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

The record speed was achieved by transmitting data through a much wider range of colours of light, or wavelengths, than is typically used in optical fibre, the researchers said.Technology
You can download Netflix entirely in a second at the record internet...

Researchers from University College London achieved a data transmission rate of 178 terabits a secondfive times faster...

24 Aug 2020 9:34 PM IST

Apples discontinuation of Epics ability to develop and support Unreal Engine for iOS or macOS will harm game creators and gamers, wrote Kevin Gammill, Microsofts general manager of gaming developer experiences. (Photo | AFP)Technology
XBox maker Microsoft on Epic Games' side, says Apple's actions will...

Apple threatened to cut off access to tools needed to maintain Unreal Engine , Epic's software used by many game...

24 Aug 2020 5:47 PM IST

Apple under Tim Cook has also faced government investigations into its aggressive efforts to minimize its corporate taxes and complaints that it has abused control of its app store to charge excessive fees and stifle competition to its own digital services. (Photo | AP)Technology
Apple's growth into $2 trillion behemoth under Tim Cook tainted by...

He turned App Store into the cornerstone of a services division that earns $50 billion yearly, more than all but 65...

24 Aug 2020 4:44 PM IST

The Facebook-owned messaging platform will test out the new feature for glitches among a select few who have opted to be beta testers, before releasing a full-fledged version for general users.Technology
Advanced search being tested in Whatsapp's latest beta update

Facebook Messenger Rooms has also been integrated into the app.

23 Aug 2020 11:45 PM IST

The lawsuit would argue that President Trumps far-reaching action is unconstitutional because it failed to give the company a chance to respond, NPR reported two weeks ago quoting a source. (Photo | AFP)Technology
Due process not followed, says TikTok, to file suit against Trump...

The US government tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses, ByteDance said.

23 Aug 2020 7:06 PM IST

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