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Renault, Orange, Deutsche Bank, and Lufthansa recently plumped for Google Cloud. Volkswagen signed up with Amazon Web Services. The French health ministry chose Microsoft to house its research data.

Europe giving away its data wealth to US cloud storage companies, experts worry

The majority of European data is stocked outside of Europe, or, if stocked in Europe, is on servers that belong to non-European firms.

04 Aug 2020 7:10 PM

The feature-packed Noise ColorFit NAV is great for those who need a bit of motivation to get fit.

At Rs 3,999, the Noise ColorFit NAV fitness tracking smartwatch is a catch

Get yours on Amazon from August 6 onwards during the Amazon Prime Day sale.

04 Aug 2020 5:02 PM

“Following a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Donald J Trump, Microsoft is prepared to continue discussions to explore a purchase of TikTok in the United States,” the company said in a statement. With TikTok, Microsoft will be making its first foray into social media, a sphere that has grown as people seek to connect amid the restrictions imposed by the pandemic on physical interactions. (Photo | AFP)

Microsoft keen on buying TikTok US, hopes to convince Trump against ban

Tech giant says will “build on the experience TikTok users love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital safety protections.

03 Aug 2020 10:54 AM

Pressure has been growing both from the right and the left—and sometimes internally—to do something about the overwhelming dominance of the internet platforms. In this photo, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos. The four CEOs on Wednesday attended an antitrust hearing of the US House Judiciary Committee. (Photo | AFP)

Tech This Week | What we learned from the US antitrust inquiry

Lawmakers seem to be catching up with technology and so will regulation, so Big Tech should not take things for granted.

01 Aug 2020 4:17 PM

Twitter hackers who carried out Bitcoin scam arrested, one a teen, and two youth

They scammed people of more than USD 100,000 dollars worth bitcoin by hacking Twitter accounts of celebrities and posting a fake giveaway.

01 Aug 2020 2:57 AM

If Microsoft were to buy TikTok, there would be no ban on TikTok in the US. (Photo | AFP)

TikTok's US operations could be bought by Microsoft, say reports

Microsoft a leading buyer, report New York Times and Bloomberg as Trump likely to order ByteDance to sell or face a ban on its video app.

01 Aug 2020 2:29 AM

Reliance Jio is working along with Google to bring out an affordable smartphone to get 300 million people in India to migrate from their feature phones to Jio smartphones. (Representative Image)

25 years since 2G, Mukesh Ambani wants the network to be relegated to history

2G era feature phones have kept around 30 crore subscribers away from basic internet services, Ambani said.

31 Jul 2020 8:10 PM

The UK government banned new Huawei 5G equipment purchases from January and told operators to strip out existing gear plugged into the nascent system by the end of 2027. (Photo | AFP)

Unaffected by Huawei ban, says UK telecom major BT

UK this month reversed the decision in January to allow China’s controversial technology leader to roll out Britain’s fast new data network.

31 Jul 2020 7:41 PM

Sundar Pichai is CEO of Alphabet, whose profit slumped 30 percent to $6.96 billion from a year back. The online giant relies on digital advertising for most of its income. (Photo | AFP)

Profits of Google parent Alphabet hit by 30 pc over dip in ad sales revenue

Revenue regained ground in the second quarter in search and at video-sharing platform YouTube, showing signs of stabilisation by the end.

31 Jul 2020 6:24 PM

More than 10,000 students will be competing in the Smart India Hackathon to solve 243 problem statements from 37 central government departments, 17 state governments and 20 industries.

Prime Minister Modi to address Smart India Hackathon grand finale on Saturday

The hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems of our daily lives.

31 Jul 2020 5:29 PM

Canada, France, Germany and Spain too have been trying to get Google and Facebook to pay for news with no success, but Australia’s law could move things along. (Photo | AP)

Australia's draft law makes it mandatory for Google and Facebook to pay for news content

The aggregators will be given three months to work out a deal on fair pay for news, failing which arbitrators will make a binding decision.

31 Jul 2020 2:24 PM

Analysts at Canalys said Thursday that Huawei shipped 55.8 million devices in the second quarter of 2020. While the figure was down 5% compared with a year ago, it was a smaller decline than rival Samsung, which saw smartphone sales slide 30% to 53.7 million. (Image of Huawei P40 Pro | Huawei)

Huawei beats Samsung to top spot on smartphone sales as pandemic hits economies

The Chinese company’s rise is attributed to its home market China emerging from the coronavirus pandemic better off than other countries.

30 Jul 2020 7:28 PM

This photo provided by NASA, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches at Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA's Perseverance blasted off atop an Atlas V rocket Thursday morning. (Photo | AP)

Perseverance, NASA's Mars Rover, blasts off on mission

The Mars rover rode an Atlas V rocket in the third and final Mars launch of summer 2020, and hopes to bring back first Martian rock samples.

30 Jul 2020 6:55 PM

China promised Hong Kong would have its own governing and legal systems under a “one country, two systems” principle until 2047, or 50 years after Britain handed back its former colony in 1997. But in justifying the new national security law, China says issues such as separatism are a national security concern and, as such, fall under its purview. (Representative Image | Flickr - Debra Sweet)

China enforces law imposed on Hong Kong, arrests four youngsters for online posts

The arrested are as young as 16 to 21 years of age and includes one female.

30 Jul 2020 5:38 PM

When the malware is launched on the victim’s device, it hides its icon from app drawer and then masquerades itself as a fake Google update to request accessibility service privileges. (Photo | Flickr - www.thoughtcatalog.com)

Android malware ‘BlackRock’ prowling cyberspace to steal your financial information

BlackRock malware targets 337 applications including brand name apps for social, communication, networking and dating platforms on Android.

30 Jul 2020 4:15 PM

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing on "Online Platforms and Market Power" in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 29, 2020. While forced breakups of what the chairman of the panel David Cicilline described as ‘monopolies’ may appear unlikely, the wide scrutiny of Big Tech points toward possible new restrictions on its power. (Photo | AFP)

Big Tech CEOs pulled up at antitrust hearing but will it translate to strong regulation?

The premise is whether existing competition policies and laws are adequate for overseeing the tech giants, or if new legislation is needed.

30 Jul 2020 3:24 PM

AI-powered technologies can also be used to help patients communicate their symptoms remotely and in the privacy of their homes, which will be of benefit to patients with mobility issues.

Artificial intelligence can aid in faster, better Alzheimer’s diagnosis, says study

Widespread implementation of AI can help predict which patients showing mild cognitive impairment will go on to develop Alzheimer’s.

29 Jul 2020 8:47 PM

A worldwide panel of ethics experts on artificial intelligence is overseeing the experiment and will run “constant” risk assessments on the technology as it is developed.

Robots being trialled in UK for care of the vulnerable

The project will trial “invisible” signal and sensor technology used to monitor participant behaviour, vital signs and state of health.

29 Jul 2020 8:25 PM

Tech company chiefs are expected to stress how they benefit consumers, particularly during the pandemic, and face competition—particularly from China.

Zuckerberg, Bezos will sell their companies as American success stories at anti-trust hearing today

The antitrust debate is being muddled by a rising “techlash” over a range of issues from privacy to economic inequality to political bias.

29 Jul 2020 7:11 PM

‘Drive-by download’ attacks involve downloading malicious code onto an unsuspecting user’s computer when they visit a website or fill up a form.

Cyber attacks on India rise, here's what you can do to keep your data safe

India sees second highest drive-by download attacks in Asia Pacific region in 2019, says Microsoft

29 Jul 2020 6:09 PM

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