Technology

The main event has arrived. On Wednesday, and for the first time as a group, the CEOs of four of the biggest technology companies — Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc. —  will go before a U.S. House subcommittee to address allegations of monopolistic practices and abusing the power of their platforms to crush or stifle competitors. Each of the giants is vulnerable in its own way. Apple, for instance, has come under an increasing scrutiny for the onerous terms of its App Store, which has become a…

Google is preparing for the  big update to its cloud-based gaming platform and it plans for optimise Stadia for mobile networks such as 4G and 5G. This essentially means users can now play Stadia games on-the-go without requiring a Wi-Fi connection. For now, the feature is still experimental. Interested users can be opt-in for the new Stadia Experiment. To do so, go to your Stadia app and then tap on your avatar on the top right corner. Choose Experiments and then select Use Mobile Data. Google’s cloud-based Stadia had launched in…

New Delhi: Believe it or not, a lot of firms as they are still reliant on dated tools for monitoring. For instance, CCTVs are pretty much common at factories, workplaces and other industries. You can easily visualise a big room with multiple monitors keeping a tab on things. And this has been around for years. The vast amount of this data generally goes unused and barely gives any leverage. Delhi-based Wobot.ai is trying to resolve this big gap with ‘smarter video analytics solutions’ that leverages cutting edge technologies such as…

Indian alternatives to Chinese apps are seeing a surge in downloads after the government that banned 59 from the neighbouring country following the Galwan standoff Sankalp R Nag felt it was his nationalistic duty to switch to Indian apps after the border face-off between India and China in Galwan Valley in June. The government’s announcement to ban 59 Chinese apps immediately after the standoff only the reinforced his belief. Nag, who runs a gems and jewels shop in Zaveri Bazar, South Mumbai, uninstalled TikTok, where he would occasionally upload videos,…

Australia’s competition regulator has launched the court proceedings against Alphabet’s Google for allegedly misleading consumers about the expanded use of personal data for targeted advertising. The case by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in Federal Court said that Google did not explicitly get consent nor properly to inform consumers about a 2016 move to combine personal information in Google accounts with activities on non-Google websites that use its technology. The regulator said that this practice allowed the Alphabet Inc unit to link the names and other ways to…

Google’s advantage over third-party Android developers might be extending the above and beyond just building apps for an OS it owns, According to reports, Google has been collecting and studying usage data from competing apps to help develop its own apps better. Reports by The Information (via MSPowerUser) claims that anonymised, user-consented data collected from third-party apps is stored in the Android Lockbox service. Google says that this service primarily works to power features like background app management etc. Google also noted that all this data is freely available to app developers…

Hopes that the rise in average of global temperatures by 2100 might be capped by below 2.5-degree Celsius can be all but ruled out if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, new research reassessing the atmosphere’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide(CO2) suggests. The study, under the Geneva-based World Climate Research Program, offers the first clear progress in decades toward narrowing the range of temperature rise caused by doubling of carbon dioxide levels since pre-industrial times. Its findings show that doubling would trigger 2.6 to 4.1 degrees Celsius in average…