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Amazon asked the Indian government on Thursday not to change e-commerce foreign investment rules until investigations into its business practices had been concluded, two sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters. The commerce ministry met e-commerce players after allegations by retailers, which are a crucial part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support base, that Amazon

The Suicide Squad’s first trailer will drop Friday, March 26, Warner Bros. has announced. An exact release time for The Suicide Squad trailer is not available, but it should be around the usual Warner slot (9:30pm IST/ 9am PT/ 4pm GMT). For DC fans in India, there will be three local-language versions of The Suicide

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted his frustration with US lawmakers’ questions on the social media platform during a hearing about misinformation on Thursday, leading one member of congress to call out his multi-tasking. Lawmakers grilled Dorsey and the CEOs of Facebook and Google’s parent Alphabet for almost five hours. Tensions were high as they asked them

Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about COVID-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure the disease, a company spokesman said on Saturday. Maduro in January described Carvativir, an oral solution derived from thyme, as a “miracle” medication that neutralizes the coronavirus with no

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 2 — out March 26 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — is essentially a stage-setting episode. Before it really dives into the thick of things, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier needs to introduce the primary players. We already know our titular heroes Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s 2018 tweet threatening employees would lose their stock options if they formed a union was illegal and should be deleted, the US National Labor Relations Board said on Thursday. The NLRB backed a ruling from a US labour judge in 2019 that the electric-car maker had committed a series of violations

Spotify is rolling out a new design for its desktop and web players. The new look brings an improved look and feel with the search bar now on the left side of the navigation page. It has also introduced simpler playlist creation tools and the ability to drag and drop tracks into playlists. Web player

Attorneys general for 12 US states on Wednesday accused Facebook and Twitter of doing too little to stop people from using their platforms to spread false information that coronavirus vaccines are unsafe. In a letter to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the Democratic attorneys general said “anti-vaxxers” lacking medical expertise and

Google recently revealed how Google Search has become an important tool for online learning and education. Google is working to make searching for answers for STEM concepts, complex equations, showing 3D graphics for chemistry. The search giant is working on introducing five tools that it thinks will benefit students, parents, and teachers in better utilising

Black Widow, Cruella, and Pixar’s Luca are headed to Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — but not in the same way or the same time. On Tuesday, Disney announced that the Scarlett Johansson-led Black Widow, the next Marvel movie, had been delayed two months. It will now release July 9 in cinemas and on Disney+ with

Traders in India say they will burn effigies of Amazon and (Walmart-owned) Flipkart as a protest against deep discounting and pricing tactics they say are hurting local businesses. Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Tuesday announced that traders would burn effigies of Amazon and Flipkart on this Holi (March 28) to protest against the

Microsoft said Monday it would start reopening its headquarters offices next week and implementing a “hybrid workplace” that brings back more employees around the world after a year of remote work during the pandemic. The move is the first formal reopening plan to be announced by Big Tech firms which have kept most employees on

Godzilla vs. Kong — one of the biggest movies of 2021, with an estimated budget that might go up to $200 million (about Rs. 1,447 crores) — is right around the corner. It’s technically a sequel, as it’s part of Legendary Pictures’ so-called MonsterVerse, following 2014’s Godzilla, 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, and 2019’s Godzilla: King

Apple and Epic Games have listed their chief executive officers as potential witnesses in a case between the iPhone maker and the video game developer over the App Store payment system, court documents showed. Apple and Epic Games, creator of the popular game Fortnite, have been in a legal battle since last year, when Epic Games

India’s antitrust body on Friday told a court that a Reuters report showing Amazon.com gave preferential treatment to a small group of sellers on its India platform corroborated evidence it had received and which had triggered an investigation of the US e-commerce giant. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) announced in January 2020 that it

It seems Microsoft’s professional networking site LinkedIn is in hot water in China as the country’s Internet regulator has rebuked the executive of the company this month for failing to control political content, The New York Times reported. LinkedIn has been the lone major American social network allowed to operate in China. The Microsoft-owned service

Spring season of the year is being welcomed by Google with a colourful doodle that features an animated hedgehog along with fresh flowers and leaves. In 2021, the spring season in the northern hemisphere begins from March 20 and ends on June 21. Succeeding winter and preceding summer, spring is when the Earth’s flora blossom

An Internet spin on talk radio, the new social network Clubhouse has become a sandbox for people tinkering with ways to win fans and make money with audio. Clubhouse, still invite-only and accessible just through apps on Apple mobile devices, lets users drop into virtual rooms to join hosted conversations on any of a gamut

Social networking service Facebook is taking action against hateful posts and misinformation surrounding the mass shooting that left eight people dead in Atlanta earlier this week. According to Mashable, on March 16, Robert Aaron Long allegedly shot and killed eight people at three different Atlanta businesses: Young’s Asian Massage Parlor, Aromatherapy Spa, and Gold Spa.

Need to check class 12 exam date sheet? Class 12 board exams were delayed this year due to the pandemic and new dates are now out for both Indian School Certificate (ISC) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) students. Students and families who wish to look up the new class 12 examinations date sheets

Chinese regulators recently summoned 11 domestic technology companies including Alibaba Group, Tencent, and ByteDance for talks on use of ‘deepfake’ technologies on their content platforms, stepping up scrutiny of the sector. China’s cyberspace administrator said in a statement on Thursday that it and the public security ministry met with the companies to talk about “security

Justice League Snyder Cut has seemingly leaked onto torrent sites and other networks that enable piracy, in multiple differing versions of quality and file size (from 1.2GB to 7GB). While most copies are arguably genuine, given the attached screenshots and user comments attesting to their legitimacy, some are fraudulent and merely exist as a trap

Discord could be working on a Clubhouse-like feature, as per some users on Reddit. Discord already allows users to chat over voice-only or video calls but that is limited to a small group. The new feature, called Stage Channel, will allow Discord to host calls to a wider range of users on a single server.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — premiering March 19 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar in India — follows WandaVision as the second series from Marvel Studios. Just like WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has two Avengers in the lead, but otherwise it’s nothing like it. While WandaVision was devoted to episodic storytelling,

Justice League Snyder Cut — the heavily-anticipated four-hour director’s cut of Justice League from director Zack Snyder, assembled from hours of unused footage — is finally out this Thursday, March 18 worldwide. It’s become a reality primarily thanks to a dedicated years-long fan-driven social media campaign — one that has resulted in a mountain of

Justice League Snyder Cut needs to — let’s face it — clear a very, very low bar. The original Justice League released in late 2017 in cinemas and it was a disaster for various reasons. It had a torturous production, with Warner Bros. shepherding the DC movie like a hawk, owing to negative fan reception

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has a new and final trailer just days ahead of the Marvel series’ premiere on Disney+, and Disney+ Hotstar in India. On Monday, Marvel Studios released a new two-minute The Falcon and the Winter Soldier trailer that sketches out more of its post-Avengers: Endgame setting and what that means

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has been sued by a shareholder who accused him of violating his 2018 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over his Twitter use. According to a complaint unsealed late Thursday in Delaware Chancery Court, which also names the electric car company’s board as defendants, Musk’s “erratic” tweets and

Amazon and Flipkart act as online marketplaces for a host of things. Apart from smartphones, you can buy accessories, small gadgets like speakers, headphones, and many other things on e-commerce sites. There are so many options on these sites that sometimes it gets difficult to discover the right products. If you’re looking to stock up

The buyer of a landmark work by the digital artist Beeple, which sold for $69.3 million (roughly Rs. 504 crores), is a leading collector of new technologies who operates under the pseudonym Metakovan, the auction house Christie’s announced Friday. The sale of “Everydays: the First 5,000 Days”, a virtual mosaic created by Mike Winkelmann —