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A viral post about using Swiggy to get food for an engagement ceremony has received a lot of interest online. The company has also reacted.

A Bengaluru-based startup that aims to deliver food in just 10 minutes has received mixed reactions online. Find out more about the online debate below.

A 42-year-old fisherman from Mumbai lost Rs 96,870 after he was tricked into logging his details into a digital payment app by fraudsters who posed as executives of an online streaming platform.

Gemini AI ad that was recently aired in the US for the Paris Olympics 2024 has reportedly been taken down after receiving backlash online. Google is said to have issued a statement highlighting that it took public feedback to remove the ad from airing during the Olympics event, but also proceeded to defend the idea behind it.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) expanded its Digital QR Ticketing service to Amazon Pay on Thursday. With this move, Delhi Metro commuters can purchase their travelling tickets online through the platform. The QR code-based ticketing facility was already available via several other apps, but now travellers have an additional way to book their o...

Dating App Scam: Multiple posts on Reddit, some of them a year old, narrate accounts of people who were scammed into paying exorbitant amounts during dates with women they met on dating apps.

Tinder Scam: When a civil service aspirant right-swiped on a dating app, he had no idea he was walking into a sinister plot carefully planned to scam men looking for love.

An 18-year-old woman in the United States has been arrested for calling 911 to avoid going on a date with a man she met on a dating app.

YouTube is expanding its user privacy protection mechanism to include artificial intelligence (AI) content. The video-streaming giant announced on Thursday that users will be able to report AI-generated content that simulates their face or voice. Users can report such videos using the Privacy Complaint Process, an online reporting system that allow...

Digital payment frauds in India saw a 400 percent jump in the year ended March 2024, according to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) annual report. Data from the central bank shows that the value of transactions on UPI jumped 137% in the past two years to 200 trillion rupees, while the rise in online transactions is also boosted by cheap access to t...

Apple Beats Solo Buds was launched alongside the Beats Solo 4 earlier in May. The Beats Solo 4 wireless headphones started shipping in the US from May 2. At the time of launch, the company had revealed the price of the Beats Solo Buds and its availability timeline but did not confirm an exact date. Now, the company has announced the online and o...

Canva, the popular online design platform, announced several new features and a new business-focused subscription on Thursday. The announcements were made at the first international Canva Create event in Los Angeles. The biggest highlight was the platform’s biggest redesign in more than a decade which includes a new homepage and editing experienc...

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of funds worth Rs 90 crore, kept in cryptocurrency wallets of exchanges like Binance, ZebPay and WazirX, as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an online gaming app "scam".

WhatsApp is working on a new feature that is reportedly designed to recommend contacts to reach out to. The feature is a list dubbed 'Recently Online' which shows the names of contacts who were recently logged into the app. The report speculates that the purpose of the feature is to help users determine people who are more likely to respond if text...

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of funds worth Rs 90 crore, kept in cryptocurrency wallets of exchanges like Binance, ZebPay and WazirX, as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an online gaming app "s

A viral post about using Swiggy to get food for an engagement ceremony has received a lot of interest online. The company has also reacted.

A Bengaluru-based startup that aims to deliver food in just 10 minutes has received mixed reactions online. Find out more about the online debate below.

A 42-year-old fisherman from Mumbai lost Rs 96,870 after he was tricked into logging his details into a digital payment app by fraudsters who posed as executives of an online streaming platform.

Gemini AI ad that was recently aired in the US for the Paris Olympics 2024 has reportedly been taken down after receiving backlash online. Google is said to have issued a statement highlighting that it took public feedback to remove the ad from airing during the Olympics event, but also proceeded to defend the idea behind it.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) expanded its Digital QR Ticketing service to Amazon Pay on Thursday. With this move, Delhi Metro commuters can purchase their travelling tickets online through the platform. The QR code-based ticketing facility was already available via several other apps, but now travellers have an additional way to book their o...

Dating App Scam: Multiple posts on Reddit, some of them a year old, narrate accounts of people who were scammed into paying exorbitant amounts during dates with women they met on dating apps.

Tinder Scam: When a civil service aspirant right-swiped on a dating app, he had no idea he was walking into a sinister plot carefully planned to scam men looking for love.

An 18-year-old woman in the United States has been arrested for calling 911 to avoid going on a date with a man she met on a dating app.

YouTube is expanding its user privacy protection mechanism to include artificial intelligence (AI) content. The video-streaming giant announced on Thursday that users will be able to report AI-generated content that simulates their face or voice. Users can report such videos using the Privacy Complaint Process, an online reporting system that allow...

Digital payment frauds in India saw a 400 percent jump in the year ended March 2024, according to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) annual report. Data from the central bank shows that the value of transactions on UPI jumped 137% in the past two years to 200 trillion rupees, while the rise in online transactions is also boosted by cheap access to t...

Apple Beats Solo Buds was launched alongside the Beats Solo 4 earlier in May. The Beats Solo 4 wireless headphones started shipping in the US from May 2. At the time of launch, the company had revealed the price of the Beats Solo Buds and its availability timeline but did not confirm an exact date. Now, the company has announced the online and o...

Canva, the popular online design platform, announced several new features and a new business-focused subscription on Thursday. The announcements were made at the first international Canva Create event in Los Angeles. The biggest highlight was the platform’s biggest redesign in more than a decade which includes a new homepage and editing experienc...

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of funds worth Rs 90 crore, kept in cryptocurrency wallets of exchanges like Binance, ZebPay and WazirX, as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an online gaming app "scam".

WhatsApp is working on a new feature that is reportedly designed to recommend contacts to reach out to. The feature is a list dubbed 'Recently Online' which shows the names of contacts who were recently logged into the app. The report speculates that the purpose of the feature is to help users determine people who are more likely to respond if text...

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of funds worth Rs 90 crore, kept in cryptocurrency wallets of exchanges like Binance, ZebPay and WazirX, as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an online gaming app "s