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From ‘Disaster Girl’ and the famous ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ video to the man behind the ‘Dude With Sign’ handle on Instagram, the NFT or non-fungible token, mania has taken the world by storm. What was once created or captured as a light-hearted family moment is worth millions now, all thanks to NFTs. Ever wondered about

Volkswagen AG’s US unit said a data breach at a vendor impacted more than 3.3 million customers and prospective buyers in North America. Nearly all those impacted were current or potential customers of Audi, one of the German automaker’s luxury brands. Volkswagen Group of America said on Friday an unauthorized third party obtained limited personal information

15 GB of free storage with unlimited photo backup – Google Photos is undoubtedly an excellent cloud storage service, but now it is no longer free. Any photos and videos uploaded after June 1, 2021, will now be counted towards your 15 GB of free storage quota, and once you exhaust your free storage, you

Leading Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has received a show cause notice from the Enforcement Directorate for contravention of the FEMA, 1999, for cryptocurrency transactions worth Rs. 2790.74 crore, the enforcement agency shared in a tweet on Friday. The enforcement agency in a press release added that Chinese nationals had used the crypto exchange to launder

Paytm, Infosys and MakeMyTrip are among companies seeking approval in India to provide online COVID-19 vaccine bookings, the head of the government’s tech platform said, as the country tries to make it easier for its huge population to book shots. The government relaxed rules last month to potentially allow third-party apps to offer vaccine bookings

Nearly three-fourths (74 percent) of Indian employees say they want more flexible remote work options while at the same time 73 percent of them are also craving more in-person time with their teams, according to findings of Microsoft’s first annual work trend index released on Thursday. To prepare, 73 percent of business decision makers are

Loki — out now on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — arrives a decade on from Tom Hiddleston’s first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the God of Mischief’s longevity isn’t up to some grand plan concocted by Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige and his cohorts. In fact, it’s the Loki fans. Loki died —

 It took $120,000 (roughly Rs. 87 lakhs) plus expenses, and the opportunity for a reduced prison sentence, for the smartphone developer to collaborate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2018 and kick-start Operation Trojan Shield, according to a court document. Three years later, the investigation involving 9,000 law enforcement officers from 17 countries

Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is a cosmic mistake, a character says to his face early into the new Marvel TV show. In some ways, Loki the series was just as unexpected. Loki follows the Loki who escaped with the Tesseract in Avengers: Endgame, after Iron Man and Ant-Man went back in time to get one of

Ruffer, a London-based asset management firm, made a whopping $1.1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,000 crore) profit in just five months from its investment in Bitcoin. The company invested around $600 million (roughly Rs. 4,369 crore) back in November 2020 when the digital currency was trading at around $20,000 (Rs 14.5 lakh). By December 2020 and

Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart is in talks to raise at least $3 billion (roughly Rs. 21,850 crores) from investors including Japan’s SoftBank Group and several sovereign wealth funds, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. The startup is aiming for a valuation of about $40 billion (roughly Rs. 2,91,130 crores) and is in talks with Singapore’s GIC Pte.,

A slew of crypto-related accounts in China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform were blocked over the weekend, as Beijing stepped up a crackdown on Bitcoin trading and mining. More actions are expected, including linking illegal crypto activities in China more directly with the country’s criminal law, according to analysts and a financial regulator. Last month, China’s State

Zoom has a popular audio notification feature that tells you when a participant joins or leaves a meeting. This is particularly useful when you’re waiting for someone, but it can be irritating when you’re part of a large conference meeting or event and you constantly hear notifications as people come and go. The audio notification

Jack Dorsey on Friday put out word that his financial payments startup Square is thinking about making a real-world wallet for safely pocketing Bitcoin. Hardware wallets can be used to store the digital currency offline, synching with applications for transactions on the internet as needed. Another option for cryptocurrency owners is to use “virtual” wallets,

The United States, Britain, and other leading nations reached a landmark deal on Saturday to pursue higher global taxation on multinational businesses such as Google, Apple, and Amazon. In a move that could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help them cope with the aftermath of COVID-19, the Group of Seven large advanced economies

Microsoft on Friday blamed “accidental human error” for its Bing search engine not showing image results for the query “tank man” in the United States and elsewhere after users raised concerns about possible censorship around the Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary. Users, including in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Singapore, reported Friday that when they performed

This was one email that Air India customers certainly did not expect or ever want. On 22 May, the airlines revealed that 10 years’ worth of its customer data including credit cards, passports and phone numbers were leaked in a massive cyber-attack on its data processor in February. The incident has affected around 45 lakh

Loki and Black Widow have both gotten new trailers. On Thursday, Marvel Studios unveiled new teaser trailers for its next two projects, led by Tom Hiddleston and Scarlett Johansson, respectively. And just like their trailers, the two Marvel Cinematic Universe entries are set to overlap from a release schedule standpoint. While Loki begins June 9

Eden is Netflix’s first original Japanese anime. Original not as in a “Netflix original”, but rather as an original IP. And it has some big names attached behind the scenes, with Fullmetal Alchemist director Yasuhiro Irie helming the series, while Cowboy Bebop character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto is responsible for the characters. Both of those anime

JBS SA employees started returning to US meat plants on Wednesday, a day after the company’s beef operations stopped following a ransomware attack, disrupting meat production in North America and Australia. A notorious Russia-linked hacking group is behind the cyberattack against JBS, a source familiar with the matter said. Brazil’s JBS controls about 20 percent

Byju’s, the Indian edutech giant, on Wednesday announced its partnership with Google to aid online learning to Indian schools. The deal is aimed to integrate Google Workspace for Education with Byju’s Vidyartha to provide a collaborative and personalised digital platform that is claimed to be available for free to participating educational institutions. Educators enrolled in

Google has contended that Information Technology rules for digital media are not applicable to its search engine, and urged the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to set aside a single judge order which applied the rules on the company while dealing with an issue related to removal of offending content from the Internet. The single

 A Chinese public-interest group said on Tuesday it is suing Tencent over what it alleges is inappropriate content for minors in the top global game developer’s flagship video game, Honor of Kings. Beijing Teenagers Law Aid And Research Center said it filed the lawsuit in a Beijing court on Tuesday, to mark the implementation of

The Delhi government has permitted home delivery of liquor for orders placed through mobile apps and websites. The amended excise rules permit holders of L-13 licence to deliver both Indian and foreign liquor at homes for orders they receive from a mobile app or via an online portal. So far, details on how this work

Google Chrome for Android is getting a new built-in Screenshot tool. The new option appears in the sharing menu in the bottom row along with Copy Link, Send to Your Devices, QR Code, and Print. The new tool seems to be a part of the Chrome 91 update for Android that was recently released by

June is packed for streaming movies and TV shows. From India, the big title is The Family Man season 2 — from creators Raj and DK — which arrives after a months-long delay. The Manoj Bajpayee-led action series will be available June 4 on Amazon Prime Video. Bajpayee will also been as part of an

Oscar Isaac is your Moon Knight, it’s now confirmed. In a photo first posted to the Instagram account of Isaac’s production company and then reposted to Marvel’s official Instagram account, the top half of Isaac’s face is framed by several panels of Moon Knight from the Marvel comics. The caption simply reads: “WE ARE MOONKNIGHT”

Drugs police in central England spotted the tell-tale signs of a cannabis farm: visitors at all hours, extensive wiring, ventilation ducts and unusual amounts of heat being generated. But on closer inspection, they exposed another operation reliant on massive power usage: a cryptocurrency mine that was stealing electricity from the national grid. A raid by

Microsoft President Brad Smith says that the dystopian world depicted by George Orwell in his novel “1984” — where totalitarian surveillance was a part of life — could soon become a reality, What’s more, it may be as early as 2024, if artificial intelligence (AI) is not regulated better, he suggests. Published in 1949, in

Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok has been given a month to respond to multiple complaints from EU consumer groups that it allegedly violated the bloc’s consumer laws and also allegedly fail to protect children from hidden advertising and inappropriate content. Owned by China’s ByteDance, TikTok has seen rapid growth worldwide, particularly among teenagers. However a