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There are plenty of reasons to buy an air purifier — like breathing cleaner air or combating allergies — but does it have to be smart? Prices in the category can range from $80 to $800 for extras including app-based controls, compatibility with smart assistants like Alexa, access to more …

Express News Service BENGALURU: If there’s one thing the pandemic has changed the world over, it’s the status quo that we had all taken for granted. Especially in the way we handle our healthcare needs; be it the over-the-counter drugs we relied on for every ailment or the family doctor …

The digitization of your haircut may not have been on your 2020 bucket list, but 2021 has an even more surprising line item: Tech-powered barbershops are now a business proposition valued at nearly a billion dollars. Squire is a back-end barbershop management tool for independent businesses. I first covered it …

Enlarge / 2007-era Kindles had a pretty good fourteen-year run—but we imagine there are some 2016-era Kindle Oasis (8th-gen) owners feeling pretty salty about their free 3G broadband going away right now. This Wednesday, Amazon sent a notification email to customers who bought early Kindle e-readers. First- and second-generation Kindle …

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: 48 civil rights and advocacy groups join in asking the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology, continuous corporate surveillance of public space  —  The open letter uses Amazon as a case study to argue that corporate surveillance technologies cause immense harm and fall under …

Google Maps for iOS has been updated with two widgets to help users quickly navigate using their Apple devices. One of the newly added Google Maps widget is meant to let you easily look for your nearby restaurant or petrol pump (gas station) or navigate to your home or office …

Twitter is testing a new feature that will inform users whether their account is temporarily locked or permanently suspended. The microblogging platform is testing new notices that will be displayed as banners at the top of the user’s timeline informing them of the status of their account. “Knowing where your …

Chennai: Former Chief Minister and AIADMK Joint Coordinator Edapaddi K Palaniswami on Monday said that the party delegation urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi the central government should not give permission to Karnataka to build the dam across Cauvery at Mekedatu. He also said that the delegation requested Modi to carry …

Intrinsic develops software tools designed to make industrial robots Known as Alphabet’s “Moonshot Factory”, X is a research and development unit that acts as a nursery for the company’s many offshoot projects, such as Waymo, Wing, Makani, Loon and others. Reuters Last Updated:July 25, 2021, 12:02 IST FOLLOW US ON: …

Express News Service What’s sleek like a super toy, consumes solar power in one go to run for seven days, declogs manholes in 30 seconds and documents the process through a camera? Xena 6.0, the new scavenging robot deployed by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) recently. This Rs 42 lakh wonder …