San Francisco : Google is reportedly being slammed by security experts following the disclosure of a vulnerability that has exposed Android to the risk of being compromised by infected images. Revealed in Google's February security update, the flaw leaves Android...
Bonus for Facebook employees aiding with social issues
San Francisco : Facebook will now incentivise its 36,000 employees on how they are contributing to social causes and helping the company tackle issues like spread of misinformation and hate speech on its platform. Going beyond metrics like user growth and product...
IRCTC partners with Magzter to provide unmatched online reading experience to passengers
New Delhi : IRCTC, the catering arm of the Indian Railways, has partnered with Magzter to provide unmatched online reading to its passengers while on the go. In a statement, the Indian Rail Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which manages the online e-ticket...
Google deletes 29 apps that steal users’ information
San Francisco : Google has deleted 29 malicious "beauty camera" apps that were sharing pornographic content and forwarding users, particularly in India, to phishing websites to steal their information. Some of these Android apps have been downloaded millions of times...
Assam Finance Department to use social media for state budget
Guwahati : The Assam Finance Department has decided to use social media platforms to inform and engage citizens on the state's 2019-20 Budget, Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a statement on Monday. Sarma said that social media is an...
Microsoft acquires open-source start-up to boost Cloud business
San Francisco : Microsoft has said it has acquired open-source company Citus Data to bolster the competitiveness of its Cloud computing business. Citus Data is a company dedicated to the open-source database software PostgreSQL. Microsoft did not disclose detailed...
Amazon’s AWS launches service to automate data backups
San Francisco : Retail giant Amazon's Cloud arm Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched "Backup" -- a new feature which makes it easier for companies to backup their data using its Cloud computing platform. AWS "Backup" makes protecting storage volumes, databases and...
Facebook has multi-year plans to overhaul its systems: Zuckerberg
San Francisco : Saying goodbye to one of his toughest years filled with several controversies, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he is "proud" of the progress in 2018 and the company has now established multi-year plans to overhaul its systems and is executing those...
Google introduces spam protection for text messages
San Francisco : Google has begun rolling out its spam protection feature for Messages after almost over six months of developing it for Android users. Based on reports from a handful of tipsters, that spam protection feature is now going live, though not everyone...
Training machines sans bias will only augment humans: AWS executive
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi : At a time when the debate over machines replacing humans rages, a top Amazon Web Services (AWS) executive is convinced that machines are not here to take decisions on their own, and certain human emotions -- empathy, for instance --...