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With WandaVision — premiering January 15 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — the Marvel Cinematic Universe embraces a format it’s never tackled before: a sitcom. Though it’s technically set after the events of Avengers: Endgame, many of WandaVision’s onscreen events are depicted in the style and look of American sitcoms from the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s,

Cryptocurrencies plunged on Monday, with bitcoin dropping more than 12 percent to a one-week low as rising US bond yields lifted the dollar broadly and hurt other safe assets that pay no income. Bitcoin fell as far as $33,447 (roughly Rs. 24.5 lakhs), its lowest since January 6. Ethereum which often moves in tandem with

Facebook has banned President Donald Trump from the platform “indefinitely” due to his efforts to incite violence at the US Capitol, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday. Zuckerberg said a one-day ban imposed on Trump’s accounts at Facebook and Instagram was extended because of Trump’s “use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a

First it went through $20,000 (roughly Rs. 14.6 lakhs) . Then 10 days later, it broke through $25,000 (roughly Rs. 18.2 lakhs), and then, with barely taking a breath, it crossed $30,000 (roughly Rs. 21.9 lakhs). Now only a few days into 2021, the price of bitcoin has crossed $40,000 (roughly Rs. 29.2 lakhs). Nothing’s

Whether the topic is transforming the automobile or conquering the next frontier of space, Elon Musk has shown a knack for captivating an audience beyond investors and science geeks. The brash Tesla CEO, now the world’s wealthiest person following the electric automaker’s meteoric rise, was the quintessential Silicon Valley disruptor – except he no longer

China’s Baidu plans to form a company to make smart electric vehicles (EV), two sources familiar with the matter said, with manufacturing to be carried out at plants owned by automaker Geely. Baidu, the leading search engine company in China, will take a majority stake and absolute voting power in the new company. The venture

UK’s competition watchdog said on Friday it has launched an investigation into Google’s proposals to remove third-party cookies and other functions from its Chrome browser, following concerns it would curb rival digital advertising. The investigation will assess whether the proposals could cause advertising spend to become even more concentrated on the ecosystem of Alphabet’s Google

Mozilla Firefox 86 will have the backspace navigation shortcut disabled by default. The reason behind disabling the shortcut is to help users avoid data loss. Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have already disabled this backspace shortcut a while ago. Chrome users must download an extension for this work again, whereas Microsoft has offered a flag

Intel RealSense ID has been introduced as a facial recognition system that will let users unlock things with a glance. Intel RealSense ID combines an active depth sensor with a specialised neural network that the company says is designed to deliver secure, accurate, and user-aware facial authentication. The Face ID-like system works with smart locks,

Microsoft Edge has started getting history and tab sync features, as per a report. This will let users see full Web history and sync tabs in their browsers. The first stable version of Microsoft’s Chromium-based Microsoft Edge Web browser was released in January 2020 and it is finally getting the new essential features. According to

Udaan, a homegrown business-to-business e-commerce startup, has raised $280 million (roughly Rs. 2,046 crores), it said Wednesday, as it seeks to serve more mom-and-pop businesses that are buying products online in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Udaan said existing investors including Chinese tech giant Tencent, Lightspeed Venture Partners, DST Global, GGV Capital, and Altimeter

Bitcoin jumped to another all-time high on Wednesday, just two days after registering its biggest one-day decline since March. The world’s largest cryptocurrency advanced as much as 6 percent to $35,842 (roughly Rs. 26 lakhs), surpassing the previous high of $34,792 (roughly Rs. 25 lakhs) set on January 3. It plunged as much as 17 percent

The world’s richest person made the single-largest charitable contribution in 2020, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of top donations, a $10 billion gift that is intended to help fight climate change. Amazon’s founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, whose “real-time” worth Forbes magazine estimates at roughly $188 billion (roughly Rs. 13,76,800 crores), used

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan will disband Haven, the joint venture aimed at lowering health care costs for their US employees, just three years after launching. The announcement Monday means the three major American companies admitted defeat in their attempt to address one of the most vexing and longstanding problems for employers and employees alike

Bitcoin fell sharply on Monday, losing ground from a record high of $34,800 (roughly Rs. 25.4 lakhs) touched a day earlier, with traders citing volatility in highly leveraged futures markets. Bitcoin fell over 14 percent after earlier touching as high as $33,670 (roughly Rs. 24.6 lakhs), wiping out more than half its 20 percent rally

Arranged marriages happen in India, and not the rest of the world, we’ve been raised to think. “If you’ve been raised to strive for romantic love, a more pragmatic approach to marriage can be difficult to accept,” Smriti Mundhra, creator of Indian Matchmaking on Netflix told Gadgets 360. This sounds simple enough, but arrangedmarriages.co, a

Sensitive data of over 100 million credit and debit cardholders has been leaked on the dark Web, according to a security researcher. The data included full names, phone numbers, and email addresses of the cardholders, along with the first and last four digits of their cards. It appears to have been associated with payments platform

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is starting the process of delisting securities of three Chinese telecom companies, after President Donald Trump last month barred US investments in Chinese firms Washington says are owned or controlled by the military. The move by the NYSE, which will limit US investor access, follows global index providers MSCI,

Adobe Flash Player, the software that once gained massive popularity for bringing interactive content to the Web world and took animations to new levels, has finally reached the end of its life. While it might not be that known among the Gen-Z audience due to the arrival of newer technologies, the Flash Player plug-in was

When using social media to nudge people toward safe and healthy behaviour, it’s critical to make sure the words match the pictures, according to a new study. After looking at social media posts, parents of young children were better able to recall safety messages such as how to put a baby safely to sleep when

IndiGo airlines on Thursday said that some of its servers were hacked earlier in the month of December and hackers might upload some internal documents on public platforms. “We would like to make this disclosure that some of our servers were subject to a hacking incident earlier this month. We were able to restore our

FarmVille, one of the most popular games on Facebook, will be shut down on January 2 by publisher Zynga. The development was shared by Zynga chairman and co-founder Mark Pincus on Twitter. FarmVille has been playable on Facebook for 11 years and as per Pincus, it has played an important role in the evolution of

Google is ushering in 2021 with a slightly different doodle this time round. The search giant has featured an animated doodle with a ticking cuckoo clock, waiting to strike midnight and end the year. The cuckoo clock has 2020 written at the bottom and is animated in a way to reflect the universal desire of

Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10-million (roughly Rs. 73 crores) fine to escape prosecution over criminal charges accusing the company of hacking into the computer system of a startup rival. A judge in federal court in New York City signed off on the deal in what’s been a long-running legal battle that challenged Ticketmaster’s dominance

Amazon is in plans to launch its childhood-to-career programme Future Engineer in India, a job posting tips. Debuting in the US in January last year, the initiative is aimed to fund computer science classes to help students learn coding and computers. Amazon is currently hiring for a manager to lead the Amazon Future Engineer programme

Google is testing a feature that will aggregate videos from TikTok and Instagram in dedicated carousels in the Google mobile app, as per a report. If this feature rolls out widely, users won’t have to open individual apps to watch short videos as they can search and watch within the Google app itself. The short

Amazon India has announced ‘Mega Salary Days’ which will begin on January 1 and go on till January 3, 2021. Amazon will offer deals and offers on refrigerators, microwaves, washing machines, TVs, furniture, sports products, home appliances, toys, and more. Products from brands such as Samsung, LG, Whirpool, Godrej, Sony, JBL, and more, will be

We streamed, we Zoomed, we ordered groceries and houseplants online, we created virtual villages while navigating laptop shortages to work and learn from home. In many ways, 2020′s pandemic-induced isolation threw our dependence on technology into overdrive, snipping away at our real-life connections while bringing digital relationships to the fore. But for every life-changing Zoom,

It’s been a tough year by all accounts. But for Bitcoin, 2020 has been a marvelous time. The cryptocurrency almost quadrupled, surpassing $20,000 (roughly Rs. 14.7 lakhs) for the first time as it notched record after record. The diehards cheered it as an inflation hedge in an era of unprecedented central bank largesse. Wall Street

The Pudding’s Spotify bot will shine a spotlight on your musical tastes and give a thorough roasting. Have you ever had that moment when you are listening to some terrible music and suddenly your earphones unplug for some reason and you are left embarrassed to death as the horrible music blares out through your phone