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The digital tax plan should be delayed. (Photo: Pixabay)

Pompeo urges France not to approve digital services tax

France and Britain as well as Italy and Spain are pushing ahead with plans for such taxes.

5 April 2019 1:41 PM IST

Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York. (Photo: AP)

Elon Musk safe for now as US judge urges Tesla CEO, SEC to end tweet...

The hearing appeared to lift an overhang over Tesla, as the SEC stopped well short of recommending Musk's removal as...

5 April 2019 1:36 PM IST

Facebook said that it will instead offer the traditional ways of verifying accounts such as a code sent to their phone. (Photo: ANI)

Facebook promises crackdown on fake news in Australia

The move comes with the company - and its peers around the world - under growing pressure to rid their platforms of...

5 April 2019 1:21 PM IST

The RIA Novosti news agency quoted Roskomnadzor as saying it has established a constructive dialogue with Google.

Google to pull plug on AI ethics council

Google employees had signed a petition calling for the removal of one of the members over comments about transsexual...

5 April 2019 1:15 PM IST

Amazon declined to put a price tag on the program, called Amazon Future Engineer, but said it will take up a big chunk of the USD 50 million that it committed to spend on computer science education last year.(AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

US blocks Amazon efforts to stop shareholder votes on facial...

Decisions including one by officials at the SEC followed an unusual appeal by Amazon to block the non-binding proposals...

5 April 2019 12:53 PM IST

The research was conducted in two parts. In the first part, 132 participants between the ages of 18 and 23 completed a questionnaire assessing their levels of media multitasking and distractibility.

Digital media multitasking associated with obesity risk

Media multitasking is associated with increased susceptibility to food temptations and lack of self-control, which...

5 April 2019 12:39 PM IST

The Housing Department claims Facebook mines data about its users and then employs machine learning to predict their responses to ads in ways that may recreate groupings defined by characteristics such as race.

Unprotected Facebook user data exposed in latest leaks

The data set had been uploaded to the servers by two different Facebook app developers.

5 April 2019 12:21 PM IST

Partner merchants will be able to accept payments from customers using multiple payment methods including PhonePe wallet.

Payswiff partners PhonePe for merchant payments

PhonePe will be available as a payment option on Payswiff's POS/mPOS terminals across the merchant base.

5 April 2019 11:14 AM IST

YouTube Music the latest music streaming service to come to India.

Google Play Artist Hub is also shutting down

Google Play Artist Hub was launched in 2012 and allowed smaller indie artists to upload and sell their music.

5 April 2019 11:09 AM IST

A whopping 90 per cent women believe that films and television shows do tend to make fun of people who do not conform to the standard norms of beauty and body concepts. (Photo: ANI)

89 pc women feel uncomfortable about themselves after reading social...

90 per cent women recognise body shaming as a common behaviour and part of the blame is on social media.

5 April 2019 11:03 AM IST

As autonomous car technology develops, Sohn said Samsung was working with automobile companies on development of 5G networks, needed for autonomous driving. (Photo: AP)

Samsung sees lowest quarterly profit in more than two years

Samsung shares were flat as of 0120 GMT, while the broader market up 0.2 percent.

5 April 2019 9:55 AM IST

After a series of privacy scandals, Facebook needs to regain users trust as it prepares to roll out a single messaging service combining Facebook messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. (Photo: AP)

Tech firms face fines, jail over violent content under new Australian...

Technology firms said they are already working on the issue.

5 April 2019 9:54 AM IST