Google agreed to pay $155 million (nearly Rs. 1,300 crore) to settle claims by California and private plaintiffs that the search engine company misled consumers about how it tracks their locations, and used their data without consent. Both settlements resolve claims that the Alphabet unit deceived people into believing they maintained control over how Google
Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 were launched by the company alongside the iPhone 15 series of smartphones at the company’s September launch event on Tuesday. While Apple’ did not introduce major improvements related to health measurement this year, the company teased support for a new Double Tap gesture that will allow
Samsung Galaxy S24 series is tipped to launch early next year. The Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra are expected to bring some noteworthy upgrades over their predecessors — Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+ and Galaxy S23 Ultra, but the wired charging speed of the upcoming handsets could remain unchanged as per purported listings
Sep 15, 2023THNPrivacy / Online Security Google has agreed to pay $93 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. state of California over allegations that the company’s location-privacy practices misled consumers and violated consumer protection laws. “Our investigation revealed that Google was telling its users one thing – that it would no longer
Apple has increased the battery replacement cost for almost all Apple Watch models by $20 (roughly Rs. 1,660). The service was earlier priced at $79 (roughly Rs. 6,558). Meanwhile, AppleCare+ subscribers can replace their Apple Watch batteries at no additional cost if the battery holds less than 80 percent of its original capacity. Earlier this
iPhone 15 series’ battery capacities and wattage details have reportedly been revealed thanks to a regulatory database. Apple does not publish details of the batteries in its smartphones, aside from battery backup — in hours. However, a new report reveals that the iPhone 15 Pro models are equipped with slightly larger batteries than last year’s
Alphabet’s Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of Gemini, its conversational artificial intelligence software, The Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Gemini is intended to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, according to the report. For Google, the stakes of Gemini’s launch are high. Google
iPhone 15 series of smartphones will be available to preorder today, days after Apple unveiled its latest generation of handsets. This year, the company introduced four new models — the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max — that arrived as the successors to its iPhone 14 lineup, with
Oracle Co-founder Larry Ellison, left, and Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates watch a match between Gael Monfils of France and Alexander Zverev of Germany during the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2021. Sean M. Haffey | Getty Images Larry Ellison, the co-founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle, has been
iPhone 15 Plus — Apple’s larger version of the iPhone 15 with a 6.7-inch screen and longer battery life — will reportedly be produced in India soon. The Cupertino company unveiled four new handsets as part of its iPhone 15 lineup. Apple already manufactures the iPhone 15 in India and the company has been producing
Sep 14, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Vulnerability A set of memory corruption flaws have been discovered in the ncurses (short for new curses) programming library that could be exploited by threat actors to run malicious code on vulnerable Linux and macOS systems. “Using environment variable poisoning, attackers could chain these vulnerabilities to elevate privileges and run
Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 were released by the company at the official launch event dubbed Wonderlust, on September 12. While the design of the Apple Watch Series 9 has similarities to the Apple Watch Series 8, there are a few upgrades in terms of specifications. One of the major upgrades on
iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max were launched by the company at its ‘Wonderlust’ launch event earlier this week, and the handsets are currently the most powerful smartphones to be released by the Cupertino company. Pre-orders for the smartphones will begin on Friday and the phones are set to go on sale on
Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of blockchain firm ConsenSys. Riccardo Savi | Getty Images for Concordia Summit The co-founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin, said “clear heads will prevail” as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission continues to dispute with crypto firms in court over whether crypto tokens are considered securities. “I anticipate that,
Tesla CEO Elon Musk called on Wednesday for a US “referee” for artificial intelligence after he, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and other tech CEOs met with lawmakers at Capitol Hill to discuss AI regulation. Lawmakers are seeking ways to mitigate the dangers of the emerging technology, which has boomed in
India’s government has told a court that Elon Musk’s X is a “habitual non-compliant platform” and for years has not followed many orders to remove content, undermining the government’s role, according to a legal filing reviewed by Reuters. The remarks were contained in an August 24 non-public filing by India’s IT ministry to the high
Apple took wraps off of the heavily rumoured iPhone 15 series on September 12 during its ‘Wonderlust’ event. The latest handsets boast multiple new features including a new USB Type-C port for the first time, titanium build, camera upgrades, and Dynamic Island on all models. This year, the Cupertino-based company has also extended support for the Indian
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google workers walk outside of Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Thursday, April 12, 2012. Google Inc. said Thursday that it earned $2.89 billion, or $8.75 per share, in the first quarter. That’s up from $1.8 billion, or $5.51 per share, a year earlier. (AP
Nokia X30 5G price in India has been slashed by the company, just over half a year after the phone was launched in India. The company has begun selling the phone with a Rs. 12,000 discount in the country. The phone sports a 6.43-inch full-HD+ AMOLED display and is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 695
Sep 13, 2023THNVulnerability / Browser Security Mozilla on Tuesday released security updates to resolve a critical zero-day vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird that has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after Google released a fix for the issue in its Chrome browser. The shortcoming, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-4863, is a heap buffer overflow