Takeaway Seals Victory in $8-Billion Just Eat Bidding War

Online food ordering company Takeaway.com has won the battle for Britain's Just Eat with a GBP 6.2 billion share offer that will create one of the world's largest meal delivery companies.

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CES 2020: Privacy, Once Hidden Topic, Gets Attention at Tech Show

Once a hidden and under-the-radar topic, privacy got more attention at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week. Startups now volunteer information about how they're securing your data and protecting your privacy when you use their heart rate monitor or cuddly robot.

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Google Parent Alphabet's Legal Head Leaving Amid Sexual Misconduct Troubles

Scrutiny centred on Drummond as the board last year investigated the company's handling of sexual misconduct complaints throughout its workforce.

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In Apple TV+’s Little America, Immigrants — Indian, Mexican, Iranian — Take Centre Stage

Our review of Little America, the Apple TV+ series that centres on immigrants from India and across the world. Kumail Nanjiani developed Little America, which has been inspired by true stories.

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Byju's to Add Tiger Global as Investor, Said to Raise $200 Million

Byju's, which offers a mobile app that tutors children, said on Friday is raising an undisclosed sum from US investment firm Tiger Global Management

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Google Details ‘Joker’ Malware That Plagued the Play Store, Claims It Removed 1,700 Apps

Traces of ‘Joker’ or ‘Bread’ malware family go back to 2017, wherein it first indulged in SMS fraud and later moved on to toll fraud after Google restricted use of SMS permission. Google claims that they have at some point used just about every cloaking and obfuscation technique under the sun in an attempt to go undetected.

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DuckDuckGo, Info.com Bid Big in Google Android Default Search Engine Auction in the EU

Google has announced that Android users in the 31 European Economic Area (EEA) countries will soon be able to choose their default search engine from four browsing options new smartphones or tablets.

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Hotstar: Captain Marvel, Glass, Alita: Battle Angel Among 8 Disney-Fox Movies in January

Hotstar has announced eight Disney and Fox movies that will release on its Premium platform in January, including Captain Marvel, Glass, Alita: Battle Angel, Dumbo, Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Aftermath, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and Mary Poppins Returns.

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Karan Johar’s What the Love! Dating Reality Series to Release January 30 on Netflix

Netflix has set a January 30 release date for What the Love! with Karan Johar, the dating reality show that will feature celebrity guests in the likes of Saif Ali Khan, Sunny Leone, Huma Qureshi, and Arjun Kapoor.

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Microsoft Project Artemis Looks to Detect Sex Predators in Video Game Chats

Microsoft says it has developed a technique to detect online predators who try to groom children for sexual purposes using the chat function in multiplayer video games.

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Google Urged by Over 50 Organisations Including DuckDuckGo to Take Action Against Android Vendors Offering Bloatware

More than 50 organisations in an open letter submitted to Google CEO Sundar Pichai have highlighted pre-installed apps aka bloatware on Android can come with “privileged custom permissions”.

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Zomato to Raise $150 Million From Alibaba's Ant Financial

Zomato is raising $150 million from investor Ant Financial, an Alibaba affiliate, at a valuation of $3 billion for the food delivery startup.

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Jamtara Review: Does This New Netflix Original Do Justice to a Fascinating Story?

Our review of Netflix’s Jamtara, the new original series from India about con artists pulling off phishing scams in the dark underbelly of the eponymous Jharkhand village. Jamtara release date is January 10 on Netflix.

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Encrypted App Smashboard Aims to Boost Sex Crime Reporting in India

The Smashboard app uses blockchain to create an encrypted space where victims of sex crimes can store notes, photos, screenshots, documents, video and audio as a journal or time stamped evidence, said Noopur Tiwari, co-founder of the app

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Uber India Adds New Safety Features: PIN Verification, RideCheck, and In-Ride Audio Recording

Uber on Thursday introduced three new safety feature -- PIN verification before the ride, 'RideCheck' to spot trip irregularities during the ride and in-ride audio recording (to be rolled out as a pilot later this year).

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TikTok Vulnerabilities Could Allow Account Takeover by Hackers, More: All You Need to Know

TikTok has fixed multiple vulnerabilities in its eponymous app that could allow hackers to essentially take over an account and wreak havoc.

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Mozilla Firefox 72.0.1 Debuts to Fix an Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox 72.0.1 has been released to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability that was impacting JavaScript JIT compiler IonMonkey.

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Star Trek: Picard: Patrick Stewart Credits Logan for His Return as Jean-Luc Picard

Patrick Stewart has revealed that his final turn as Charles Xavier in Logan — the 2017 X-Men movie starring Hugh Jackman in the lead — was partially responsible for him considering returning as Jean-Luc Picard after 18 years in the upcoming series Star Trek: Picard.

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This Netflix Show Throws Light on the Tiny Village That’s the Phishing Capital of India

Netflix’s Jamtara cast and director — Amit Sial, Soumendra Padhi, Anshumaan Pushkar, Monika Panwar, and Sparsh Shrivastava — talk to Gadgets 360 about the new original series from India.

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Blow to Amazon as Seattle passes new political spending restrictions

Seattle's city council passed a bill that prevents companies like Amazon from spending big in local elections.

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Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

Scientists have discovered the oldest solid material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust trapped inside a meteorite. This stardust provides evidence for a 'baby boom' of new stars that formed 7 billion years ago, contrary to thinking that star formation happens at a steady, constant rate.

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Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

Scientists have discovered the oldest solid material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust trapped inside a meteorite. This stardust provides evidence for a 'baby boom' of new stars that formed 7 billion years ago, contrary to thinking that star formation happens at a steady, constant rate.

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Living robots built using frog cells

Scientists repurposed living frog cells -- and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. These tiny 'xenobots' can move toward a target and heal themselves after being cut. These novel living machines are neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. They're a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism.

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