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A representative image of a protest over allegations against Apple supply chains using sweat shop labour to make their products (Photo | Flickr - Annette Bernhardt)

Apple, Sony using Uighur detainees in China factories, says Australian...

80,000 people from the ethnic minority interned in Xinjiang camps reported to have been transferred to factories...

2 March 2020 5:02 PM IST

Admitting it was not possible to identify the gender of a person by appearance, Google said its image classification service Cloud Vision API would stop categorising people under gender labels (Photo | Pixabay - Elchinator)

Microsoft, IBM may have to tweak AI to drop gender labels, following...

Research showed that the AI tools used by Microsoft and IBM were more likely to misidentify the gender of dark-skinned...

1 March 2020 9:28 PM IST

In this representative image,US Airmen compete in a monthly gaming tournament at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Feb. 22, 2020. The Aviano Gaming Group started the monthly tournament to increase morale for all airmen. (Photo | US Air Force photo - Airman Thomas S Keisler IV)

Game Developers Conference cancelled over Coronavirus fears

The event had been scheduled for March 16-March 20, 2020.

1 March 2020 8:21 PM IST

Trai Chairman R S Sharma claimed that telecom tower infrastructure posed no health hazards, and urged people to allow cell phone towers to be installed in on their properties. (Photo | Pexels)

Telcos can't provide poor service quality citing free calls: Trai...

Trai getting telcos to fix the issue of call drop on priority, R S Sharma said

1 March 2020 7:59 PM IST

Even pictures of landscape and portrait paintings can be converted to 3D using the Facebook feature (Photo | Oculus)

Facebook 3D Photos feature now available on single-lens camera phones...

Earlier the feature was only available to the few who had a dual-lens camera phone

1 March 2020 5:50 PM IST

A representation of the structure of COVID-19, released by the United States Centers for Disease Control ( Photo | CDC)

High time government busted fake news on Coronavirus with public...

The spread of fake information must be stopped before damage is done

1 March 2020 5:19 PM IST

The purpose of the study is to build robots that are smarter for improved human-robot interaction and enhance childrens learning experience.

Researchers develop robot for autistic children to learn.

These socially assistive robots were placed in the home of 17 autistic children for one month.

29 Feb 2020 8:49 AM IST

It is unclear why Microsoft is removing the smart digital assistant out of its Windows built-in form.

COVID-19: Microsoft Windows OEM, Surface segment to miss revenue...

The company's guidance for all other components for Q3, 2020 remains unchanged.

29 Feb 2020 8:39 AM IST

For this, the company moved the Chrome-only Google Earth onto WebAssembly and the W3C web standard.

Google Earth is now available on Firefox, Edge, Opera

After six months of public beta, Google Earth is now accessible on other browsers.

29 Feb 2020 8:35 AM IST

Check Point Research informed TikTok developers of the vulnerabilities exposed in this research and a fix was responsibly deployed to ensure its users can safely continue using the TikTok app.

CEO calls TikTok 'fundamentally parasitic'

He went on to say, "I actively tell people, 'Don't install that spyware on your phone'."

29 Feb 2020 7:46 AM IST

Google Translate has proven indispensable for many fans to communicate with locals.

Google Translate adds new languages

The latest addition takes the total capabilities of Google Translate to 108 languages.

29 Feb 2020 7:40 AM IST

These Gmail tips will help everyone with an account.

Google says deep learning helped Gmail detect malicious documents

Gmail's existing machine learning models help block more than 99.9 per cent of threats from reaching inboxes.

29 Feb 2020 7:31 AM IST