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After WhatsApp accounts of 121 Indians were compromised by the Israeli spyware Pegasus, experts have warned that the payment feature the Facebook-owned platform is planning to launch in India may put the digital banking system at risk. "WhatsApp payment needs to be seen with microscopic eye, primarily because in payment you will be dealing with sensitive personal data and cyber security is going...

In yet another data breach, Facebook on Wednesday revealed that at least 100 app developers may have accessed Facebook users' data for months, confirming that at least 11 partners "accessed group members' information in the last 60 days". The social networking giant found that the apps -- primarily social media management and video streaming apps -- retained access to group member information...

More than four decades after beginning its epic journey, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has crossed the elusive boundary that marks the edge of the Sun's realm and the start of interstellar space, scientists have announced. According to the researchers at the University of Iowa in the US, Voyager 2 has entered the interstellar medium (ISM), the region of space outside the bubble-shaped boundary...

A big relief operation is underway at one of Zimbabwe's best-known game parks where elephants are starving to death because of drought. Almost all water pans in the Mana Pools National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have dried up, reported Efe news. Dave McFarland, a safari operator and coordinator of the new "Feed Mana" operation said: "We saw four calves that never made it (in the last 10...

Bikaner, Oct 24: Bikaner Superintendent of Police (SP) Pradeep Mohan Sharma on Wednesday wrote to all police branch heads directing them to shortlist "heavy weight" employees/officers in their respective departments with bloated tummy size and asked them to share their information with the SP office by November 1. The letter marked to additional SP City/Rural, additional SP-crime and vigilance...

In 2012, Nokia, which was at the top of the mobile industry, brought 808 PureView, a Symbian operating system (OS)-based smartphone with an insane 41MP camera that created quite a buzz. Since then, Android-based smartphones started gaining traction and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) began adding more megapixels to the cameras to lure the crowd. Now Chinese smartphone makers have sounded...

Tikamgarh, Oct 20: In a startling incident, a three-year-old boy had a miraculous escape after falling from the balcony of a second-floor house straight into the cart of a passing cycle rickshaw, which happened to pass by at the exact moment, in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh town. The incident that took place on October 18 was captured through on a CCTV installed nearby. Ashish Jain, the child's...

Hassan, Oct 17: The famous and historic Hasanamba temple, which opens once in a year, in the city opened for devotees for 13 days on Thursday. Hassan city is decorated with colourful illumination, buntings and banners, in view of the Hasanamba Jatra Mahotsava. The temple will be opened up to October 29. The district administration has made all arrangements for the festival, which attracts lakhs of...

In yet another privacy breach, Twitter has admitted that its users who provided email addresses or phone numbers for better security like two-factor authentication (2FA) on the platform were served with targeted ads. The personal data "may have inadvertently been used for advertising purposes, specifically in our Tailored Audiences and Partner Audiences advertising system," the micro-blogging...

Led by Amazon and Flipkart, e-tailers in India achieved a record $3 billion (nearly Rs 19,000 crore) of Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) in the first six days of the festive sale from September 29-October 4, a new report said on Tuesday. Walmart-owned Flipkart and Amazon dominated 90 per cent of the market share during the six-day sale event, said Bengaluru-based research firm RedSeer Consultancy...