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Bitcoin briefly rose above $60,000 (roughly Rs. 43.7 lakhs) for the first time on Saturday, as increasing backing from corporate heavyweights helps the world’s most popular virtual currency continue its record-breaking run. The cryptocurrency hit an all-time high of $60,012 at 1149 GMT, according to the website CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin has been on a meteoric rise

Tesla is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sons’ power generation unit, Tata Power, to set up charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in the country, CNBC-TV18 reported on Friday, citing sources. Shares of Tata Power rose 5.5 percent to their best closing level since June 9, 2014 after the report, which comes as the Palo

India’s Enforcement Directorate has recently asked Amazon for information related to its operations in the country, as the agency continues to investigate the US e-commerce giant, a senior agency source told Reuters on Friday. Last month, the source at the country’s federal financial-crime fighting agency said the Directorate will examine the findings in a recent Reuters special

Beeple, a digital artist, has just sold a jpeg file — a digital image — for $69 million, or around Rs. 501 crore, through a first of its kind auction at Christie’s. The famous auction house had tweeted last month that it was going to hold the auction for Everydays – The First 5000 Days,

Pakistan will block social media app TikTok on a court order, a spokesman for the country’s telecoms regulator said on Thursday. “The court has asked PTA to block access to TikTok,” Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) spokesman Khurram Mehran told Reuters, adding the authority would comply with the order. A high court in the city of

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

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

Google Search is getting the Full Coverage feature, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The feature helps users get a comprehensive picture of a news story from a range of sources, especially for complicated news topics that are marked by continuous updates. The Full Coverage feature debuted on Google News in 2018

France Digitale will file a complaint against iPhone maker Apple with data privacy watchdog CNIL on Tuesday over alleged breaches of European Union rules, France’s leading startup lobby said in a statement. In the seven-page complaint seen by Reuters, the lobby, which represents the bulk of France’s digital entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, alleges Apple’s latest

The European Banking Authority, a key EU financial regulator, says it has fallen victim to a hack of its Microsoft email system which the US company blames on a Chinese group. Microsoft said last week that a state-sponsored group operating out of China was exploiting previously unknown security flaws in its Exchange email services to

Russia accused Facebook on Monday of violating citizens’ rights by blocking some media outlets’ content in the latest standoff between a government and Big Tech. Communications watchdog Roskomnadzor at the weekend threatened Facebook with a minimum RUB 1 million (roughly Rs. 10 lakhs) fine and demanded it restore access to content posted by TASS news agency,

Avoiding online payment fraud while using UPI apps or e-wallets is becoming increasingly difficult with the growing volume of online transaction in India. Total number of transactions made through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in February 2021 was 2.29 billion, according to data provided by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). And as more

NFT or Non-Fungible Tokens are cryptocurrency assets that represent a wide range of unique items, both physical and virtual like real estate or digital art. NFTs are unique – like a real artwork, an NFT uses the blockchain to identify its authenticity, so you can tell the difference between an original or a replica. They

Justice League Snyder Cut will cost Rs. 149 to rent and Rs. 689 to buy on BookMyShow Stream, the ticketing platform has announced. Pre-orders are now live. We also have the exact release time: Zack Snyder’s Justice League will be available March 18 at 1:31pm IST. Pricing is not yet available for any other platforms

Google is working on speeding up the release cycle of Chrome updates to four weeks from the current six-week period in order to improve the security, speed, and stability of the browser application. As per the post on Google’s Chromium Blog, starting with Chrome 94 in Q3, 2021, Google will release milestones of its browser

WandaVision, Marvel Studios’ first ever TV series, inspired by decades of American sitcoms, was one of the funniest entries yet. But it was also one of its saddest. At its heart, WandaVision was about its protagonist, Wanda Maximoff/ Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), navigating a deep and personal loss. Wanda might be an Avenger and have

WandaVision episode 9 — out on Friday March 5 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — wraps the Marvel Cinematic Universe series is predictable yet satisfying fashion. I think that’s the best thing I can say about the WandaVision series finale. Spoilers follow. It doesn’t go anywhere truly unexpected, but it delivers an ending that neatly

Flipkart on Thursday announced the launch of voice search on its platform to let customers find new items by speaking about them in Hindi and English. The e-commerce giant projects that the new voice search experience will enable faster onboarding of customers from smaller towns and simplify their e-commerce journey. It will also make the

Raya and the Last Dragon is Disney Animation’s first original effort in over four years. That last one — before two sequels, 2019’s billion-dollar-plus Frozen II, and Ralph Breaks the Internet the year prior — was Moana, centred on a young girl from the Pacific Islands. Moana was Disney’s first “princess” from that region, and

Google will not build or use alternate tools to track web browsing traffic once it begins phasing out existing technology from its Chrome browser next year, it said in a blog post on Wednesday, in a move that will reshape how online advertising works. Google first announced that it would get rid of third-party cookies,

Power utilities in Telangana have averted a possible attempt by a China-based group to hack the state’s power systems, officials said on Wednesday. The preventive action was taken following an alert by the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) and a heightened state of alertness would continue for more days,an official said. “We noticed

US e-commerce giant Amazon on Tuesday launched in Poland – one of the last major European countries without a dedicated Amazon site. “From today, Polish customers can buy on Amazon.pl and choose from over 100 million products,” the company said in a statement. Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, said it would offer free shipping

Alibaba and Ant Group founder Jack Ma has lost the title of China’s richest man, a list published on Tuesday showed, as his peers prospered while his empire was put under heavy scrutiny by Chinese regulators. Ma and his family had held the top spot for China’s richest in the Hurun Global Rich List in

A Chinese state-backed hacking group has in recent weeks targeted the IT systems of two Indian vaccine makers whose coronavirus shots are being used in the country’s immunisation campaign, cyber intelligence firm Cyfirma told Reuters. India produces more than 60% of all vaccines sold in the world. Goldman Sachs-backed Cyfirma, based in Singapore and Tokyo,

Google Chat website is reportedly getting a redesign, and this is a part of Gmail as well. Google is said to be migrating classic Hangouts users to the new redesigned free version of Google Chat. It has a new UI, a navigation drawer that lists both individual and groups chat conversations, and a Meet shortcut

The March streaming lineup sees a huge month internationally — as the headline has already partly conveyed. Justice League Snyder Cut finally makes its bow after a lengthy fan campaign on March 18. A week later, also from Warner Bros., comes one of the year’s most expensive movies in Godzilla vs. Kong, available March 26

Deep Nostalgia is a new AI-powered technique from online family tree service MyHeritage, which adds facial animations such as smiles, nods, blinks, and head tilts to still portrait photos. Using the website or mobile app, users can choose from a set of pre-recorded animations that can be transferred onto their own still photos. The service

WandaVision didn’t have a single post-credits scene in its first six episodes, and now it’s gotten them back-to-back. WandaVision episode 8 features a scene during the credits, just like the one we had on WandaVision episode 7 last week. And it’s a much more important one as it introduces what seems to be WandaVision’s second

Britain said on Friday it would offer a fast-track visa scheme for jobs at high-growth companies after a government-backed review warned that financial technology firms will struggle with Brexit and tougher competition for global talent. Finance minister Rishi Sunak said that now Britain has left the European Union, it wants to make sure its immigration

Bitcoin and Ethereum markets could seriously deteriorate if the identity of Bitcoin’s anonymous inventor — Satoshi Nakamoto — is revealed, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase warned in its initial public offering (IPO) filings. The San Francisco, California-based company also noted in the documents presented to the US Security Exchange Commission that the identification of the mysterious inventor