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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...

Security researchers have discovered that the Smominru malware infected 90,000 machines worldwide during the month of August, with an infection rate of up to 4,700 computers per day. In its post-infection phase, it steals victim credentials, installs a Trojan module and a cryptominer and propagates inside the network, according to researchers from Guardicore, a data centre and cloud security...

In a fillip to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Mission, Google Maps now lists over 57,000 public toilets in over 2,300 cities across the country, the company announced on the eve of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, fulfilling a key aspiration of the Father of the Nation. More than 2.5 lakh users are already searching for public toilets every month across Google Search and...

Washington, Sept 30: iPhone users who have not upgraded to a new version of the operating system for long -- there is one more reason to do so. If WhatsApp is currently active on your iOS 8 device, you will be able to use it only until February 1, 2020, according to an update from the instant messaging platform. “WhatsApp for iPhone requires iOS 9 or later. On iOS 8, you can no longer create new...

Mumbai, Sept 30: The Indian rupee opened on a cautious note and fell 7 paise to 70.63 against the US dollar in early trade on Monday tracking weak opening in domestic equities and foreign fund outflows. Forex traders said increasing demand for the US dollar vis-a-vis other currencies overseas and rising crude oil prices weighed on the domestic unit. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee...

Chennai, Sept 27: The US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has said the precise location of India's moon lander Vikram on the lunar highlands is yet to be determined. "Vikram had a hard landing and the precise location of the spacecraft in the lunar highlands has yet to be determined," NASA said in a statement issued on Thursday. It was dusk when the landing area...

New Delhi, Sept 26: The government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) denied reports on Wednesday that the regulator is closing down at least nine commercial banks soon. "There are mischievous rumours on social media about RBI closing some banks," said Finance Secretary Rajeev Kumar. He said, "There is no question of closing any public sector bank, which are articles of faith. Rather the government...

Madikeri, Sept 24: Two people were arrested by the forest department officials for hunting wild boar in Somwarpet taluk on Tuesday. The alleged arrested have been identified as Ganesh and Subramani. According to the forest officials, they were arrested while trying to escape with the boar.