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Marriott was trying to determine if the purloined records included duplicates. (Photo: AP)

Espionage, ID theft? Myriad risks from stolen Marriott data

Hackers stole data on as many as 500 million guests of former Starwood chain properties over four years.

3 Dec 2018 9:17 AM IST

Facebook has become a means for those seeking to spread hate and cause harm, and posts have been linked to offline violence. (Photo: AP)

Facebook, MIT join hands to assign addresses to people

Google too made efforts in the past to solve the issue of unaddressed rural lands.

3 Dec 2018 9:08 AM IST

Google demonstrated how its AI technology is already being used to diagnose diseases, help people with disabilities, predict areas likely to flood and protect endangered species. (Photo: AP)

Does Google harm local search rivals? EU antitrust regulators ask

Regulators also wanted to know if rivals experienced an impact in the operation of their local services.

3 Dec 2018 8:56 AM IST

Apple devices such as the iPhone or Apple Watch collect detailed data about users. (Photo: Pixabay)

Microsoft's market value overtakes Apple's to close out week

Shares of Microsoft rose 0.6 percent to end the week at USD 110.89, putting its market capitalisation at USD 851.2...

3 Dec 2018 7:57 AM IST

Angry Birds firm Rovio buys strategy game studio PlayRaven

Rovio has been hit by tough competition and high dependency on the Angry Birds brand.

3 Dec 2018 7:47 AM IST

Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about Google Assistant during a product event in San Francisco. Google is likely to again put artificial intelligence in the spotlight at its annual developers conference. (Photo:AP)

Google CEO hearing in US House likely to be postponed: Goodlatte

Pichai had agreed to testify before the panel over Republican concerns that the company is biased against conservatives.

3 Dec 2018 7:38 AM IST

Google has New York real estate deals in the works that would give it room for nearly 20,000 workers. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Google Hangouts to shut down in 2020: Report

Rumors indicate that the company is considering either to launch or shutdown a messaging app

2 Dec 2018 3:48 PM IST

Security is ensured by the unique property that quantum correlations can only be shared between the devices that created them, ensuring no hacker can learn the key.(credit : Pixabay)

Hacker hijacks 50,000 printers worldwide urging people to subscribe to...

The hacker, who goes by the Twitter handle, TheHackerGiraffe, has claimed responsibility for the attack in a Reddit AMA.

2 Dec 2018 3:10 PM IST

This March 25, 2016, file photo shows the sign at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Richmond, Va. The information of as many as 500 million guests at Starwood hotels has been compromised and Marriott said that its discovered that unauthorized access to data within its Starwood network has been taking place since 2014. The company said Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, that credit card numbers and expiration dates of some guests may have been taken. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

So you stayed at a Starwood hotel: Tips on data breach

The information of as many as 500 million guests at Starwood hotels has been compromised.

2 Dec 2018 2:41 PM IST

Racial discrimination at Facebook is real.

Fix Facebook, whether it wants to or not: whistleblower

Eight months after revealing the links between Facebook and CA, whistleblower is pushing for the internet giant to be...

2 Dec 2018 12:25 PM IST

FILE- In this Sept. 5, 2018, file photo Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Having already acknowledged that it did opposition research on George Soros, Facebook says No. 2 Sandberg had asked staff if the billionaire philanthropist had financial motivations against the company. The Friday, Nov. 30, statement is in response a New York Times article that describes Sandberg asking Facebook staff to look into Soros financial interests in speaking out against the company in January. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Facebook: Sandberg asked staff to research Soros finances

Facebook said the company was already researching Soros when Sandberg sent an email asking if Soros had shorted Facebook...

2 Dec 2018 12:04 PM IST

The new functionality in Google Assistant is named Pretty Please, which has been added as part of including better list-taking functionality and more family-orientated games and stories.

Please Google!

New functionality in Google Assistant is named Pretty Please.

2 Dec 2018 12:30 AM IST