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Twitter is rolling out several changes to its Web and phone apps to make it look less cluttered and simple to use. The design changes are aimed to make Twitter “more accessible, unique, and focussed” for users and what they are talking about. The changes include the addition of a new font called Chirp. This

As Klarna’s billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings, a feast of capitalism, he credits an unlikely backer for his runaway success: the Swedish welfare state. In particular, the 39-year-old pinpoints a late-1990s government policy to put a computer in every home. “Computers were inaccessible for low-income

Annette — the Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard-starrer musical from director Leos Carax — has become the latest Cannes Film Festival acquisition for the streaming service Mubi in India. Mubi announced Wednesday that Annette would be available November 26 on its platform in India, the UK, Ireland, and Latin America, following an early September theatrical

Spotify is offering three additional months for free on purchasing six months of the Premium plan. The audio streaming service has made this offer available till August 15. Essentially, users can get nine months of Premium membership for Rs. 719. Spotify offers four tiers of Premium plans including Mini, Individual, Duo, and Family. However, the

WhatsApp Web and desktop apps are reportedly getting photo editing tools, a feature that has been present only in the mobile app till now. These tools will allow users to edit photos, with an additional option to add stickers, before sending them. This feature may not be visible to all users right away. Additionally, WhatsApp

Pegasus spyware can now be detected on an iPhone using a free tool without requiring coding skills. Geneva, Switzerland-based DigiDNA has updated its iOS device manager iMazing with a spyware detection feature that can be used to detect Pegasus. The company has designed the feature using Amnesty’s Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) as a reference. The

The Suicide Squad got off to a less-than-promised start at the American box office, and performed similarly in its international theatrical expansion — James Gunn’s soft reboot of the DC (anti) superhero movie garnered $26.5 million (about Rs. 196 crores) in the US and Canada, while it made $35 million (about Rs. 260 crores) from

Amazon Great Freedom Festival Sale 2021 is now live with deals and offers on best sellers and new launches. One such category with heavy discounts is home appliances, and products such as air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, are being discounted up to 70 percent. Some of the top brands in focus include Sony, Philips, and Godrej. The five-day-long

Cisco Systems said on Friday it was not planning to offer a solution to help companies shift to private data centers from public ones, after a report from The Information said the network gear maker was developing a subscription service for it. The report had said that Cisco’s planned subscription service, called Cloud Stack, would

Apple reportedly shared a memo internally acknowledging the “misunderstandings” around the new features aimed at protecting children. It also emphasised that these features are important for keeping children safe. The Cupertino tech giant recently announced it will implement a system that checks photos on iPhone devices in the United States before they are uploaded to

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies reported its biggest ever revenue drop in the first half of 2021, after US sanctions drove it to sell a chunk of its once-dominant handset business and before new growth areas have fully matured. The company generated revenue of CNY 320.4 billion ($49.56 billion or roughly Rs. 3.69 lakh crores),

Microsoft on Thursday joined the ranks of tech companies requiring returning workers to be vaccinated, as Amazon delayed its plan to reopen offices until next year. The earliest date for fully reopening Microsoft’s US facilities will be October 4, according to the computing giant based near Amazon in the state of Washington. “Starting in September,

The Suicide Squad — out now in cinemas and on HBO Max — is a soft reboot of Suicide Squad, and it really pushes the boundaries of weird, in a good way. Funnily enough, the new DC movie exists because of Disney, and a Twitter campaign against writer-director James Gunn. A little over three years

Amazon Great Freedom Festival sale has started and is in full-swing with discounts and the best deals on the latest smartphones, televisions, laptops, and much more. The five-day sale that will run through August 9 promises numerous offers on a wide range of products, from across categories. Expect up to 40 percent off on mobiles

The $29-billion (roughly Rs. 2,15,620 crores) takeover of Australia’s “buy now, pay later” app Afterpay by US firm Square has thrown a spotlight on a sector that is growing rapidly and grabbing the attention of regulators. The seven-year-old Sydney-based app – which allows users to pay off smaller purchases in regular instalments – is aimed at

Microsoft has paused Windows 365 free trials just a day after launching the cloud PC service. The Redmond company said that it had to pause the free trial programme for Windows 365 due to “significant demand”. Windows 365 is designed to deliver a full-fledged computing experience to users, with a variety of virtual processing cores,

Eiza González is reportedly in talks to star in The Three-Body Problem, Netflix’s English-language adaptation of Chinese author Liu Cixin’s trilogy of the same name from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. There’s no word on whom González will be playing. The 31-year-old Mexican actress is best known for her roles in

Jio Fiber users can now make video calls from their TVs without requiring an external camera or webcam. Called ‘Camera on Mobile’, the new feature is available through the JioJoin app (previously named JioCall) available for Android and iOS devices. It allows users to make their phone camera an input device for video calls. It

Xolo Maridueña might be DC’s Blue Beetle. The 20-year-old Cobra Kai star is reportedly in talks to star in the lead role of Jaime Reyes/ Blue Beetle for the standalone DC movie that is being made for streaming platform HBO Max. Blue Beetle is set to be the first superhero movie for DC Films and

Money Heist season 5 trailer is here. As promised, Netflix unveiled the 90-second first trailer for the first half of Money Heist season 5 on Monday, giving us a glimpse at what to expect from the upcoming final season of Álex Pina’s hit Spanish thriller series — known as La casa de papel to Spanish-speaking

Jungle Cruise has got off to a $91.8 million (about Rs. 683 crores) opening weekend at the worldwide box office (and at home). More than a third of that, $34.2 million (about Rs. 254 crores), came from theatres in US and Canada. Disney said the Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt starrer made $30 million (about

Fast & Furious 9 (aka F9) and The Suicide Squad are the biggest international titles to watch this August — the first two are coming to (Indian) cinemas, two are already streaming (in the US) and the other will be. F9 released July 30 on-demand in the US, almost three weeks prior to its August

Netflix has announced just two original titles from India for August as yet. Presented by Mani Ratnam, Navarasa — available August 6 on Netflix — is an anthology collection of nine half-hour short films about nine human emotions. It stars the likes of Revathy, Suriya, Parvathy, Aditi Balan, Vijay Sethupathy, Arvind Swamy, Siddarth, and Yogi

Amazon was fined EUR 746 million ($880 million) by Luxembourg authorities over allegations it flouted the EU’s data protection rules, the online retail giant said Friday. The fine was issued July 16 by the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection following its determination that “Amazon’s processing of personal data did not comply with the EU

Russia on Friday launched administrative proceedings against Facebook’s WhatsApp for what it said was a failure to localise data of Russian users on Russian territory, the Interfax news agency reported. There was no immediate comment from Facebook. A day earlier, a Russian court fined Alphabet’s Google 3 million roubles for violating personal data legislation and

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 27 titles that will be released on its platform in August 2021. There are two big originals from India — the first is Bhuj: The Pride of India, a war drama about the 1971 Indo-Pak War led by Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha, and Nora Fatehi. Bhuj:

Hawkeye has a first look and a release date: November 24. Disney+ and Marvel Studios announced Thursday that the next Marvel Cinematic Universe series — if you don’t count the non-canonical Marvel’s What If…? starting in August — will premiere in late November a day prior to Thanksgiving on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar. Though an

Cyberattacks on organisations have grown globally by 29 percent in the last six months, with the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region showing the highest growth followed by the US and Asia Pacific (APAC), according to cybersecurity firm Check Point. The number of ransomware attacks on organisations are also said to have increased by

British singer-songwriter Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up” passed one billion views on YouTube. Over two decades after the music video was released, it became an Internet hit when it was used for the now-popular ‘Rickrolling’ prank. Rickrolling entails making a user click on a disguised hyperlink that ultimately leads to the

Canada’s e-commerce giant Shopify beat second-quarter revenue expectations on Wednesday, on the back of a resilient online shopping trend precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Shopify’s value nearly tripled over the last year due to unprecedented growth of the e-commerce sector as customers looked towards online shopping as the only viable alternative during the pandemic. Even