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The Matrix Resurrections final trailer is here — in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. The new trailer sets up how Keanu Reeves’ Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss’ Trinity — spoiler alert for an 18-year-old movie, both died in 2003’s The Matrix Revolutions — are back. It also confirms the role in place for Jonathan Groff (he’s

Weddingz.in, an online wedding venue discovery and booking platform in India, is finally regaining its foothold after being massively hit by the pandemic. During these unprecedented times, the platform focused on developing its technology stack, accelerated digital venue onboarding, and shifted its efforts to urge venues to follow COVID protocols in order to revive the

Starlink, the satellite internet division of billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, will apply early next year for a commercial licence in India to provide broadband and other services, its country head said on Friday. “We hope to have applied for a commercial license on or before 31st January, 2022 (unless we hit some major

Traffic jams usually happen on roads meant for motorised vehicles. It’s unusual for a pedestrian sidewalk to get jammed by automated cars, simply because they are not meant to take the route. But this is exactly what has happened in Estonia. Heavy snowfall has led the pedestrian sidewalk to get crowded by a number of

Unicode Consortium, the not-for-profit organisation responsible for digitising the world’s languages, has released data about the most frequently used emoji of 2021. ‘Face with tears of joy’ emoji comes first in the ranking, followed by ‘red heart’. The third sport is taken up by ‘rolling on the floor laughing’, followed by ‘thumbs up’, and the

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has sold nearly $11 billion (roughly Rs. 82850 crores) worth of shares since the world’s richest person polled Twitter users about offloading 10 percent of his stake in the electric-car maker. He has sold a combined 10.1 million shares, which is over half of the stake that he had pledged to

Meta, formerly Facebook, announced a series of initiatives aimed at the protection of the women users on the company’s social media platforms. The initiatives include the launch of stopncii.org in India — a platform that aims to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate images (NCII) and Safety Hub for Women that will enable more women

Alphabet’s Google said on Thursday it is indefinitely pushing back its January return-to-office plan globally amid growing concerns over the Omicron variant of the coronavirus and some resistance to company-mandated vaccinations. Google in August had said it would expect workers to come in about three days a week from January 10 at the earliest, ending

Reddit has added multiple new real-time features on its Android, iOS, and desktop platforms. In order to make the social media app more engaging, the company has released voting and comment count animations, typing and reading indicators, and a new comment pill. With the latest update, votes on content will appear as non-static numbers in

LinkedIn on Thursday launched Hindi language support to expand its professional social network to new users. With the new addition, the Microsoft-owned platform has started supporting 25 languages globally. LinkedIn said that by adding the new language to its network, it is aiming to support 600 million Hindi language speakers in India and around the

Spotify 2021 Wrapped is now live. The personalised user experience, which the platform has been releasing for the last three years since 2019 on the first day of December, features top artists, albums, songs, playlists, and podcasts that you have played throughout the year. In addition to the dedicated Wrapped experience for mobile users, Spotify

Facebook owner Meta has been told by the UK competition watchdog to sell popular animated images platform Giphy in Britain’s first such move against so-called Big Tech in its efforts to bolster regulation of the sector. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had found that last year’s acquisition of Giphy would reduce competition

Money Heist is arguably Netflix’s biggest title in December, with the five-episode second volume of the fifth and final season set to wrap up the global hit Spanish series for good. Time to bring out the tissue box maybe for some on December 3. Lost in Space also wraps up in December with its third

Google has been asked to pay a fine of RUB 3 million (roughly Rs. 30 lakh) on Monday for not deleting content a Moscow court deemed illegal, part of a wider dispute between Russia and the Alphabet-owned US tech giant. Russia in October threatened to fine Google a percentage of its annual Russian turnover for

Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has resigned from his role and company CTO Parag Agrawal has been unanimously selected by the board as his successor. The company’s board has been preparing for Dorsey’s departure since last year, a source told Reuters. The news comes as Twitter has accelerated the pace of its product innovation

Amazon has asked India’s antitrust regulator to revoke its approval for Future Retail’s $3.4 billion (roughly Rs. 25,470 crore) sale of retail assets to Reliance, saying it was “illegally obtained”, violating an order suspending the deal, a letter seen by Reuters shows. The approval for the deal was a “nullity in the eyes of law” as

Just days before the big announcement on November 30, a logo for the new Qualcomm chip, Snapdragon 8Gx Gen 1, has been leaked. According to GSMArena, the leak was spotted in a staging site for the company. The title of the page is ‘Testing icon’ and the icon in question sits beside a ‘Test123’ label.

Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, on Friday pointed out that Starlink Internet Services is not licensed to offer satellite-based internet services in India being advertised to the public. According to a press release issued by the ministry, it has come to notice that Starlink has started pre-selling/ booking the satellite-based Starlink Internet Services in

Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said artificial intelligence could help in “surprising ways” to ensure sustainable justice delivery and reduce backlog of pending cases. Addressing the concluding session of a Supreme Court-organised two-day Constitution Day event, he said artificial intelligence (AI) can help in implementing court management tools like case flow management, case management

Climate activists targeted 15 Amazon depots across Europe on “Black Friday” and the world’s biggest e-commerce company also faced protests by workers and delivery drivers in Germany, France, and Italy. Amazon, based in Seattle, is facing criticism from climate activists who say excessive consumption harms the environment while an alliance of trade unions say the