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Washington, DC, has broadened its antitrust lawsuit against Amazon to challenge the online retailer’s agreements with wholesalers as well as third-party sellers, city Attorney General Karl Racine’s office said on Monday. The city sued Amazon in May alleging its requirements barred third-party sellers from selling elsewhere for less than on Amazon. Amazon’s prices include fees,

Chinese regulators have ordered sweeping changes to the country’s biggest payment app Alipay, as the ruling Communist Party attempts to rein in “the unruly growth” of the tech giants. Alipay – with more than one billion users in China and other Asian nations including India – was told to spinoff its profitable micro loan business,

Epic Games filed notice that is appealing a federal judge’s decision in a lawsuit alleging that Apple has been running an illegal monopoly that stifles competition. The maker of the popular Fortnite video game said in a court filing Sunday that it will take the ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San

Google Search is being updated with the option to enable Dark Mode on desktop. With the addition of Dark Mode, users will now have three options in appearance settings of the search engine from Google. This will include the option to keep the appearance settings of Google Search synced with their computer’s default theme, which

Google Maps speed limit function shows users the speed limit of the road they’re on and warns them if they are exceeding it. Google Maps also shows users the speed they’re driving at but advises users to check their speed on the car’s speedometer. The speedometer in the app is for informational use only and

Jason Rohrer, an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and game designer, had created a chatbot using OpenAI’s text-generating language model GPT-3 for fun during the pandemic last year. Rohrer named the chatbot “Samantha” and programmed her to be very friendly, acutely warm, and immensely curious. He allowed others to customise his creation — which he named

Twitch is suing two users in US federal court, accusing them of orchestrating ‘hate raids’ spewing abuse at video game play streamers who are not white or straight. The Amazon-owned platform is seeking unspecified cash damages from the pair, identified in the lawsuit as a Netherlands resident behind the account CruzzControl and a Vienna resident

The Delhi High Court has asked Google, YouTube, and Delhi Police to take steps to remove the sites and links carrying objectionable photos and videos of a married woman from the Internet. Justice Subramonium Prasad made it clear that this was not an adversarial litigation and listed the matter for September 16, while asking Google,

Spider-Man 2 with both Peter Parker and Miles Morales, joined by a new villain, in 2023 on PS5. A Wolverine PS5 game from the Spider-Man studio. A remake of the legendary Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a timed exclusive to PS5. Remastered versions of Alan Wake and the last two Uncharted games. New

The Matrix Resurrections trailer is here — in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. As promised, Warner Bros. has unveiled the first full-length trailer for the fourth Matrix movie, that brings back both Keanu Reeves’ Neo, and Carrie-Anne Moss’ Trinity, who find themselves back in the virtual world that started it all. The Matrix Resurrections trailer

The US Federal Trade Commission will hold its next open meeting on September 15 to hear staff findings on deals that Big Tech firms like Facebook and Apple make which are sometimes too small to spark antitrust scrutiny, the agency said on Wednesday. The agency began holding open meetings after Chair Lina Khan was sworn in June.

Microsoft has purchased Clipchamp, a Web-based video editing application for an undisclosed amount. The tech giant announced the acquisition of the startup through a blog post on Tuesday, September 7. The deal will allow Microsoft to bolster Clipchamp’s video editing technology with Windows and integrate the product offerings available through Microsoft 365. Clipchamp is already

Netflix and WWE have announced a new interactive horror movie titled Escape the Undertaker. It finds one of wrestling’s most popular acts, The New Day — that includes Big E, Xavier Woods, and Kofi Kingston — visiting The Undertaker at his mansion and discovering that it’s a haunted house filled with supernatural challenges. A single

Netgear Orbi RBK353 Wi-Fi 6 Mesh System (AX1800) has been launched in India. The company says the mesh system is suited for medium- and large-sized homes. It supports Wi-Fi 6 and can deliver speeds of up to 1.8Gbps. The setups is claimed to ensure lag-free, high-definition gaming and 4K/ 8K ultra-HD streaming. The Netgear Orbi

Minnal Murali, the Tovino Thomas-led Malayalam-language superhero movie, is headed to Netflix. On Monday, the world’s biggest subscription-based video streaming service announced that it had acquired the Indian superhero movie — and that it would be “coming soon” to Netflix. In Minnal Murali, the titular character is an ordinary man (Thomas) who turns into a

Sachin Bansal, co-founder of e-commerce giant Flipkart, has mounted a court challenge against India’s financial crime-fighting agency, which has accused him and others of violation of foreign investment laws, court records showed. The agency, the Enforcement Directorate, had in July issued a so-called show cause notice to Flipkart, its founders and some investors asking them

Can WhatsApp messages be sent without typing? Yes, that’s possible thanks to advanced voice recognition support that users have on their Android phones as well as iPhone. You may need to configure some settings before readying WhatsApp to send messages for you, without typing. This feature can come in handy at a time when you

Abba disbanded nearly 40 years ago and vowed to never reunite. The legendary Swedish pop group have now decided against that. Announcing their return for a new musical album, “Voyage,” Abba said its release in November will be followed by a series of concerts featuring their digital avatars who will play hits like “Mamma Mia,”

Website hosting service GoDaddy on Friday terminated services for the owner of an anti-abortion website that allows people to report suspected abortions in Texas. “Last night we informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have violated GoDaddy’s terms of service and have 24 hours to move to a different provider,” the company said in a statement. Texas has imposed

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings — the new Marvel 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 847MB to 2.2GB). While most copies are arguably genuine, given the attached screenshots and user comments attesting

A federal judge on Thursday said Apple must face nearly all of a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violates users’ privacy. US District Judge Jeffrey White said the plaintiffs could try to prove Siri routinely recorded their private conversations because of “accidental activations,” and that Apple disclosed these conversations to third parties,

A glitch in Amazon Web Services has been resolved, Japan’s Kyodo news agency said on Thursday, after companies from major online brokerages to the top mobile phone carrier and a leading airline suffered disruptions to their operations. Earlier, an Amazon spokesperson had said the company was working to restore its system, but declined to comment

Apple is asking its US employees to report their vaccination status as COVID-19 cases spike in the country, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing an internal memo. The iPhone maker has asked its staff to report their status “voluntarily” by mid-September, regardless of whether they are working remotely or from an office, according to the

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a slew of recommendations to enhance broadband connectivity in the country, and one of the key suggestions is fixing the minimum download speed for broadband connectivity at 2Mbps. This is four times more than existing minimum broadband speed of 512Kbps that the regulator had introduced back in

Razorpay is one of the largest payment gateways in the Indian market, and like many online businesses, has seen huge opportunities during the covid pandemic as everything went online. The company offers infrastructure for businesses to accept, process, and disburse online payments via its website or app.  It aims to make money transactions and management hassle-free so

The Suicide Squad will release September 16 on Apple TV, BookMyShow Stream, Google Play Movies, and YouTube Movies. The DC movie released in theatres on August 5 in India and several other regions including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, and more. On August 6 it became available to HBO Max users along with

Sea’s Shopee took just two years to become Brazil’s most-downloaded shopping app, winning users to its low-cost marketplace with its game-changing approach to e-commerce: in-app mini-games offering coupons to winning users. The Singapore-based company has combined online shopping with the gaming nous of its separate mobile game arm Garena – creator of Free Fire, Brazil’s

Singapore-headquartered Sea’s Shopee has launched a recruitment campaign for vendors to sell on what it called “Shopee India” and is ramping up hiring in the country, according to Youtube videos and job postings. “Shopee is coming to India!” announces a video posted earlier in August that promises free shipping and no commission fees for sellers

Researchers who discovered a massive flaw in the main databases stored in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform on Saturday urged all users to change their digital access keys, not just the 3,300 it notified this week. As first reported by Reuters, researchers at a cloud security company called Wiz discovered this month they could have gained

Cruella — out now on Disney+ Hotstar — has the same problem as Game of Thrones’ final season. Before it wraps up, the Disney movie needs Emma Stone to turn into the 101 Dalmatians villain (or thereabouts) that we all know. Just as Game of Thrones needed Daenerys Targaryen to become the antagonist. The HBO