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After Twitter, apex child rights body NCPCR on Friday asked Facebook to take action against the Instagram profile of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for posting a photo of the family of the nine-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in southwest Delhi, saying it violated the law. On August 4, the National Commission for

Three Australian publishers of lifestyle content say Facebook used their articles on its just-launched news service after refusing to negotiate licensing deals, and that the country’s tough new Internet law has failed to protect them. Australia this year passed a law that pressured Facebook and Alphabet’s Google to sign deals with some of the country’s biggest

Google Meet is getting a bunch of new features for its free and Workspace users that are designed to make it easier to control meetings. The search giant mentioned that the new features are some of the highly requested features by its users. They include the ability to add up to 25 co-hosts per meeting,

Europe’s biggest tech conference – the Web Summit – will return as an in-person event in Lisbon this November, organisers confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday, after the event was held online last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave had said last November that the venue, Lisbon’s Altice Arena, had been

As Klarna’s billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings, a feast of capitalism, he credits an unlikely backer for his runaway success: the Swedish welfare state. In particular, the 39-year-old pinpoints a late-1990s government policy to put a computer in every home. “Computers were inaccessible for low-income

What if Steve Rogers’ love interest Peggy Carter took the Super Soldier serum? What if the Wakandan prince T’Challa ended up becoming Star-Lord? What if Nick Fury’s big week was even busier and more chaotic? What if all of the Avengers, from Iron man to Spider-Man, were zombies? These are the kind of hypothetical questions

Spotify is offering three additional months for free on purchasing six months of the Premium plan. The audio streaming service has made this offer available till August 15. Essentially, users can get nine months of Premium membership for Rs. 719. Spotify offers four tiers of Premium plans including Mini, Individual, Duo, and Family. However, the

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has fired a manager who allegedly sexually assaulted a female employee and will establish policies to prevent sexual harassment, Chief Executive Daniel Zhang said on Monday. The manager – at Alibaba’s City Retail unit, which offers grocery delivery from local supermarkets – “has been fired and will never be

Pegasus spyware can now be detected on an iPhone using a free tool without requiring coding skills. Geneva, Switzerland-based DigiDNA has updated its iOS device manager iMazing with a spyware detection feature that can be used to detect Pegasus. The company has designed the feature using Amnesty’s Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) as a reference. The

Amazon Great Freedom Festival Sale 2021 is now live with deals and offers on best sellers and new launches. One such category with heavy discounts is home appliances, and products such as air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, are being discounted up to 70 percent. Some of the top brands in focus include Sony, Philips, and Godrej. The five-day-long

Cisco Systems said on Friday it was not planning to offer a solution to help companies shift to private data centers from public ones, after a report from The Information said the network gear maker was developing a subscription service for it. The report had said that Cisco’s planned subscription service, called Cloud Stack, would

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies reported its biggest ever revenue drop in the first half of 2021, after US sanctions drove it to sell a chunk of its once-dominant handset business and before new growth areas have fully matured. The company generated revenue of CNY 320.4 billion ($49.56 billion or roughly Rs. 3.69 lakh crores),

Apple reportedly shared a memo internally acknowledging the “misunderstandings” around the new features aimed at protecting children. It also emphasised that these features are important for keeping children safe. The Cupertino tech giant recently announced it will implement a system that checks photos on iPhone devices in the United States before they are uploaded to

Amazon on Thursday said it would not expect US corporate employees to return to the office until next year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Seattle-based company said it was extending its work-from-home period to January 3, 2022, from its earlier guidance of September 7 for the United States and other countries it did not name, according

Microsoft on Thursday joined the ranks of tech companies requiring returning workers to be vaccinated, as Amazon delayed its plan to reopen offices until next year. The earliest date for fully reopening Microsoft’s US facilities will be October 4, according to the computing giant based near Amazon in the state of Washington. “Starting in September,

Amazon Great Freedom Festival sale has started and is in full-swing with discounts and the best deals on the latest smartphones, televisions, laptops, and much more. The five-day sale that will run through August 9 promises numerous offers on a wide range of products, from across categories. Expect up to 40 percent off on mobiles

Apple is reportedly developing a tool that would scan your iPhone photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including the media content related to child pornography. The new development, which is expected will be announced soon, would be implemented on the client side — on the user’s device — to look for specific perceptual hashes

Microsoft has paused Windows 365 free trials just a day after launching the cloud PC service. The Redmond company said that it had to pause the free trial programme for Windows 365 due to “significant demand”. Windows 365 is designed to deliver a full-fledged computing experience to users, with a variety of virtual processing cores,

What are the best Hindi movies on Netflix? The 17 titles below star the likes of Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Ayushmann Khurrana, Abhishek Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Naseeruddin Shah, Vidya Balan, Tabu, Radhika Apte, Bhumi Pednekar, Manisha Koirala, Kiara Advani, Kalki Koechlin, Pankaj Tripathi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sayani Gupta, Rajeev Khandelwal, Abhay Deol, Rasika Dugal,

Jio Fiber users can now make video calls from their TVs without requiring an external camera or webcam. Called ‘Camera on Mobile’, the new feature is available through the JioJoin app (previously named JioCall) available for Android and iOS devices. It allows users to make their phone camera an input device for video calls. It

Pearson, one of the leading publishers of textbooks in the US, has announced a subscription service called Pearson+ for digital textbooks. Users will be able to take advantage of the subscription service via the Pearson+ app. It is said to hit college campuses in the US this fall, with a global rollout expected as well.