Mariah Carey's Twitter Account Hacked: Offensive Posts, Racial Slurs Posted

The hackers claimed to be The Chuckling Squad, also broke into the account of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and actress Chloe Grace Moretz.

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TikTok Transparency Report: India Logged Maximum Interventions To Take Down Content

From India, as many as 107 legal requests were sent to TikTok, of which 8 were categorized as emergency requests.

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TikTok Transparency Report: Government is Watching Everything You Are Sharing

From India, as many as 107 legal requests were sent to TikTok, of which 8 were categorized as emergency requests.

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If The FASTag For Your Car Is Not Read by Scanners at Toll Plazas, Your Trip is Free

As of December 15, the government says that 1.15 crore FASTags have been issued.

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Google Doodle Rings in New Year with Froggy Pondering over Resolutions 2020

The New Year's special Google doodle has Froggy seated on a high-rise watching the skyline and the magnificent and symbolic sunrise signifying the dawn of a new morning.

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Twitter System 'Outage' Briefly Blocked Trump Whistleblower Tweet

A tweet from US President Donald Trump that identified an intelligence analyst as the alleged whistleblower who helped spark his impeachment was temporarily blocked at the weekend, with Twitter blaming an outage that affected a number of user accounts.

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Apple accused of crackdown on jailbreaking

The tech giant has filed a copyright infringement claim against software company Corellium.

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Brazil Fines Facebook $1.6 Million for Improper Sharing of User Data

Brazil's Ministry of Justice said on Monday it fined US tech giant Facebook BRL 6.6 million ($1.6 million) for improperly sharing user data.

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Best Budget Phones Under Rs 20,000 in 2019: Redmi Note 8 Pro, Realme X2, Nokia 7.2

We list the best affordable smartphones that we saw in the year 2019.

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Sonos in bricked speaker 'recycling' row

Customers who recycle old speakers qualify for a 30% discount on new products but there is a catch.

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Samsung May Unveil 'Zero Bezel TV' at CES 2020: Report

According to rumours, Samsung has managed to crack the engineering formula behind TVs with no frames, and is set to mass produce it as early as February 2020.

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WhatsApp to Stop Working on These Smartphones After December 31

Keep reading to find out if your smartphone is on the list.

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Huawei P40 Pro Renders Reveal Full Curved Display, Penta Camera Layout

The Huawei P40 Pro is expected to feature commendable flagship specifications, but with the key lack of Google's Play Services.

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Nokia 4.2 Receives Price Cut:, Now Available at Rs 6,795 on Amazon India

The Nokia 4.2 has a dual rear camera setup, an 8-megapixel selfie camera and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 SoC.

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Government Launches Web Portal to Report, Lock and Unlock Your Lost Phone Online

The initiative was launched in Mumbai in September this year, and has been rolled out for Delhi-NCR now.

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Samsung Galaxy S20 in 2020? New Leak Suggests a Big Leap from Galaxy S11

The Samsung Galaxy S11 was expected to be Samsung's flagship for 2020, but a new leak suggests that it may very well be the Galaxy S20 lineup.

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Xiaomi Mi Watch Color With Circular Display Set for Launch on January 3

Xiaomi's new Mi Watch Color will be available in three colours: silver, gold and black, and will have multiple colour bands.

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Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite Leaked User Manual Reveals New Design, Features

Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite will most likely have center aligned punch-hole selfie camera, and a rear triple camera system positioned vertically.

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Happy New Year 2020 Stickers: How to Find, Create, Share New Year Greetings on WhatsApp

Looking for WhatsApp Happy New year 2020 stickers to wish family and friends? There are host of sticker pack options to bring in 2020 creatively, and wish friends and family in a spirited and colourful manner.

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Airtel Happy Holidays Offer: Get a Chance to Win an iPhone 11 Pro Max

The promotional offer is available for Airtel customers and is limited to Android device users only.

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Realme Developing Fast Charging Technology Called 'SuperDart'

Realme could simply rebrand Oppo's VOOC 4.0 and Super VOOC fast charging systems and use them in its upcoming smartphones in 2020 as Dart and SuperDart systems.

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Year in Review: Microsoft in 2019 Was All About Microsoft in 2020

It wasn’t the smoothest year for Microsoft, but the groundwork seems to be in place for a solid showing in 2020.

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WhatsApp for Windows Phone Will No Longer Be Officially Supported After Today

WhatsApp will withdraw support for all Windows Phone operating system starting today, December 31. The instant messaging app is also set to leave support for the devices running Android version 2.3.7 and older alongside the iPhone models running iOS 8 and older from February 1, 2020.

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Huawei Gets The Green Light For 5G Trials in India

Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that the government will allow all market players to perform 5G trials in India.

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Government to Offer 5G Spectrum for Trial to All Players: Ravi Shankar Prasad

This essentially means that Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and Huawei will now get to perform 5G trials in India, however this does not assure an approval for commercial roll out

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Netflix Says 70 Percent Users in India Watch At Least One Film a Week

As 2019 comes to an end, Netflix announced the list of most popular titles of 2019 in India.

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Facebook Disables Some Misleading Ads on HIV Prevention Drugs, Responding to Growing Outcry

Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention medication, responding to a deluge of activists, health experts and government regulators who said the tech giant had created the conditions for a public-health crisis.

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Facebook Fined $1.65 Million by Brazil for 'Abusive Practice'

That application collected personal data from millions of Facebook users worldwide, which were then transferred to British consultancy Cambridge Analytica and used without consent in political campaigns.

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Tech 2019: Our biggest technology stories

Social media scandals dominate the list of the most-read news stories by the Tech desk this year.

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With 'Tornado Beer' and Brick-Breaking, Chinese Villager Becomes Twitter Sensation

Hebei Pangzai's real name is Liu Shichao. The odd job labourer hails from Zhengyuansi, a nondescript village where everyone knows everyone.

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Airtel Raises Minimum Monthly Recharge for Prepaid Users

The minimum recharge cost for Airtel prepaid users has been increased by Rs 10.

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Actress Sharon Stone blocked from dating app Bumble

Bumble told her it had received several reports that her profile was fake.

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Data Leak Exposes Personal Information of Over 2.4 Million Wyze Users

Although Wyze said that there was no evidence that login tokens had been exposed, it still signed out all users to generate new tokens.

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Realme X50 5G Specifications Leaked Ahead of January 7 Release

Realme's X50 5G smartphone will be powered by the Snapdragon 765G SoC, and come with a 64-megapixel Samsung GW1 sensor and a 4,500 mAh battery.

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Year in Review: Gene Therapy Technology and a Milestone 2019 for Medical Research

While still nascent, gene therapy and the technology of editing genes can be pivotal in curing diseases that have so far been impossible for medical science.

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California Sets Precedent for Personal Data Privacy: Will This Impact Other Nations?

The new data privacy laws in California strengthens how common individuals can control their data, setting new precedent for other nations to follow.

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Google Testing Floating Conversation Bubbles in Messages App, May Launch Soon

The feature works much like Facebook Messenger's chat heads, bringing up a floating bubble for ongoing conversations.

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Oppo F15 Launch in India Confirmed for January 2020, May Cost About Rs 20,000

The Oppo F15 will likely be the company's first smartphone to launch in India in 2020, and may come with up to four rear cameras.

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Tesla delivers its first 'Made in China' cars

The move by the electric car maker comes as the US-China trade war forces firms to rethink supply chains.

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New Year Honours: Publication of addresses a 'complete disaster'

Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls the breach "concerning" for police officers affected.

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Student loans: Online accounts to undergo overhaul in 2020

The government says a new online service will offer graduates more up-to-date balance information.

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Pope Francis: It's good to talk, but not on mobiles

The pope cited Jesus, Mary and Joseph as an example of a family with good communication skills.

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Hydrogen-powered drones could point way to future travel

Hydrogen-powered drones have several advantages to lithium ion-powered ones, says Dr Enass Abo-Hamed.

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Hunting the missing millions from collapsed cryptocurrency

On the trail of almost half a billion dollars lost when the Wex exchange collapsed in 2018.

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Apple iPad Pro 2020 to Feature iPhone 11 Pro-Like Triple Rear Camera

As per the leaked images, the upcoming 2020 iPad Pro will also have rounded corners and slim bezels.

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LG G8X ThinQ Dual Screen Review: The Worst Phone of 2019, And Nothing Comes Close

To summarize the LG G8X ThinQ Dual Screen, we really don’t want a heavy phone, half-baked software, uninspiring design and pretense of being a premium phone.

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Vivo S1 Pro Set for Mid-January Launch in India: Here's What We Know So Far

The Vivo S1 Pro is likely to be priced at Rs 19,990 for the base variant and will come with a 32-megapixel selfie camera, 4,500mAh battery and Snapdragon 665 SoC.

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Apple Sued by Cardiologist For Infringing Atrial Fibrillation Tech Patent

Dr Joseph Wiesel was awarded a patent in 2006 for photoplethysmography, which is the same technique used by the Apple Watch to detect atrial fibrillation.

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Google Pixel 4a Early Renders Reveal Punch-Hole Display, Single Rear Camera

First renders of the upcoming Google Pixel 4a have emerged hinting a punch-hole display design.

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Twitter System 'Outage' Briefly Blocked Trump Whistleblower Tweet

A tweet from US President Donald Trump that identified an intelligence analyst as the alleged whistleblower who helped spark his impeachment was temporarily blocked at the weekend, with Twitter blaming an outage that affected a number of user accounts.

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Year in Review: Tech Will Improve Sneakers, But it Will Not be Without Controversy

There were Self-lacing sneakers, blockchain powered shoes, retro sneakers and much more on the menu for sneakerheads in 2019.

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'Visible to Some...': Twitter Briefly Blocks Trump's Whistleblower Tweet, Blames 'Outage' in System

In recent days, Trump shared an unsubstantiated media report and a second post that appeared to name the intelligence community member.

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Year in Review: Apple Held Tradition Close As It Navigated Unchartered Waters

Apple’s market cap is around $1.26 trillion. And that isn’t only because it sold a lot of iPhones.

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YouTube Introduces New Tools to Help Creators Deal With Copyright Claims

YouTube has updated its Studio Dashboard so that users can now have a clearer view of which videos contain copyrighted material and have the option to quickly removing the offending sections.

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50 Moments That Defined Tech This Decade

Between 2010 and 2019, we’ve seen an enormous number of technological reforms that have changed the way we live today. We are, here, covering a total of 50 distinct events in the technology world that changed our life trajectory.

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WhatsApp Delete Messages Feature to Work as a Group ‘Cleaning Tool’, App’s Latest Beta for iPhone Suggests

WABetaInfo discovered that the Delete Messages feature will work as sort of a cleaning tool for group chats. Only admins can enable or disable it, and ascertain the time frame as to when the messages should be deleted. This will help clean old messages automatically, and help save phone storage.

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Instagram's Decade: It Changed How Brands Sell and Shoppers Buy

Instagram has played a crucial role in altering both the look and nature of products people buy and the physical spaces where they shop.

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The Decade's Biggest Technology Disappointments

In 2010, we were excited about new iPhones and finding old friends on Facebook, not fretting about our digital privacy or social media's threat to democracy. Now we are wondering how to rein in the largest companies in the world and reckoning with wanting innovation to be both fast and responsible.

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New Year Honours: 1,000 addresses published in error

The government admits accidentally uploading a list of addresses including that of Sir Elton John.

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Samsung Galaxy S11 Plus to Feature Four Rear Cameras: Report

The Galaxy S11 Plus is said to feature a 108-megapixel primary camera module, with 9-pixel bayer array.

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WhatsApp Disappearing Messages is a New Feature Being Tested in Beta

With the new feature, messages on WhatsApp groups can be sent for specific durations, before they are automatically deleted.

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OnePlus 8 Pro Could be Launched by Year-End as Company Gets Dual-Mode 5G Certified

OnePlus is expected to launch three phones in the line-up, including OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro, and OnePlus 8 Lite.

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Android 11 Will Record Videos Larger than 4GB in One Clip

Google is updating Android’s media classes to remove the 32-bit file size limitation to compose files larger than 4GB.

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Nokia 6.2 Receives December Security Patch with Latest Android 9 Update

Nokia 6.2's December 2019 security patch has significant changes, fixing critical security vulnerabilies in the Media framework.

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Year in Review: Tech Companies Want to Get Inside Your Wallet, For Your Data

Google, Apple, Paytm, Amazon and Facebook are all eyeing financial services as the next frontier. It is the priceless financial data which is quite attractive.

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Social Media Platforms That Thrived (or Died) in the Decade Past

While some social media platforms succumbed under pressure, TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp have gained unimaginable heights. We list big social media networking platforms that have launched and reigned in the last decade, and a list of platforms that succumbed under pressure.

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Oppo Reno 3, Reno 3 Pro Launched in China: Price, Specifications and More

Both of Oppo's latest smartphones come powered with dual-mode 5G support, and sport quad cameras at the rear.

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Apple 'hacker' spared jail over iCloud blackmail

A 22-year-old Londoner admits trying to blackmail Apple by threatening to wipe iCloud accounts.

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YouTube admits error over Bitcoin video purge

The video-sharing platform says a crackdown on crypto-currency videos and channels was a mistake.

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50 Moments That Defined Tech This Decade

Between 2010 and 2019, we’ve seen an enormous number of technological reforms that have changed the way we live today. We are, here, covering a total of 50 distinct events in the technology world that changed our life trajectory.

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Not Galaxy S11, But Galaxy S20 Could be Samsung’s Next Flagship Lineup

Samsung could name its next flagship smartphone series releasing in 2020 the Galaxy S20 instead of the expected Galaxy S11.

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Realme X50 Battery Could Last for More Than Two Days

Realme X50 has the Snapdragon 765G making use of the 7nm process which could be one of the reasons behind the long battery life.

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Samsung Galaxy S11+, Galaxy S11, S11e Screen Protectors Reveal Slim Top and Bottom Bezels

The Samsung Galaxy S11+ is expected to come powered with a massive 5,000mAh capacity battery and 108-Megapixel camera.

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PUBG Mobile Update Brings Combination of Payload and War Mode

Payload x War Mode is the latest addition of PUBG Mobile adding to the numerous game modes available on the popular mobile game.

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PUBG Mobile: Everything You Need to Know About Payload x War Mode

Payload x War Mode is the latest addition of PUBG Mobile adding to the numerous game modes available on the popular mobile game.

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WhatsApp Delete Messages Feature to Work as a Group ‘Cleaning Tool’, App’s Latest Beta for iPhone Suggests

WABetaInfo discovered that the Delete Messages feature will work as sort of a cleaning tool for group chats. Only admins can enable or disable it, and ascertain the time frame as to when the messages should be deleted. This will help clean old messages automatically, and help save phone storage.

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Speedtest App Gets VPN Service on iOS, Android Devices

While the service is being offered free of cost as of now, the company has said that it plans to introduce paid tiers once beta testing is completed.

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Xiaomi is Recruiting MIUI 11 Testers in India: Here's How You Can Apply

Xiaomi will recruit candidates on a first come first serve basis till December 29. Read more to find out how to apply and if you're eligible.

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