Tech News update

Homebound customers of Uber Technologies Inc more than doubled their orders from the company’s food-delivery service in the second quarter but demand for ride-hailing trips only marginally recovered from pandemic rock-bottom. The company…
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Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was identified as the mastermind of a scheme that commandeered prominent Twitter accounts and scammed people A Florida teen was identified Friday as the mastermind of a scheme earlier this month that commandeered…
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Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Facebook all beat expectations in their latest earnings reports. On Thursday (30 July), after a US congressional hearing questioned the practices of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, the four companies…
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The New York Legislature has passed a two-year moratorium on the use of facial recognition in schools. The ban approved by the House and Senate on Wednesday follows an upstate district’s adoption of the technology as part of its security…
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AB Tasty has raised a new $40 million funding round led by Credit Mutuel Innovation with existing investors Korelya Capital, Omnes, Partech and XAnge also participating. Overall the startup has raised $64 million. The startup is focused on…
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Messaging app WhatsApp saw an outage in India and across the world in the early hours of Wednesday with thousands of users reporting glitches in the popular end to end encrypted application. According to Down Detector, which monitors and…
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A Facebook spokesperson confirmed that they have started testing Reels in India, “Reels is a fun, creative way for people to both express themselves and be entertained”. It also reveals that some users have started getting the Instagram…
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Nvidia has rolled out a new game filter technology for GeForce Now that will change the look of whatever game you are playing. The game filter technology is named Freestyle. Nvidia’s GeForce Freestyle will let you apply post-processing…
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Facebook Inc and Snap Inc became the latest U.S. companies condemning racial inequality in the United States as violent protests flared up across major cities over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police…
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Facebook has launched a new safety feature in India that lets users lock their profile. The social media giant said this feature is “designed for people in India, especially women, who want more control over their Facebook experience.”…
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