technology

Social Media and Networking outages a common norm in 2019

This year has seen several incidences where everyday apps faced major outages running into several hours in India. To the respite of users, they had Twitter to fall back upon as it was the only app functioning most of the time. “Outages make us realize how much do we actually depend on the Internet and apps. People even have apps that remind them it is time to drink water. And if these apps stop working, one can imagine the plight. Social media outages make me uncomfortable and restless,” says Deepansh Jain, a 21-year-old college student from Mumbai.

Mozilla would charge $5 for ad-free news subscription in Firefox

Microsoft has teased Windows 1.0 from 1985 for Netflix show ‘Stranger Things’

Apple ‘Memoji’ ads used to promote ‘Mimoji’ made by Xiaomi

Russia's Soyuz satellite carrying rocket

A Soyuz carrier Rocket launched by Russia that is carrying 33 satellites

Russia successfully launched its Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket on Friday with a hydrometeorological satellite and 32 small satellites, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said.

Artificial Intelligence is helping in Identifying Galaxy Clusters Quickly

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tool that has been trained to “look” at colour images and identify galaxy clusters quickly.

China is about lose some of the biggest US tech giants’ manufacturing units

It’s not just Apple that’s looking to move production out of China, although the Mac maker is among the largest multinationals that rely on the Middle Kingdom for product assembly. The consumer electronics supply chain has spent the past several decades consolidating in China and other parts of Asia, but President Trump’s ongoing trade war with the country has made other major tech companies anxious about their supply chains, too.

Ban on instructional hacking and phishing videos on YouTube sent Content creators in a Tizzy

YouTube’s recent policy update has added a list of “harmful or dangerous content”, including the addition of “instructional hacking and phishing” videos to the list and the changes have left content creators puzzled, the media has reported.

Alexa user data is permanently saved: admits Amazon

San Francisco, Retail giant Amazon has reportedly admitted it does not always delete the stored data that it obtains through voice interactions through its voice assistant Alexa and Echo line-up of smart devices.