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Many News Corp. print mastheads were challenged and the double impact of the coronavirus lockdown plus tech platforms such as Google and Facebook not remunerating local publishers for content made the mastheads unsustainable, News Corp. Australasia executive chairman Miller said.

Aussie papers go digital, downsize as COVID, unpaid content...

Ad revenue has declined making print operations unsustainable while Big Tech makes money on newspaper content without...

28 May 2020 4:43 PM IST

Currently, only the code for the Android version of the app is being made open source. (Representative Image)

Aarogya Setu source code made public days after MIT tech review...

A few days ago, MIT tech review reduced the rating for the app from 2 stars to 1 star, saying it collected far more data...

27 May 2020 9:01 PM IST

Risking using pirated software? Delhi firm asked to pay Microsoft, Adobe Rs 30 lakh damages

Risking using pirated software? Delhi firm asked to pay Microsoft,...

Delhi High Court has ordered a local IT firm to pay the software giants for using their unlicensed software.

27 May 2020 8:30 PM IST

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.

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

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)

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)

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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)

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.

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