How will the plan affect businesses?
In September 2021, the data protection authorities of each G7 nation met virtually to discuss a technological or innovation issue that they believed required closer cooperation to address properly....
Netflix extends ‘Play Something’ feature to Android mobile devices
Netflix rolled out its randomized shuffle feature 'Play Something' to TV versions back in April. Now it is extending the same to Android mobile devices too. Netflix will start testing Play...
India at the cusp of the digital revolution, says COAI’s Dr. S.P. Kochhar
5G in India has been the most talked-about topic in the recent past. While we’ve had 5G capable devices like smartphones selling in the country since as early as last...
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know
Enlarge / Today's global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning. Facebook—and apparently all the...
Internet Archive: Forget the Wayback Machine, there’s now a Wayforward Machine too
To mark its 25th anniversary, the Internet Archive digital library has upped the stakes by launching a new Wayforward Machine.Unlike its Wayback Machine, which is able to teleport users back...
Researcher refuses Telegram’s bounty award, discloses auto-delete bug
Telegram patched another image self-destruction bug in its app earlier this year. This flaw was a different issue from the one reported in 2019. But the researcher who reported the...
Mastercard acquisition of Aiia is a further sign of open banking’s big future
The acquisition of Danish fintech Aiia is the second sign in the space of a few months that open banking is entering a new phase. Mastercard’s takeover of Aiia...
Early trends indicate Amazon, Flipkart set for record festive sale
The much-touted festival sale extravaganza on the two major Indian e-commerce sites --- Amazon.in and Flipkart --- seems set for record numbers.This year both Flipkart's Big Billion Days sale and...
Hundreds of scam apps hit over 10 million Android devices
Enlarge / Never put a GriftHorse on your phone.John Lamparsky | Getty Images Google has taken increasingly sophisticated steps to keep malicious apps out of Google Play. But a new...
California DMV gives Cruise and Waymo OK to charge for rides
Enlarge / A Cruise robotaxi test vehicle in San Francisco.Cruise The autonomous vehicle developers Cruise and Waymo both got a little closer to running true driverless robotaxi services in and...