15 Ryzen Edition R5 gaming laptops launched globally on Wednesday, April 7. The Dell G15 gaming laptop debuted in China last month and has now been introduced globally along with its Ryzen Edition. The two models share most of the specifications except for the make of their processors.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 3 — released last Friday on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — brought back Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter, five years after we last saw her in the Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. First introduced as a SHIELD agent in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, she was initially designed
Jan.02 — Jed Dorsheimer, Canaccord Genuity analyst, explains his bullish call for Tesla Inc. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Taylor Riggs and David Welch on “Bloomberg Technology.”
A critical vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance could be exploited to bypass authentication and take control of vulnerable systems. Tracked as CVE-2021-21982, the flaw is rated 9.1 out of a maximum of 10 in the CVSS scoring system and affects all versions of the product prior to 1.0.1. Carbon Black Cloud
WhatsApp has introduced a new sticker pack called Vaccines for All to encourage its users to get COVID-19 vaccine and show their appreciation for healthcare workers around the globe. The new sticker pack has been developed in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO). WhatsApp has also partnered with more than 150 national, state, and local
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Google today open-sourced Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses machine learning to produce high-quality voice calls. The code and demo, which are available GitHub, compress raw audio down to 3 kilobits per second for “quality that compares favorably
iPhone SE 3, the successor to iPhone SE (2020), may not launch this year. As per a tipster, the purported iPhone SE 3 could be scheduled for launch in 2022. New information regarding the display specifications of the yet-unannounced iPhone SE 3 have also been leaked online. Apple may also end up calling the smartphone
Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018. Steve Jennings | Getty Images for TechCrunch In preparation for its debut on the Nasdaq next week, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said on Tuesday that first-quarter revenue climbed about nine-fold from last year, driven by a historic rally in the price of bitcoin. Revenue
Apple TV could come with support for 120Hz refresh rate, according to a new report. A new refreshed Apple TV device is due for quite some time now as the latest iteration came over three years ago. It looks like the refresh could bring some new features, especially as a greater number of TVs nowadays
PUBG Mobile has permanently banned over 1.6 million accounts in about five days, the developers have shared on Twitter. The latest Ban Pan anti-cheat report shared by PUBG Mobile shows the different percentages of player in various tiers that were banned and most of them were in Bronze. The tweet from late last week also
April is usually a whirlwind month for the cybersecurity industry as it coincides with the release of the highly regarded and influential MITRE ATT&CK test results. The ATT&CK test measures cybersecurity platforms’ abilities to detect and react to emulated, multistep attacks that can be used as a barometer of platform effectiveness. This means that every
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Intel launched its latest datacenter platform in the form of the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The
Poco launched the Poco X3 Pro last week in India, and the company claims that this is the true successor to the very popular Poco F1 (Review) which was launched back in August 2018. The Poco X3 Pro resembles last year’s Poco X3 (Review) in terms of looks, but its insides are more powerful. Some of the key highlights of