Nachiket Mhatre previously wrote for Gizbot
Latest Stories of Nachiket Mhatre
Apple's "Scary Fast" Event: What to Expect
Nachiket Mhatre
| Monday, October 30, 2023, 12:12 [IST]
Apple is gearing up for its final event of the year, an online-only affair set to take place on October 30, 2023. While supply chain issues initially delayed the event, Apple is expected to unveil the highly-anticipated M3 chip and potential ...
Meta Improves Instagram Privacy: Borrows Facebook Feature to Block Activity From Being Tracked
Nachiket Mhatre
| Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 10:05 [IST]
Meta, the parent company of Instagram, is taking steps to enhance user privacy by offering new tools that allow users to exert more control over their data and activity tracking on the popular photo-sharing platform. The company has announced the expansion ...
Micron to Commit Over $1 Billion to Indian Chip Packaging Plant Amid US-China Tensions
Nachiket Mhatre
| Friday, June 16, 2023, 22:18 [IST]
Micron Technology, a leading global semiconductor company, is reportedly on the brink of committing upwards of $1 billion to establish a new chip packaging facility in India. This move, seen as a significant diversification of its geographic operations, comes at a ...
Microsoft 365 Down; Outage Affects Thousands of Users Across Outlook, Word, and Excel
Nachiket Mhatre
| Monday, June 05, 2023, 22:16 [IST]
Microsoft, one of the world's leading technology companies, experienced a significant service disruption on Monday, June 5, as users reported difficulties accessing their Microsoft Outlook accounts and using the company's productivity suite, which includes Word and Excel. According to Downdetector, ...
Irish Town Bans Smartphones for Children Under 13
Nachiket Mhatre
| Monday, June 05, 2023, 14:23 [IST]
In an era of technological ubiquity, parents in Greystones, Ireland, have united in an effort to curb the negative impact of smartphones on their children. They have voluntarily initiated a smartphone ban until children reach secondary school, usually around 12 or ...
Alphabet Loses $57 Billion As Samsung Replaces Google Search with Microsoft BingChat
Nachiket Mhatre
| Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 21:35 [IST]
Alphabet, Google's parent company, witnessed a dramatic fall in stock prices as reports emerged about Samsung possibly replacing Google with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine on its devices. Alphabet's stocks plummeted about 4%, shedding nearly $57 billion in market ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook inaugurates first retail store in Mumbai; Meets Ambani, Chandra
Nachiket Mhatre
| Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 19:08 [IST]
Apple CEO Tim Cook greeted enthusiastic fans as he inaugurated the company's first retail store in Mumbai, India on Tuesday. Cook traveled to India to attend the store's launch, marking Apple's first foray into the Indian retail market. The store is ...
Elon Musk's X.AI Set to Disrupt AI Landscape in Competition with OpenAI
Nachiket Mhatre
| Saturday, April 15, 2023, 15:39 [IST]
Elon Musk, the controversial, but wildly successful entrepreneur behind groundbreaking companies, such as Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, has announced his new artificial intelligence venture dubbed X.AI. The new company aims to take the battle for AI supremacy right to the current ...
Netflix Cheapest Ad Supported Plan Finally Comes to Apple TV
Nachiket Mhatre
| Friday, March 31, 2023, 17:40 [IST]
Netflix has expanded the availability of its ad-supported plan to Apple TV users, following a months-long delay. The cheaper tier, dubbed "Basic with Ads," was introduced in November 2022 but was initially unavailable on several devices, including Apple TV. Now, with ...
E3 2023 Cancelled Amid Lack of Industry Interest
Nachiket Mhatre
| Friday, March 31, 2023, 08:15 [IST]
E3 2023, the much-awaited video game event, has been officially canceled as major industry players withdrew their presence, resulting in insufficient interest to execute the showcase. Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft, and other gaming giants had confirmed their absence from the event, leading ...
Mobile Phone Inventor Decries Smartphone Addiction; Believes Humanity Hasn’t Figured Them Out Yet
Nachiket Mhatre
| Thursday, March 30, 2023, 20:41 [IST]
Mobile phones have become an essential part of modern life, with many people unable to imagine a day without them. However, the inventor of the mobile phone, Martin Cooper, has expressed concerns over the way device usage has evolved in the ...
Paytm, Google Pay, and Other Wallet Payments Will Attract 1.1% Fee From April 1
Nachiket Mhatre
| Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 13:56 [IST]
There are no free lunches in life, and now that the Indian citizenry is thoroughly used to digital payments, the same holds true for free UPI payments as well. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has proposed an interchange fee on ...