[ad_1] Swiggy has become the latest Indian startup to offer its customers a credit card as the food delivery giant broadens its efforts to drive engagement and retention. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup is co-launching the credit card with HDFC Bank, India’s largest private bank. The credit card will offer customers a 10% cashback on spends on … Read more
[ad_1] Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, has had a lot of not-very-flattering press written about him recently, and the quotes and soundbytes he’s given out to the trades have not helped matters. The oft-referenced quote that he gave to CNBC in mid-July about the WGA and the SAG-AFTRA demands remains particularly condescending. “There’s a … Read more
[ad_1] A constellation of satellites will keep a close watch of airborne planes.Photo: ESA Flight tracking data may soon come from space with the design of a new aviation surveillance system that will rely on satellites in Earth orbit. David Byrne on New Tech and AI | Gizmodo Interview The European Space Agency (ESA) announced … Read more
[ad_1] The global rise in extreme weather is likely to bring along more fatal heart attacks, new research this week suggests. The study found that exposure to heat waves and cold snaps was associated with higher odds of heart attack deaths. This associated risk was even greater on extreme heat days that also featured high … Read more
[ad_1] Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor is a name fantasy fans are well familiar with—she’s won Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, and Lodestar Awards—and an even bigger audience awaits, since her Who Fears Death is being developed into an HBO series. In November, she’ll release Like Thunder, the sequel to Shadow Speaker in her Desert … Read more
[ad_1] Photo: Samsung Held for the first time in its home country of Korea, this summer’s Samsung Unpacked event is happening July 26 in Seoul, with expected new iterations of the Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Flip foldable phones, among other devices. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2023: Official Livestream It’s no surprise that Samsung plans to … Read more
[ad_1] As part of the ongoing rebranding, Twitter has changed its official handle to @X. Other official handles related to the company have either let go of the “Twitter” moniker or replaced it with X. TechCrunch previously reported that the social network hadn’t reached out to the original owner of the @X handle — Gene X … Read more
[ad_1] Google said today that more than 2 billion logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, giving it an edge over competitors like TikTok and Instagram Reels. This number is up from 1.5 billion monthly logged-in users for YouTube Shorts announced last year. During its Q2 2023 results, Google also said that YouTube brought in … Read more
[ad_1] As the WGA and SAG-AFTRA’s strikes march on, one genre production has had perhaps the dubious spotlight for carrying on regardless: HBO’s House of the Dragon. The Game of Thrones prequel’s second season has spent the past few months continuing production in Europe, even as writers have remained off-set and now as actors bring … Read more
[ad_1] In the sixth season premiere of Netflix’s Black Mirror, a fictional streaming service named Streamberry uses artificial intelligence to deepfake an actor’s likeness onto a double’s body while creating an ongoing storyline crafted beat-by-beat after a woman’s life. Black Mirror is science fiction, but Netflix is getting dangerously close to it—the streaming service is … Read more