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Loki episode 4 — out now on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — just turned the new Marvel series on its head. Keep reading for our recap, unless you’re worried about spoilers. Sylvie’s (Sophia Di Martino) reveal, from Loki episode 3, that those who work for the Time Variance Authority are time variants like Loki (Tom

Loki episode 4 has the new Marvel Cinematic Universe series’ first post-credits scene, with two episodes to go in the first season. As such, it would be completely understandable if you missed it given there has been not a single scene during the credits for the first three Loki episodes. It’s not a lengthy scene,

GitHub Copilot has been introduced to make coding on the platform easier. It is an “AI pair programmer” that suggests whole lines of code or entire functions based on how you code and what you are working on. GitHub Copilot is in a limited technical preview as of now, so the slots to enrol are

Google is adding the ability to set a custom status for Gmail and Google Chat. Users could earlier choose between three options — Active, Do not disturb, and Away — but can now add their custom message. The new status update capability for Gmail and Google Chat accompanies this month’s change in the name from

Google Chrome is reportedly getting an ‘HTTPS-only mode’ soon. The new feature for the Chrome Web browser, once switched on, will automatically “upgrade” any website with the HTTP protocol to the HTTPS protocol, if it is available. Chrome already defaults to using HTTPS protocol if a protocol isn’t specified. The ‘HTTPS-only mode’ is reportedly still

Stranger Things season 4 will set up the beloved Netflix series for a “clear, clean, specific and definite ending”, star David Harbour — he plays Hawkins Police Department chief and Eleven’s adopted father Jim Hopper — has teased in a new interview. Harbour also teased a rebirth of sorts for Hopper, in the manner of

A US-based CCTV company is planning to hire people to monitor stores from remote locations in India. The company — Washington-based Live Eye Surveillance — will use surveillance cameras to constantly watch over stores. What’s novel about the entire idea is that remote human operators will intervene whenever they spot suspicious activites at the store.

The US Commerce Department said Monday it was rescinding a list of prohibited transactions with TikTok and WeChat that were issued in September as the Trump administration sought to block new US downloads of both Chinese-owned apps. The withdrawals came after President Joe Biden earlier this month withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that

Starlink, the satellite Internet unit of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, expects to be able to provide continuous global coverage by around September but will then need to seek regulatory approvals, its president Gwynne Shotwel said on Tuesday. “We’ve successfully deployed 1,800 or so satellites and once all those satellites reach their operational orbit, we will have

A rare pear-shaped diamond that is expected to fetch up to $15 million (roughly Rs. 111.17 crores) can be bought at auction next month using cryptocurrencies, Sotheby’s announced on Monday. Sotheby’s said it would be first time a diamond of such size has been offered for public purchase with cryptocurrency. No other physical object of

Google’s YouTube has scored a win in its latest copyright-infringement challenge after Europe’s top court said online platforms are not liable for users uploading unauthorised works unless the platforms failed to take quick action to remove or block access to the content. The case marks the latest development in a long-running battle between Europe’s $1

Twitter has “withheld” 50 tweets related to a communally sensitive video clip of an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh on the microblogging platform, according to sources. According to information on the Lumen database, Twitter received a legal request from the Indian government on June 17 for actioning 50 tweets. These tweets have been

Alphabet’s Google plans to shut down a long-running programme aimed at entry-level engineers from underrepresented backgrounds after participants said it enforced “systemic pay inequities,” according to internal correspondence seen by Reuters. Google confirmed it was replacing the Engineering Residency with a new initiative, saying it is “always evaluating programmes to ensure they evolve and adapt over

Google was in the EU antitrust spotlight again on Tuesday as regulators opened an investigation into whether its digital advertising business gives the Alphabet unit an unfair advantage over rivals and advertisers. The European Union competition enforcer’s move marks a new front against Google and follows more than EUR 8 billion (roughly Rs. 70,665.72 crores)

Amazon destroys millions of unsold items, including premium electronics, books, and now even face masks, every year, a new investigation has revealed. Footage gathered by Britain’s ITV from just one of the 24 Fulfilment Centers that Amazon has in the UK shows unsold items packed in boxes marked “destroy”. Not just that, the sheer amount

President Vladimir Putin dismissed accusations that Russia was behind cyberattacks against the United States as “farcical” in an interview with NBC broadcast on Monday ahead of his summit with President Joe Biden. The Russian leader also said he was open to a prison swap with the United States – the fate of prisoners is set

Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tweet on June 13, where he wrote that the electric carmaker “will resume allowing Bitcoin transactions” if there’s “confirmation of reasonable (~50 per cent) clean energy usage by miners” did send the cryptocurrency price rising again. A day after the tweet, the value of Bitcoin rose more than 10 per cent.

India’s antitrust watchdog plans to expedite a restarted probe into allegations of anti-competitive behaviour at Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart, as it intensifies scrutiny of big-tech firms, two people close to the matter said. The comments come as major US technology firms including Twitter and Facebook are at loggerheads with the government over issues such as data privacy bills

Christie’s is to auction artwork by 18-year-old trans artist FEWOCiOUS in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) it said on Monday, as the world’s major auction houses ramp up their sales of NFTs. An NFT is a form of crypto asset, which records ownership of a digital object such as an image, video or text.

Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants could face more scrutiny and sanctions in the European Union after the bloc’s top court backed national privacy watchdogs to pursue them, even when they are not their lead regulators. Consumer lobbying group BEUC welcomed Tuesday’s ruling by the EU Court of Justice (CJEU), which backed the right of