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Pressure has mounted on Silicon Valley to use their expertise to fight the deadly virus, after roughly 50 scientists signed an open letter last week calling on them to act

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Privacy concerns raised as Facebook, Google in talks with Washington...

The use of personal data is highly sensitive especially after 2011 when the NSA was found collecting phone records...

18 March 2020 8:44 PM IST

Filmmakers used RenderMan software in nearly all of the last 47 movies nominated for a visual effects Academy Award. The software was first used in Toy Story. (Photo | Flickr - )

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Toy Story, Finding Nemo's lifelike graphics gets tech duo Turing Award...

The tech industry Nobel was given to Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull for their RenderMan' software that...

18 March 2020 8:19 PM IST

Uber and Ola are reported to have lost as much as 80% of rides but the company has not offered any financial assistance to tide over the crisis. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Alexander Torrenegra)

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Uber, Lyft suspend shared rides in US, Canada, but not yet in India

Pooled rides show up on the Uber and Ola apps in India even now

18 March 2020 5:56 PM IST

Facebook is also awarding USD 100 million in grants and ad credits to assist small businesses. (Photo | Pixabay)

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Facebook staff to get USD 1,000 bonus as they work from home amid...

Employees will also get an automatic exceeds expectations' rating on their performance review

18 March 2020 4:41 PM IST

According to Microsoft, 100 per cent of Fortune 500 companies and one in seven people around the world use Windows 10 devices.

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Microsoft hits target of 1 billion devices running Windows 10 globally

About 80,000 laptop models from over 1,000 manufactures make up a large chunk of the total number of machines running...

16 March 2020 7:36 PM IST

In this picture taken on March 11, 2020 an Apple staff (C) and customers wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus are seen inside of an Apple shop in Beijing. (Photo | AFP)

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Apple to host WWDC 2020 in June, will release iOS 14 and more at...

Upgrades of the iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS are also expected at the developers' conference

16 March 2020 6:35 PM IST

Edutech apps are also seeing an increase in enrolments.

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Extramarks, Byju's, Toppr, Unacademy step up to fill education gap as...

Some edutech apps offer free access to courses till April end, others provide access to training for JEE, NEET

16 March 2020 4:43 PM IST

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Now you can mark as watched' shows on YouTube TV

The YouTube algorithm will now stop annoying you with suggestions for episodes you've already watched

15 March 2020 8:12 PM IST

$Assuring passengers that they will not face any hardships post-May, 2020, RailTel added that it \will also continue to execute Wi-Fi connectivity at the balance stations.\ (Photo: ANI)$ Technology

Wi-Fi now free in US as work, education go online amid coronavirus...

Comcast, Charter and AT&T have announced free public Wi-FI access for 60 days, while Verizon, Cox and T-Mobile have...

15 March 2020 5:46 PM IST

The core of the US network is more than capable of handling the virus-related surge in demand because it has evolved to be able to easily handle bandwidth-greedy Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube and other streaming services. (Photo |

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How the US is faring with the surge in home internet use amid...

Traffic has spiked 10% to 20% during peak hours since the first week of February in greater Seattle, the US city...

15 March 2020 4:55 PM IST

In May last year, Minecraft said 176 million copies of the game have been sold since its launch a decade ago.

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Tech on the side of press freedom: Censored articles concealed in...

Work by banned, exiled or killed journalists in five countriesEgypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Vietnamare on an...

15 March 2020 3:56 PM IST

G7CR has been in the business of setting up cloud platforms for banking, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare, PSUs, education, retail and IT firms.

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Indian firm G7CR offers free migration to cloud to aid work from home...

Toll-free number 1800 572 3617 connects business requiring help in migrating to cloud systems to G7CR

14 March 2020 6:46 PM IST