Facing a massive controversy over the proliferation of child pornography on its platform in India, Twitter said that it banned 57,643 accounts in the country for promoting child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and allied content between July 26 and August 25.Earlier this week, Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal had said the replies received from Twitter in the child pornography complaints were incomplete and the Commission was not satisfied with them.Maliwal had on September 20 summoned Twitter India Policy Head and Delhi Police over tweets depicting child pornography and rape videos of women and children on the micro-blogging platform.

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The ongoing Amazon Great Indian Festival sale comes with discounts on a range of electronics items and these include computer peripherals like keyboards and mice also. Here are some of the deals on keyboard and mouse combos under Rs 1,000.110​HP USB Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo: Available at Rs 998 after a discount of Rs 1001This wireless keyboard and mouse combo has a 2.4GHz wireless range of about 10 metres, claims the company. The keyboard has a spill-resistant design with a brush metal finish.

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Ethereum, the blockchain that underpins the world's second-largest crypto token ether, underwent a major software upgrade that slashes the amount of energy needed to create new coins and carry out transactions. Here's what you need to know about the "Merge" as the shift is known. What is Ethereum?Like other blockchains, Ethereum is essentially a digital database shared across a network of computers. It records ownership of the cryptocurrency ether, and other Ethereum-based digital assets such as non-fungible tokens.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX has made it to Antarctica and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is testing one of its Starlink internet terminals at one of the most exteme locations in the world.The McMurdo Station at Antartica has nearly 1,000 people living and working there during the summer and they already have satellite internet which is not reliable in rough conditions.There is currently a 17 Mbps link for everone, according to the United States Antarctic Programme. But with Starlink, the internet service will be better and not patchy like earlier.

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Google Docs comes as a handy app which allows you to create documents with tables, charts, hyperlinks, YouTube videos, images, and more. It's also a great application for collaboration, but downloading images that have been added to the document is more challenging when needed. When you right-click on a selected image in Google Docs, the "Save image as" option is not available because the image is in editing mode. Unfortunately, there is no way to select and download a few images straight from a document.

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Mining conglomerate Vedanta and Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn will make one of the largest ever investments of Rs 1.54 lakh crore in setting up India's first semiconductor plant in Gujarat. The 60:40 joint venture of Vedanta-Foxconn will set up a semiconductor fab unit, a display fab unit, and a semiconductor assembling and testing unit on a 1000-acre land in the Ahmedabad district. "The plant will start production in two years," Vedanta chairman Anil Agarwal said after signing the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat government.

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Elon Musk said his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures whether user accounts are 'spam bots' or real people. The billionaire and Tesla CEO have been trying to back out of his April agreement to buy the social media company, leading Twitter to sue him last month to complete the acquisition. Musk countersued, accusing Twitter of misleading his team about the true size of its user base and other problems he said amounted to fraud and breach of contract.

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Apple will start rolling out its latest operating system -- iOS16 -- for iPhones starting today (September 12). The update will be available to download to all users with compatible iPhones from 10:30pm today via Over-the-Air (OTA) update. iOS 16: Key featuresiOS16 brings several new features and improvements to iPhones which include lock screen customisations, ability to unsend and edit sent text messages, intelligent cropping for photos, battery percentage indicator and more. How to get the iOS 16 updateAs mentioned, iOS 16 update will be rolled out via Over-the-Air update.

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The Delhi High Court has held that WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy places its users in a "take it or leave it" situation, virtually forcing them into an agreement by providing a "mirage" of choices and then sharing their sensitive data with its parent company, Facebook. The high court's verdict came while dismissing the appeals of WhatsApp and Facebook against an order rejecting their challenge to a probe ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into the instant messaging platform's updated privacy policy as of 2021.

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A court filing showed that Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, access the private data of users. The financial terms were not disclosed in the filing that asked the judge to put the class action on hold for 60 days until the lawyers for both plaintiffs and Facebook finalized a written settlement. The four-year-old lawsuit alleged that Facebook violated consumer privacy laws by sharing personal data of users with third parties such as the now-defunct British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

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The combined market valuation of three of the 10 most valued domestic firms fell by Rs 1,22,852.25 crore last week, with Reliance Industries emerging as the biggest laggard. IT majors Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys were the other two blue chips that faced erosion from their valuation. In contrast, HDFC Bank, Hindustan Unilever, ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, HDFC, Bajaj Finance and Adani Transmission were the gainers. Their combined gain was Rs 62,221.63 crore. During the holiday-shortened week, the BSE benchmark Sensex dipped 30.

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Britain's antitrust regulator said Microsoft Corp's $69 billion acquisition of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard could harm competition in gaming consoles, subscription services and cloud gaming, and it needs to be investigated in depth. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the deal, the largest ever in gaming, could damage the industry if Microsoft refused to give competitors access to Activision's best-selling games. "We are concerned that Microsoft could use its control over popular games like 'Call of Duty' and 'World of Warcraft' post-merger to harm rivals, including recent and future rivals in multi-game subscription services and cloud gaming," the CMA said.

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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the new software lab of IBM, a state-of-the-art global innovation centre, at Brigade World Trade Centre inside the Infopark here. The centre will focus on product engineering, design, and development of new products and solutions in the areas of data, AI, and automation and collaborate with the technology eco-system in the region to co-create solutions for the global industry. Vijayan said the investment made by the IBM shows that Kerala's IT hub have the greenest IT spaces and a talent pool of IT professionals.

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TikTok, the Chinese short-form video app, has announced it will roll out its comment dislike button to all users globally.TikTok began testing the feature back in April to help people identify comments they believe to be irrelevant or inappropriate."After some testing, we're releasing it globally. The total number of dislikes a comment has will not be shown and people can take back their feedback by tapping again whenever they like," the company said in a statement.TikTok says its main priority with this tool is to create a better experience for the users.

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After scrapping the $44-billion Twitter deal over the presence of fake/spam accounts, Tesla chief executive officer (CEO) Elon Musk on Sunday questioned the company's way of measuring its user base, which it uniquely calls "monetisable daily active users" (mDAUs).In 2019, Twitter for the first time used the word mDAU, saying it believes that monetisable DAU, and its related growth, "are the best ways to measure our success".Monetisable DAU are users who log in and access Twitter on any given day through twitter.

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The United States on Friday adopted new export controls on technologies that support the production of advanced semiconductors and gas turbine engines that it said are critical to its national security. The "emerging and foundational technologies" covered by the move include gallium oxide and diamond, because "devices that utilize these materials have significantly increased military potential," the Commerce Department said. "Technological advancements that allow technologies like semiconductors and engines to operate faster, more efficiently, longer, and in more severe conditions can be game changers in both the commercial and military context," said Commerce Under Secretary for Industry and Security Alan Estevez.

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The Amazon Great Indian Festival is live in India. The e-commerce platform is giving away some amazing discounts on smart geysers from Havells, Haier and others. If you are planning to buy smart geysers before winter arrives, then this is the right time for you. Read more. 110Havells Adonia 15 litres smart storage water heater: Available at Rs 14,499 after a discount of Rs 9,366The geyser is an IoT-enabled smart water heater and is compatible with iOS and Android smartphones. It has Alexa and Google home connectivity with enabled Voice commands.

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The Amazon Diwali sale is now live for the third day and is offering great discounts on several products. Here is a list of 15 TWS earbuds from top brands including Samsung, Sony, JBL and others that are available with more than 50% discount. Check out the options here if you are looking for a new pair of TWS earbuds to liven up this festive season.115​JBL Live Pro+: Available for Rs 7,499 at 56% discount (original price Rs 9,500)The JBL Live Pro+ works with the JBL headphones app. These TWS earbuds have a 6-mic setup and feature ANC.

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Mario Draghi's outgoing government and Intel have picked the town of Vigasio in the northeastern Veneto region as their preferred site for a new multibillion-euro chip factory in Italy, two people familiar with the matter said. Intel's investment in Italy is part of a wider plan announced by the US chipmaker last March to invest as much as 80 billion euros ($77.5 billion) over the next decade in building capacity across Europe. With an initial investment worth some 4.5 billion euros expected to rise over time, Intel has said the Italian plant would create 1,500 jobs plus an additional 3,500 jobs across suppliers and partners, with operations to start between 2025 and 2027.

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The Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), which owns Holiday Inn, was the target of a destructive cyberattack by hackers who claimed they did it "for fun".According to the BBC, the IHG identified as a couple from Vietnam and claim that after attempting a ransomware assault, which was unsuccessful, the duo erased a significant amount of data.The hackers accessed the FTSE 100 firm's databases and quickly found that the password was Qwerty1234.The hackers, calling themselves TeaPea, contacted the BBC on the encrypted messaging app, Telegram, providing screenshots as evidence that they had carried out the hack.

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New Delhi: The mass production of chip-maker Intels next big flagship processor Meteor Lake is expected to be delayed until 2024, a report has said.According to TrendForce research, Intel plans to outsource the tGPU chipset in Meteor Lake to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for manufacture. "Mass production of this product was initially planned for 2H22 but was later postponed to 1H23 due to product design and process verification issues," the report mentioned. Recently, the product's mass production schedule has been postponed again to the end of 2023 for some reason, "completely cancelling 3nm production capacity originally booked in 2023 with only a marginal amount of wafer input remaining for engineering verification".

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Leading edtech platform Unacademy launched 50 new education channels on Google-owned YouTube.Some of these new channels have existing content categories from Unacademy, along with new areas such as 'Tick Tock Tax'-- to simplify the direct and indirect tax concepts, and Life After IIT -- a platform to crack JEE and discuss success stories of top Rankers."We are strengthening our commitment towards democratising education and presenting a strong content strategy for learners who are seeking knowledge in unique and exciting ways," said Vivek Sinha, Chief Operating Officer, Unacademy.

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Does Instagram know where you are? Yes, every other social media app knows your location, but that does not mean every user on the app knows it too.Recently a user on Instagram made a post saying 'people could find your exact location from Instagram,' after a new update on iOS that enabled precise location sharing for the app. The same post goes on to further claim that some individuals are using the location to target people who have shared their "precise location" to stalk them.So far, there have been no reports of such incidents because it is just a hoax.

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is a feature on smartphones, which provides accessible captions for every audio file played by the device. Whether or not your device's volume is turned up, it will display text for any audio that is played when Live Captions are enabled. Only mobile devices running Android 10 and later versions of the Android OS have access to the Live Captions feature. Enabling and disabling Live Captions 1. Touch the volume up or low button of your Android phone. 2. Tap on the text button located under the volume slider to turn the Live Captions on or off.

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Popular video streaming platform Netflix and Ubisoft announced they have partnered to create three mobile games from some of the game franchises for Netflix, starting in 2023.The three games will expand on the Valiant Hearts, Mighty Quest and Assassin's Creed universes and will be available exclusively on mobile to Netflix members worldwide with no ads or in-app purchases.Roaming IoT data to match 165 million 4K Netflix streaming hours in 5 years"We are thrilled to work with Ubisoft, whose track record creating memorable worlds for fans is unmatched," Mike Verdu, Vice President of Games, Netflix, said in a statement.

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This week, Apple announced the 'Far Out' event for the new iPhone 14 series and other products. Sony has increased prices for the PS5 in some regions, and also confirmed the arrival of PS VR2. Meanwhile, Fitbit has unveiled new products this week. All this and more in our top tech news of the week.110410510810

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Reliance's Annual General Meet 2021 saw the announcement of JioPhone Next, the company's first phone powered by an optimised version of Android OS jointly developed by Jio and Google. "Therefore, an ultra-affordable 4G smartphone is essential to make India '2G-mukt'. Last year, Sundar and I had talked about Google and JIO co-developing a next-generation, feature-rich, but extremely affordable smartphone, aimed at providing first-time internet access for 2G users. Today, I am pleased to announce that Google and Jio teams have jointly developed a truly breakthrough Smartphone, that we are calling JioPhoneNext.

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Beijing and Washington took a major step towards ending a dispute that threatened to boot Chinese companies, including Alibaba, from US stock exchanges, signing a pact to allow US regulators to vet accounting firms in China and Hong Kong. US regulators have for more than a decade demanded access to audit papers of US-listed Chinese companies, but Beijing has been reluctant to let overseas regulators inspect its accounting firms, citing national security concerns.Baidu reveals its first quantum computer called Qianshi The deal marks a partial thaw in US-China relations amid tensions over Taiwan and will come as a relief for hundreds of Chinese companies, investors and US exchanges, giving China the chance to retain access to the world's deepest capital markets if it works in practice.

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Cyber-security researchers have successfully accessed Android and iOS smartphones remotely via charging cables, swiping touch screens without actually touching them.The smartphones they hacked from a distance were Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, Apple iPhone SE (2020) as well as devices from Huawei, LG, and Xiaomi.Security researchers from Zhejiang University in China and the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany demonstrated the first wired attack in those smartphones that creates ghost touches on capacitive touchscreens via charging cables, and can manipulate the victim devices with undesired consequences -- allowing malicious Bluetooth connections, accepting files with viruses, etc.

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CloseThe Apple iPhone 14 Pro could come with the classic battery percentage indicator that had the percentage level and the battery icon located side-by-side in the top corner of the display, as per a report by MacRumors, based on alleged mockups of the device from a source.The more clarity and ease you have in knowing what battery levels your phone stands at, the more comfortable you'll be using the phone, isn't it, considering it is the one thing in a smartphone that shouldn't make you go through several steps.

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