View Photos Germany’s motor vehicle authority (KBA) has told Volkswagen’s premium brand Audi that it faces penalties for its failure to remove illegal software from diesel cars that can manipulate emissions levels, the Bild am Sonntag (BamS) newspaper reported. BamS added that the KBA had told Audi in three lettersRead More →
Global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc is in talks with regulators over plans to expand into two West African countries and provide a boat service in Nigerian megacity Lagos, a company executive said on Thursday. In much of sub-Saharan Africa there are low levels of personal car ownership, rapidly expandingRead More →
In a bid to further allow users personalise their Windows 10 experience, software giant Microsoft on Monday launched smart phonetic keyboards for 10 Indian languages as part of its May 2019 update. The updated phonetic keyboards are now available in Hindi, Bangla, Tamil, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Odia, Telugu, Kannada, andRead More →
Google Chrome has been in the news for restricting ad blockers. The search giant last year proposed the Manifest V3 standard that is designed to replace the existing WebRequest API with the new DeclarativeNetRequest API to limit ad blocking capabilities of browser extensions. But now, a detailed blog postRead More →
Uber Technologies is testing a helicopter service in New York City, according to documents outlining the program obtained by Bloomberg. Passengers will be able to use the Uber app to book a flight through the service, called Uber Copter, the documents show. Tests flights took off from a Manhattan heliport near Wall StreetRead More →
Apple unveiled macOS 10.15 Catalina with a bunch of new features on Monday, and now it’s come to light that at least one feature might be going away. It has been spotted that the first developer beta version of the latest macOS iteration doesn’t include Dashboard. This, in otherRead More →
Swedish music streaming giant Spotify is testing a new feature called “Social Listening” that would let multiple users add songs and make playlists in real time. For now, the feature is being internally tested by Spotify employees. It remains unclear if the feature would roll out to its overRead More →
As many as 42.5 million records of users of different dating apps were found in a single Chinese database that doesn’t have a password protection, a security researcher has said. Jeremiah Fowler on May 25 discovered a non-password protected Elastic database that was clearly associated with dating apps based onRead More →
Popular news aggregator platform Flipboard has disclosed that its databases containing account information of certain users have been hacked. The data that was potentially downloaded several times over a nine-month period ending on April 22 included user credentials, the Palo Alto, California-based company revealed in an email sent toRead More →
OnePlus Camera app version 3.2.91 that is available pre-installed on the OnePlus 7 Pro has an offline Google Lens integration. There are also Customised modes that you can pick and choose — depending upon your requirements. Separately, the new OnePlus Gallery app version 3.2.7 that is also likely toRead More →