The bundle of instruments known as SuperCam on board the Perseverance Mars rover has collected its first samples in the hunt for past life on the Red Planet, mission scientists said Wednesday. The return to Earth years from now of the rocks and soil it retrieves “will give scientists the Holy Grail of planetary exploration,”
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The power of audio From podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. For enterprises using predictive models to forecast consumer behavior, data
Google Chrome for Android has received a Preview Page option where it lets users see the contents of a page before opening it on their phones. According to a report, Google has been working on this feature for the past two years and finally started rolling out the feature to Chrome 89 for Android. In
David Baszucki, founder and CEO of Roblox, presents at the Roblox Developer Conference on August 10, 2019 in Burlingame, California. Ian Tuttle | Getty Images Neil Rimer recalls having early conversations about what became Roblox when he was studying at Stanford in the 1980s. He was college buddies with David Baszucki, the gaming company’s founder
The ROG Phone 5 is the 4th generation gaming smartphone from Asus, and it looks like the company has gone all out. A look at the specifications sheet shows that Asus has put together the best possible hardware. The ROG Phone 5 series is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888SoC, and comes with up to
Mar.08 — Ark Investment Management founder and CEO Cathie Wood says value stocks are taking off and adds that she’s still buying the Tesla dip. She speaks with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.”
Microsoft plugged as many as 89 security flaws as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday updates released today, including fixes for an actively exploited zero-day in Internet Explorer that could permit an attacker to run arbitrary code on target machines. Of these flaws, 14 are listed as Critical, and 75 are listed as Important in
Instagram has been spotted testing a new sticker for Stories that automatically generates captions. The new sticker, simply called ‘Captions’, can be added to any story with a video just like you would add a normal sticker on Instagram Stories. Once added, the sticker will transcribe the audio, and generate captions. Users can also easily
The power of audio From podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The boom in Internet-connected devices means there is an unprecedented
Samsung Galaxy M12 is set to launch in India later today. The new phone in the Galaxy M series initially debuted in Vietnam and is positioned as the successor to the Galaxy M11. It comes with quad rear cameras and a waterdrop-style display notch. The Samsung Galaxy M12 also features a massive, 6,000mAh battery and
Facebook said on Wednesday it was launching a “lite” version of Instagram in 170 countries that will enable people with poor internet to access the photo and video sharing social networking service. Instagram Lite will be available for Android-based phones and require less bandwidth than the traditional version. The app itself requires just 2MB - versus
Roblox, the kids gaming app that surged in popularity during the pandemic, started trading Wednesday at $64.50 on the New York Stock Exchange, giving the company a market cap of $35.5 billion. Roblox went public through a direct listing, following the lead of other tech companies like Spotify, Slack and Palantir. Instead of raising fresh
Asus ROG Phone 5 has been launched in India. The new gaming phone comes in three distinct models — the regular ROG Phone 5, ROG Phone 5 Pro, and the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate (Limited). All three models come with a 144Hz Samsung AMOLED display that is touted to be 23 percent brighter than the
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday shed light on a new sophisticated backdoor targeting Linux endpoints and servers that’s believed to be the work of Chinese nation-state actors. Dubbed “RedXOR” by Intezer, the backdoor masquerades as a polkit daemon, with similarities found between the malware and those previously associated with the Winnti Umbrella (or Axiom) threat group
WhatsApp has been adding a lot of useful features recently, and one of these allows you to remove the audio from videos before sending them in chats or adding them to WhatsApp Status. The feature is currently being rolled out on Android. The mute video feature can come in handy if you wish to share
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Fitbit Ace 3 has been launched, aimed at kids aged six and up. The fitness band is the first product to be launched after Google closed its $2.1-billion (roughly Rs. 15,320 crore) acquisition deal of Fitbit in January this year. The Fitbit Ace 3 comes with a touchscreen PMOLED display and offers up to eight
Apple said on Wednesday it would establish a European silicon design centre in Munich, Germany, and invest more than EUR 1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,680 crores) over the next three years in expanding its team there and in research and development. Munich is already Apple’s largest engineering hub in Europe, with close to 1,500 engineers from
A Zomato executive allegedly attacked a Bengaluru woman when accosted for late food delivery on Tuesday. Hitesha Chandranee, a makeup artist and fashion influencer on the social media, posted a video on Instagram and Twitter detailing the ordeal. Chandranee said on the post that she has suffered a nasal bone fracture during the confrontation. Zomato
Threat actors known for keeping a low profile do so by ceasing operations for prolonged periods in between to evade attracting any attention as well as constantly refining their toolsets to fly below the radar of many detection technologies. One such group is FIN8, a financially motivated threat actor that’s back in action after a
Fireside, an under-development audio app said to be a hybrid between audio chat app Clubhouse and Spotify’s Anchor podcast platform, has reportedly surfaced in screenshots. Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Mark Cuban and Founder and CEO of Node.ai Falon Fatemi, it is said to be currently under beta testing on iOS. The report says that while
Russia and China unveiled plans Tuesday for a joint lunar space station, as Moscow seeks to recapture the glory of its space pioneering days of Soviet times, and Beijing gears up its own extraterrestrial ambitions. Though Moscow was once at the forefront of space travel – it sent the first man into space – its
The power of audio From podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. By 2025, more than 75% of venture capital and early-stage
TicWatch Pro S has been launched in select regions as a relatively more affordable alternative to TicWatch Pro 3. Mobvoi, the company behind the TicWatch family of smartwatches, is positioning TicWatch Pro S as an upgraded TicWatch Pro from last year. The new smartwatch is offered in a single colour option and a single dial
Mi 10S was launched in China on Tuesday and is the latest addition to Xiaomi’s Mi 10 series that consists of the Mi 10, Mi 10 Pro, Mi 10 Ultra, and Mi 10 Lite series. The phone comes with a quad rear camera setup and a curved display that has a hole-punch cutout for the
Bad Business on Roblox Bad Business Ethan Gawronski was about 10 years old when he discovered Roblox. He dove into its games, mostly to socialize with other kids. Now, at age 20, Gawronski has his own Roblox game that he works on full time with his girlfriend, Elle Deppe. The couple, who met on the
TCL P725 4K HDR LED TV series has been launched in India at affordable prices, and is claimed by the company to be the first television running Android TV 11 in the country. The new TV series will be available in four sizes – 43-inch, 50-inch, 55-inch, and 65-inch – with prices starting at Rs.
Fortnite maker Epic Games launched legal action against Google in Australia on Wednesday, opening another front in its global fight against the stranglehold of tech titans on app marketplaces. The creator of Fortnite – one of the most popular games in the world – is already locked in battle with Google and Apple in the
The SolarWinds Sunburst attack has been in the headlines since it was first discovered in December 2020. As the so-called layers of the onion are peeled back, additional information regarding how the vulnerability was exploited, who was behind the attack, who is to blame for the attack, and the long-term ramifications of this type of
The next launch window for a NASA crew to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocket has been pushed back by at least another two days, to no earlier than April 22, the space agency said. SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, had been scheduled to carry its second “operational”