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Recently, Snapchat began offering users voter registration links during the week following their 18th birthday. Between 300,000 and 500,000 Snapchat turn 18 per month.Technology
Boomers Trump, Biden rack up supporters among millennials and Gen Z on...

Biden's followers get to try on his aviator sunglasses filter, while Trump's fans massively share his team's videos...

27 May 2020 7:47 PM IST

Trump will be left twiddling his thumbs if he closes down Twitter as he threatensTechnology
Always-on-Twitter Trump threatens on Twitter to shut down Twitter!

The latest of the president's rants came after the platform flagged two of his tweets as unsubstantiated.

27 May 2020 6:06 PM IST

A Google Waymo self-driving car on the road in Mountain View, California, USA. Google, Uber, Tesla and major car makers such as BMW, Toyota, Volswagen as well as several Chinese companies have been investing in technology that eliminates the need for humans to navigate vehicles. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Grendelkhan)Technology
Amazon trucks could soon be self-driven: Ecommerce giant may buy...

Zoox was founded in 2014 with a mission to build a fleet of fully autonomous, battery electric, zero-emission...

27 May 2020 5:11 PM IST

Yamaha said a recent test of the system at a 51,000-seat stadium produced a sound similar to that of a live crowd. It reminds one of the Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits where contestants of a talent show are cheered by digital avatars of people living in a locked-up existence. (Photo | Videograb of the Black Mirror episode)Technology
Empty stadiums will ring with applause of fans now with an app to send...

Instrument maker Yamaha said its remote cheering system will let users tap buttons to deliver cheersor boosvia speakers...

27 May 2020 4:05 PM IST

Vestaspace secured USD 10 million funding from US-based Next Capital LLC, an American investment and advisory firm to expand the reach of Vestaspace innovative solutions across India and the world.Technology
Startup says India will have 5G network by 2021, will launch 35...

Vestaspace says it is in talks with the Department of Telecom for spectrum in 28 Ghz band for 5G operations.

26 May 2020 11:53 PM IST

Several Twitter users complained that they believe that comments on YouTube critical of the Chinese Communist Party were deliberately removed.Technology
Algorithms now adhere to China censorship model? Critical comments...

Streaming platform says it has been relying on automated systems during the coronavirus pandemic as its reviewers have...

26 May 2020 11:40 PM IST

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal, in an email to employees last week, had said the companys revenues had declined by 95 per cent in the last two months due to coronavirus pandemic. He had also made it clear that the prognosis ahead for the business is very unclear and uncertain and the impact of this crisis is definitely going to be long-drawn for us .Technology
Do Uber, Ola's massive layoffs indicate they may be driving off the...

600 staff lose Uber jobs days after Ola laid off 1,400 people. Means cab aggregators, propped up by investors despite...

26 May 2020 10:56 PM IST

While liquor outlets have opened in most places in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, Kerala is still holding out. The state, whose largest source of revenue is alcohol sales, has exercised restraint in opening up its state-owned Beverages Corporation (Bevco) outlets, cautious about triggering a setback to its successfully continuing fight against COVID-19, as people would inevitably crowd the wine shops.Technology
Will southern states be next on Swiggy, Zomato liquor delivery route...

Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu consume nearly half the alcohol in the country and are ripe for...

26 May 2020 8:42 PM IST

JioMart, which declared itself an aggregator of neighbourhood grocery stores, is currently looking similar to the BigBasket model of ecommerce. (Representative Image | Pixabay)Technology
JioMart, self-declared as a kirana store aggregator, launches in 200...

Grocery is 70% of Indian retail market, with 90% driven by neighbourhood shops. Will Reliance include them, subdue them...

26 May 2020 5:54 PM IST

, the majority of people in the informal sector who do not have a job anymore, suddenly have a lot more time and attention to spare. Inevitably, more than a significant part of this goes to streaming content.Technology
Tech This Week | Advertising a tax on the poor, pandemic going to...

Many don't have jobs now but the book Poor Economics says they could trade off a little food for entertainment. So...

25 May 2020 7:52 PM IST

The US Commerce Department said that Qihoo 360 and seven other companies that supplied video and other surveillance technology and two government entities were added to the list for being complicit in human rights violations and abuses in the Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang.Technology
US politicising business', says Chinese anti-virus firm blacklisted...

President Donald Trump's administration says Chinese tech is based at least in part on stealing foreign knowhow and is...

25 May 2020 6:57 PM IST

There are now companies developing technology which make it possible for the employer ... to look at whats on your computer screen and to check your keystrokes and if you get up and walk away for a minute, theyll send you a warning. Thats being installed right now.... Its not the future,\Technology
Big technology firms should be stopped from turning the world into a...

He is referring to China's social credit system that tracks citizens to award/deduct points on a score determining one's...

25 May 2020 5:08 PM IST

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