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Google Maps is reportedly getting a new homescreen widget that would help Android users start navigation much faster. The update is in line with Google releasing new widgets for its major apps including Google Phone, YouTube Music, Google Keep, Calculator, and Clock with the rollout of a stable version of Android 12. The new Google

Adobe Acrobat has added an extension for Google Chrome which allow users to access PDF-editing tools directly through their browsers. The new extension will allow users to view, convert, compress, and sign PDFs on the browser without switching applications. Once the extension is downloaded and installed on the browser, users can share files with others

Money Heist season 5 “Volume 2” trailer is here. On Wednesday, Netflix unveiled a 25-second teaser trailer for the final five episodes of the hit Spanish series (known as La casa de papel to Spanish-speaking viewers). It doesn’t tell us a lot, but it once again acknowledges the loss The Professor (Álvaro Morte) and Co.

Facebook is rolling out a new feature to enhance users’ audio experience on the platform. The social media giant has unveiled Live Audio Rooms to public figures, creators, and groups globally. The new feature — launched in response to rising interest in Clubhouse — will allow users to host live audio discussions on the platform.

Africa, with its internationally recognised musical talent – and growing mobile phone use – is central to Swedish music streamer Spotify’s plans to extend its reach to a billion customers. As African artists such as Nigeria’s Burna Boy and South Africa’s Black Coffee are streamed across the world, the continent was seen as an obvious

Facebook’s Instagram said on Monday it is testing a feature to notify users of outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app, days after two outages disrupted the social media giant’s services. The test will run in the United States and will go on for a few months, Instagram said in a blog post.

Dream11, one of India’s most popular gaming apps, has suspended operations in the southern Indian state of Karnataka after a complaint was registered against its founders claiming it was in violation of a new state gambling law. Police records on Saturday showed a case has been registered in India’s tech capital Bengaluru, in Karnataka, following

Google has added a new feature that allows users to tune their stringed instruments with ease. The internet giant has added an instrument tuner to its search engine that will let you tune a guitar using the microphone of your device. The new inbuilt tuner works like any other guitar tuning app available on different app

India’s Tata Consultancy Services topped quarterly profit estimates on Friday, boosted by growth in its key banking and financial services segment and a strong demand for digital services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The country’s largest information technology exporter is the first among peers to report earnings for the second quarter, with investors looking at the

Mastercard, the American global payments and technology company, is preparing to phase out the magnetic strip from all its debit and credit cards, dumping the payment method of swiping as it gets obsolete with the emergence of chip-based cards. Though this method has remained in use for decades and by billions of people, the development of

Top science advisers to President Joe Biden are calling for a new “bill of rights” to guard against powerful new artificial intelligence technology. The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy on Friday launched a fact-finding mission to look at facial recognition and other biometric tools used to identify people or assess their emotional

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2021 sale is currently underway with hundreds of deals across a wide range of products. The first round of the festive season sale with the HDFC Bank offer is set to end at midnight tonight. Amazon’s month-long Great Indian Festival 2021 sale will continue with other bank offers from Saturday. In

Dune final trailer is here. With two weeks to release, Warner Bros. has unveiled the third and final trailer for Dune, the epic sci-fi movie that features a star-studded ensemble: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem among others. The final Dune trailer does

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2021 sale is now live for Prime members. The month-long festive season sale brings hundreds of deals on popular mobile phones, laptops, tablets, wearables, TVs, and other electronics. Amazon’s Great Indian Festival 2021 sale will open up for everyone else from October 3. We’ve handpicked some of the best deals and

Amazon today announced Prime Fridays, special offers every Friday for Amazon Prime members through the duration of the Great Indian Festival sale. Amazon’s annual sale started on October 2 this year, and like previous years, is expected to carry on until Diwali, which is on November 4 this year. From October 8, Prime Fridays will start,

Google plans to invest $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,500 crores) in Africa over the next five years to ensure access to fast and cheaper internet and will back startups to support the continent’s digital transformation, it said on Wednesday. The unit of US tech company Alphabet made the announcement at a virtual event where it

Quantum computer maker Rigetti said on Wednesday it will go public through a merger with a blank-cheque firm in a deal that potentially values the combined company at $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 11,240 crores). This is the second quantum computer hardware maker to announce going public this year using a blank-cheque, or special purpose acquisition company

Windows 11 is now officially available for download in India and around the world. The new Windows operating system has been released as a free upgrade on eligible Windows 10 PCs. It will also come preloaded on new Windows PCs from manufacturers such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, among others. Windows 11 supports

Facebook’s six-hour outage the previous day shows the repercussions from relying on just a few big players and underscores the need for more rivals, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Tuesday. The outage prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, the largest

Facebook services appear to be down at 9pm on Monday, according to reports on outage tracker Down Detector. The tracker noted widespread outages including Twitter, Google, and Jio; but while we were able to access the other sites, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger were the only ones that were persistently unavailable when Gadgets 360 staff

Starlink, the satellite-based Internet service operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is set to go live in India by focussing on ten rural Lok Sabha constituencies, a company’s executive revealed. SpaceX aims to provide high-speed Internet access in remote areas using a constellation of satellites under Starlink. The Hawthorne, California-based company is projecting to offer “near

An Alabama woman whose 9-month-old daughter died has filed suit against the hospital where she was born claiming it did not disclose that its computer systems had been crippled by a cyberattack, which resulted in diminished care that resulted in the baby’s death. Springhill Medical Center was deep in the midst of a ransomware attack

Recovering deleted text messages on an iPhone is possible through a few ways. We all receive several text messages on a daily basis that aren’t useful. For this, most of us select multiple messages on our iPhone and delete them in one shot. That process sometimes takes important messages away — alongside removing junk and

Flipkart Big Billion Days 2021 sale is now live for everyone, 24 hours after the sale opened its doors exclusively for Plus members. The Walmart-owned online marketplace is running its first round of festive season sales from October 3 to October 10. The Big Billion Days 2021 sale in October will also include several mini flash

Winters is around the corner and Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale will start on Saturday, October 3rd, for everyone and on Friday, October 2nd, for Prime members. You can shop your wishlist and enjoy amazing discounts on a wide range of categories, so you can make the most of this Amazon sale. If winters bother

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2021 is now live, but only for Amazon Prime subscribers. At midnight on October 2, the sale kicked off Friday night and will open up to all shoppers from October 3, that is after 24 hours. Prime members also benefit from extra deals and discounts during the sale, apart from the

No Time to Die — Daniel Craig’s fifth and final Bond movie out now in cinemas — has leaked onto torrent sites and other networks that enable piracy, in differing versions of quality and file size (from 849MB to 2.90GB). While most copies are arguably genuine, given the attached screenshots and user comments attesting to

SpaceX founder Elon Musk recently said that he is pro-nuclear power and that he was surprised by some of the “sentiments against nuclear” among the public. The tech billionaire was speaking at the CodeCon 2021 in Los Angeles when he touched upon the subject of sustainable power generation. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO clarified that

Russian authorities on Thursday warned social media giant Facebook it faces a fine of up to 10 percent of its annual turnover in the country unless it fails to delete content Moscow deems illegal. Upping the ante in its standoff with US Big Tech, state communications regulator Roskomnadzor told Reuters it was planning to send

Google Search is getting smarter by deploying the proprietary Multitask Unified Model (MUM). At the Search On event on Wednesday, the Mountain View, California-based company announced a series of updates coming to Google Search that will leverage MUM to enhance user experience. Google is also bringing a redesigned Search page for users where it will