San Francisco, July 2 With an aim to make it lighter and faster, tech giant Microsoft is working to launch a new 'Outlook Lite' app, which might be available soon to Android users. The mention of the coming Outlook Lite app for Android was added to the roadmap on June ...

New Delhi, July 2 Microsoft has alerted users of "toll fraud" malware on Android that can drain your mobile wallet by switching off Wi-Fi connection. Compared to other subcategories of billing fraud, which include SMS fraud and call fraud, toll fraud has unique behaviours. According to Microsoft 365 Defender research ...

San Francisco, July 2 Google has announced to automatically delete visits to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, weight loss clinics, and other potentially sensitive locations from users' location data. The tech giant said that if their systems identify that someone has visited one of these places, "we will delete these ...

London, June 30 The European Union has reached a provisional agreement on transparency of crypto asset transfers, making it more difficult for criminals to use crypto currencies for money laundering. Negotiators from the Council presidency and the European Parliament reached the pact on the proposal updating the rules on information ...

San Francisco, June 30 Mozilla's latest Firefox browser update has a new feature that prevents sites like Facebook from tracking users across websites. According to Bleeping Computer, Mozilla Firefox 102 was released with a new privacy feature that strips parameters from URLs that are used to track users around the ...

San Francisco, June 30 Herbert Diess, the current chairman of the board of management of the German motor vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen Group, has said that the carmaker will take the lead over Elon Musk's Tesla by 2025. During a meeting at the company's headquarters in Germany, Diess said that Tesla ...

London, June 29 Google searches are an effective tool to track and predict domestic violence, especially in times of crisis, such as the period that followed the Covid-19 outbreak, suggests a research. When the Covid pandemic broke out and countries experienced a strict lockdown, news stories started reporting anecdotal evidence ...

San Francisco, June 29 The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) head Brendan Carr has written to Apple and Google requesting them to remove Chinese short-video making platform TikTok from their respective app stores for "its pattern of surreptitious data practices." In the letter, Carr said that TikTok "harvests swaths of ...

San Francisco, June 29 Facebook and Instagram have removed posts from users who offered abortion pills via mail posts. Facebook removed such posts, and also temporarily banned some of those users, on the same day when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade case that had legalised abortion in the ...

San Francisco, June 29 Photo-sharing social media platform Pinterest has announced that Ben Silbermann is stepping down as the current CEO and he will be replaced by Bill Ready. The company said that co-founder, CEO and President, Silbermann will transition to the newly created role of Executive Chairman. "Building Pinterest ...