https://anulee95.portfolial.comRSS Feed for Anugraha SundaraveluenSat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/02/12-best-apps-for-christmas-shopping-recipes-elfster-norad-tracks-santaIt’s that time of year again, when the days are shorter, mince pies are back on the shelves and Mariah Carey is always playing somewhere. As plans for office Christmas parties and family gatherings are made, here are some apps that might come in handy for the holiday season. Elfster (Android/iOS, free) Office Secret Santas can be a hassle to organise, especially with many of us working remotely now. Elfster helps you manage your gift exchanges by letting you create a group, invite friends andSat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/02/12-best-apps-for-christmas-shopping-recipes-elfster-norad-tracks-santahttps://metro.co.uk/2023/11/05/royal-treatment-a-moroccan-trip-should-be-on-a-birthday-bucket-list-19459986/Some people like their birthdays to be quiet affairs – not me. So, jetting off to the enchanting city of Marrakech was a birthday wish come true. Just under four hours on a flight from London will get you to Morocco’s ‘Red City’, and I was glad to swap the grey English skies for blue. At the heart of the ancient city is the buzzing Medina, a UNESCO World Heritage site, surrounded by centuries-old city walls. It’s within these walls that our airport pick-up took us to IZZA, a cosy but opulent aSun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/05/royal-treatment-a-moroccan-trip-should-be-on-a-birthday-bucket-list-19459986/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/24/runpee-creator-dan-gardner-cinema-app-films-toilet-breakCreated out of personal necessity by North Carolina-based developer Dan Gardner during a near three-and-a-half-hour King Kong screening, RunPee is an app that tells film audiences the best times to nip to the loo. Where did the idea come from? By the end of Peter Jackson’s 201-minute King Kong in 2005, I was in agony because I needed the loo. As we were leaving, I wanted to tell the people in the line to see the next show about the scene with giant bugs in the middle of the movie – perfect forSun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/24/runpee-creator-dan-gardner-cinema-app-films-toilet-breakhttps://metro.co.uk/2023/08/26/etihads-a380-superjumbos-are-back-in-the-air-heres-what-to-expect-19295628/After a two-year hiatus, UAE’s Etihad Airways is bringing back its Airbus A380 and Metro.co.uk was invited on the inaugural flight from London Heathrow to Abu Dhabi. In 2020, the airline retired its entire A380 fleet due to the impact of Covid on air travel demand. Now, as post-pandemic travel resumes, the first of the airline’s four Airbus A380s has returned to the sky on the popular Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow route. And, as demand for travel surges over the UK’s wet summer, the aircraft aSat, 26 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/26/etihads-a380-superjumbos-are-back-in-the-air-heres-what-to-expect-19295628/https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/26/etihads-a380-superjumbos-are-back-in-the-air-heres-what-to-expect-19295628/After a two-year hiatus, UAE’s Etihad Airways is bringing back its Airbus A380 and Metro.co.uk was invited on the inaugural flight from London Heathrow to Abu Dhabi. In 2020, the airline retired its entire A380 fleet due to the impact of Covid on air travel demand. Now, as post-pandemic travel resumes, the first of the airline’s four Airbus A380s has returned to the sky on the popular Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow route.Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/26/etihads-a380-superjumbos-are-back-in-the-air-heres-what-to-expect-19295628/https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/26/etihads-a380-superjumbos-are-back-in-the-air-heres-what-to-expect-19295628/After a two-year hiatus, UAE’s Etihad Airways is bringing back its Airbus A380 and Metro.co.uk was invited on the inaugural flight from London Heathrow to Abu Dhabi. In 2020, the airline retired its entire A380 fleet due to the impact of Covid on air travel demand. Now, as post-pandemic travel resumes, the first of the airline’s four Airbus A380s has returned to the sky on the popular Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow route. And, as demand for travel surges over the UK’s wet summer, the aircraft aSat, 26 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/26/etihads-a380-superjumbos-are-back-in-the-air-heres-what-to-expect-19295628/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/05/20-apps-make-summer-go-smoothlyWhile July may have been a little grey, we’re still in for some warm days this summer. There are trips to take and barbecues to attend, and no matter who’s joining us on these outings, our smartphones surely will. So here are some apps to help you make the best of the season. Whether you’re trying to find your tent in a sea of identical blue and green at a festival (as I did at Glastonbury) or trying to figure out the best time to run to the loo during a Barbenheimer marathon, these apps might Sat, 05 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/05/20-apps-make-summer-go-smoothlyhttps://metro.co.uk/2023/07/16/mark-zuckerberg-continues-to-dream-of-the-metaverse-19110141/Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse has become a thing of memes and parodies but the billionaire remains unfazed by the criticism. To say the metaverse has had some bad press lately would be an understatement. ‘Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over’, ‘How Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse gamble backfired’, ‘Skepticism, confusion, frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse struggles’ are some of the headlines on the subject. Either the ego of a billionaire doesn’t bruise easy or maybe he’s in tooSun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/16/mark-zuckerberg-continues-to-dream-of-the-metaverse-19110141/https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/17/apple-goes-big-on-accessibility-with-new-features-that-give-you-a-voice-18965787/Apple’s new range of accessibility features announced at this year’s WWDC highlights its commitment to staying on course to be inclusive. Metro.co.uk caught up with Sarah Herrlinger, Apple’s senior director of accessibility and policy, to talk about the tech giant’s approach to accessibility and the new features coming this autumn. Until now, Apple’s accessibility efforts revolved around four main pillars: vision, hearing, physical motor, and cognitive. This year, they are introducing a fifth Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/17/apple-goes-big-on-accessibility-with-new-features-that-give-you-a-voice-18965787/https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/07/how-to-enjoy-an-all-inclusive-caribbean-trip-as-a-solo-traveller-18791459/When I think of all-inclusive resorts, families, honeymooning couples and hen dos instantly come to mind — but I was pleasantly surprised to find it was the perfect getaway as a solo female traveller, too. While you wait for that Hinge romance to blossom into something half-decent to test out the waters of travel, the stars and your friends’ schedules never seem to align for that dream vacation. Despite Instagram telling us to chase #wanderlust, travelling alone can be intimidating for a lot oWed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/07/how-to-enjoy-an-all-inclusive-caribbean-trip-as-a-solo-traveller-18791459/https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/27/meet-the-voice-of-spotifys-ai-dj-18791077/Spotify jumped on the AI bandwagon this year with a new music personalisation feature called ‘DJ’ that started rolling out to Premium users across the UK and Ireland last week. I used it and loved it. So, I caught up with the voice behind the AI — Xavier ‘X’ Jernigan. When you click on the DJ button, it’s X’s voice that you hear. So, if you’re using Spotify in the UK, you might have heard him already. X tells me his experience of having Spotify’s AI voice modelled on him. How does it feel to Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/27/meet-the-voice-of-spotifys-ai-dj-18791077/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/complete-dinosaur-skeleton-sells-for-10000000-at-christies-16638185/A complete skeleton of a dinosaur has sold at Christie’s auction house for more than £10million. Measuring at 4ft tall and 10ft long, the skeleton named Hector is a Deinonychus antirrhopus — a much bigger and deadlier relative to the velociraptor, popularly depicted in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park. The creature’s true name can be a mouthful, so the author Michael Crichton, on whose book the movie is based, chose to call it a velociraptor which was in fact much smaller. Auctioneers Christie’s Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/complete-dinosaur-skeleton-sells-for-10000000-at-christies-16638185/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/tesla-crashes-into-building-causing-nearly-286692-in-damages-16636862/A Tesla driver lost control of his vehicle and rammed into the side of a building at nearly 70mph. The Tesla taxi crashed into the Greater Columbus Convention Center in the US last week. The incident was caught on CCTV. It shows the driver — 63-year-old Frantz Jules — nearly bumping the rear end of another a car before launching into the air and through a glass wall. The driver was reportedly traveling at nearly 70mph when he lost control of the brakes. After crashing into the building, theFri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/tesla-crashes-into-building-causing-nearly-286692-in-damages-16636862/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/scientists-grow-plants-in-soil-from-the-moon-for-the-first-time-16633326/Humans may one day be able to grow plants for food and oxygen on the moon during space missions. Scientists have finally succeeded in growing plants in soil collected from the moon for the first time. In the new study, researchers from the University of Florida showed the arabidopsis plant — thale cress — can successfully sprout and grow in soil that was collected from the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions. The study also investigated how plants respond biologically to the moon’s soil, also knownFri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/scientists-grow-plants-in-soil-from-the-moon-for-the-first-time-16633326/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/mark-zuckerberg-demonstrates-metas-top-secret-vr-headset-16638506/Mark Zuckerberg gave us the first tantalising glimpse of Meta’s secretive VR headset yesterday – but still managed to keep it mostly hidden. The Facebook founder posted a short demo video showcasing some of the capabilities of his company’s high-end virtual reality headset — codenamed Project Cambria. Facebook’s owner Meta is planning to release the headset later this year. The demo gave a sneak peek into what mixed reality could look like, with Zuckerberg gesturing toward the cartoon charactFri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/mark-zuckerberg-demonstrates-metas-top-secret-vr-headset-16638506/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/breakthrough-study-may-have-found-the-reason-why-babies-die-of-sids-16638848/A new study has pinpointed an enzyme potentially behind Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. Researchers from Sydney have found that that low levels of an enzyme called butyrylcholinesterase — responsible for brain arousal — could be what causes babies to die in their sleep for no apparent reason. Around 200 babies die every year of SIDS in the UK. It is also known as ‘cot death’ and usually happens between the ages of one to four months, up to six months old. This phenomenon was suspected Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/13/breakthrough-study-may-have-found-the-reason-why-babies-die-of-sids-16638848/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/12/google-translate-translates-words-incorrectly-in-its-own-announcement-16632278/Google has been caught up in an embarrassing gaffe unveiling one of its own products. In yesterday’s keynote presentation at Google I/O, CEO Sundar Pichai presented the addition of 24 languages to its Google Translate service. But the slide behind him had translated several of the languages incorrectly. On the slide Pichai was presenting, the text in Arabic reads ‘Sudanese Language’ written backward – as unlike European languages, Arabic is written from right to left. TechCrunch said the rigThu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/12/google-translate-translates-words-incorrectly-in-its-own-announcement-16632278/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/11/facebook-is-being-sued-in-kenya-over-human-trafficking-16623762/Facebook is no stranger to lawsuits and this time the tech giant is being sued in Kenya over alleged human trafficking and union-busting. Daniel Motaung, a former moderator working for Facebook-owner Meta filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging poor working conditions for contracted content moderators. The petition filed against Meta’s local outsourcing company Sama, alleges that workers moderating Facebook posts in Kenya have been subjected to irregular pay, inadequate mental health support, unioWed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/11/facebook-is-being-sued-in-kenya-over-human-trafficking-16623762/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/11/adverts-are-coming-to-netflix-a-lot-sooner-than-we-thought-16623075/It looks like your Netflix binge could be interrupted by ads as early as this year. In a recent note to employees, Netflix said it could introduce its lower-priced ad-supported tier by the end of 2022. The streaming giant is aiming to introduce the ad tier in the final three months of the year, according to anonymous sources speaking to the New York Times. Netflix’s planned crackdown on password sharing among subscribers will also take place around the same time, said the sources. While NetfWed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/11/adverts-are-coming-to-netflix-a-lot-sooner-than-we-thought-16623075/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/10/spacex-president-well-put-people-on-mars-in-this-decade-16617764/Elon Musk’s SpaceX has its sights set on Mars, with a timeline of ‘five or six years’ to do it. The company’s president, Gwynne Shotwell, has said that the Starship rocket, destined for Mars, could likely launch on a test flight from Texas in June or July. Last week, SpaceX said that its Starship prototype (SN 15) had successfully completed its fifth high-altitude flight test from Starbase in Texas. SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket (collectively referred to as Starship) is Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/10/spacex-president-well-put-people-on-mars-in-this-decade-16617764/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/10/clearview-ai-to-stop-selling-facial-recognition-tool-to-private-firms-16616640/Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has agreed to permanently stop selling access to its database to private businesses and individuals in the US. In a legal filing on Monday, the company agreed to the terms in an effort to settle allegations that it collected people’s photos without their consent. The settlement, pending approval, signalled the end of a 2-year-old lawsuit against the company over alleged violations of digital privacy laws in the American state of Illinois. Clearview has Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/10/clearview-ai-to-stop-selling-facial-recognition-tool-to-private-firms-16616640/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/10/instagram-is-experimenting-with-nfts-to-learn-from-the-community-16615945/After Twitter and OnlyFans, Instagram will be the latest social media platform to support NFTs, starting this week. The social media app will start letting a small group of US creators and collectors to display NFTs on their profile, according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. Mosseri said in a video yesterday that these users would have the ability to display NFTs on their feed, stories, and in messages. He added that the test would be small to start so that Instagram can ‘learn from the communTue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/10/instagram-is-experimenting-with-nfts-to-learn-from-the-community-16615945/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/10/musk-believes-he-can-quintuple-twitters-revenue-by-2028-16612877/Elon Musk believes he can increase Twitter’s annual revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028 up from $5 billion last year. At least that’s what the world’s richest man has promised investors. Aiming for the stars, quite literally, is nothing new for the SpaceX CEO but exactly how does he plan on making Twitter profitable? Musk is betting on revenue from subscriptions and slashing Twitter’s reliance on advertising to less than 50% of total revenue, according to the pitch presentation seen by the New YoTue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/10/musk-believes-he-can-quintuple-twitters-revenue-by-2028-16612877/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/09/wordle-confuses-players-with-two-different-answers-to-todays-puzzle-16609070/The answer to today’s Wordle has left players confused as the New York Times decided to ditch the politically charged word ‘fetus’. In response to the American supreme court’s draft Roe v Wade ruling, The Times has been scrambling to switch today’s Wordle answer for as many users as possible. However, players — who often compare answers with friends and family — were quick to notice the discrepancy, taking to social media to complain about it. The original answer was ‘fetus’, an American spelMon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/09/wordle-confuses-players-with-two-different-answers-to-todays-puzzle-16609070/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/06/nasa-reveals-what-the-inside-of-black-hole-actually-sounds-like-16599173/It’s Black Hole Week at Nasa and to celebrate, the space agency has released the soundtrack of an actual black hole. On Wednesday, Nasa gave us a glimpse inside a black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster, more than 200 million light-years away from Earth. Perseus is known to be a 11 million-light-year-wide bundle of hundreds of galaxies shrouded by hot gas. In 2003, astronomers discovered that the pressure waves sent out by the black hole at the centre of Perseus caused ripples Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/06/nasa-reveals-what-the-inside-of-black-hole-actually-sounds-like-16599173/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/06/whatsapp-finally-rolls-out-emoji-reactions-16600634/A month after its announcement, WhatsApp is letting you react to messages in both individual and group chats with an emoji. Mark Zuckerberg shared the news about the feature’s rollout in a Facebook post this week. So far it looks like you can react using six emojis including the heart, folded hands and surprised face emojis. The Facebook boss said that the folded hands emoji was included ‘to help spread thanks and appreciation’ and added that more expressions were coming soon. The emoji reacFri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/06/whatsapp-finally-rolls-out-emoji-reactions-16600634/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/05/auntie-network-reddit-group-helping-people-get-abortions-in-the-us-16592797/Following news that the US could potentially overturn the legal right to abortion, people started organising protests. Meanwhile, a different kind of organising was taking place on Reddit. Posts with titles like ‘Oregon Auntie ready to help’, ‘AL Auntie stepping up’, ‘Librarian in Massachusetts Ready to Help’ started popping up on the subreddit r/auntienetwork soon after the news broke. The group, created in 2019 as a ‘place to help anyone who has a uterus’, is dedicated to providing informatThu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/05/auntie-network-reddit-group-helping-people-get-abortions-in-the-us-16592797/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/05/tiktokers-cant-get-enough-of-this-app-that-mimics-a-disposable-camera-16591278/Following the hype around BeReal, there’s another photo sharing app that wants you to live in the moment. Dispo is a photo-sharing app that aims to bring back the candid fun of a disposable camera. Launched in 2019 as ‘David’s Disposable’, it was named for founder David Dobrik, a YouTuber who shot to fame as the leader of the prank YouTube channel Vlog Squad. Initially, the app was invite-only but eventually opened up to all iPhone users for free. Unfortunately for Android users, Dispo is curThu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/05/tiktokers-cant-get-enough-of-this-app-that-mimics-a-disposable-camera-16591278/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/05/the-cia-wants-russians-with-secrets-to-slide-into-its-instagram-dms-16586759/The CIA has taken to Instagram to reach out to Russians who might want to act as informants amid President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. On Monday, the agency posted a set of instructions in Russian on its official Instagram account. The post contained instructions on how Russians could make ‘secure virtual contact’ with the CIA. The post said it was providing Russian-language instructions for ‘those who feel compelled by the Russian Government’s unjust war’ to securely contact the AmThu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/05/the-cia-wants-russians-with-secrets-to-slide-into-its-instagram-dms-16586759/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/04/elon-musk-wants-to-make-some-people-pay-to-use-twitter-16584338/Elon Musk, who recently closed a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion (£34.5 billion), is considering charging a ‘slight’ fee for commercial and government users. The world’s richest man is planning to take the social media giant private and evidently does not believe in giving away things for free. ‘Ultimately, the downfall of the Freemasons was giving away their stonecutting services for nothing,’ said Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday. He went on to say that Twitter will always be free for Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/04/elon-musk-wants-to-make-some-people-pay-to-use-twitter-16584338/