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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ticket bookings are now live in India — in select cinemas and formats. On Saturday at 11am IST, Disney India announced that tickets for the highly-awaited Marvel Cinematic Universe movie are now available in IMAX and 4DX only on ticketing partners BookMyShow and Paytm. As of now, I’m

Russian officials on Saturday accused US video hosting service YouTube of blocking the channel of the lower house of parliament and warned of reprisals. Vyacheslav Volodin, the head of the Duma, said Washington was breaching “the rights of Russians” while foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said “YouTube has sealed its fate”. “The United States wants

Google has reportedly removed six apps infected with the Sharkbot bank stealer malware from the Google Play store. The apps were downloaded 15,000 times before they were ejected from the store. All six apps were designed to pose as antivirus solutions for Android smartphones and were designed to select targets using a geofencing feature, stealing

Amazon accused the new union at a New York City warehouse of threatening workers unless they voted to organise, an assertion an attorney for the labor group called “really absurd.” A second labour group, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which was losing a bid to organise an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, also

Walmart’s Indian e-commerce company Flipkart has internally raised its IPO (Initial public offering) valuation target by around a third to $60-70 billion (roughly Rs. 456051.3 crore to Rs. 532003.85 crore), and now plans a US listing in 2023 instead of this year, two sources with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters. Flipkart, which competes

Twitter has reportedly modified the way embedded tweets are rendered, causing certain tweets to disappear on external websites. While Twitter previously displayed tweets embedded on websites even after they had been deleted, the company appears to have changed the way that these tweets are displayed, hiding them after the author deletes them. Instead of displaying

The war in Ukraine has rapidly positioned TikTok as the number one source of misinformation thanks to its gigantic number of users and minimal filtering of content, experts say. Every day, Shayan Sardarizadeh, a journalist with the BBC’s disinformation team, ploughs through a hallucinatory mix of fake and misleading information about the war being spewed

Social media has become a primary source of information for news-hungry audiences around the world trying to make sense of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, it’s being used by the governments of Russia and Ukraine to set the agenda for wider media reporting. Official Russian government accounts have been found to

Digital payments platform PhonePe on Tuesday said it plans to more than double its total employee strength to 5,400 across the country by the end of December 2022 from its existing 2,600-strong workforce. “There are about 2,800 open job positions that the company is planning to fill in the next 12 months across Bengaluru, Pune, Mumbai,

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has directed the blocking of 22 YouTube-based news channels, of which four are from Pakistan, for allegedly spreading fake news to mislead viewers. This is the first time that action has been taken against the Indian YouTube-based news publishers since the notification of the IT Rules, 2021 in February

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — the prequel to the Star Trek: The Original Series — has dropped a new trailer, ahead of its May 5 international release date. The upcoming series is a Star Trek: Discovery spin-off and follows the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise. The Star

Mubi has announced a list of 35 movies that will be released on its video streaming platform in April 2022 in India. The Oscar-winning Drive My Car — Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s critically-acclaimed three-hour drama, released April 1 — leads Mubi’s April line-up. Drive My Car is also one of nine titles that will be exclusively released

EU antitrust regulators are quizzing Microsoft’s rivals and customers about its cloud business and licensing deals, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed, in a move that could lead to a formal investigation and renewed scrutiny of the US software company. The European Commission has fined Microsoft a total EUR 1.6 billion (roughly Rs. 13431.2700 crore)

A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses. Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed the plans Friday to The

A new Prague-based internet radio station has started to broadcast news, information and music tailored to the day-to-day concerns of some 300,000 refugees who have arrived in the Czech Republic since Russia launched its military assault against Ukraine. In a studio at the heart of the Czech capital, radio veterans work together with absolute beginners

Google’s billing system for app developers is “unfair and discriminatory,” India’s antitrust regulator said in the initial findings of an extensive investigation, paving the way for potential penalties in future. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) found Google discriminated against developers in its Play store billing policy, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News. The

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 33 titles that will be released on its platform in April 2022. We’ve already known about some of them, including the Shreyas Talpade-led Hindi-language sports biopic Kaun Pravin Tambe? that released April 1. Later in April, Disney+ Hotstar will unveil a new Tamil-language police training camp drama in

April 2022 is full of new film and series releases on Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Apple TV+, SonyLIV, Amazon Prime Video, Voot Select, Mubi, Zee5, and JioCinema. From India, we have the third season of comedy-drama Gullak — known for its middle-class musings — dropping April 7 on SonyLIV. On the same day over on Netflix