Online retail colossus Amazon last week was granted a US patent on using selfies – instead of passwords – for shopping when using smartphones. Seattle-based Amazon reasoned that combining sensor and camera capabilities in smartphones…
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Online Harassment Must Be Met Head-On: SXSW Panel
Online harassment and sexism is demeaning women and can no longer be brushed aside as an ugly side of social media and the gaming industry if they are to thrive, panellists on Saturday said at…
Bangladesh Bank Says Hackers Tried to Steal $951 Million
Bangladesh’s central bank confirmed on Sunday that cybercriminals tried to withdraw $951 million from its US bank account, as the country’s finance minister said he first got to know of one of the biggest…
Facebook’s AI Team Maps Earth to Beam Internet Access to All
Social networking giant Facebook is using its artificial intelligence (AI) technology and resources to map the entire Earth and launch the world’s most detailed population maps that will help it beam cheap Internet to remote…
Microsoft Pulls Bitcoin Support From Windows Store
Microsoft no longer accepts payments in Bitcoins on the Microsoft Store, a limitation that stretches to the Windows Store. The company updated its support page to note that it has dropped support for the aforementioned…
India Funding Roundup: A Clinical Supplies Platform, Food Tech Startup, and More
Our latest funding roundup compiles early stage investments in startups engaged in the healthcare supply chain, loyalty and contract lifecycle management platforms, apart from e-commerce. PinkBlue Bengaluru-based PinkBlue.in, a healthcare player operating in the clinical…
‘Part of $100 Million Hacked From Bangladesh Bank Recovered’
Bangladesh’s central bank said Monday that part of almost $100 million (roughly Rs. 675 crores) allegedly stolen from a reserve account in the United States last month has been recovered. Suspected Chinese hackers stole the…
Reproductive Health Tracker LoveCycles Secures Funding, Adds Hindi Language Support
Bengaluru-based Plackal, creators of the menstrual cycle tracking app LoveCycles announced Hindi language support for its app on Tuesday, and disclosed that it has secured Rs. 5 crores from seed-stage investors, Prime Venture Partners. Launched…
Opera Mini for Android Gets Video Boost, Save to SD Card, and More
Opera has started rolling out an update for its Opera Mini for Android browser application. The highlight of the update is the new Video Boost feature. As the name suggests, the Video Boost feature would…
OS X Ransomware Caught Before Large Number of PCs Infected: Transmission
The first known ransomware attack on Apple’s Mac computers, which was discovered over the weekend, was downloaded more than 6,000 times before the threat was contained, according to a developer whose product was tainted with…