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Fastly, the company behind a major global Internet outage this week, said on Wednesday the incident was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings. Tuesday’s outage raised questions about the reliance of the Internet on a few infrastructure companies. Fastly issue knocked out high traffic

WhatsApp voice calls are now available for Jio Phone and other KaiOS-based feature phone users around the world. The new feature works on the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology and requires users to have an active Wi-Fi or mobile data connectivity for making WhatsApp calls. The Facebook-owned company on Tuesday said that voice calling

Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is a cosmic mistake, a character says to his face early into the new Marvel TV show. In some ways, Loki the series was just as unexpected. Loki follows the Loki who escaped with the Tesseract in Avengers: Endgame, after Iron Man and Ant-Man went back in time to get one of

Samsung Electronics is banking on Europe to maintain growth momentum in its network equipment business, a senior executive said, as 5G rollout widens and industry leader Huawei Technologies of China focuses on its domestic market. Although the South Korean tech company is global No. 1 in memory chips and smartphones, in 5G network equipment it

Poco M3 Pro 5G is set to launch in India today, at 11:30am through a virtual event. The Xiaomi sub-brand will livestream the event on its YouTube channel and Instagram social account. The phone debuted in the European market last month and will now be making its way to India. The European model was a

Apple has officially unveiled iOS 15, and like many recent rumours and leaks suggested, several far-reaching improvements have come to iMessage and FaceTime. There’s also new system-wide emphasis on sharing and communication, as well as even more privacy-related features, and new ways to leverage on-device intelligence. iOS 15 will roll out to iPhone 6s and later

Vivo Y75 5G has been spotted in a Bluetooth SIG certification as well as on Geekbench benchmarking website, suggesting that the phone could launch soon. Vivo has not shared any details about the Vivo Y75 5G model but it appears to be a budget-friendly 5G offering. The phone was previously spotted in the IMEI database

WWDC 2021 is kicking off later today, June 7. Just like last year, this year’s edition of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference will be held virtually — owing to the coronavirus pandemic. The Cupertino, California-based giant showcases its new software developments at this developer-focussed event. The same trend is expected continued this time with new versions

Nasa’s 31-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has made another incredible discovery — it has found a “lopsided” spiral galaxy that has been deformed by the gravitational tug of another nearby galaxy. NASA has shared the stunning image of the galaxy called “NGC 2276”, which is located in the constellation Cepheus, about 120 million light-years away from

Ashton Gallagher, an Illinois-based artist, whose realism art includes painting life-like portraits of pop-culture characters, has received critical acclaim from all quarters. On June 4, he opened his third mini-portraits show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles and it was only a matter of hours before the paintings were sold out. The portrait of Imhotep,

Tinder will finally be letting users avoid all their exes, friends, colleagues, relatives, and anyone else they might not want to run into on a dating app. The company announced today that it will start allowing people to block their phone contacts. According to The Verge, romance-seekers can access the feature from their settings, under

The United States, Britain, and other leading nations reached a landmark deal on Saturday to pursue higher global taxation on multinational businesses such as Google, Apple, and Amazon. In a move that could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help them cope with the aftermath of COVID-19, the Group of Seven large advanced economies

iQoo Z3 price in India has been tipped just days ahead of its official launch. The new iQoo phone is said to be available in three variants and its top-of-the-line model is said to be priced at Rs. 23,990. The iQoo Z3 was launched in China in March. The smartphone offers features including triple rear

The Reminiscence trailer is here. Set in a dystopian near future with rising water levels flooding cities, mankind has created technology that allows people to fully immerse themselves in their past experiences, making them feel as real as real life. It’s in this setting that we follow a moody Hugh Jackman playing a “private investigator

OnePlus 9R is receiving an OxygenOS update that brings a hotfix for a battery drain issue introduced by the previous update. The last OxygenOS update for the cheapest smartphone in the OnePlus 9 series was causing abnormal battery discharge for the smartphone. The OnePlus 9R OxygenOS 11.2.1.2 update was released in India last month and

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has invented a fibre with digital capabilities that can sense, store, analyse, and infer activities after it’s sewn into a shirt. Yoel Fink, professor and principal investigator at the Research Laboratory of Electronics and a senior author on the study, said that these fibres

Realme GT 5G flagship smartphone will debut globally in June, Realme India and Europe CEO Madhav Sheth revealed at the company’s 5G summit on Thursday, June 3. The Chinese company is also planning to launch a 5G phone at a price of around $100 (roughly Rs. 7,300) in the future to grow its market presence.

Clubhouse app on Android is now allowing users to add their Instagram and Twitter accounts to their profiles, as per the latest beta release notes. The developers have also rolled out updates, making it easy to follow speakers as well as learn about upcoming events on a Club page. Additionally, the developers have announced that

The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that social messaging platform WhatsApp was trying to “force” its users to consent to the new privacy policy before the Personal Data Protection Bill becomes the law by bombarding them with notifications daily to obtain their consent. Terming WhatsApp’s bombarding of notifications on its customers as an

Realme 5G Global Summit will start at 2:30pm IST today, June 3. At the event, industry experts from GSMA Intelligence, Counterpoint Research, Qualcomm India, and Realme will discuss the growth avenues of 5G globally. Realme India and Europe CEO Madhav Sheth and Realme Brand Director Johnny Chen will speak about a smartphone manufacturer’s contribution to

WhatsApp Business API is getting a slew of updates aimed at making it easier for businesses to get started with the social messaging platform, and allowing customers to quickly communicate with those businesses, the Facebook-owned messaging company announced during Facebook’s F8 Refresh on Wednesday. The company said that it had tweaked the WhatsApp Business API

NASA on Wednesday shared a stunning image, captured from space, of the 2019 Hurricane Dorian to mark the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season. Dorian was the most powerful storm to hit the Bahamas since records began. In a long Instagram post, the American space agency explained through five pointers how it is preparing to

Poco M3 Pro 5G India launch date is set for June 8, the company has confirmed. The handset debuted globally last month and it looks to make its entry in the Indian market next week. Poco has confirmed that Poco M3 Pro 5G will be up for grabs on Flipkart. This new phone looks to

OnePlus could be the next big name in the growing market of cryptocurrencies led by Bitcoin as the Chinese company is found to be conducting a survey on blockchain research. The survey is aimed at getting user feedback on cryptocurrencies. The company is asking users whether they have used trading platforms such as Coinbase, Gemini,

Honor Band 6 India launch has been tipped via a listing on Flipkart. The smart fitness band was launched in China in November 2020. It has many features including 24-hour heart rate monitoring, 10 dedicated workout modes, and up to 14 days of battery life. The Honor Band 6 comes with an AMOLED display, which

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G on the Sprint network in the US is receiving May 2021 Android security patch with a new update. This comes a week after the global version of the clamshell foldable smartphone already received the June 2021 Android security patch. The update to the Sprint version of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip

2021 KT1, a “potentially hazardous” asteroid is passing near the Earth on Tuesday (June 1), NASA has warned. The asteroid will make a close approach to the Earth at around 10:24am EDT (7:54pm IST). The gigantic rock would fly past our planet with a distance of around 4.5 million miles. Some other asteroids are also

Twitter is working on adding emoji reactions to tweets, similar to the ones available on Facebook, according to screenshots shared by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong. The microblogging site could include emoji reactions such as Likes, Cheer, Hmm, Sad, and Haha. The emoji reactions are currently under development, and some reactions in the screenshot,

Two US college campuses are getting a cereal-mixing robot that prepares a breakfast-ready bowl. These breakfast-dispensing robots, created as a joint pilot between Kellogg’s and Chowbotics, have been rolled out at Florida State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On the Kellogg’s Bowl Bot, operated through a touchscreen interface or the Chowbotics app on a

International Space Station (ISS) has shared some spectacular photos of the Earth, captured by the astronauts stationed on it. In a new Instagram post, the ISS shared four different photos of “the Earth’s colours” — capturing our home planet “from the city lights to the hues of an orbital sunrise.” It also added “how vivid