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The release of internal emails, where Google engineers say the location tracking of users who disabled the feature was misleading, is embarrassing for a company that tries to build trust with billions of users of free services such as maps and online search, which in turn provide the personal information Google can use to target ads. Those ads generated more than $130 billion in revenue last year alone. (Photo | AFP)

'Location off should mean location off', Google engineers said after...

After the AP article two years ago, Google made changes to its privacy settings to make it easier for users to conceal...

27 Aug 2020 2:19 PM IST

The Auschwitz museum, a Holocaust site, has become a symbol of Nazi Germanys genocide of six million European Jews, with one million killed at the camp between 1940 and 1945. (Photo | Pixabay - John Ondreasz)

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New trend on TikTok with users playing Holocaust victims hurtful,...

Some videos are dangerously close or already beyond the border of trivialisation of history, the Auschwitz Memorial said...

27 Aug 2020 1:26 PM IST

TikTok CEO Kevin Mayers resignation comes after US President Donald Trump ordered a ban on TikTok, unless parent company Bytedance sells its US operations to an American company within 90 days. Just days ago, TikTok filed a lawsuit challenging a crackdown by the US government over claims that the wildly popular social media app can be used to spy on Americans. (Photo | Pixabay/AP)

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TikTok CEO resigns amid Trump administration's accusations of spying,...

In a letter to employees, Kevin Mayer said that his decision to leave comes after the political environment has sharply...

27 Aug 2020 12:33 PM IST

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Go cashless on the highway with FASTag if you want discounts on toll...

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is trying to get more people to adopt digital payments, instead of cash.

26 Aug 2020 8:45 PM IST

Positions for engineers, data scientists and financial analysts are among the tech and non-tech roles that Paytm is looking to fill.

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Paytm expanding despite pandemic, hiring over 1,000 people in various...

The financial technology company is ramping services such as lending, insurance, wealth management and offline payments.

26 Aug 2020 7:27 PM IST

Uber auto rental service in now live in Bengaluru and is available in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune. (Photo | uber.com)

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You can now hire an Uber auto in Mumbai, Pune and four other cities at...

Prices start at Rs 169 for a one-hour/10 km package. You can pick from multiple hourly packages but be prepared to pay...

26 Aug 2020 6:40 PM IST

For decisions on removing content on violent extremism and content endangering child safety, YouTube tolerated a lower level of accuracy that resulted in a tripling of the number of videos pulled for breaking those rules, it said.

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Triple the number of YouTube videos removed for endangering child...

Software relied on this quarter to cast a wider net so that content that could potentially harm the community would be...

26 Aug 2020 4:01 PM IST

Facebook News, which the company says has been driving a significant amount of online traffic to publishers, is expanding to Brazil, Britain, France, Germany, and India within six months. (Photo | Mr Seb)

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Facebook planning to pay Indian news publishers for displaying their...

We'll pay news publishers to ensure their content is available in the new product, a Facebook official said in a blog...

26 Aug 2020 1:33 PM IST

In June last year, Flipkart had said it aims to replace nearly 40 per cent of delivery vans of Ekart, its logistics unit, with electric vehicles by March 2020, and that it was running pilots in Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Volvo is one of the automakers that have been producing and operating heavy duty electric trucks as cities in Europe and the US as they go green. (Representative Image | volvotrucks.in)

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Flipkart promises to switch to a full electric vehicle fleet by 2030

It has joined Climate Group's EV100 initiative to transition to electric vehicles and make electric transport the new...

25 Aug 2020 7:56 PM IST

$In this image taken from video, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, administrator of Facebook page \Royalist Marketplace\ group which has been recently blocked by Facebook in Thailand, is shown delivering a pre-recorded message onscreen before a crowd attending an anti-government rally on Aug. 10, 2020, at Thammasat University in Pathum Thani, Thailand. The group engages in open discussion about the Thai monarchy, an institution that is staunchly protected from criticism by strict laws. (Photo | AP)$ Technology

Facebook removes pro-democracy group on Thai government's order, says...

The private Facebook group created in April had more than a million members before it was taken down Monday.

25 Aug 2020 6:18 PM IST

You become so accustomed to the software working, then (when it doesnt) you realise how dependent you are on the software and its a little scary, a Zoom user said. (Photo | Pixabay - Mohamed Hassan)

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US descends into brief chaos as Zoom outage brings online schooling to...

Schools, governments and offices depend on Zoom for their operations, and everything grinds to a halt without this...

25 Aug 2020 4:57 PM IST

Facebook has agreed to pay tax its French operations over a 10-year period from 2009, and to pay 50 percent more tax in the current year. The dispute between France and the United States on the digital giants tax had escalated to the extent that the United States in July unveiled heavy import duties on France. Many American technology firms have their EU headquarters in low-tax-regime countries. (Photo | Flickr - Jimmy Baikovicius)

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Facebook agrees to pay 106 million euros to France in retrospective...

Payment of tax by US tech giants in countries where they earn revenue has been the subject of a longstanding conflict...

24 Aug 2020 10:19 PM IST