Category: Internet

Cloud Cooking India: Housewives Become Gig Economy Chefs: Rashmi Sahijwala never expected to start working at the age of 59, let alone join India’s gig economy — now she is part of an army of housewives turning their homes into “cloud kitchens” to feed time-starved millennials. Asia’s third-largest economy is battling a slowdown so sharp…

Microsoft Data Breach: 250 Million Customer Service Records Exposed Online: Microsoft has admitted it exposed nearly 250 million customer service records owing to “misconfiguration of an internal customer support database” used for tracking support cases that included logs of conversations between Microsoft support agents and customers from all over the world. All of the Microsoft…

Apple iCloud Backups: How Much of Your iPhone Data Is End-to-End Encrypted and What About Android Backups?: Apple’s iCloud backups feature has found itself under spotlight today. According to a report, the Cupertino, California-based company had planned to enable end-to-end encryption for the iPhone and iPad cloud backups back in 2018 but it dropped the…

Excessive Internet Use Reduces Motivation to Study in Students, Researchers Say: Students who use digital technology excessively are less motivated to engage with their studies, and are more anxious about exam tests, according to a new research. This effect was made worse by the increased feelings of loneliness that use of digital technology produced, said…

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Backs Temporary Ban on Facial-Recognition, Microsoft Disagrees: The EU’s proposal for a temporary ban on facial-recognition technology won backing from Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Monday but got a cool response from Microsoft President Brad Smith. While Pichai cited the possibility that the technology could be used for nefarious purposes…

Microsoft Says Will Fix Internet Explorer Security Flaw Under Active Attack: Microsoft has confirmed a security flaw affecting Internet Explorer is currently being used by hackers and it is working on a fix, to be released at a later date. The vulnerability was first reported by US Homeland Security on Friday evening, although the issue…

Apple TV+ Announces, Renews, and Unveils Release Dates for Eight Series in Total: Apple TV+ had a busy Sunday as it announced one new series, renewed two shows, and unveiled release dates for five more. From executive producer Steven Spielberg, anthology series Amazing Stories arrives March 6. Chris Evans-starrer thriller Defending Jacob will premiere April…

Airtel, Google Cloud Partner With Aim to Boost Productivity and Digital Transformation in India: Bharti Airtel and Google Cloud on Monday collaborated to boost productivity and digital transformation in India and cater to the evolving needs of millions of Indian businesses in a rapidly digitising economy. Beginning Monday, Airtel will offer G Suite to small…

McAfee Hires New CEO Peter Leav to Replace Chris Young: McAfee told Reuters on Thursday it has hired Peter Leav, the former CEO of BMC Software, as its new CEO, replacing Chris Young, who created the cyber-security company in its current form by carving it out of Intel four years ago. The move gives McAfee…

Google’s New Online Coding Course to Train in Python, Git, and IT Automation: The US based tech Google has introduced a new “Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate” a program which is designed to provide job-ready skills in Python, Git and IT automation in under six months. “Python is now the most in-demand programming…

Wikipedia Block in Turkey Lifted After More Than 2 Years: Turkey on Wednesday lifted its more than two-year ban on accessing Wikipedia, weeks after the country’s highest court ruled that the block violated freedom of expression. Turkey blocked Wikipedia in April 2017, accusing it of being part of a “smear campaign” against the country, after…

UC Browser Launches UC Drive in India, Offers 20GB Free Storage: UC Browser, part of the Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group, has announced it is offering 20GB free storage via its in-app Cloud storage service for Indian individual users, UC Drive. Users will have to sign up for UC Drive from within the UC…