Technology

Zoom became the platform of choice for most of people as the pandemic began since it had a whole bunch of great features on offer. But over time now, other video conferencing platforms, that have been around longer than Zoom, have been adding new features to their arsenal and catching up. The latest addition made to take it up with Zoom is a feature that Facebook added to its Messenger Rooms. While this may not do immediately mean more usage for the messaging platform, it does the translate to more engagement…

Large screen phones with display in sizes of above 6-inches have become pretty much standard nowadays. Some people, however, still look for a smaller form factor. There are not a lot of options unless you settle with the iPhone SE or older-gen Android phones. Now, a China-based firm has launched what is being touted as the world’s smallest 4G Android smartphone. Shanghai-based Unihertz has launched Jelly 2. The phone is the successor to Jelly, another small smartphone that launched in back in 2017. The company has a small lineup of…

Researchers from University of Warwick in the UK rediscovered the planet named NGTS-11b using the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) telescopes in Chile. The planet was its originally found in 2018 using data from NASA’s TESS telescope, which scans for a dip in light from the star to identify it as a planet. At the time, due to a 27-day scanning limitation of the TESS telescope, the star could not be identified. However, using the NGTS telescopes, researchers were successfully able to rediscover the NGTS-11b, which revolves around its star every…

Google joined Brand Indicators for Message Identification or BIMI in last year in a bid to develop technology to prevent email fraud. Now, the company is planning to introduce a new feature called authentication logos in GSuite that it would be  add brand logos to verified emails. As of now, when you get an email from a company, say Amazon about the delivery of a product or RedBus confirming about your bus journey, the email that you see in your mailbox generally contains the initials of the company’s name. When…

Amid the ongoing boundary dispute between India and China, DRDO has provided its indigenously-developed drone named Bharat to the Indian Army for carrying out accurate surveillance in high altitude areas and mountainous terrain along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh.”The Indian Army requires drones for accurate surveillance in the ongoing dispute in the Eastern Ladakh area. For this type of  requirement, the DRDO has provided the Bharat drones to it,” defence sources told ANI here. The Bharat drones have been developed by a Chandigarh-based laboratory of the Defence Research…

Google is working on a new feature on Chrome that it will prevent users from filling insecure forms. This upcoming Chrome flag will stop information submission on any form that Google considers ‘insecure’ and is going to help save users from phishing attacks or security breaches. First reported by Techdows, the upcoming flags is called ‘Disable Autofill for mixed forms’ and once turned on it will configure that the browser settings to stop information like email IDs, addresses etc from being auto-filled into forms hosted on an https site but…

Cloudflare suffered an outage on Friday, disrupting some parts of the internet. The company said that it is identified the problem and fixed it. Cloudflare provides important services for the internet to function, such as load balancing, security, domain registration and video streaming. When the company experiences technical snafus, that can reverberate across the web. “This afternoon we saw an outage across some parts of our networks. It was not as a result of an attack,” the company said in a blog post. “This incident has been resolved.” The problems…