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Tesla is building a humanoid robot simply called the Tesla Bot, Elon Musk has revealed at the automaker’s (and, perhaps, soon-to-be-robotmaker’s) AI Day event. It’s intended to be friendly, he said, and be slow and weak enough that you can outrun and overpower it — you know, just in case …

Amazon has rolled out India’s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with the nation’s biggest movie star Amitabh Bachchan as the company makes a push to lure more users in the world’s second-most populated nation. The company, which rolled out the voice of Samuel Jackson on Alexa in the U.S. …

Enlarge / Emergency medicine specialist Dr. Davis Wein walks in a parking garage that was turned into a series of COVID-19 test tents at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida, on August 19, 2020. As the hypertransmissible delta coronavirus variant continues its rampage through the unvaccinated, several states continue to …

Wired UK: Apple and Google’s vague and inconsistent policies around hookup apps can harm LGBTQ people, especially those in countries with explicitly anti-LGBTQ laws  —  Silicon Valley should get out of the business of regulating sexually explicit content – its actions against NSFW materials put marginalised groups at even more …

Amazon Mobile Saving Days sale has begun and will go on till August 19. The sale offers up to 40 percent off on phones and accessories. There will be deals like no-cost EMIs of up to 12 months and exchange discount on purchases. Buyers will get 10 percent instant discount …

Testhouse, a UK-based global software testing and quality assurance company, has acquired a 12,000 sq ft of office space in Technopark here in addition to its existing facilities of similar space in the campus. Most employees may be working from home due to the ongoing pandemic, said Rajesh Narayan, CEO, …

New Delhi: The Managing Director of Twitter India, Manish Maheshwari, will be moving into a new role based in San Francisco, the Vice President of Twitter’s Japan, South Korea, and Asia Pacific division announced on Friday. The new US-based role for Twitter India’s MD comes in after the microblogging platform’s …

Smartphone makers around the world are now introducing 5G connectivity to budget smartphones, thanks to advances in mobile processors. Although India is yet to roll out 5G commercially to the masses, smartphone brands are already flaunting the tech. But buying a 5G smartphone isn’t fully absurd as we may soon …

T-Mobile has launched a pilot offering fiber optic home internet service in New York City, according to a report from T-Mo confirmed by The Verge. It’s testing the service in select Manhattan residential buildings, offering 940Mbps upload and download speeds along with a WiFi 6 router, according to the company’s …

FreshBooks, a Toronto-based cloud accounting software company focused on SMBs, announced today it has secured $80.75 million in a Series E round of funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing. Existing backer Accomplice led the equity financing, which the company described as “an inside round” that propelled FreshBooks …