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This photo taken on March 10, 2020 shows Seow Yun Rong (L) guiding student Elizabeth Lee through a virtual reality simulation designed to help students respond to sexual harassment at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. - The VR technology is part of the Girl, Talk project which is aimed at helping women fight back against harassment in Singapore. (Photo | AFP)

Virtual reality simulations help women combat sexual harassment in...

Singapore's #MeToo began after a student at a top university recounted on Instagram a story of being secretly filmed in...

6 May 2020 1:30 PM GMT

Get Aarogya Setu from Google, Apple app stores only, Pakistan collecting data via fake links: Police

Get Aarogya Setu from Google, Apple app stores only, Pakistan...

Some people have been receiving malicious links via WhatsApp and SMS, the police said in its cyber security alert

6 May 2020 12:41 PM GMT

The report alleged that major US-based technology firms that hire H-1B workers directly had significant shares of their certified H-1B positions assigned as Level 1 or Level 2, the two lowest wage levels in fiscal 2019, both of which are below the local median wage.

Thought H-1B workers had made it? Turns out Google, Microsoft, other...

Report says 500,000 migrant workers in firms like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Walmart, Qualcomm and Uber are paid salaries...

6 May 2020 10:22 AM GMT

Samsung Electronics vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong said he would not allow his children to succeed him at the firm. I will make sure that there will be no more controversy over the succession of management, Lee said during a news conference at the companys office building in Seoul, South Korea, May 6, 2020. He added: I will never take any actions that go against the law. (Photo | AP)

Samsung heir Lee apologises for scandal over his succession and case...

S Korean president Park Guen-hye was ousted for allegedly accepting bribes to ensure a smooth transition for Lee to...

6 May 2020 9:29 AM GMT

People wear face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus as they use a phone app to scan a code required to prove their health and travel status before being allowed to enter a shopping mall in Beijing on May 2, 2020, the second day of a five-day national holiday. The debate on privacy protection while using such apps is especially urgent in Europe, where academics and civil liberties activists are pushing for solutions that protect personal data. Eastern nations are less likely to adhere to privacy protection norms followed in the West. (Photo | AFP)

Location tracking not allowed on apps using Google, Apple APIs but...

Aarogya Setu, which runs on its own Application Program Interface or API, is not bound by international privacy...

5 May 2020 3:02 PM GMT

Samsung and LG are extending incentives like no-cost EMIs and cashbacks apart from promising home delivery of products through their network of retail sales network.

Samsung, LG offer gifts, no-cost EMIs on pre-booking electronics...

Both consumer goods giants have opened bookings on their websites and are offering gifts of up to Rs 10,000 on...

5 May 2020 2:18 PM GMT

Over 1,200 workers from Jammu and Kashmir who had completed their 14-day quarantine period at various camps in Punjabs Pathankot district had gone on a hunger strike for three days, seeking to be sent to their home towns in the Union Territory. In this photograph, migrant labourers in Allahabad with their families rest at a temporary shelter after arriving from various districts while waiting to board specially arranged government buses to return to their homes on April 30, 2020. (Photo | AFP)

Shaheen Bagh, Jantar Mantar type protests impossible amid covid...

The new normal: Migrant workers and Kota students going on hunger strike to be sent home and online petitions circulated...

5 May 2020 1:40 PM GMT

Workers protest against the failure from their employers to provide adequate protections in the workplace of the Amazon delivery hub on National May Day Walkout/Sickout by workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Innstacart and Shipt amid the Covid-19 pandemic on May 1, 2020, in Hawthorne, California. (Photo | AFP)

Executive at Amazon says he quit to protest firing of workers and...

Among those fired was a New York warehouse worker who led a strike last month, pushing for more protections for workers...

5 May 2020 1:02 PM GMT

Police use batons to control the crowd outside a wine shop in Vishwas Nagar of east Delhi, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. People are crowding outside liquor shops in New Delhi despite having to pay 70 per cent tax as special coronavirus fees on the sale of liquor. (Photo | PTI)

Liquor delivery now at your doorstep in Chhattisgarh as web portal,...

The government launched the portal and app after a large number of people queued up outside wine shops, flouting...

5 May 2020 12:17 PM GMT

Realme has started sales of its smartphones and accessories on realme.com, Flipkart, and Amazon.

To meet soaring demand, Realme wants to resume production in red zone...

It hopes to get permission from the UP government, so that it can begin production of the new Narzo series and the...

5 May 2020 10:36 AM GMT

Deep-pocketed companies such as Intel, which is sitting on USD 11.4 billion cash, are expected to forge ahead with their investments in fields they believe will turn into gold mines. After Intel bought Mobileye, the self-driving car startups revenue has ballooned from $210 million in 2017 to $879 million last year. Thats a reflection of the big bets being placed on automated driving by both major technology companies, such as Google spinoff Waymo and Apple, and automakers such as General Motors and Toyota. (Photo | Mobileye)

Intel buys Moovit app to boost its self-driving car business in an age...

The chip maker plans to combine Moovit with Mobileye, a self-driving car specialist that Intel bought for about USD 15...

5 May 2020 9:50 AM GMT

A lawyer representing students in more than a dozen cases says colleges themselves often charge lower rates for online classes, which he says is a reflection of their value. (Photo of Columbia University Library | Publicdomainpictures.et)

Unimpressed by online classes, US students of Brown, Cornell,...

Some class-action lawsuits seeking partial fee refunds from 26 universities say they are sitting on endowments...

4 May 2020 10:15 AM GMT