Reddit has acquired short-video app Dubsmash, entering a crowded market dominated by Chinese-owned firm TikTok.
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Amazon's self-driving company Zoox unveils autonomous robotaxi
The car can travel up to 75 miles per hour and can run up to 16 hours on a single charge.
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Niti Aayog proposes setting up surveillance information platform to strengthen public healthcare system
Government think tank Niti Aayog on Monday proposed setting up a surveillance information platform to strengthen India's public health surveillance system.
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WhatsApp denies in SC allegations of data hacking by spyware
WhatsApp on Monday denied in the Supreme Court the allegations that its data can be hacked by Israeli sypware Pegasus, which had led to a controversy last year over breach of privacy following claims that Indian journalists and human rights activists were among those globally
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Alibaba, Tencent unit fined under anti-monopoly law
China's market regulator on Monday said it fined Alibaba Group and a Tencent Holdings-backed company for failing to seek approval before proceeding with some acquisitions.
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Apple's new Peloton competitor is cheaper and just as good
Apple Fitness+ is a new app with all sorts of recorded exercises classes that you can do from an Apple TV, iPad or iPhone, as long as you own an Apple Watch.
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Amazon Halo fitness tracker, which measures body fat and listens to you, launches for everyone
Amazon launched the device in August as part of its lineup of "Day 1" products, but now it's available for everyone to buy.
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Google suffers widespread outage taking YouTube, Gmail and Drive apps offline
Google suffered a worldwide outage that took several services including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive offline.
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The developers of Cyberpunk 2077 are offering refunds after the game suffered major bugs on console
CD Projekt Red is offering refunds for Cyberpunk 2077, after the game was plagued by poor performance and technical glitches on consoles.
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YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive All Down in Global Outage, No Statement Why so Far
Google is facing an outage In India and several other countries as most of its services and apps have gone down. Google Contacts, Docs, Drive, Gmail, YouTube, and more are currently not working, prompting messages of error in India and more countries, including in Europe and the US.
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TikTok Ban: US Court to Hear Appeal Challenging Order Blocking App Store Prohibition
A US appeals court will hear arguments in the Trump administration's appeal of a judge's order that blocked a ban on Chinese-owned TikTok from domestic app stores.
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Google Chrome Labs Will Let Users Try New, Experimental Features Easily on Chrome Canary
Google has added a new feature called Chrome Labs in in the latest versions of Chrome Canary. This lets users easily see and keep a track of user-facing experimental features. The two new features under Chrome Labs currently are Reading List and Tab Search.
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Google to allow employees to work from home till September 2021: Report
Alphabet Inc's Google will allow its employees to work from home until September next year, extending the return to the office by a few months, the New York Times reported on Monday.
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EU rights watchdog warns of pitfalls in use of artificial intelligence
The Vienna-based EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) urged policymakers in a report issued on Monday to provide more guidance on how existing rules apply to AI and ensure that future AI laws protect fundamental rights.
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India aims to surpass China in mobile manufacturing: Ravi Shankar Prasad
India is now aiming to surpass China in the field of mobile manufacturing with the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme attracting global majors in this segment to the country, telecom and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Monday.
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YouTube Reveals Top Indian Videos and Creators for 2020
CarryMinati’s ‘Stop Making Assumptions | YouTube vs Tik Tok: The End’ and Badshah’s ‘Genda Phool feat. Jacqueline Fernandez and Payal Dev’ are the top Indian trending and music YouTube videos, respectively, in 2020.
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EA to buy racing game developer Codemasters for $1.2 billion, outbidding Take-Two
Electronic Arts said Monday it has reached an agreement to buy U.K. video game developer Codemasters in a deal worth $1.2 billion.
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Alibaba and two other firms fined for not reporting deals to Chinese regulators
Alibaba, Tencent-backed China Literature, and Shenzhen Hive Box were each fined 500,000 yuan ($76,463) by the State Administration for Market Regulation.
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Reddit to buy TikTok rival Dubsmash
The deal would give Reddit users, who can already upload and stream videos, access to Dubsmash's editing and short-video creation tools.
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Reddit Buys TikTok Rival Dubsmash, to Allow Users to Upload and Stream Short-Form Videos
Reddit said it has acquired short-form video sharing platform Dubsmash, becoming the latest company to expand in a space dominated by Chinese-owned TikTok. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Twitter Says It 'Inadvertently' Limited Engagements on Donald Trump's Flagged Tweets
Twitter said on Saturday it had "inadvertently" limited engagements for a brief period on US President Donald Trump's tweets with "disputed" labels but later reversed its action.
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Tech key to exploring new frontiers of economic recovery: Satya Nadella
Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella on Saturday said that despite the constraint caused by the pandemic, digital technology is being adopted to scale core resilience, not only for future transformation but for business continuity.
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