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San Francisco, February 24 Streaming giant Netflix has lowered the price of its subscription in more than 30 countries, in an effort to draw in subscribers who have access to a growing number of streaming options. Recent price reductions by the streaming giant include Middle Eastern countries (Yemen, Jordan, Libya and Iran), sub-Saharan African markets such as Kenya, and European nations (Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria), reports The Wall Street Journal. "In Latin America, nations including Nicaragua, Ecuador, and…

PTI New Delhi, February 23Indian users, for the first time, will be able to switch between Alexa’s original voice and a new masculine sounding voice, Amazon said on Thursday as its virtual assistant completed five years in India.Amazon, in a statement marking the milestone, said millions of customers across India have purchased Echo devices.“For the first-time, Indian users will be able to switch between Alexa’s original voice and a new masculine sounding voice. The new voice can respond in both English and Hindi…

San Francisco, February 23 Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly still working on a feature which will allow users to edit messages on the platform, on iOS beta. The new feature will give users up to 15 minutes to edit their messages to fix any mistake or include any additional information to the original message, reports WABetaInfo. This feature is currently under development and is not ready to be released to beta testers. The report further mentioned that the company might also bring a feature in a…

IANS New Delhi, February 23 Edtech major BYJU’s is planning to wind up coding platform WhiteHat Jr, which it acquired for $300 million, as part of restructuring and cut costs. WhiteHat Jr, which at its peak had more than 8,000 employees across the country, now has some hundreds of roles left as it never picked up pace and brought revenues for the company, informed sources told IANS on Thursday. According to people close to the development, the discussions at the top level at BYJU's have happened to get rid of the…

IANS San Francisco, February 22 Apple is researching how to add a colour change function to the Apple Watch band that matches the wearer's clothing and alerts the wearer to information. According to AppleInsider, a newly-granted patent appears to show it doing just that. Instead of purchasing multiple watch bands to match different outfits, "Watch Band With Adjustable Colour" suggests that users purchase just one that changes colour. "Users may desire the ability to customise their watch bands to express variety and…

PTI Sydney, February 22 Robotic rovers are currently exploring the surface of Mars. Part of a rover's mission is to survey the planet for signs of life. There might be nothing to find – but what if there is, and the rovers just can't “see” it?New research published today in Nature Communications suggests the rovers' current equipment might not actually be up to the task of finding evidence of life.As an extreme environment microbiologist, the challenges of searching for life where it seems near-impossible are familiar…

Venice, February 21 Some of Venice’s smaller canals have practically dried up due a prolonged spell of low tides, frustrating boat crews and bewildering tourists. The prolonged stretch of ebb tides is linked to a lingering high-pressure weather system over much of Italy, experts say. Since the canals essentially serve as streets in car-less Venice, the phenomenon of the last days has added to the challenges of everyday life in the lagoon city. Ambulance boats in some cases have had to tie up farther from their…

IANS San Francisco, February 20 A first-generation iPhone has sold for a record-breaking price of $63,356 (approx Rs 52,00,000) at an auction, the highest sale ever recorded for an original 2007 iPhone. On Sunday evening, an iPhone, still factory sealed, sold for $52,797 at LCG Auctions (a premier auction house in the US) with a 20 per cent buyer's premium fee bringing the total sale to over $60,000, according to iMore. Karen Green, a cosmetic tattoo artist in the US, received the 8GB smartphone as a congratulations…

IANS San Francisco, February 20 Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the micro-blogging platform is "spinning up subscriptions" so that users can "charge" their followers for specific content. When one user posted a long tweet with the new Blue feature that allows subscribers to create tweets of up to 4,000 characters. Musk replied, "Good use of long tweet! Next update will allow much longer tweets with basic formatting, so you can post any content on Twitter." "We're also spinning up subscriptions, so you can…

PTI Houston, February 20 An everyday quirk of physics could be a valuable new way to investigate the causes and potential for a large, damaging earthquake to happen, according to a study.Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, US, discovered that a frictional phenomenon could be key to understanding when and how violently a fault -- a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock -- moves.The phenomenon, which explains why it takes more effort to shove a heavy box from a standstill than it does to…