Technology

Tea, an app that lets women anonymously comment and review dates with men, said it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 user images. A Tea spokesperson confirmed the hack to Reuters on Saturday, saying they had detected “unauthorized access to our systems” and about 72,000 images had been exposed, including … Read more

U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life said on Saturday that hackers stole the personal information of the majority of its customers, financial professionals, and select Allianz Life employees in the United States. The insurance giant’s filing with Maine’s attorney general did not immediately provide the number of customers affected. As per the filing, the data breach, … Read more

Google’s Gemini app now has more than 450 million monthly active users (MAU) with daily usage of the AI chatbot app growing by more than 50 per cent from the previous quarter. These figures were revealed by Shekar Khosla, the vice president of marketing and site lead at Google India, in a post on LinkedIn … Read more

Fitness trackers were once popular among users, but now they are rarely seen on the market. The category has been largely replaced by smartwatches. However, when people realised how poor the quality of many smartwatches, especially those from local Indian brands, was, the market seemed to collapse. I have always wondered how and why people … Read more

Tesla sent robotaxi users a new terms-of-service agreement detailing its planned launch in California’s Bay Area, Business Insider reported citing a screenshot of the notification sent to users on Saturday. The notification said, “If your ride is taking place in California, it is being conducted with a safety driver using Full Self-Driving (Supervised) pursuant to … Read more

Meta Platforms will end political, election and social issue advertising on its platform in the EU in early October, blaming legal uncertainties due to new EU rules on political advertising, the U.S. social media company said on Friday. Meta’s announcement echoed Alphabet unit Google’s decision announced last November, underscoring Big Tech’s pushback against EU rules … Read more

Ever since AI has taken over the internet, millions of people, including children, have turned to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for therapy and emotional support. Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the tech industry is yet to figure out how to keep user data confidential when it comes to sensitive conversations. In a … Read more

Chinese Premier Li Qiang proposed on Saturday establishing a world artificial intelligence cooperation organisation, calling on countries to coordinate development and security of the fast-evolving technology. Speaking at the opening of the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Li called AI a new engine for growth but said governance is fragmented and emphasised the … Read more

Proton, the company that introduced the encrypted email service Proton Mail, has now unveiled an AI chatbot with focus on user privacy. Named Lumo, the chatbot can generate code, write email, summarise documents, and much more. Proton has dubbed its AI chatbot as an alternative to ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, etc. The AI chatbot preserves user … Read more

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network was back up and running on Friday as engineers hunted for the root cause of one of its biggest international outages the night before, a rare disruption for the powerful internet system set off by an internal software failure. Users in the U.S. and Europe began experiencing the outage at around … Read more