Technology
Google fined $40 mn for misleading users on Android location tracking
Sydney, Aug 12 The Federal Court in Australia on Friday ordered Google to pay over $40 million in penalties for making misleading representations to consumers about the collection and use of their personal location data on Android phones. According to Australia's Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the data was collected ...Pig-skin corneal implant restores sight in blind, visually impaired
London, Aug 12 A team of international researchers, including from All India Institute of Medical Sciences in India, have developed an implant made of collagen protein from pig's skin, which resembles the human cornea and restored vision among the people with blindness and those who are visually impaired. The bioengineered ...NASA’s InSight mission finds Martian equator is dry
New York, Aug 12 Martian equator contains little or no ice, according to a new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission. The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, describes the dry conditions in the top 300 metres of the subsurface beneath the landing site near ...Instagram can track user’s web activity via in-app browser: Report
San Francisco, Aug 11 Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is capable of tracking its users' actions, text choices and even text input, such as passwords and confidential credit card information, if they visit a link inside the app, says a new report. The analysis conducted by Felix Krause found that both ...Potentially hazardous giant asteroid to zoom past Earth on Friday
Washington, Aug 11 A "potentially hazardous" giant asteroid is likely to come within about 4.3 million km of Earth on Friday, according to NASA. The asteroid, named 2015 FF, has an estimated diameter between 13 and 28 metres, according to NASA's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). It will zoom ...Google Meet updated with new features after merging with Duo
San Francisco, Aug 11 After announcing that Google has combined two of its video-calling apps -- Duo and Meet -- into a single platform, the tech giant said this upgrade gives everyone access to new features like scheduling and joining meetings, virtual backgrounds, in-meeting chat and more, in addition to ...Facebook making money via white supremacist groups: Report
San Francisco, Aug 11 Facebook is making money via white supremacist groups, serving ads on searches for dangerous groups like "Ku Klux Klan" despite a ban on such content on the platform. A report by the Tech Transparency Project revealed that more than 80 white supremacist groups have a presence ...Musk agrees to rebuy Tesla stock if Twitter deal doesn’t close
San Francisco, Aug 10 After selling its electric vehicle company shares worth nearly $7 billion, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said that he would repurchase Tesla stock if the Twitter deal did not close. While being asked by a user on the microblogging platform if he is ...Apple brings back battery percentage icon in latest iOS beta
San Francisco, Aug 9 Tech giant Apple has brought back the battery percentage icon, which displays the actual numerical amount of charge, on the status bar in its latest iOS 16 beta. According to TechCrunch, the battery indicator returned in iOS 16 beta 5, but it still needs to be ...Meta AI chatbot says Zuckerberg ‘too creepy’ and Trump will always be US president
San Francisco, Aug 9 Meta (formerly Facebook) just unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbot asking the public to give feedback. The initial reports are scary as the chatbot named BlenderBot 3 thinks Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is "creepy and manipulative" and Donald Trump will always be the ...
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