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Alphabet’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work. Google’s new review procedure asks that researchers consult

Steam Winter Sale offers good deals on thousands of games, with deeper discounts than ever before on Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Need for Speed Payback, Sea of Thieves, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and Ghostrunner. Many other games are available at prices matching their previous best offer, including the likes of Control, Crusader Kings 3,

Let’s Encrypt, an open certificate authority that gives digital certificates to websites to enable HTTPS, has extended Android compatibility for its certificates for older phones allowing for continued safe Web browsing. The development was shared on the official website of Let’s Encrypt. The certificate authority said it was able to come up with a solution

Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on Monday joined Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company NSO, filing an amicus brief in federal court that warned that the Israeli firm’s tools were “powerful, and dangerous.” The brief, filed before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, opens up a new front in Facebook’s lawsuit

Silicon Valley is working behind the scenes to secure senior roles for tech allies in lesser-known but still vital parts of president-elect Joe Biden’s administration, even as the pushback against Big Tech from progressive groups and regulators grows. The Biden transition team has already stacked its agency review teams with more tech executives than tech

An Indian factory damaged by violence this month was a new facility with limited production and so there will be limited financial impact, Taiwanese Apple supplier Wistron, which runs the plant, said late on Sunday. Apple has placed Wistron on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award the Taiwanese contract manufacturer new business until

US prosecutors on Friday charged a former China-based executive at Zoom Video Communications Inc with disrupting video meetings commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown at the request of the Chinese government. Xinjiang Jin, 39, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of conspiring since January 2019 to use his company’s systems

The judge hearing the US Justice Department’s antitrust case against Alphabet’s Google suggested a trial date of September 12, 2023, on Friday. US District Judge Amit Mehta suggested the date during a status conference, and counsel for the two sides did not object. Mehta noted that the two sides appeared to expect that discovery would be completed

Apple supplier Wistron’s factory in Karnataka state could not cope up with the rapid scaling up of manpower and breached several laws, a government inspection has revealed following violence at the site last weekend. Several thousand contract workers at Wistron angered over alleged non-payment of wages destroyed property, factory gear, and iPhones at the plant

Boba Fett is getting his own Star Wars series. At the very end of The Mandalorian season 2 episode 8, Disney and Lucasfilm revealed that The Book of Boba Fett will be released in December 2021. The Boba Fett spin-off show will be available on Disney+ and Disney+ wherever available. Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett will

Instagram appears to be down for many users around the world. The issue appears to be unevenly distributed, with it working for some users, and not for others. The week of downtime continues with one more high-profile outage, with Instagram users turning to Twitter and other social platforms to complain about outages. The hashtag #Instagramdown

Microsoft said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by US officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies. The Redmond, Washington company is a user of Orion, the widely deployed networking management software from SolarWinds, which was

Zoom has announced that it will be removing its standard 40-minute meeting limit applicable on free accounts for the upcoming festivals for users around the world. The temporary relaxation will be for a few days in December around Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year. This will allow people to spend more virtual time with their loved

Leading virtual currency Bitcoin on Wednesday traded above $20,000 (roughly Rs. 14.7 lakhs) for the first time following a sustained run higher in recent weeks. Just 12 years old, Bitcoin reached a record-high $20,398.50 (roughly Rs. 14.9 lakhs) before pulling back to $20,145 (roughly Rs. 14,81,000), which was still an intra-day gain of nearly four

Telegram is the latest service to face an Internet outage in a week that has seen YouTube, Gmail, and other Google services, and then Netflix, face extended downtime. It’s not clear what the issue is with Telegram right now, but the instant messaging app confirmed via Twitter that it is indeed currently facing issues. The

Spotify has revised its daily and weekly Premium plans in India and is now calling them Premium Mini. The two plans have been discounted to Rs. 7 per day and Rs. 25 per week. Premium Mini plans are only available to mobile and tablet app users and work on just one device. Spotify says that

In-car connectivity comes in various forms, from basic entertainment systems that use your smartphone for connectivity, to full-fledged connected platforms that operate independently. While the former is usually a simpler and more affordable way to do it, the latter opens up many possibilities for things you can do with your car, whether you’re in it

Google is facing an outage for some users in India and several other countries as most of its services and apps have gone down. Google Contacts, Docs, Drive, Gmail, YouTube, and more are currently not working, prompting messages of error in India and more countries, including in Europe and the US. It should be noted

Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most awaited games of 2020, and it turns out it’s also one of the most overhyped games of 2020, which is a fitting way to cap off the year. The first major title from Polish developer CD Projekt Red since the award-winning 2015 action RPG The Witcher 3: Wild

The Mandalorian season 2 episode 7 — Chapter 15: The Believer — was another action-packed outing on its surface, but it also gave us the most amount of screen time for Pedro Pascal’s face. And it built on the earth-shattering ideas first introduced in episode 3, when our titular protagonist Din Djarin (Pascal) met Bo-Katan

Big tech firms such as Google and Facebook will face fines of up to six percent of turnover if they do not do more to tackle illegal content and reveal more about advertising on their platforms under draft European Union rules. The EU’s tough line, which is due to be announced next week, comes amid

California asked to join the US Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against Google on Friday, making the state’s attorney general the first Democrat to openly support the litigation. The department in October accused the $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 73,73,830 crores) California-based company of illegally using its market muscle to hobble rivals, and was joined by

An iPhone manufacturing facility in Kolar district in Karnataka, operated by Taiwan-headquartered Wistron Corporation, has reportedly been vandalised. A video clip of the violence, allegedly by workers, has also appeared online. However, this clip has not been independently verified. Press Trust of India has quoted a police official saying that the workers attacked the facility

Wolfwalkers, the third and final entry in director Tomm Moore’s Irish folklore thematic trilogy, is out now on Apple TV+. But for Moore, his co-director Ross Stewart, and the writer Will Collins, the journey began seven years ago. Unlike big Hollywood studios, Cartoon Saloon — the Irish animation studio co-founded by Moore and which all

Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Yandex browsers are affected by an ongoing malware campaign that is designed to inject ads into search results and add malicious browser extensions, Microsoft revealed on Thursday. Dubbed Adrozek, the newly discovered malware family has been at scale since at least May this year and the attacks peaked in

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Adobe has released the final scheduled update for its Flash Player and announced that it would start blocking Flash content from running on January 12, 2021. The company has also recommended that users uninstall Flash Player before it reaches its end of support on December 31. The new update comes months after Microsoft announced that

Google will soon make it possible for users to access payment details and passwords without having to sync on Chrome. Users will be able to sign in on Chrome with a single tap on Android, without having to re-enter credentials or sync. Google said that it had been working to bring an easier signed-in experience

Google on Wednesday released its anticipated ‘Year in Search 2020′ to detail the top trending searches in India and around the globe this year. As one can expect, the list of top searches on Google included ‘coronavirus’, ‘US election results’, and ‘PM Kisan Yojana’. However, the term ‘Indian Premier League’ surpassed all other queries in

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that India is emerging as the most preferred destination for mobile manufacturing. Addressing the India Mobile Congress via video conferencing, he said that every village in India will have high-speed optical fibre data network connectivity in three years. “India is emerging as the most preferred destination for mobile