More than a billion Indians now have the biometric-based 12-digit personal identification number called Aadhaar, which means foundation in Hindi. What started as a voluntary programme to tackle benefit fraud has now grown into […]
Google’s voice-based assistant, Ok Google, has received about 4.5 lakh proposals for marriage in India. Rishi Chandra VP of Product Management on stage now. “Google Assistant is available in India in Hindi and English. […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly deployed “secret police” to catch and punish information leakers at his company and the team is led by an Indian American senior employee Sonya Ahuja. According to a […]
Bots and fake profiles on Twitter are not a new phenomenon, proven a number of times with accounts tweeting out synchronised content with an agenda. It is also not new information that political parties […]
Mapping a city like New York, where streets and avenues are neatly arranged in a grid, is a piece of cake. But a city in India is a different animal. So, on March 13, […]
Non-practicing entity Portal Communications has filed a lawsuit against Apple for alleged infringement of three patents related to natural language voice query systems — the technology being used by the iPhone-maker in its products […]
Popular image sharing and multimedia mobile app Snapchat and Instagram have temporarily removed their Giphy GIF sticker features after users saw a racist GIF as an option to add to their photographs. “We are […]
App-based taxi service took on a whole new meaning on Monday when Bengaluru’s first helitaxi service took off, ferrying passengers from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to Electronics City in 15 minutes. The helitaxi made […]
Google has been fined 1.36bn rupees (£15.2m; $21.2m) by India’s competition regulator for abusing its dominance in the country. Users searching flight details were directed to Google’s own flight search page, the Competition Commission […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Tuesday released the first image captured by Cartosat-2 series satellite, four days after it was placed in orbit by PSLV-C40. The satellite is seventh in the remote sensing Cartosat series. […]
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