A US patient with leukaemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday. The case of a middle-aged woman of mixed race, presented at the
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In this article ABNB Brian Chesky, chief executive officer and co-founder of Airbnb Inc., speaks during an Economic Club of New York luncheon at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, March 13, 2017. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Airbnb beat Wall Street estimates on earnings and revenue
ViacomCBS missed Wall Street profit forecasts on Tuesday as the company announced it will change its name to Paramount and unveiled a broad range of new programming in the battle for viewers in the crowded streaming market. Shares of the media conglomerate that owns CBS, Showtime, Comedy Central, MTV, and other networks, which initially fell 3
Redmi Smart TV X43 today will go on sale in India for the first time. The TV was launched last week, and has the smallest display in the company’s X-series smart TV lineup. It comes equipped with a 43-inch 4K OLED display, Dolby Vision, and 30W speakers. The TV runs on Android TV 10 and
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. A new survey from Optiv Security found that 100% of respondents believe that zero trust architecture is “somewhat” to “critically” important in reducing their enterprise’s cyber risk. They note the top three objectives for embracing a zero trust strategy include reducing
Realme 9 Pro 5G and Realme 9 Pro+ 5G will launch in India today. The new smartphone series from Realme has had some of its key specifications confirmed via a dedicated microsite. Realme 9 Pro+ 5G will be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 920 SoC paired with an Arm Mali-G68 GPU. The smartphone is also
Remote workplace trend is getting the upper hand in 2022. A recent survey by IWG (the International Workplace Group) determined that 70% of the world’s professionals work remotely at least one day a week, with 53% based outside their workplace at least half of the week. Taking this into consideration, organizations have started looking for
The Dutch antitrust watchdog fined Apple EUR 5 million (roughly Rs. 42 crore) again on Monday, its fourth such fine for failing to allow software application makers in the Netherlands to use non-Apple payment methods for dating apps on the App Store. The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has been levying weekly fines of EUR
NASA has released the first imaging data received from its Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The images are of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. The object exploded in the 17th century and sent shock waves, heating the surrounding gas to high temperatures. It features a cloud, formed by accelerated cosmic particles, that glows in X-ray.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway acquired nearly $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,540 crore) of shares in Activision Blizzard before Microsoft agreed to buy the video game maker for $68.7 billion (roughly Rs. 5,17,880 crore) according to a Monday regulatory filing. Berkshire said that as of December 31, it owned 14.7 million shares worth about $975 million (roughly Rs. 7,350
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Today, Digital Experience Platform (DXP) provider Optimizely announced it had entered into a multi-year agreement with Google Cloud. As part of the agreement, Google Cloud and Optimizely will coordinate a joint go-to market and sales execution strategy to develop digital-first marketing
Employees arrive at ConocoPhillips headquarters in Houston, Texas. F. Carter Smith | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oil and gas major ConocoPhillips is in the bitcoin mining fuel business. The company said in a statement to CNBC on Tuesday that it has one bitcoin pilot project currently operating in the Bakken, a region in North Dakota
President Joe Biden couldn’t have been more blunt about the risks of cyberattacks spinning out of control. “If we end up in a war, a real shooting war with a major power, it’s going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence,” he told his intelligence brain trust in July. Now
Playfit Dial and Playfit XL smartwatches were launched in India on Tuesday, February 15. The new Playfit Dial smartwatch comes with Bluetooth-calling support that allows users to make and attend voice calls directly from their wrist, without taking out the connected phone. Playfit Dial and Playfit XL features are certified to be dust- and water-resistant
Apple has released updates for macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina following the release of macOS 12.2.1 Monterey, which fixed an important security flaw in the OS. The company hasn’t revealed the specific security issues that the latest updates plug, but it is likely that the updates improve the security of macOS. These two security
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the inner workings of ShadowPad, a sophisticated and modular backdoor that has been adopted by a growing number of Chinese threat groups in recent years, while also linking it to the country’s civilian and military intelligence agencies. “ShadowPad is decrypted in memory using a custom decryption algorithm,” researchers from Secureworks said
Snapchat is testing mid-roll advertisements that appear in the Stories of a small group of US creators, introducing a new way for creators on the app to earn money. As per The Verge, a wider rollout will be happening in the coming months. When an ad is placed within a Snap Star’s Story, Snapchat will
The rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence has major implications for our privacy. A new study by two researchers shows that it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to distinguish between a face created using AI and a real face. Startlingly, the researchers said their study has shown that fake images are more trustworthy than real ones. Researchers
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. According to a new report from Validity, 76% of respondents characterize their customer relationship management (CRM) data quality as either “good” or “very good,” yet a staggering 44% of respondents estimated their company loses over 10% of annual revenue due to
Garena Free Fire, the battle royale game that was amongst the mobile apps and games that the government banned on Monday, is still available for download in India through Samsung’s Galaxy Store. In addition to Free Fire, AppLock developed by DoMobile is available from the Samsung store, without any restrictions. The ban imposed by the
Google announced at CES 2022 that it is working on a feature, allegedly called “Eche”, that will allow Android phone users stream/ mirror apps and notifications directly on Chromebooks. While Google did not reveal any details about the feature, its working has been demonstrated in a new report. A video clip shared in the report