Starlink, the satellite Internet service of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, sends you a notice if you use it to illegally download copyrighted material. A subscriber, who wished to know if the company had a policy on such user behaviour, used Torrent purposefully on his Starlink connection and ended up received a notice from the company. The
The maintainers of Exim have released patches to remediate as many as 21 security vulnerabilities in its software that could enable unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete remote code execution and gain root privileges. Collectively named ’21Nails,’ the flaws include 11 vulnerabilities that require local access to the server and 10 other weaknesses that could be
Twitter has rolled out the ability to see bigger and better images. Earlier, the instant messaging platform used to crop images to fit it in a certain size and the preview often resulted to be misleading. However, the company will stop cropping images and showcase them in better previews. The company also recently introduced a
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will send its first crew to space on July 20 and is offering one of the seats to the winner of an online auction, the company said Wednesday. The trip will last a total of ten minutes, four of which passengers will spend above the Karman line that marks the recognised
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — A U.S. legislative proposal to allocate about $110 billion for basic and advanced technology research and science in the face of rising competitive pressure from China will be debated by the Senate Commerce Committee on May 12, sources said
Apple has released a new Safari 14.1 update for macOS Catalina and macOS Mojave users after pulling it just a few days ago, due to several reported issues. Apple first started rolling out Safari 14.1 on April 26, to fix browser fixes security vulnerabilities in WebKit, but this reportedly caused several browsing issues in both
In this article FB Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images In 1803, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall was faced with an impossible
PUBG Mobile India may soon relaunch in the country as Battlegrounds Mobile India, as indicated by the company’s official Facebook page, YouTube channel, and India website. After the battle royale game’s ban in India in September last year, fans have been eagerly waiting for a relaunch and publisher Krafton has been working to bring it
Health-tech startup HealthifyMe has launched a new platform called Vaccinateme.in. This platform uses CoWIN APIs to help people find available vaccination slots nearby in real-time. The platform comes with various filters that let you categorise your search — for instance, search for vaccine slots for 18+ category, search for vaccine slots for 45+ category, search
PC maker Dell has issued an update to fix multiple critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities that went undetected since 2009, potentially allowing attackers to gain kernel-mode privileges and cause a denial-of-service condition. The issues, reported to Dell by researchers from SentinelOne on Dec. 1, 2020, reside in a firmware update driver named “dbutil_2_3.sys” that comes pre-installed
Instagram is rolling out its anticipated Captions features for Stories. The social media platform announced the rollout in a handful of countries and also confirmed that it will trickle down to Reels in the future. Captions will enable users to watch and understand video on Stories even without keeping the sound on. This looks to
The US Department of Defence has said it is tracking the Chinese Long March 5B-rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend. The Chinese rocket is expected to enter Earth’s atmosphere around May 8 and US Space Command is tracking the rocket’s trajectory amid concerns about where its debris
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The enterprise IoT platform market is pegged for robust growth over the next several years, both in terms of revenue and data generated. Enterprises in the process of deploying IoT platforms are overwhelmingly committed to those projects, with more than 90
Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is reported to be in the works and its production may start sometime in July. This is likely going to be an upgrade to the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE launched last year. There were two models that were launched in the Fan Edition range – Samsung Galaxy S20 FE and Samsung
A new academic study has highlighted a number of privacy and security pitfalls associated with recycling mobile phone numbers that could be abused to stage a variety of exploits, including account takeovers, conduct phishing and spam attacks, and even prevent victims from signing up for online services. Nearly 66% of the recycled numbers that were
Signal displayed a bunch of ads on Instagram that it says were later taken down by Facebook. The ads mentioned the demographic they were targeting directly, with the aim to show users the personal data collected and sold by the social media giant. The move got Signal’s account shut down from Facebook’s ad platform, the
Researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of sauropod dinosaurs dating back to about 100 million years from an area around West Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya. The yet-to-be-published findings were made during a recent field trip by researchers from the Geological Survey of India’s Palaeontology division in North-East. The GSI researchers noted that this is
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Timescale, the company that commercializes the open source time-series PostgreSQL database TimescaleDB, has raised $40 million in a series B round of funding. A time-series database (TSDB) refers to a system that stores and retrieves data points with associated timestamps, helping
Mi 11 Ultra 67W fast charger is set to launch in India as a separate accessory soon, Xiaomi has confirmed. The flagship smartphone debuted in the country late last month. But instead of bundling the 67W fast charger that is available in the retail box of the Mi 11 Ultra globally, Xiaomi announced that it would bundle
In this article FB Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind. Jeon Heon-Kyun | Getty Images LONDON – DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence lab acquired by Google in 2014, has extended its hunt for the world’s best AI researchers to Toronto, Canada. The company posted a job ad for a research scientist
Resident Evil Village was first unveiled as a surprise announcement at the PlayStation 5 reveal event in June last year. The tenth main chapter in Capcom’s iconic survival horror series, Resident Evil Village will continue the story of protagonist Ethan Winters from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, bringing back the exploration-focused first-person gameplay from the last
Uttar Pradesh lockdown has been extended till May 10 morning due to increasing number of COVID-19 cases, and it has now become mandatory for state residents to have an e-pass to travel during the lockdown. The state government will issue e-passes for both intra-district and inter-district travel. The government has issued a notice which lists
Ivanti, the company behind Pulse Secure VPN appliances, has released a security patch to remediate a critical security vulnerability that was found being actively exploited in the wild by at least two different threat actors. Tracked as CVE-2021-22893 (CVSS score 10), the flaw concerns “multiple use after free” issues in Pulse Connect Secure that could
Twitter on Tuesday said it is buying Scroll and its advertisement-free news app to bolster a coming subscription service, and channel money to journalism in the process. The global one-to-many messaging platform did not disclose how much it is paying for Scroll, which owns the Nuzzel app. “Scroll will become a meaningful addition to our
SpaceX has received more than 500,000 preorders for its Starlink satellite Internet service and anticipates no technical problems meeting the demand, founder Elon Musk said on Tuesday. “Only limitation is high density of users in urban areas,” Musk tweeted, responding to a post from a CNBC reporter that said the $99 (roughly Rs. 7,300) deposits
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is planning to build several more chipmaking factories in the U.S. state of Arizona beyond the one currently planned, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, announced
Apple said on Monday it has hired former distinguished Google scientist Samy Bengio, who left the search giant amid turmoil in its artificial intelligence research department. Bengio is expected to lead a new AI research unit at Apple under John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, two people familiar with the matter
In this article FB Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD Facebook on Tuesday announced that its Workplace enterprise communications software has now reached 7 million paid subscribers, up 40% from last May’s figure of 5 million. Workplace is enterprise software that companies can use as their internal social network to communicate with their
Xbox Game Pass will soon get FIFA 21 and Red Dead Online, among other games, for console and PC gamers. FIFA 21 will be available from May 6 for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC members while Red Dead Online will be available a bit later for cloud and console gamers. Microsoft has also shared
A fake SMS message is in circulation that falsely claims to offer an app to let users register for COVID-19 vaccine in India. However, instead of providing a legitimate way to register for the vaccination, the app is aimed at propagating malware via SMS messages once it is installed on a mobile device. The malicious