Lawmakers pressed top US antitrust enforcers on their probes of tech giants Alphabet’s Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple on Wednesday, with the chair of a House subcommittee expressing frustration over the companies’ continued acquisitions. In a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, said his investigative staff…
Amazon Says Customers Have to Secure Own Data on AWS
Highlights US lawmakers had accused that Amazon has not done enough to secure data AWS has come under fire following a series of high-profile data breaches We have a responsibility in making sure you take right actions: Amazon Amazon’s cloud computing customers have to decide themselves how best to protect sensitive information online, a senior executive…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Starts Yearlong Journey Home From Asteroid Ryugu
Photo Credit: Handout/ JIJI Press/ JAXA/ AFP Asteroid Ryugu A Japanese spacecraft left a distant asteroid on Wednesday, starting its yearlong journey home after successfully completing its mission to gather soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system, the country’s space agency said. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency…
Best Mobiles Phones Under Rs. 30,000: November 2019 Edition
Redmi K20 Pro, one of the best phones under Rs. 30,000, offers the best battery life in this segment Highlights Redmi K20 Pro is the flagship phone of Xiaomi’s Redmi sub-brand Samsung Galaxy A9 is the only phone without a notch or pop-up camera Vivo V15 Pro and Oppo R17 Pro also feature in…
Facebook Shortcut Bar Settings Now Being Rolled Out for iOS and Android, Letting Users Remove Notification Dots
Facebook Shortcut Bar Settings is currently available for most iOS users HIGHLIGHTS Shortcut Bar Settings being rolled out by Facebook These new settings are available on the mobile app Finally, users can turn off the red notification dots A new change to the Facebook app for mobile will now allow users to turn off notifications…
Oppo Reno 3 Tipped to Sport Quad Rear Cameras, Snapdragon 735 SoC; Price Leaked as Well
Oppo Reno 3 is tipped to sport a 90Hz display Highlights Oppo Reno 3 is expected to be priced at CNY 3,299 The phone is tipped to pack 8GB RAM, 256GB storage Oppo Reno 3 may have a 32-megapixel selfie camera Oppo Reno 2 was launched earlier this year, and now the successor Oppo Reno…
Servant Trailer: M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ Series Features a Baby Doll and a Weird Nanny
Photo Credit: Apple A still from the Servant trailer Highlights Servant TV series release date is November 28 on Apple TV+ Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Nell Tiger Free part of Servant cast Shyamalan is an exec producer, director on the Apple TV+ series After several 15-second clips and a short teaser, Apple has released a…
The Witcher Has a 7-Season Plan, Says Netflix Series Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Photo Credit: Katalin Vermes/Netflix Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s The Witcher HIGHLIGHTS The Witcher release date in India is December 20 on Netflix Hissrich has a framework for seven seasons of The Witcher Sapkowski has written eight books as part of Witcher series We’re still a month and a half away from…
Redmi Note 8 Pro to Go on Sale in India Today via Amazon, Mi.com: Price in India, Offers, Specifications
Photo Credit: YouTube/ JerryRigEverything Google Pixel 4 XL starts to scratch out at level six on Mohs’ hardness scale HIGHLIGHTS Google Pixel 4 XL carries glass protection at its front and back YouTube channel JerryRigEverything has put it on its stress tests Pixel 4 XL is found to have a thick paint coating on top…
Facebook No Longer Among Top 10 Best Brands Globally: Interbrand
HIGHLIGHTS Apple led the Interbrand’s top 100 best brands list Google, Amazon, and Microsoft were next on the list Samsung came sixth on the list Hit by privacy scandals and year-round investigations, Facebook has lost its place among the world’s 10 most valuable brands in global brand consultancy Interbrand’s annual ranking of best top 100…