Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new form of virus that could pull valuable data from your desktops by using commands masked in memes on...
Hackers find a way to deliver commands to malware via memes on Twitter
New guidelines pave way for home and office charging of EVs in India
A Facebook Photo API bug exposed unposted photos of over 6.8 Million users to third-party apps
Google’s Year in Search 2018: FIFA World Cup, Black Panther and more
Intel gets back to reinventing computing with new stacked chip design
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Coolpad Cool Play 8 is now official with FHD+ display and dual rear cameras
Coolpad has launched its new smartphone, dubbed Cool Play 8, which is the successor of the Cool Play 7C. The phone is priced at CNY 999...
Xiaomi Play smartphone to launch in China on 24th December
After weeks of rumours related to Xiaomi’s upcoming smartphone series, the company has now officially confirmed that it will be launching its...
Despite global outrage, Huawei gets invited to 5G trials in India
All of the global telecom powerhouses — the US, Australia, New Zealand among others — are voicing united concerns against Huawei over its...
Hackers find a way to deliver commands to malware via memes on Twitter
Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new form of virus that could pull valuable data from your desktops by using commands masked in memes on...
Quikr acquires Chennai-based full-stack real estate portal India Property
In a bid to strengthen its real-estate vertical, online classifieds platform Quikr has announced the acquisition of Chennai-based India Property...
Ed-tech platform MadGuy Labs bags $150,000 funding from Gray Matter Capital
MadGuy Labs, a Hyderabad-based online test preparation platform for government jobs, has announced that it has received around $150,000 in a funding...
New guidelines pave way for home and office charging of EVs in India
With the rise in the demand for electric vehicles and with the government pushing for the same, there was a need for the ease of access to the...
Pokémon GO creator Niantic is reportedly raising $200Mn
Gaming startup Niantic Labs, which initially started within Google in 2010 and then went out its own to function as a separate company, is reportedly...
A Facebook Photo API bug exposed unposted photos of over 6.8 Million users to third-party apps
More data breach news folks. And once again, as has been the case quite often in past few months, the platform making users vulnerable is...
YouTube Rewind 2018 fallout: Everything that has happened so far
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware of the YouTube Rewind 2018 situation. YouTube reqind started off back in...
In an expansion bid, Apple to spend $1 billion to build a new campus in Austin
Apple is pushing up a major expansion bi as it looks to push sales which have largely stagnated for a while. The company has now announced a major...
Walmart Labs acqui-hires AI and machine learning startup Int.AI
Walmart Labs India, which is the local product development division of US retail giant Walmart, has announced that it has acqui-hired an Artificial...
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Coolpad Cool Play 8 is now official with FHD+ display and dual rear cameras
Coolpad has launched its new smartphone, dubbed Cool Play 8, which is the successor of the Cool Play 7C. The phone is priced at CNY 999...
Xiaomi Play smartphone to launch in China on 24th December
After weeks of rumours related to Xiaomi’s upcoming smartphone series, the company has now officially confirmed that it will be launching its...
Despite global outrage, Huawei gets invited to 5G trials in India
All of the global telecom powerhouses — the US, Australia, New Zealand among others — are voicing united concerns against Huawei over its...
Coolpad Cool Play 8 is now official with FHD+ display and dual rear cameras
Coolpad has launched its new smartphone, dubbed Cool Play 8, which is the successor of the Cool Play 7C. The phone is priced at CNY 999...
Xiaomi Play smartphone to launch in China on 24th December
After weeks of rumours related to Xiaomi’s upcoming smartphone series, the company has now officially confirmed that it will be launching its...
Despite global outrage, Huawei gets invited to 5G trials in India
All of the global telecom powerhouses — the US, Australia, New Zealand among others — are voicing united concerns against Huawei over its...
Hackers find a way to deliver commands to malware via memes on Twitter
Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new form of virus that could pull valuable data from your desktops by using commands masked in memes on...
Pokémon GO creator Niantic is reportedly raising $200Mn
Gaming startup Niantic Labs, which initially started within Google in 2010 and then went out its own to function as a separate company, is reportedly...
A Facebook Photo API bug exposed unposted photos of over 6.8 Million users to third-party apps
More data breach news folks. And once again, as has been the case quite often in past few months, the platform making users vulnerable is...
YouTube Rewind 2018 fallout: Everything that has happened so far
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware of the YouTube Rewind 2018 situation. YouTube reqind started off back in...
In an expansion bid, Apple to spend $1 billion to build a new campus in Austin
Apple is pushing up a major expansion bi as it looks to push sales which have largely stagnated for a while. The company has now announced a major...
Google launches a new ‘Shopping Homepage’ for Indian users
Google has today announced a brand new shopping experience for all you, who spend quite some time sifting through offers and products on multiple...
Google’s Year in Search 2018: FIFA World Cup, Black Panther and more
This year’s edition of Google’s Year in Search is here. The Google Year in Search isn’t a mere list of the most searched or most...
OnePlus 6T Mclaren Edition with 10GB RAM launched in India for ₹50,999
After launching the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition in the UK yesterday, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer has now launched the smartphone in...
Intel gets back to reinventing computing with new stacked chip design
Intel is finally getting back to what led to it becoming the leader in electronics industry — re-inventing computing. The American chipmaker...
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In a bid to strengthen its real-estate vertical, online classifieds platform Quikr has announced the acquisition of Chennai-based India Property Online which...
MadGuy Labs, a Hyderabad-based online test preparation platform for government jobs, has announced that it has received around $150,000 in a funding round...
Walmart Labs India, which is the local product development division of US retail giant Walmart, has announced that it has acqui-hired an Artificial...
300K DAUs and 1.5 Mn MAUs — Qureka cracks the online gaming code in India
India is still pretty far when it comes to taking online Gaming seriously. Neither is there a strong community base (even though every other High...
Ninjacart raises $34.6 million in Series B funding from Accel, Syngenta and others
In a bid to expand its operations to new geographies, Bengaluru-based agritech startup Ninjacart has scooped up $34.6 million (INR 250 crore) in its...
Video entertainment app Roposo raises $10 million in a new funding round
After pivoting from being a fashion discovery platform model to a generic video entertainment platform, Roposo has now received a needed financial...
Byju’s scores $400 million in a fresh round at a $4 Billion valuation
India’s ed-tech sector is getting a massive financial push today. Online tutoring platform Byju’s, has now raised $400 million in a fresh...
Bengaluru-based mattress maker Wakefit bags ₹65 crore funding from Sequoia Capital
Wakefit, a Bengaluru-based company that makes mattress and sleep-related products, has announced that it has secured ₹65 crore funding from...
Car financing startup OTO Capital secures ₹5 crore in seed round
OTO Capital, a Mumbai-based car financing startup has raised around ₹5 crore in its seed funding round which was led by funding platform Venture...
Google has acquired popular train tracking app ‘Where is my Train’
Popular Android app ‘Where is my Train’, which offers several ways to track locations of trains on Indian railways (world’s third...
Tencent Music investor files lawsuit, days before its $1.2 Billion IPO
Tencent Music’s IPO — the most recent talk of the town and the street in tech community — continues to ride on the whirlwind year...
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Google has acquired popular train tracking app ‘Where is my Train’
Popular Android app ‘Where is my Train’, which offers several ways to track locations of trains on Indian railways (world’s third...
Essential acquires CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail app
Essential, a smartphone company founded by Android founder Andy Rubin, has announced the acquisition of CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail...
Microsoft Edge is moving to Chromium, the platform that powers Chrome
Confirming what had become a speculation among the tech community for sometime now, Microsoft has said that it will be moving Edge to the Chromium...
Pokémon Go is finally getting the player vs player Battle mode
Niantic, the company which took the world by storm two and a half years ago when they dropped perhaps one of the most successful mobile AR games in...
An ironic ‘Hey Siri, OK Google’ can now pop up Google Assistant on iOS
Who would have thought, that a ‘Hey Siri’ shortcut on Apple’s famed voice assistant could also help you get to Google’s own...
Google’s “.new” domains help you create new docs, forms, sheets and slides in a matter of seconds
In what has already become a “breaking-the-internet” of sorts productivity hack, Google has rolled out an awesome new functionality to...
Uber will now recommend vehicles best suited for your trip
Uber is improving its services. The shakeup at the top levels of the company seems to have led to an approach that calls for giving greater emphasis...
Uber’s Middle Eastern rival Careem lifts a hefty $200 million
Middle Easts based cab hiring behemoth, Careem has revealed that it has raised a substantial $200 million from its existing investors. As per...
consumer tech
Coolpad has launched its new smartphone, dubbed Cool Play 8, which is the successor of the Cool Play 7C. The phone is priced at CNY 999 (approximately Rs. 10,300)...
After weeks of rumours related to Xiaomi’s upcoming smartphone series, the company has now officially confirmed that it will be launching its all-new Xiaomi Play...
Despite global outrage, Huawei gets invited to 5G trials in India
All of the global telecom powerhouses — the US, Australia, New Zealand among others — are voicing united concerns against Huawei over its...
Google launches a new ‘Shopping Homepage’ for Indian users
Google has today announced a brand new shopping experience for all you, who spend quite some time sifting through offers and products on multiple...
OnePlus 6T Mclaren Edition with 10GB RAM launched in India for ₹50,999
After launching the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition in the UK yesterday, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer has now launched the smartphone in...
Intel gets back to reinventing computing with new stacked chip design
Intel is finally getting back to what led to it becoming the leader in electronics industry — re-inventing computing. The American chipmaker...
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Microsoft Edge is moving to Chromium, the platform that powers Chrome
Confirming what had become a speculation among the tech community for sometime now, Microsoft has said that it will be moving Edge to the Chromium...
Quora says data of 100 Million users compromised
Yet another incident of a massive data breach has come up, and the affected platform is Quora this time. In a blog post penned by Quora CEO Adam...
Nutanix Xi IoT is now generally available with focus on retail, oil & gas and smartcities
NASDAQ-listed cloud company Nutanix, has now announced the general availability of Xi IoT, a new edge computing service offered as part of the...
Amazon thumped by a major data breach just as it gears up for Black Friday
Just as Amazon geared up for the busiest period of sales in the year, they were thumped by a mysterious data breach. This data breach comes just two...
Microsoft acquires FSLogix in order to enhance its virtual desktop experience
Microsoft has today taken a step further in its bid to deliver a one-stop virtual desktop solution for consumers to run Office 365 and Windows 10 on...
Global multi-factor authentication outage locks out Office 365, Azure users
A global multi-factor authentication outage has resulted in Microsoft hosted customers across the globe, being locked out of their accounts. If you...
Airtable, a coding platform for non-programmers, scores $100Mn in Series C
Coding is growing. Be it Governments, organisations, corporates — everyone wants their people to code, or at least learn the basics of coding...
IBM to acquire Red Hat for a record $34 Billion
Marking its biggest ever acquisition in the company’s over century old history, IBM on Sunday announced that it is acquiring US-based software...
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IBM has announced that the company has agreed to sell select software assets to HCL Technologies for $1.8 billion. The move comes at a time when the...
If you have ever worked with large amounts of data, you are probably familiar with Kafka, an open source service that lets folks easily manage...
AWS launches RoboMaker service for building intelligent robotics apps
Amazon Web Services has today announced the availability of AWS RoboMaker, a new service that makes it easy for developers to develop, test, and...
DPC acts against LinkedIn’s use of 18 million non-user e-mail addresses to target its ads
The Irish Data Protection Commission has issued a brand new report according to which, LinkedIn, the social networking website for professionals, has...
Amazon simplifies adding customized language lists to Comprehend
Comprehend is Amazon’s natural language processing tool, announced last year to help businesses selectively extract words and phrases. Amazon...
Human rights groups ask Facebook to introduce due process for content takedowns
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Human Rights Watch are among a consortium of over 70 human rights group that have joined together in asking...
this is our future
Intel is finally getting back to what led to it becoming the leader in electronics industry — re-inventing computing. The American chipmaker, who has lost most of its chip-manufacturing leadership to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Chinese A.I. upstart Megvii is raising $500Mn at a $3.5Bn valuation
There’s more money pouring into China’s maturing technology and startup ecosystem. According to a Reuters report, Megvii, the Chinese AI...
Nasa’s InSight lander captures the sounds of wind on Mars
The sound of the wind on Mars has been captured for the first time by Nasa’s InSight lander, which landed on the Elysium Planitia region of...
Volkswagen group wont launch petrol or diesel cars come 2026
When VW was hit by one of the biggest scandals in automotive history, there was an outburst from the automotive community against the company. VW saw...
There’s a second Samsung 5G phone coming up next year, this time via AT&T
Samsung has another 5G smartphone scheduled for a launch in 2019 — way ahead of the rest of the smartphone pack. While most OEMs are still in...
India’s heaviest communication satellite, GSAT 11 successfully launched
In what is is set to bring a tectonic shift in India’s broadband and internet connectivity, ISRO’s 5800kgs heavyweight communication...
Audi will spend $16 Billion on electric vehicles and self-driving tech
Massive investments from traditional automakers into future mobility tech is getting a major impetus today. Auto Union Der Inglostadt, popularly...
CIMON robot aboard the ISS asks astronaut to “not be mean, please”!
In what may look like a realisation of what we have been thinking AI powered humanoids should actually be doing, CIMON — a robot which boarded...
PSLV-C43 successfully places India’s HysIS and 30 other satellites into orbit
In yet another successful, clinically precise mission, ISRO’s highly dependable Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or the PSLV – C43 ...