Google Rolls Out Tool To Let People Remove Personal Info Directly In Search
Google has started to roll out a new privacy feature that will allow people to directly make a request to remove Search results that contain their personal information. Google’s “Results about you” tool, announced during its annual developer conference earlier this year, is now rolling...
Twitter Discloses Bug That Left Users’ Account Logged In After Password Reset
The microblogging site Twitter has disclosed a bug that allowed accounts to stay logged in from multiple devices after a voluntary password reset, putting users’ data at potential hacking risk. The company said that it has fixed the bug that didn’t close all active logged-in...
What Is Email Spoofing & How To Protect Yourself ?
Email spoofing is the act of sending emails with a forged sender address. It tricks the recipient into thinking that someone they know or trust sent them the email. Usually, it’s a tool of a phishing attack, designed to take over your online accounts, send...
Electric Scooter Battery Fire Kills 8-Year-Old In US
Amid the fires and explosions in electric two-wheelers continue unabated, a new report has claimed that an 8-year-old girl died after an electric scooter battery sparked a fire in the US. According to the authorities, the death of Stephanie Villa Torres in New York City...
Facebook Aims To Help Creators Connect With Fans With New Features
Facebook has confirmed that it is now bringing new Pages features to help creators connect with their followers. The platform said that creators can spotlight each other with a Creator Endorsement by inviting their followers to follow another creator that they admire. “We are introducing...
Now Buy Train Tickets In Select Countries On Google Search
Google has announced a new feature that will allow users to buy train tickets in Search in select countries, which will be available in more countries soon. Users in Germany, Spain, Italy, and Japan can now shop for train tickets directly on Google Search, for...
Microsoft Rolls Out New Windows Update To Over 190 Countries
Microsoft has announced that it is now rolling out the latest version of Windows 11 — Windows 11 2022 update — in more than 190 countries. The company said the new update will expand Amazon App Store Preview to international markets, built-in Game Pass for...
Oracle Releases Java 19 To Help Users Create Innovative Apps
Cloud major Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19, the latest version of its programming language and development platform. The company said that Java 19 delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including enhancements to the platform that will help developers improve productivity...
Comedian Raju Srivastava Passes Away At The Age Of 58
Popular comedian Raju Srivastava passed away at the age of 58. The comedian took his last breath at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. Raju was admitted to AIIMS after he had a heart attack on August 10. Raju Srivastava...
Tesla Megapack Battery Fire Triggers Shelter-In-Place Advisory In The US
A Tesla Megapack battery caught fire in California state in the US, triggering a shelter-in-place advisory from the local authorities. The fire started at the local utility company PG&E’s Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California, in the morning hours on Tuesday as reported...
Fintech Major Revolut Confirms Hackers Exposed Data Of Customers
Hackers accessed the personal details of tens of thousands of customers at Revolut, the fintech company has confirmed. According to the breach disclosure to the State Data Protection Inspectorate in Lithuania, where Revolut has a banking license, at least 50,150 customers have been impacted, reports...
TikTok Sees Significant Growth In Daily News Consumption On Its Platform
TikTok is now becoming a key news source for its users and in the US, 33 percent of its users now regularly get their news on the short-video app, up from 22 percent in 2020. This TikTok rise in the daily news source business comes...
Nintendo To End Support For Account Logins Via Facebook & Twitter
Nintendo has announced that it will no longer be possible to link a Facebook or Twitter account to a Nintendo Account from October 25. The platform said that users will no longer be able to create a new Nintendo Account using a Facebook or Twitter...
YouTube To Let Creators Monetise Long-Form Videos With Licensed Music
YouTube has announced a new program that will allow creators to monetize their long-form videos with licensed music in 2023. The company has introduced ‘Creator Music’, which gives YouTube creators easy access to an ever-growing catalog of music for use in their long-form videos. “Creators...
American Airlines Confirms Data Breach Exposing Some Customers’ Info
American Airlines has confirmed a data breach that affected some of its customers’ data exposing names, birthdays, mailing and email addresses, phone, driver’s licenses,s and passport numbers, and “certain medical information”. The airline, however, said that it has no evidence to suggest that “your personal...
Hackers Steals $162 Million From Wintermute Crypto Market Maker
Wintermute has been hacked and lost $162.2 million in DeFi operations, the company CEO, Evgeny Gaevoy, announced earlier today. Wintermute is a leading global crypto market maker. We are partnering with the world’s best crypto exchanges and projects to provide liquidity. Wintermute provides liquidity to...
Apple Hikes App Store Prices In Europe, Some Asian Nations From Oct 5
Apple has announced to increase App Store prices across Europe and in some Asian countries from next month, as global currencies drop against the US dollar. The price increases will be effective on both in-app purchases and regular apps on App Store, starting October 5....
YouTube ‘Dislike’ And ‘Not Interested’ Buttons Fail To Protect Users: Mozilla Study
YouTube buttons like ‘not interested’, ‘dislike’, ‘stop recommending channel’, and ‘remove from watch history’ are ineffective at preventing similar content from being recommended and its user controls do not work for many people, researchers from Mozilla have discovered. The team from the developer of the...
Nearly One In 10 In US Report Having Depression: Study
Around one in 10 people in the US reported to have depression, the leading cause of disability around the world, in 2020, claims a new study. According to the study, to be published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, in 2020, in the past...
Nasa Lander ‘Hears’ First Impact Sounds Of Space Rocks On Mars
NASA’s InSight lander has detected impact sounds from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. It marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact have been detected on Mars. A new paper published in Nature Geoscience details the...
