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Elon Musk asked a US judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion (roughly Rs. 21,20,200 crore) racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. In an evening filing in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for Musk and his electric car company Tesla called the lawsuit by Dogecoin investors a "fanciful work of fiction" ov... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/BJj3SUa

Do Kwon, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion (nearly Rs. 3,28,500 crore) or more last year, has been charged with fraud by US prosecutors. An eight-count indictment against Kwon was made public in the US District Court in Manhattan, several hours after news of his arrest earlier Thursday in Montenegro. Lawyers for Kwon in the United States did not immediately respond to requests for comment after business hours. Thursday's indictment charges Kwon, a South Korean national who co-founded Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, with two counts each of securities fraud, wire fraud, commodities fraud and conspiracy. The criminal case follows related US Securities and Exchange Commission civil charges against Kwon and Terraform last month. Kwon had been a fugitive for several months, and South Korean authorities issued an arrest warrant for him last September. South Korean police said o...

Realme has confirmed to launch of Realme GT Neo 5 SE with 100W fast charging and a 5,500 mAh battery. The phone will debut on April 3 in China. With its launch less than a week away, the phone’s specifications have already been teased by the company on its official Weibo page. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/EWGwDYQ

A US judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc that alleged its Facebook social media business drove a now-defunct photo software application startup out of business in violation of federal antitrust law. US District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in Brooklyn, New York, federal court said in her 67-page order that Phhhoto Inc had failed to timely bring its claims under relevant US antitrust law that sets a four-year window and under New York state competition provisions that have a three-year statute of limitation. "Phhhoto has failed in its 69-page amended complaint of 222 paragraphs to allege sufficient facts that cure the untimeliness of all of its federal claims," Matsumoto wrote. She said, "no exception applies to toll the limitations periods." The court declined to allow Phhhoto to fine-tune its case and bring another complaint. Lawyers for Phhhoto at plaintiffs' firm Hausfeld did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on Thu...

A US court has sanctioned Google for a second time in recent days, after a judge in a decision unsealed on Wednesday said the Alphabet unit took too long to comply with a ruling last year in a data-privacy class action. The order stems from a class action claiming Google unlawfully tracked its users while they were using the company's Chrome browsers in private, or "i... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/aztic5L

E3 2023 has been cancelled — it's not happening in any form, in-person or digital, this year. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) confirmed the news on Twitter, following an original report from IGN based on emails sent to its members. It mentioned that while E3 was a beloved brand, the 2023 edition ‘simply did not garner the sustained interest necessary' to execute the event in a manner that would display the size and strength of the games industry. In January, the big three — PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo — pulled out of the summer video game event, leaving barely any major publishers. Following IGN's report , E3 2023 organiser ReedPop issued a public statement. “This was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen, but we had to do what's right for the industry and what's right for E3 ,” Kyle Marsden-Kish, Global VP of gaming, ReedPop said, adding that a lot of publishers and developers int...

E3 2023 has been cancelled, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) confirmed. A report notes that the 2023 edition ‘simply did not garner the sustained interest' necessary to execute the event in a manner that would display the size and strength of the games industry. The news comes after big publishers like Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo pulled out of the ev... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/XFxhWIw

Salman Khan’s Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, Ben Affleck-directed Air, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Evil Dead Rise, Samatha Ruth Prabhu-starrer Shaakuntalam, Ana de Armas-led Ghosted, Nicolas Cage’s Renfield, and more — a list of the biggest movies out in April 2023 in cinemas, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, and Apple TV+. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/4JveFRz

Alibaba Group said on Thursday it will look to monetise non-core assets and consider giving up control of some businesses, as the Chinese tech conglomerate reinvents itself after a regulatory crackdown that wiped 70 percent off its shares. Group CEO Daniel Zhang said the company's breakup into separate businesses will allow its units to become more agile and eventually list on their own. His comments come two days after Alibaba announced its largest restructuring in the company's history, which will see it change into a holding company structure with six business units, each with their own boards and CEOs. "Alibaba will be more of the nature of an asset and capital operator than a business operator, in relation to the business group companies," Zhang told investors on a conference call on Thursday. On the same call, Alibaba CFO Toby Xu said the group would "continue to evaluate the strategic importance of these companies" and "decide whether or not...

Alibaba Group said on Thursday it will look to monetise non-core assets and consider giving up control of some businesses, as the Chinese tech conglomerate reinvents itself after a regulatory crackdown that wiped 70 percent off its shares. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/tcM5zlI

Electronic Arts said on Wednesday it would lay off about 6 percent of its workforce and reduce office space, making it the first major videogame publisher to announce job cuts. Technology firms have led the latest round of layoffs as US companies brace for a potential economic downturn amid rising interest rates around the world. Meta Platforms and Amazon.com announced a second round of job cuts this month. Tech layoffs hit 63,000 in the first two months of the year, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. EA, which had about 12,900 staff at the end of March last year, expects to incur between $170 million (roughly Rs. 1,398 crore) and $200 million (roughly Rs. 1,644 crore) in charges related to the restructuring. "As we drive greater focus across our portfolio, we are moving away from projects that do not contribute to our strategy, reviewing our real estate footprint, and restructuring some of our teams," CEO Andrew Wilson said in a blog post. E...

Electronic Arts said on Wednesday it would lay off about 6 percent of its workforce and reduce office space, making it the first major videogame publisher to announce job cuts. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/S7ig3hU

OnePlus is all set to launch the successor to Nord CE 2 Lite in India on April 4. The company has confirmed to launch the OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G on the above-mentioned date. A teaser page for the phone is already live on the OnePlus India website. The site has revealed its colour variants and key specifications. Meanwhile, a reliable tipster has now tipped the expected price of the upcoming smartphone in India. The OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite will be powered by a Snapdragon 695 5G SoC. Tipster Abhishek Yadav (Twitter: @yabhishekhd) has tipped that the upcoming OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G will start at Rs. 21,999 in India. However, the storage variants of the upcoming smartphone are yet to be known. It is tipped to pack 8GB of RAM and 128GB of inbuilt storage. The company has also shared that the phone will be equipped with a 5,000mAh battery with 67W fast charging support. Additionally, the phone will come in Pastel Lime and Chromatic Gray colour options. A recent report also suggest...

Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Tuesday said it released open source ChatGPT-like models for the research and business community to use for free in an effort to foster more collaboration. Silicon Valley-based Cerebras released seven models all trained on its AI supercomputer called Andromeda, including smaller 111 million parameter language models to a larger 13 billion parameter model. "There is a big movement to close what has been open-sourced in AI...it's not surprising as there's now huge money in it," said Andrew Feldman, founder, and CEO of Cerebras. "The excitement in the community, the progress we've made, has been in large part because it's been so open." Models with more parameters are able to perform more complex generative functions. OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT launched late last year, for example, has 175 billion parameters and can produce poetry and research, which has helped draw large interest and fundi...

Apple on Tuesday launched its "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) service in the US, a move that threatens to disrupt the fintech sector dominated by firms like Affirm Holdings and Swedish payments company Klarna. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/qlm6GdR

The Last of Us Part I was finally released on PC on Tuesday, March 28, and it's already getting bombarded with negative Steam reviews. At the time of writing, the game has a 33 percent positive rating, mainly owing to the broken state it was released in. Since its launch, there have been multiple reports in regard to performance issues, ranging from hard crashes, stuttering, poor optimisation, and long loading times. Developer Naughty Dog remade its 2013 magnum opus for the PS5 last year and originally planned on porting it to PC on March 3. However, it was then delayed to March 28 , in light of ensuring that the game debuts in ‘the best shape possible'. Sadly, things don't seem to have gone according to plan. In a tweet, Naughty Dog confirmed that it's ‘actively investigating' the issues. “We will continue to update you, but our team is prioritizing updates and will address issues in upcoming patches,” it reads. Prior to its launch, it seems that media outlets ...

Asus has launched the Strix Scar 16 and Strix Scar 18 gaming laptops in India. These new models debuted at CES 2023. Both laptops feature the latest Intel 13th Gen CPUs and Nvidia’s 40-series GPUs. Asus has also launched updated models of its Zephyrus M16, Strix Scar 17, and Zephyrus Duo 16 in India. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/3xPCDKF

Alibaba said the biggest restructuring in its 24-year history would see it split into six units - Cloud Intelligence Group, Taobao Tmall Commerce Group, Local Services Group, Cainiao Smart Logistics Group, Global Digital Commerce Group and Digital Media and Entertainment Group. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/267QPuv

Alibaba Group is planning to split into six units and explore fundraisings or listings for most of them, it said on Tuesday, in a major revamp as China vows to ease a sweeping regulatory crackdown and support its private enterprises. The US-listed shares of the Chinese e-commerce conglomerate, which have lost nearly 70 percent of their value since the curbs were imposed in late 2020, rose more than 10 percent. Alibaba said the biggest restructuring in its 24-year history would see it split into six units - Cloud Intelligence Group, Taobao Tmall Commerce Group, Local Services Group, Cainiao Smart Logistics Group, Global Digital Commerce Group and Digital Media and Entertainment Group. The revamp comes a day after Alibaba founder Jack Ma returned home from a year-long stay abroad, a move that dovetailed with Beijing's effort to spur growth in the private sector after two years of crackdown. Analysts said the breakup could ease scrutiny over the tech giant whose sprawling busine...

Telecom service providers have been advised to take various measures, including establishing safety and buffer zones, while placing 5G towers in the vicinity of airports to minimise interference of 5G services in aircraft operations, the government said on Monday. Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh told the Rajya Sabha that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has not conducted any study on the potential effect of 5G signals on safe civil aircraft operations. "However, DGCA has, reviewed the studies/action undertaken by various countries during the launch of 5G on the potential interference of 5G C-band signals on radio altimeters installed on the aircraft and risk involved in air travel. "The review has shown that there may be a likelihood of interference in the functioning of Radio Altimeter installed on aircraft due to C-band 5G signals which may affect vital aircraft systems and can lead to unsafe aircraft operations," he said in a writte...

Redmi 12C is confirmed to launch in India on March 30 alongside the newly unveiled Redmi 12C 4G device. The smartphone was released in China previously and also saw a global launch earlier this year. Now, a microsite on Amazon of the upcoming budget Redmi smartphone suggests that the model will be priced under Rs. 10,000. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/q2Wt7c0

Telecom Service Providers (TSP) have been advised to take various measures while placing 5G towers near airports. Recommendations include establishing safety and buffer zones in the vicinity of airports, restricting power levels of C-Band 5G transmissions around the airports, and ensuring the tilt of 5G base stations to an extent such that the 5G emissions do not inte... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/LaKe2F9

OnePlus has confirmed that the successor to its affordable OnePlus Nord Buds, the aptly named OnePlus Nord Buds 2, will be released on April 4th alongside the OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite. However, ahead of its launch, some key specifications of from Tech Accessories News, Reviews & Launch Updates - GizBot https://ift.tt/bINmGKv via IFTTT

Elon Musk said on Monday that only verified Twitter accounts would be eligible to vote in polls starting April 15. Twitter's For You recommendations will also be limited to verified users. According to Musk, this is the only realistic way to advance AI bot swarms taking over. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/xGlD1ig

Microsoft has released an emergency update to Windows that fixes a privacy-threatening bug dubbed ‘aCropalypse'. This bug could potentially allow details that were cropped out of images by the Windows screenshot tool to be recovered by any user. The issue prevented information cropped out from screenshots from being removed from the source image, allowing it to be retained in the file and recovered at a later date. The details at risk could have included sensitive information like bank card details, medical records, phone numbers, as well as social security information. First detected on Pixel smartphones and dubbed "aCropalypse", the CVE-2023-28303 vulnerability meddled with the image cropping tool on Pixel smartphones for screenshots. Researchers then found a similar flaw on the screenshot tool for Windows, after which Microsoft has issued an update for the operating system. Microsoft has asked users to deploy the update immediately to prevent the disclosure of any pe...

Indian drugmaker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries would see a revenue drop in a few of its businesses and incur some expenses due to an "IT security incident" that happened earlier this month. The effect of the incident on the drug major's IT systems included a breach of certain file systems and theft of some company and personal data, Sun Pharma said in a filing late on Sunday. A ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the incident, it added. Sun Pharma, known for its consumer healthcare products such as Revital vitamins and pain relief medicine Volini , posted a near 14 percent jump in total revenue from operations to Rs. 112.41 billion in the last quarter. The drugmaker on March 2 reported the information security incident, adding that it had not impacted the company's operations. However, on Sunday, the company said its containment measures had affected its operations. Sun Pharma said it took steps to remediate the impact with the help of experts and ...

Nothing Phone 2 could be launched in India soon, as the upcoming smartphone has purportedly bagged a certification from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) website. The handset is listed with model number AIN065, and could make its debut in the country in the coming months. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/6j18SZb

Indian financial technology company Paytm Payments Services has received an extension from the country's banking regulator to apply for a payment aggregator licence and aims to reapply in about 15 days, the company said on Sunday. Paytm Payments Services, in the meantime, can continue with the online payment aggregation business for its existing partners, without taking on any new merchants, the company said in a notification to stock exchanges on Sunday. Paytm Payments Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of One 97 Communications. Payment aggregators, platforms that bring together various online payment options, must be licensed by India's central bank and banking regulator, Reserve Bank of India . In November, India's banking regulator had declined a payment aggregator licence for the One 97 Communications unit that owns the popular Paytm brand. The company said that the latest move has no material impact on its business and revenue and for the offline part of the ...

Twitter's source code was partially leaked online, according to a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The company has asked the court to order Github to produce "All identifying information" associated with the 'FreeSpeechEnthusiast' user name it has accused of leaking a portion of the company's source code on the platform. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/caeUpSk

Some parts of Twitter's source code have been leaked and the social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk is seeking information on the person responsible, a legal filing showed. According to the filing, "various excerpts" of Twitter's source code, which is used to run the company online, were posted on Github, a Microsoft -owned platform for sharing code for software development, by a user named 'FreeSpeechEnthusiast'. Github said it took down the code on Friday at Twitter's request. Twitter has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to order Github to produce "All identifying information" associated with the 'FreeSpeechEnthusiast' user name, the March 24 filing showed. Github did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on whether it has supplied such information. It also did not comment on how long Twitter's source code had been publicly available. Twitter also did not im...

The Internet Archive, a non-profit organization that operates an online library, violated the copyrights of four major US publishers, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday. While many of the books scanned and lent to readers were in the public domain, 3.6 million are protected by valid copyrights, and the publishers sued the non-profit in 2020 over 127 books. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/FKTqwCx

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Friday reported a record drop in fourth-quarter revenue as the company weathered a slowdown in consumption and disruptions due to China's COVID-19 curbs. Early signs suggest China's economy will only rebound slowly, as consumers remain cautious about spending money despite an easing of restrictions on domestic and international trave... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/9MWxDlN

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Friday reported a record drop in fourth-quarter revenue as the company weathered a slowdown in consumption and disruptions due to China's COVID-19 curbs. Early signs suggest China's economy will only rebound slowly, as consumers remain cautious about spending money despite an easing of restrictions on domestic and international travel. Xiaomi group president Lu Weibing, speaking on a company earnings call, said China's consumer electronics was seeing early signs of a recovery at present but "it will take time." Year-on-year declines may continue in the first half of the year before a rebound occurs, he added. Xiaomi's sales in the fourth quarter of 2022 reached CNY 66.05 billion (nearly Rs. 79,200 crore), down 22.8 percent from CNY 85.58 billion (nearly Rs.1,02,600 crore) a year earlier. The numbers were slightly ahead of analyst expectations, but they mark the fourth consecutive revenue drop for the company, and its st...

Montenegrin police on Friday formally charged Do Kwon, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion (nearly Rs. 3,29,500 crore) or more last year, for forging official documents after arresting him on Podgorica airport. Do Kwon, a South Korean national, and a second suspect have been held on Thursday while trying to board a flight to Dubai at Podgorica airport. Police said in a statement they had found forged Costa Rican passports and a separate set of Belgian passports in their luggage during the encounter. The two suspects have also been charged before a Podgorica court with forging of official documents, it said. "Pending completion of the (court) proceedings they will be taken to an investigative judge...for further actions according to an international (arrest) warrant," it said. It also said that an international warrant had been issued against the two "to ensure their presence... before the Southern District...

France will ban the use of Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on the work phones of civil servants, Civil Service Minister Stanislas Guerini said on his Twitter account. "In order to guarantee the cybersecurity of our administrations and civil servants, the government has decided to ban recreational applications such as TikTok on the professional phones of civil s... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/pc4vGlB

Friction between crypto proponents and the regulator have been brewing under Gensler's leadership, with both sides growing increasingly loud in their criticisms. The escalating tension exploded into public view on Wednesday when Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and the company's chief legal officer Paul Grewal posted online that the firm had been told that SEC staff inten... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/CQ6jWkD

Epic Games just held its State of Unreal 2023 presentation, revealing its long-term plans for content creation and new tools that can be implemented in upcoming games. Unreal Editor for Fortnite is now available as a public beta, allowing players to create and publish islands and gameplay experiences directly into Fortnite. The event also played host to the new Unreal... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/njVmly7

German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz plans to launch four new electric vehicles in India in the next 8-12 months to accelerate its electric mobility drive, Mercedes-Benz AG Head of Region Overseas Matthias Luehrs said on Thursday. The company expects 25 percent of its total sales in India to come from electric vehicles in India by 2027. "We are very happy with the development of our EVs (electric vehicles) here in the Indian market with (models such as) the EQS and the EQB. We'll have four more vehicles coming in," Luehrs told reporters here in an interaction. The company currently sells four luxury electric vehicle models — EQS, EQB, EQC and EQS AMG — in the Indian market. On the sales expectation from the EV portfolio in India, Luehrs said, "We will have 25 percent (of total sales), that's our planning assumption, of electric vehicles in the next four years." At present, sales of EVs account for around 3 percent of the company's total sales in Ind...

A massive data breach that has implications for national security was unearthed by Cyberabad Police here, who arrested seven people of a gang allegedly involved in the theft and sale of sensitive data of the government and important organisations, including details of 2.55 lakh defence personnel as well as the personal and confidential data of about 16.8 crore citizens across the country. The accused persons were found selling more than 140 different categories of information, which include sensitive information such as details of defence personnel and the mobile numbers of citizens and NEET students, among others, Cyberabad Police Commissioner M Stephen Raveendra told reporters here on Thursday. Seven data brokers were arrested from Delhi, police said adding that the accused had been operating through three companies (call centres) in Noida and other places. So far it has been found that the accused sold data to at least 100 fraudsters, who used it for committing cyber crimes. Inv...

Britain's parliament will block TikTok on all devices on its network following a similar ban on government devices, becoming the latest Western institution to bar the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns. A TikTok spokesperson called the action "misguided", saying it was based on fundamental misconceptions about the company. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/MBAtGyx

Meta Platforms on Thursday voiced its strongest criticism to date of a push by EU telecoms operators to get Big Tech to foot additional network costs, saying this would not solve their financial problems and also ignores tech companies' hefty investments. Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia and other operators have lobbied for two decades for US tech giants to contribute to 5G and broadband roll-out. The operators say that given they account for more than half of data internet traffic, Alphabet 's Google , Apple , Meta , Netflix , Amazon and Microsoft should contribute to the billions of euros in infrastructure costs. "We recognise the financial challenges that European telecom operators now face after decades of strong performance," Kevin Salvadori, Meta's vice president for network and Bruno Cendon Martin, its director and head of reality labs wireless, wrote in a blog post. "However, proposals by some European telecom operators to ...

Meta Platforms on Thursday voiced its strongest criticism to date of a push by EU telecoms operators to get Big Tech to foot additional network costs, saying this would not solve their financial problems and also ignores tech companies' hefty investments. Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia and other operators have lobbied for two decades for US tech... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/6PIcaxv

iQoo Z7 5G smartphone was recently launched in India with an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 920 SoC and two storage variants. The newly launched mid-range smartphone has now prompted the price cut of its predecessor, the iQoo Z6 5G , which launched in India in March 2022. Equipped with an octa-core Snapdragon 695 chipset, the handset is available in three storage variants. Along with confirming the new price of the iQoo Z6 5G smartphone, the company also revealed certain additional discounts and bank offers. iQoo Z6 5G price in India Following the launch of the iQoo Z7 5G smartphone in India, its predecessor, the iQoo Z6 5G has received a Rs. 1,000 price cut across all models sold in India. The 4GB variant of the smartphone was priced at Rs. 15,499 and is now available at Rs. 14,499. The 6GB and 8GB variants are also currently available at Rs. 15,999 and Rs. 16,999, respectively, down from their launch prices of Rs. 16,999 and Rs. 17,999. iQoo also provides an additional Rs. 1,000 ...