Canon has unveiled its most important camera in years — the EOS R1 mirrorless. Launched alongside the 45-megapixel R5 II, it’s the company's new flagship designed to replace the 1DX Mark III DSLR and help Canon maintain its leadership in t…
Canon Europe (www.Canon-Europe.com) announces the launch of its highly anticipated flag bearers for the EOS R System – the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II, designed to take professional photography and videography to new levels. With unparal…
As Uber gears up for the summer travel season, the company announced Tuesday a new feature to ease the planning process for riders. The feature offers a convenient way for users to search for destinations in another city and reserve ride…
We’re less than a month away from the next Made by Google event, and we may already know what one of the marquee announcements will look like. TikTok user pixo_unpacking (via YTechB) posted videos over the weekend of apparent pre-productio…
The biggest updates coming to Apple’s iMessage and its Messages app in iOS 18 aren’t its AI emoji, Genmoji, or even the ability to send texts via satellite. It’s the ability to finally, finally schedule messages to send at a later date…
Kaspersky Labs will gradually wind down its U.S. operations from July 20, the Russian anti-virus software maker said on Monday, nearly a month after the Biden administration announced plans to bar sales of the company in the country.
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Now that it’s available, you can test-drive Apple’s iOS 18 public beta before the software’s official arrival this fall. Here’s everything you need to know about setting up the iOS 18 (along with iPadOS 18 and watchOS 11) beta.
First,…
India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market after China with around 750 million users, is struggling to get new smartphone buyers, as the average person in the country finds it hard to afford a brand-new smartphone.
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The retro PC game emulator UTM SE is now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro, marking the first time Apple has allowed a PC emulator for iOS onto its marketplace, per The Verge. UTM SE will let you run classic …
Google parent Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday, in a deal that would represent the technology giant's biggest acquisition ever.
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Global smartphone shipments rose 6.5% in the second quarter, driven by Samsung Electronics and Apple, preliminary data from IDC showed on Monday, but a full recovery in demand is yet to come around as it remained challenged in some markets…
Following years of talk around Apple’s lack of innovation when it comes to Siri, Apple has promised the launch of a smarter version of its digital assistant coming this fall. Siri is getting a slew of new features and updates thanks to…
Microsoft is preparing to enable Copilot in OneNote to read and analyze handwritten notes. The feature entered beta testing late last month, and will allow OneNote users to write handwritten notes using a stylus and then summarize them…
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The Amazfit Helio ring could be launched in India soon, likely during Prime Day sales.
The ring is made from Titanium alloy, comes in two sizes, and is expected to be priced at around 25,000 INR.
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Spotify is bridging the gap between podcasters and their listeners by launching a comment section for podcasts, which will start showing up on episodes today. Listeners can find the service's new comment section by scrolling past the pla…
WhatsApp now allows businesses to send authentication and login codes through its API to users in India. The company confirmed that it enabled this functionality in India starting July 1.
Meta introduced this ability for merchants to au…
Tesla is apparently not ready to reveal its “robotaxi” design next month, and is instead pushing the event to October, according to Bloomberg News.
The company reportedly needs more time to build the prototypes. It had been aiming for a…
Australia plans to introduce a law by the end of the year forcing internet companies to proactively stop hosting scams or face hefty fines, the top consumer regulator said on Friday, potentially setting up another showdown with Big Tech.
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YouTube is continuing its mission to compete with Instagram and TikTok. The platform has announced new features on Shorts, notably including an "Add yours" sticker. That's right, it seems to be pretty much the same tool that Instagram laun…
WhatsApp Business is changing its per-conversation rates for businesses — a conversation is a 24-hour thread between sellers and users. The company is reducing rates for utility messages and raising rates for marketing messages.
Meta …
Bytedance’s video editing app CapCut will stop offering free cloud storage to host creative assets starting August 5.
In the past few days, users have received notifications about Capcut changing its terms for the free tier. Until now…
Bytedance’s video editing app CapCut will stop offering free cloud storage to host creative assets starting August 5.
In the past few days, users have received notifications about Capcut changing its terms for the free tier. Until now…
PlayStation Stars is finally back online across the globe, but a number of players are complaining about missing points. The outage lasted nearly 1.5 months for folks in the Americas, who are finally getting the program back as we speak. I…
Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a surprising proportion of modern life would break down. So, why are they so hard to find?
The friends did their best to explain what they were looking for – a really c…
Meta announced on Wednesday that users aged 10 to 12 will soon be able to interact with others in VR if they have their parents’ approval to do so. Up until now, children were not able to chat or interact with other users on Quest.
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Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks. It’s the second such alert campaign from the company this year, following a similar notification…
With Spotify’s recent launch of comments on podcasts, the streamer is taking yet another step toward building a social networking experience in an app primarily known for music. With comments, podcasters can now engage with their listene…
Samsung events tend to be about as leaky as a 150-year-old faucet, so there weren't too many surprises coming out of the company's latest Unpacked event. As expected, the showcase shed more light on the Galaxy Ring, Samsung's latest foldab…
Few industries are moving faster than TMT. It is at the very heart of global innovation, driving technological, societal, and economic progress. One notable opportunity in the technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) industry is the…
Cloud architecture and capability are transforming the application development process and giving companies increased flexibility alongside a solid competitive advantage
The global cloud application market is anticipated to reach $365 b…
It’s rare to feel delighted by a phone in 2024, but that’s the Motorola Razr Plus, baby.
Sure, phones are amazing little computers. For $999, which is what the Razr Plus costs, they should be. But they’re mature products — tools rather …
Viruses have traditionally been named after the places or animals they have been first discovered in. Now scientists are trying to bring order to the chaos of virus naming.
In the final decades of the 16th Century, doctors began r…
Microsoft has dropped its seat as an observer on the board of OpenAI, less than eight months after securing the non-voting seat. Apple was reportedly planning to join OpenAI’s nonprofit board, but now the Financial Times reports that App…
Microsoft has announced big price rises for Game Pass, its Netflix-style subscription service for games.
The gaming giant, which purchased studio Activision Blizzard for a record $69bn (then £56bn) in 2023, says monthly charges for PC…
Samsung debuted the latest versions of its two foldable phones Wednesday at its Unpacked 2024 event. The Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 are thinner and lighter than their predecessors, whereas the Fold 6 delivers a long-awaited upda…
Du has announced the launch of the 'Future X' graduate trainee programme for UAE nationals. The scheme's principles are learning, innovation and adaptability and it provides graduates with skills for career progression and teaches tech-for…
Amazon has released an all-new version of its Echo Spot ahead of Prime Day, the company announced on Monday. The 2024 version of the Alexa-enabled smart alarm clock costs $79.99, but is currently on sale for $44.99 for Prime members.
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Poe, Quora’s subscription-based, cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, has launched a feature called Previews that lets people create interactive apps directly in chats with chatbots…
Solo founder Cat Jones took the plunge on setting up a travel business right around the time the pandemic was hitting Europe in March 2020. Fast-forward to summer 2024 and her curated package tour business, Byway, is announcing the close…
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has announced the launch of the Africa National Broadband Mapping Systems (AfricaBBMaps). The AfricaBBMaps scheme is backed by the European Commission and aims to establish broadband mapping …
Huawei Zambia has launched a smart village project in the southern district of Namwala, Huawei. It includes a communication tower and a solar system able to power numerous homes. At a launch event, Huawei also signed a Memorandum of Unders…
E& UAE has announced the launch of the GoLearning online education platform in the UAE. GoLearning offers more than 10,000 courses in professional and personal development topics through partnerships with global companies such as Coursera,…
Parental controls are offered by almost every popular media network, but many parents aren’t aware of them. Fewer than 10% of teens on Instagram had enabled parental control settings by the end of 2022 and only a single-digit percentage …
Chinese people around the world are being targeted by an elaborate scam in which criminals pretend to be Chinese police. A British-Chinese woman has told the BBC that she handed over her life savings to con men who wore uniforms in video…
The trend of media companies bringing games to their platforms has been unfolding in recent years.
In a world where user attention is increasingly competitive and attention spans are dwindling, streaming services and apps are looking…
We’re only one week away from Samsung’s next Unpacked event on July 10th, where we’re expecting the company’s Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 folding phones — but leaker Evan Blass has just revealed the entire spec sheets and marketing mate…
As more music streaming apps and creation tools emerge to compete for users’ attention, social music-sharing app Popster is getting two new features to grow its user base: an AI image generator for cover art and a collaboration capability …
Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models.
Some AI vendors, including Google, OpenAI and Apple, allo…
On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music from their videos without affecting any other audio such as dialog or sound effects.
YouTube chief Neal Mohan posted about t…
Proton Docs looks a lot like Google Docs: white pages, formatting toolbar at the top, live indicators showing who’s in the doc with their name attached to a cursor, the whole deal. That’s not especially surprising, for a couple of reason…