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...
Apple Using Qualcomm Modem For Satellite SOS In iPhone 14 Series
Apple is reportedly using Qualcomm modem and its own technology to provide satellite communications Emergency SOS feature on the new iPhone 14 series. The Emergency SOS feature in iPhone 14 series uses multiple components utilizing Qualcomm X65 modem processor, reports AppleInsider. Qualcomm’s X65 modem also...
Rockstar Games Confirms GTA 6 Footage Leak
Rockstar Games on Monday confirmed that it ‘suffered a network intrusion’ that resulted in the massive leak of 90 videos of Grand Theft Auto game 6, showcasing its engine, gameplay, and more from an early development build. The leak provided a glimpse into GTA 6...
Apple May Unveil iPhone 15 Ultra Next Year
Apple may rename the “Pro Max” lineup with “Ultra” which will arrive with 8K video and better battery life in 2023. According to GSMArena, the iPhone 15 Ultra will have some exclusive hardware. 8K video recording is one possibility, though it is also possible that...
YouTube Bringing New Video Page On Mobile And Web
YouTube is rolling out a new video page that tweaks several elements and, most notably, unifies the design across Android, iOS, and the web. According to 9To5Google, the highlight of this redesign is the use of pill-shaped buttons for key elements. For example, instead of...
Apple To Fix Shaky Footage Issue For iPhone 14 Pro Users
After several iPhone 14 Pro users complained that it is producing blurry and shaking footage, tech giant Apple has confirmed that a fix is set to arrive next week for this issue. The tech giant is aware of a bug that is causing the iPhone...
Musk-Twitter Battle: Jack Dorsey Set To Be Questioned In Court
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is set to be grilled in court in the ongoing legal battle between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Parag Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform. According to media reports citing court filings, Dorsey was set to be questioned by the attorneys from...
Twitter Makes It Easy For The Visually Impaired To Read Images
The microblogging site Twitter has rolled out a feature to help blind and visually-impaired people read images embedded with the tweets via its new image description reminder. The new image description reminder will encourage more people on Twitter to add helpful descriptions to the images...
