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Alia Bhatt. Akshay Kumar. Ajay Devgn. Varun Dhawan. Abhishek Bachchan — those are the big names part of Disney+ Hotstar’s next big announcement, slated for Monday 4:30pm, the streaming service announced on its social media handles over the weekend. Disney+ Hotstar hasn’t said what it’s about but given that it’s titled “Bollywood Ki Home Delivery”

A Russian computer hacker who facilitated $20 million in credit card fraud and ran a sophisticated clearinghouse for international cybercriminals was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison. Prosecutors say Aleksei Burkov of St. Petersburg, Russia, filled a unique niche in the world of cybercrime, describing his Direct Connection website as “the most exclusive criminal

Dark — the Netflix sci-fi thriller original series from Germany — is obsessed with time travel. But for its first two seasons, even as Dark explored the many facets of time travel in confounding yet mesmerising ways, it refused to entertain the discussion of parallel worlds. That changed at the end of season 2 with

Masayoshi Son, the chief executive of Japanese technology company SoftBank Group, said Thursday that he is stepping down from the board of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Son announced the change at the end of SoftBank’s general shareholders’ meeting. He emphasised that the decision was a “happy” one and did not reflect any discord between the

A PDF document has its fair share of advantages, however, it’s not always easy to edit tables in PDF. In a situation where you are dealing with extracting a table in a PDF document or simply wanting to edit some text in spreadsheet format, it is always better that you convert that PDF into a

Amazon will launch a $2 billion (roughly Rs. 15,099 crores) internal venture capital fund that will focus on technology investments to reduce the impact of climate change, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The new fund will be called “The Climate Pledge Fund”, the report said, adding that it will invest in companies across

PDF to PPT converters are easily available. PPT is the format for presentations that was popularised by Microsoft Powerpoint. In case you want to convert your PDF files to PPT, there are several ways to do so via online and offline methods. In a PPT document, you can add animated texts, transition effects to slides,

Australia’s prime minister revealed Friday his country was under a broad cyberattack from a “state-based actor” targeting government, public services and businesses, with suspicions falling on China. Warning Australians of “specific risks” and an increased tempo of attacks, Scott Morrison told a press conference that a range of sensitive institutions had been hit. “This activity

Amazon has secured clearance to deliver alcohol in West Bengal, according to a document seen by Reuters, signalling the US e-commerce giant’s first foray into the country’s multi-billion-dollar sector. In a notice on Friday, West Bengal State Beverages Corp, the authorised agency to carry out online retail of liquor trade in the state, said Amazon was

Many government websites have this PDF file size restriction, that doesn’t allow you to upload a PDF with a file size more than a certain limit. That leaves a person with only one option, i.e. to compress the PDF and reduce its file size; but how do you do that? In this guide, we take

As promised, our first look at Star Wars: Squadrons gameplay is here. At EA Play Live 2020, developer EA Motive — which also worked on 2017’s beleaguered Star Wars: Battlefront II — unveiled a six-minute gameplay trailer for the new Star Wars game, which showcased what flying and dogfights would feel like. The Star Wars:

Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday introduced new advertising features intended to help local businesses get more customers and recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The features come as retailers across the United States were battered after being forced to shut their doors in March as the health crisis spread, and are now navigating reopening as the economy

Amazon on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence-based tracking system to enforce social distancing at its offices and warehouses to help reduce any risk of contracting the new coronavirus among its workers. The unveiling comes as the world’s largest online retailer faces intensifying scrutiny from US lawmakers and unions over whether it is doing enough to

Microsoft Teams, the video conferencing service by Microsoft, is getting a host of new updates, including the ability to use custom photos as background images during video calls. The feature is available to users of the platform’s free version and Indian customers of Teams can use it as well. Users of Microsoft Teams free version

Google said Sunday it would explore why the picture of Britain’s World War II leader Winston Churchill disappeared from a top search results list of former UK prime ministers, during controversy over his record on racism. The search giant said the photo’s removal from its horizontal list atop search results for former British premiers was

If you convert JPG to PDF, you get two benefits — you can compress the PDF file, hence achieving a smaller file size than JPG and in doing so, the original quality of the file in PDF format will still be preserved, which is not the case with JPG. Besides, you might want to convert

Zoom Video Communications has gained a following in China in recent months from users ranging from underground churches to feminists who saw it as a rare way to connect with the world beyond the reach of state censors. Some fear that window may be closing. On Friday, Zoom said it had suspended accounts of three

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has spent much of his career deftly negotiating acquisitions. Yet his $6.5 billion (roughly Rs. 49,220 crores) all-stock bid for Grubhub ended with the food delivery company being acquired by European rival Just Eat Takeway.com. A former Allen & Co investment banker, Khosrowshahi courted Grubhub for more than a year, and

Google Meet, the video conferencing service by Google, is rolling out a new feature that automatically removes background noise during a video call. The AI-powered noise cancellation feature was first announced back in April and it is now reaching its Web client first, and will later come to Android and iOS devices. The feature, however,

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl is now a Netflix original film, the streaming service announced Tuesday. Starring Janhvi Kapoor in the lead as one of the first two Indian women to fly in a combat zone, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl also stars Pankaj Tripathi (Mirzapur) as her father, Angad Bedi (Inside Edge) as her

Lockdown 4.0 was the top trending search term overall in India during May, Google revealed while detailing search trends on the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The search giant also saw over 1,800 percent growth in interest for query “coronavirus lockdown zones Delhi” over the month. The country imposed the national lockdown on March 24

Germany and France on Thursday launched a project to set up a European cloud computing platform that they hope will enhance European economic sovereignty in the wake of the coronavirus crisis and break the continent’s dependence on US and Chinese companies. The platform, entitled GAIA-X, is meant to be up and running — at least

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on Friday resigned from the social network firm’s board and sought to be replaced by a black candidate. Following Ohanian’s post on Reddit, the company’s Chief Executive Steve Huffman said the company would “honor” his request and is working to strengthen its content policy to combat racist speech on its platform.

Disney+ Hotstar has unveiled the trailer and release date — June 19 — for Aarya, its next Indian original series. It has also confirmed that the Sushmita Sen-led thriller is based on the Dutch series Penoza. The Aarya trailer sets up the show’s premise: Aarya (Sen) has a seemingly perfect life but that dissolves after

Facebook appears to be blocking the hashtag #Sikh for a number of users. This was highlighted by a huge number of users on Twitter and independently verified by Gadgets 360 as well. Curiously, the blocking of the hashtag appears to be happening selectively, as some members accounts could not search for the term, but results

DigiLocker, an online service from the government that allows individuals to store documents digitally, was found to have an authentication flaw, putting the data of crores of users at risk. The issue was first discovered by a researcher last month and existed in the sign-in process of the service. This could have allowed bad actors to

Google has rejected demands it pay hundreds of millions of dollars per year in compensation to Australian news media under a government-imposed revenue sharing deal. The company’s top executive in Australia said Google made barely AUD 10 million (roughly Rs. 50 crores) per year from news-linked advertising, a fraction of a government watchdog’s estimates for

Tech companies in India have seen thousands of layoffs because of COVID-19. Ever since the lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus in March, most industries have struggled to make money, and have been cutting jobs at a steady pace. One of the latest developments on this front was BookMyShow, which laid off 270 employees,

One97 Communications Ltd, which runs the online payment platform Paytm, has moved the Delhi High Court alleging that telecom service providers are not blocking fraudsters who are defrauding its customers by “phishing” activities over the various mobile networks. Paytm has claimed that millions of its customers have been defrauded by the phishing activities over the

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 26 titles that will be released on its subscription-based offering, Disney+ Hotstar Premium, in June 2020 in India. The three big ones are all licenses from Disney-owned 20th Century Fox. There’s Christian Bale and Matt Damon in James Mangold’s sports drama Ford v Ferrari, driving in on June