25 Mar 2024

Hyderabad: The promise of a job offer turned into a nightmare for a woman from Karimnagar, after she was trapped by two deceptive individuals who sexually abused her. The woman who had enrolled in online classes had a harrowing experience after being enticed with job offers that required her to visit an institution located at KPHB called Naren Technologies. Upon arrival at it...

13 Feb 2024

Chennai: Controversial State Minister V Senthil Balaji has sent in resignation to Chief Minister M K Stalin, who has reportedly forwarded it to the Governor for approval.Balaji, who held the portfolios of Prohibition and Electricity in the DMK government, had been functioning without portfolio even while languishing in jail for the past eight months in connection with a money laundering ...

16 Mar 2023

Los Angeles: Elon Musk's Twitter could soon face new competition from Facebook-owned Meta. Meta Platforms Inc is considering launching a new Twitter-like social network. "We're exploring a standalone, decentralized social network for sharing text updates," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to Variety. "We believe there's an opportunity for a separate space where creators and p...

02 Feb 2023

Washington: Researchers from American tech giant Google have created an AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments, similar to how systems like DALL-E generate images from written prompts, reported The Verge, an American technology news website, via TechCrunch. According to the outlet, the...

23 Dec 2022

NEW YORK: Twitter is once again attempting to launch its premium service, a month after a previous attempt failed. The social media company said Saturday it would let users buy subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and access special features starting Monday. The blue checkmark was originally given to companies, celebrities, government entities and journalists verified ...

11 Nov 2022

Twitter Inc will charge $8 a month for its Blue service, which includes its sought-after "verified" badge, new boss Elon Musk said on Tuesday as he seeks to boost subscriptions and make the social media network less reliant on ads. "Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month," Musk said i...

30 Sep 2022

New Delhi: Apple is all set to begin manufacturing its latest iPhone 14 models in India, just days after it had a global unveiling. "The new iPhone 14 lineup introduces groundbreaking new technologies and important safety capabilities. We're excited to be manufacturing iPhone 14 in India," said Apple in a statement to ANI. Further details about where the iPhone will be manufactured in ...

20 Aug 2022

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is warning of a flaw that is allowing hackers to seize control of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, and is urging users to install emergency software updates. Patches were released Thursday and Wednesday by the tech titan to fix what it described as a vulnerability hackers already knew about and may be taking advantage of. “Apple is aware of a report that this issu...

09 Jul 2022

Twitter Inc kicked off deal negotiations with Elon Musk on Sunday after he wooed many of the social media company's shareholders with financing details on his $43 billion acquisition offer, people familiar with the matter said. The company's decision to engage with Musk, taken earlier on Sunday, does not mean that it will accept his $54.20 per share bid, the sources said. It signifies, ...

28 May 2022

Detroit: Elon Musk has sold 4.4 million shares of Tesla stock worth roughly $4 billion, most likely to help fund his purchase of Twitter. Musk reported the sale in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The shares were sold over the past few days, at prices ranging from $872.02 to $999.13.   The world's richest man, who is the CEO of Tesla, tweeted that he ...