Technology
New gene therapy may reduce bleeding risk for haemophilia patients
London, July 24 A team of researchers, led by those of Indian-origin, has in a breakthrough developed a single gene therapy injection that could dramatically reduce the bleeding risk faced by people with haemophilia B. Haemophilia B is a rare and inherited genetic bleeding disorder caused by low levels of ...WhatsApp may let you keep disappearing messages even after they are dead
San Francisco, July 24 Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is working on a feature that will let users keep disappearing messages even after their expiration. According to WABetaInfo report, the disappearing messages can be viewed within chat info in a new section called 'Kept messages', and all people in the conversation ...YouTube Music test feature to offer content based on listening behaviour
San Francisco, July 24 Tech giant Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music has started testing a new feature, Dynamic queue, that will help get queue and radio updates based on users listening behaviour. As per initial reports, YouTube Music will change the playback queue if users skip to a new ...Apple diversifies suppliers ahead of iPhone 14 launch
San Francisco, July 24 In a bid to avoid potential supply chain shortages when mass production of the devices begins, tech giant Apple has added to its list of suppliers for the iPhone 14 series. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, components from SG Micro have passed quality certification for the ...SpaceX sends 46 Starlink satellites into space, sets new record (Ld)
San Francisco, July 23 Setting a new record in the process, tech billionaire Elon Musk-run SpaceX has made it through its second attempt to launch 46 Starlink satellites into Earth's orbit successfully. On the microblogging platform Twitter, Musk congratulated the SpaceX team on a record number of launches. "Deployment of ...Google fires employee who said its conversation AI is ‘sentient’
San Francisco, July 23 Google has fired an engineer over breaching its confidentiality agreement after he made a claim that the tech giant's conversation Artificial Intelligence (AI) is "sentient" because it has feelings, emotions and subjective experiences. Google sacked Blake Lemoine who said Google's Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) ...Microsoft to soon start blocking Office macros by default
San Francisco, July 23 Tech giant Microsoft confirmed this week that it will soon start blocking Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros in Office apps by default after quietly rolling back the change earlier this month. The company said it will start blocking Office macros by default starting from July 27. ...UK scientists develop new gravitational wave telescope
London, July 22 A team of scientists in the UK has developed a new telescope to track down sources of gravitational waves for the first time. The new telescope, named the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), is made up of two identical arrays deployed on opposite sides of the planet ...Twitter blames Elon Musk for $270 mn loss in Q2 results
San Francisco, July 22 Twitter on Friday said it posted $270 million net loss in the second quarter (Q2), largely owing to uncertainty related to the pending acquisition by Tesla CEO Elon Musk that adversely hit its advertising business. Musk has terminated the $44 billion Twitter deal over the presence ...Britain blocks University of Manchester to sell camera tech to Chinese firm
London, July 22 In a first, the UK government has blocked University of Manchester from sharing motion camera technology with a Chinese firm over national security concerns, the media reported on Friday. Kwasi Kwarteng who is business, energy and industrial strategy secretary stopped the university not to share the camera ...