Twitter said it was working to fix the issue.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Australian regulator may authorise media group talks with Google, Facebook
Australia's competition watchdog said it issued draft proposals to authorise regional newspaper industry group, Country Press Australia, to negotiate with Google and Facebook for payments for news content on their platforms.
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Amazon asks for FTC head to step aside from antitrust probes
Khan has been a fierce critic of tech giants Facebook, Google and Apple, as well as Amazon. She arrived on the antitrust scene in 2017, writing an influential study titled "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" when she was a Yale law student.
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Microsoft executive says US overuses secret orders for Americans' data
The United States government is overusing its secret subpoena power to routinely gather vast amounts of data on American internet users, a senior Microsoft executive said in prepared testimony to Congress released on Wednesday.
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Domains and servers of"DoubleVPN" service used by cybercriminals seized and shut down
Europol, the European police coordinating agency, said on Wednesday that police in Europe, the United States and Canada had seized the domains and servers of "DoubleVPN", a network used by criminals to hide their identity during cyber attacks.
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'Smart cane' unveiled at MWC 2021 to help visually impaired
The device is the brain-child of Kursat Ceylan, a Turkish inventor who was born blind and had an accident three years ago that left him scarred as he struggled to navigate while pulling luggage and checking GPS directions through his smartphone.
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E-commerce rules: Fight between Amazon, Flipkart vs Reliance, Tata to intensify
Foreign brokerage, Jefferies said in a note, "The proposed rules now target indirect ownership in vendors, own label, flash sales. Fight between foreign cos (Amazon, Flipkart) & Indian cos (Reliance, Tata Grp) is set to intensify".
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
US Justice Department says Google depositions should be in person
We wanted to let the court know that we hope to do all or most of these depositions in person, said the Justice Department's Kenneth Dintzer, noting that the three first people that he wanted to depose were in California. It is our understanding that California is re-open.
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Huawei CFO says HSBC emails disprove basis for US extradition claim
CFO Meng Wanzhou's legal team said the emails and documents submitted to a Canadian court showed at least two senior HSBC leaders were aware of connections between Huawei and its Iranian subsidiary, Skycom. HSBC declined to comment.
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German privacy tsar tells ministries to shut Facebook pages
In a letter to government departments and agencies earlier this month, commissioner Ulrich Kelber said Facebook had provided no way to run pages for institutions, whose feed users can subscribe to by clicking 'like', in an EU-compliant way.
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DoT starts online portal for spectrum allocation for trials to telcos
Telecom companies can now apply online for licence to use spectrum for trials and demonstration on Saral Sanchar Portal and there will also be deemed approval in certain cases, the Department of Telecom said on Tuesday.
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SoftBank leads new funding round in Gympass, valuing startup at $2.2 billion
Gympass, which makes gym memberships more accessible for corporate employees, has raised $220 million in a funding round led by existing investor SoftBank Group Corp , more than doubling the startup's valuation to $2.2 billion.
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Elon Musk set to tout Starlink progress as cost, demand hurdles linger
If the service is successful, it could vastly expand the reach of broadband internet around the world, connect Tesla vehicles, and even provide a new platform for traders and others with exotic internet needs, people familiar with the Starlink plan said.
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Google restores services after outage affects multiple users
Multiple users complained about an outage affecting Alphabet Inc's search engine Google as well as its streaming and email services late Monday before services were restored, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.
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Monday, June 28, 2021
Twitter hit with new headache in India after police complaint over controversial map
The police complaint filed by Praveen Bhati, a leader of the Bajrang Dal in Uttar Pradesh, accuses Twitter India boss Manish Maheshwari of breaching the country's IT rules as well as laws designed to prevent enmity and hatred between classes.
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SoftBank to scale back robotics business, stops producing Pepper robot
As part of the retrenchment, SoftBank plans to eliminate about half of its 330 staff positions in France in September, according to four sources and documents, cutting into the historical heart of the business, whose origins lie in SoftBank's 2012 acquisition of French robotics firm Aldebaran.
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How to make group video calls using Telegram: A step-by-step guide
Telegram announced plans to add group video calling to the app earlier this year. The feature is now finally rolling out to users via an update on both mobile and desktop operating systems. The desktop version, however, gets some additional functionality like selective screen sharing and more.
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Mobile World Congress 2021 kicks off in Barcelona
A major wireless technology trade fair kicked off in Barcelona on Monday with scaled-back attendance and beefed-up health and safety measures, changes that reflect the new reality for industry conventions in the post-pandemic era.
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Google, Facebook summoned by Parliamentary Committee on IT on June 29
Parliament Standing Committee on Information Technology (I&T) has issued summons to Facebook India and Google India asking them to send their representatives to appear before it on Tuesday to hear their views on safeguarding citizens' rights and prevention of misuse of social online news media platforms.
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Sunday, June 27, 2021
ADIA picks up minority stake in Mobikwik at valuation of $700 million
Mobikwik is said to be working on a Rs 1,200-crore IPO, which is likely to hit the markets by September. The fintech startup was recently in the news for an alleged data breach, following which the RBI ordered a forensic audit.
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Thousands descend on Barcelona for reboot of MWC mobile tech show
Over 30,000 visitors from 143 countries are set to stream into the Catalan city for the three-day Mobile World Congress, or MWC, which starts on Monday - and each will have to pass through a mammoth testing area complete with 80 booths.
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Self-driving sensor firm Aeva Technologies adds two Apple veterans
James Reuther, who spent more than a decade at NASA before a stint at Apple overseeing new sensing technologies, has joined the company as its vice president of technology. Sawyer Cohen, who spent more than a decade at Apple and was the company's iPhone product design lead for almost five years, will be Aeva's senior director of product design.
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Saturday, June 26, 2021
How to share Google Sheets in Excel format
Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel are the two most used spreadsheet programs. But what happens when a Google Sheets user sends a file to an Excel user? You might know that Google Sheets comes with an in-built export mechanism, which allows users to export a Google Sheet document to open it in Excel.
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How to link your passport number to Covid-19 vaccination certificate
Travelling abroad? You will need to get your passport linked to your vaccination certificate. Vaccination certificates have become the new mandatory requirement to travel abroad. Though so far there are no set norms globally for exemptions for vaccinated travellers and most countries have their own rules, one thing is clear: No vaccination, no international travel. So this makes it as important for those planning a trip abroad to link their passports to the vaccine certificate as to get the vaccination.
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Tesla 'recalls' vehicles in China for online software update
Chinese regulators said on Saturday Tesla Inc would 'recall' nearly 3 lakh China-made and imported Model 3 and Model Y cars for an online software update related to assisted driving, with owners not required to return their vehicles. The remote online software 'recall' - a first for Tesla cars built in China - covers 249,855 China-made Model 3 and Model Y cars, and 35,665 imported Model 3 sedans.
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India's IT exports may witness double-digit growth in FY22: Report
As Indian IT majors adapt to the post-Covid business dynamics and spend heavily on several aspects, IT exports from the country are expected to witnessed a healthy double-digit growth in the ongoing financial year, according to a report prepared by Kotak Institutional Equities.
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Friday, June 25, 2021
Electric wave: EVs to dominate sales 5 years sooner than expected
Accordingly, EY deployed its 'Mobility Lens Forecaster', an artificial intelligence (AI) powered forecast modelling tool that provides an outlook for the supply and demand of mobility products and services through 2050 to derive these results. The latest predictions show that by 2028 EV sales in Europe will surpass those of other powertrains, a trend that will be repeated in China by 2033 and in the US by 2036.
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Facebook rejects talks with Australia publisher, may test online law
Australia's competition watchdog is looking into a claim that Facebook Inc refused a publisher's request to negotiate a licensing deal, the regulator told Reuters, setting the stage for the first test of the world's toughest online content law.
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Learn to learn; the value of a degree is vanishing
Rajendra Pawar, chairman of the NIIT Group, says earlier if you learnt, say, cement technology of a certain type, the technology would last some 40 years, and what you learnt in college and in the first few years of working would be enough to see you through your entire career. But now, he says, technology is changing extremely fast and you might live up to 100 years. “So imagine the number of times you will have to make changes in your life. Lifelong learning is the rule of the game,” says the co-founder of the group that pioneered IT skilling in India.
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Data is allowing creation of amazing new business models
One in two enterprises have made data a key strategic goal for their organisations, Subrahmanyam KVJ, director of Capgemini Invent India – the consulting, digital innovation and transformation unit of the French IT company – said at the Times Techies webinar last week on `Building a data first enterprise in the digital economy’.
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Garmin Forerunner 55 with up to 2 weeks battery life launched in India
Garmin has expanded its smartphone lineup in India with the launch of Forerunner 55. The smartwatch comes with GPS connectivity that the company claims is designed for people of all skill levels. The Forerunner 55 has been launched at Rs 20,990. It will be available online — Amazon.in, Flipkart, Tata Cliq, synergizer.co.in — as well as offline via Garmin Brand Stores.
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
New FTC chief Khan names some top staffers, including competition chief
Tech critic and the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, has named three top staffers in a signal that the agency could become more aggressive in how it enforces antitrust law and laws against deceptive advertising.
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Google delays Chrome's blocking of tracking cookies to late 2023
Google had wanted to bar reams of ad-personalization companies from gathering users' browsing interests through cookies from January 2022. But rivals accused the world's biggest online ads seller by revenue of using improved privacy as a pretense to gain greater market share.
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Microsoft's biggest update after 6 years is here, Windows 11
Microsoft has unveiled the next generation of its Windows software, called Windows 11, that has a new Start Menu and other features. The newest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system announced Thursday will be a successor to today's Windows 10, which the company introduced in 2015.
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Volvo's electric XC90 SUV to include lidar as standard equipment next year
Self-driving car sensor startup Luminar Technologies Inc will supply Volvo Cars with its Iris lidar and Sentinel software in combination with software from Volvo in the electric XC90 SUV that will be built in South Carolina and go on sale in 2022, the companies said.
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US panel approves five antitrust bills, three of them aimed at Big Tech
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved five antitrust bills, three of them aimed at Big Tech, and will take up the last and most aggressive proposed legislation on Thursday, a bill that could require platforms to sell off lines of business.
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How Apple plans to make its physical stores more popular
Apple Inc is expanding retail operations as the United States emerges from the pandemic, betting that a combination of strategies developed before and during COVID-19 will make its stores more popular than ever, its retail chief told Reuters.
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Amazon Web Services expands partnership with Salesforce
Amazon Web Services on Thursday expanded its partnership with Salesforce making it easy for users to use the full set of Salesforce and AWS capabilities together to quickly build and deploy powerful new business applications that accelerate digital transformation.
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Saudi Aramco chairman to join Reliance Industries board
Reliance Industries Ltd said on Thursday Saudi Aramco chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan will join the Indian conglomerate's board. Reliance had announced a sale of a 20% stake in its oil-to-chemicals business for $15 billion in 2019 to Aramco, the world's top oil exporting firm.
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Deutsche Bank partners with Oracle to simplify its IT systems, cut costs
Oracle is planning to transfer platforms of some of Deutsche Bank's core functions such as payments, trading and risk management to one system, promising smooth operation and regular updates, the two groups said on Thursday.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Self-driving startup WeRide deepens ties with Nissan, raises $310 million
WeRide, led by founder Tony Han, is pursuing what is known in the auto industry as a level 4 autonomous standard, in which the vehicle can handle all aspects of driving in most circumstances with no human intervention.
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Warren Buffett has resigned from Gates Foundation
The announcement comes weeks after Bill and Melinda Gates announced that they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage but would continue to jointly run the foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world.
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Twitter allows iPhone users to share tweets directly on Instagram Stories: Here’s how to do it
Social networking website Twitter has rolled out the support to share tweets to Instagram Stories directly but only for iOS users. The functionality was announced by the company via a tweet where it said, "pls stop posting screenshots of Tweets on IG Stories. you can now share Tweets directly on iOS. - management "
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Google likely to soon face antitrust claims over Play store from US states: Sources
The anticipated lawsuit follows complaints from app developers about Google's management of its Play Store for Android devices, according to one source. The lawsuit has been in the works since last year and has already been delayed, but seems close again, the sources said.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Cybersecurity firm Transmit Security raises $543 million in early funding round
The funds bring Transmit's valuation to close to $3 billion, with the round led by Insight Partners and General Atlantic, with additional investment from Cyberstarts, Geodesic, SYN Ventures, Vintage, and Artisanal Ventures.
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How to delete a service linked to your Google Account
Google accounts have become the most common method for login into any service or app. In fact, most apps and services today offer the option to sign in using your Google Account and given the convenience, we tend to take that option almost always.
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What's happening with Tesla's $7 billion German 'gigafactory'?
Tesla has already pushed back the expected opening to late 2021. Yet the environmental agency in Brandenburg, the state where the 5.8 billion euro ($6.9 billion) plant is being built, has still not given final approval - meaning a further delay cannot be ruled out, even into 2022.
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Chipmaker GlobalFoundries to spend $6 billion to expand capacity in US, Germany and Singapore
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries said on Tuesday it will spend $6 billion to expand capacity at its factories in Singapore, Germany and the United States amid a chip shortage that is hurting automakers and electronics firms globally.
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Monday, June 21, 2021
US Commerce Department rescinds TikTok, WeChat prohibited transactions list
The withdrawals came after President Joe Biden earlier this month withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of Tencent-owned WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps and others.
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IT ministry may issue FAQs on new social media rules in 1-2 weeks
The IT ministry is likely to issue FAQs pertaining to the new intermediary rules in the next 1-2 weeks, a source said. The frequently asked questions (FAQs) would touch upon various aspects of the rules, including the measures, how the norms would benefit users, and any other clarification that stakeholders may have. The FAQs are likely to be issued in 1-2 weeks, said sources.
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EU privacy watchdogs call for ban on facial recognition in public spaces
Europe's two privacy watchdogs teamed up on Monday to call for a ban on the use of facial recognition in public spaces, going against draft European Union rules which would allow the technology to be used for public security reasons.
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Yellow Messenger rebrands to yellow.ai, launches AI-powered voice bots
Yellow Messenger said it has rebranded itself as Yellow.ai and launched voice AI bots to expand its product suite aimed at delivering total customer experience automation. The company has seen significant growth in revenues and booked USD 16 million in ARR (annual recurring revenue), Raghu Ravinutala, co-founder and CEO of Yellow.ai, told.
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Prosus reports earnings boost from Tencent stake
Prosus NV , the international investment arm of South Africa's Naspers, reported a better than expected net profit of $7.45 billion for 2021 on Monday, driven by strong returns from its big stake in Chinese software giant Tencent.
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Axiata, Telenor merge mobile operations in Malaysia in $16 billion deal
Malaysian telecoms firm Axiata Group Bhd and Norway's Telenor ASA sealed an agreement to merge their mobile operations in Malaysia in a $15.8 billion deal, forming a new market leader in the competitive Southeast Asian nation.
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Sunday, June 20, 2021
International Day of Yoga 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches mYoga app
On the occasion of International Day of Yoga, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the mYoga app in collaboration with World Health Organisation (WHO). This app comes preloaded with many yoga training videos that are based on common yoga protocol and in multiple languages
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A possible Saudi Aramco appointment on Reliance board triggers buzz over $15 billion deal
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani had in August 2019 announced talks for the sale of a 20 per cent stake in the oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business, which comprises its twin oil refineries at Jamnagar in Gujarat and petrochemical assets, to the world's largest oil exporter.
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Public Wi-fi available at all 15 railway stations of Kashmir Valley
The 15 stations in the Kashmir Valley are Baramula, Hamre, Pattan, Mazhom, Budgam, Srinagar, Pampore, Kakapora, Avantipura, Panzgam, Bijbehara, Anantnag, Sadura, Qazigund and Banihal, which spread out in the four districts of Srinagar, Budgaon, Banihal and Qazigund.
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India sees surge in AI-enabled automated customer service agents
Automated customer service agents became the top Artificial Intelligence (AI) use case for the Indian organisations in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic kept millions at home and face-to-face interactions diminished across industries, according to a new report.
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Demand for talent will be key dependency for growth amid rapid shift to digital: Rishad Premji
The former Nasscom chairman noted that technology is often at the forefront of economic recovery, but especially now, as the pandemic precipitated structural changes across industries and challenged established ways of working.
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Saturday, June 19, 2021
Google searches for new measure of skin tones to curb bias in products
Alphabet Inc's Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones, which a growing chorus of technology researchers and dermatologists says is inadequate for assessing whether products are biased against people of color.
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Tech hiring rebounds in May; overall job market still weak, says report
There was a 2 per cent decline in the overall number of new job posts in May on the SCIKEY Market Network, a job site, including in sectors like banking with a dip of 12 per cent, retail 16 per cent and FMCG 12 per cent, while there was a growth of 5 per cent in the insurance sector.
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New Indian IT Rules do not conform with international norms: UN Special Rapporteurs
The observations were made in Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association and the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy.
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Friday, June 18, 2021
Wipro may have some 'good news' for its junior staff
IT services major Wipro on Friday said it will give wage hikes to junior employees with effect from September 1, 2021. As announced earlier, all eligible employees above band C1 (managers and above) will receive pay hikes effective June 1, it added.
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Reliance Jio adds over 79 lakh mobile subscribers in March: Trai data
According to the monthly subscriber data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the total number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 120.1 crore at the end of March 2021, a monthly growth rate of 1.12 per cent.
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Appeals court upholds FCC subsidy ban for Huawei purchases
A federal appeals court refused Friday to hear Chinese tech giant Huawei's request to throw out a rule used to bar rural phone carriers on national security grounds from using government funds to purchase its equipment.
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EU antitrust regulators to open probe into Google's adtech business by year-end: Sources
EU antitrust regulators are set to open another front against Alphabet unit Google by launching a formal investigation into its digital advertising practices, said people familiar with the matter, with the move likely to come before the end of the year.
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OnePlus ropes in Jasprit Bumrah as brand ambassador for wearables
Premium smartphone brand OnePlus on Friday said it has roped in cricketer Jasprit Bumrah as the brand ambassador for its wearables category. "The partnership with Bumrah reiterates the brand philosophy of 'Never Settle' and the company's pursuit towards perfection.
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
Chinese apps could face subpoenas or bans under Joe Biden order: Sources
The U.S. Department of Commerce may issue subpoenas to collect information about certain smartphone, tablet and desktop computer software applications. Then the agency may negotiate conditions for their use in the United States or ban the apps, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Google's cloud taps AMD for new service as chip wars heat up
Cloud computing providers such as Google, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp are some of the biggest buyers of data center chips. They build services on top of the chips to rent the computing power out to millions of customers.
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Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai boost Indian tech prowess on world map
With Microsoft now electing CEO Satya Nadella as also the Chairman -- a first in two decades after the legendary Bill Gates, who has now retired from both the positions -- the Pichai-Nadella duo is now the flag bearer of a talent powerhouse, as new faces join the high-profile league of businesses led by Indian-origin tech honchos.
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Blowhorn develops real-time tracking platform for timely delivery of medical aid
Logistics firm Blowhorn on Thursday said it has developed a real-time tracking platform to aid the fight against COVID-19 in the national capital by ensuring timely delivery of life-saving medical equipment like oxygen concentrators to hospitals and patients.
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Canon develops 'smile recognition' technology for employees
Canon has come up with a new AI-enabled 'smile recognition' technology through which AI cameras in the offices of its Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology only lets smiling workers enter rooms or book meetings.
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IKEA launches ecommerce service and mobile shopping app in Bengaluru
Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA announced on Thursday the launch of its eCommerce services and mobile shopping app in Bengaluru. There will be over 8,000 home furnishing products and solutions to choose from, it said in a statement.
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Google to set up 80 oxygen plants and upskill rural health workers, announces Rs 113 crore grant
Google.org will support procurement and installation of about 80 oxygen generation plants in healthcare facilities in high-need and rural locations with new grants of about Rs 90 crore (USD 12.5 million) to GiveIndia and about Rs 18.5 crore (USD 2.5 million) to PATH.
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Walmart's Flipkart challenges India court order on antitrust probe
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) launched an investigation in January last year following a complaint alleging that Flipkart and Amazon.com Inc promoted select sellers on their e-commerce platforms and used deep discounts to stifle competition.
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Most new-age Indian cos use React for web development
HTML, CSS and JavaScript have long been core to web development and user interfaces. HTML is what is known as a markup language, and helps to lay out the skeleton of the web page – like, here’s the header, here the text, here a sidebar. CSS is what is known as a style sheet language, and helps to add style – such as, fonts, colours, spacing – to the web elements. And JavaScript is a programming language that enables interactions between webpages and the user, like the search bar or when you fill a form and submit it.
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Qualcomm’s Durga Malladi has over 500 patents
Malladi did BS from IIT Madras, and then did a PhD from the University of California in adaptive signal processing. He joined Qualcomm immediately after. Over the past 24 years, he has headed many departments. He is now on the business side, but technology, he says, remains his first love.
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NetApp's flagship data management software is built in India
Data management major NetApp, like many other tech companies, envisions a world where customers focus on what they do best and leave the computer business to tech geeks. To bring this dream alive, one of its major initiatives has been the data management software called ONTAP, which is practically NetApp’s operating system. It’s very popular with NetApp's customers globally as it helps them seamlessly switch between different cloud providers. The latest version of it, ONTAP 9, has been developed principally by the company’s R&D team in Bengaluru.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Google may face shareholder lawsuit claiming it hid security risks
A US appeals court revived a lawsuit in which shareholders of Google parent Alphabet Inc accused Google of misleading them by concealing security vulnerabilities, including in its Google+ social network. Google later admitted that the data had been exposed, and drew criticism from Congress for concealing security shortfalls.
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Clubhouse expands Creator First programme to India
Clubhouse said it is expanding Clubhouse Creator First programme to India as the audio-only social media app looks to provide creators on the platform tools and resources to help take their ideas and creativity to a larger audience.
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Satya Nadella gets more power, appointed as Microsoft chairman
India-born Satya Nadella, who replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO in 2014, has been instrumental in scaling up the Redmond, Washington-based company's business including billion-dollar acquisitions like LinkedIn, Nuance and ZeniMax.
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IT companies may slash 3 million jobs by 2022 due to automation, claims report
According to the report, faster automation is driven by the shrinking talent pool of high-skilled jobs in developing economies, the need for which will only jump, but the global high-skill talent pool is shrinking and exposing outmoded immigration systems.
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EdTech firm Applyboard to expand India operations, leverage $300 million funding
Canada-based edutech firm Applyboard plans to leverage part of USD 300 million fund it raised in series D round to expand its team in India by three-folds to around 900 employees in two years, a senior official of the company said on Wednesday.
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Google Pay adds more Indian banks for user payments through digital token
Google Pay on Wedensday announced to expand its cards tokenisation feature in collaboration with Visa with new banks that enables users to make debit or credit card payments through a secure digital token attached to their phone.
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Larsen & Toubro Infotech to acquire Cuelogic for $8.4 million
Founded in 2010, Cuelogic has built capabilities in digital engineering, and primarily focuses on developing cloud native web and mobile applications, modernisation, and runs innovation lab as a service for its clients in the USA and India, an LTI statement said.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Joe Biden names Big Tech critic Lina Khan as US FTC chair
The selection of legal scholar Lina Khan to head the Federal Trade Commission is seen as signaling a tough stance toward tech giants Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple. Khan was sworn in as FTC chair just hours after the Senate confirmed her as one of five members of the commission on a 69-28 vote.
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Top senator fears Big Tech at home as Alexa, Nest dominate
The U.S. Congress takes up the issue on Tuesday of yet another area where big tech firms -- in this case, Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google -- dominate, this time in smart home devices where they battle smaller companies like speaker maker Sonos Inc.
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EU court leaves Facebook more exposed to privacy challenges
Facebook is subject to EU privacy challenges from watchdogs in any of the bloc's member states, not just its lead regulator in Ireland, the bloc's top court ruled Tuesday, in a ruling that has implications for other big tech companies.
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GM's self-driving car unit Cruise to access $5 billion credit line
General Motors Co's majority owned Cruise self-driving car subsidiary said on Tuesday it would gain access to a multi-year $5 billion line of credit with GM's finance arm to finance its purchase of Origin vehicles starting in early 2023.
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Prosus takes control of online training provider GoodHabitz in $257 million deal
Technology investor Prosus said on Tuesday it had bought a majority stake in online training provider GoodHabitz in a bid to expand its presence in education technology where it has committed more than $3 billion since 2016.
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Accenture to acquire German firm Umlaut
Global IT and professional services firm Accenture on Tuesday said it will acquire German firm Umlaut to scale its deep engineering capabilities in digital technologies like cloud, artificial intelligence and 5G. No financial details of the deal were disclosed.
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India to expedite probe into Amazon and Flipkart over anti-competitive behaviour allegations
The Competition Commission of India plans to expedite a restarted probe into allegations of anti-competitive behaviour at Amazon India and Walmart Inc's Flipkart, even as the country intensifies scrutiny of Big Tech firms.
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Monday, June 14, 2021
Huawei CFO seeks publication ban on HSBC documents in US extradition case
Prosecutors representing the Canadian government argued against the ban, saying in submissions filed the same day that "to be consistent with the open court principle, a ban must be tailored" and details should be selectively redacted from the public, rather than the whole documents.
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Flipkart may get an investment of over Rs 3,000 crore by ADQ
ADQ, formerly known as Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company, is in advanced stages of discussions to pump in about USD 400-500 million (around Rs 3,000 crore to Rs 3,660 crore) in e-commerce major Flipkart, according to sources.
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Toshiba chairman hits out at former CEO, says wants to stay on
Toshiba Corp's chairman of the board on Monday pushed back against investor calls for him to resign, blaming its former chief executive for a "confrontational stance" towards shareholders that helped pitch the Japanese company into crisis.
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Honeywell to ramp up oxygen production with the help of DRDO, CSIR-IIP
Honeywell on Monday said it is partnering with the Indian government's Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP) to ramp up oxygen production in the country.
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Triller owner prepares direct listing amid social media pivot: Sources
TrillerNet, the owner of short video app Triller, is preparing to file with U.S. regulators in July for a direct listing as it pivots from competing against larger rival TikTok to streaming live events, according to people familiar with the matter.
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How to share Google Sheets in Excel format
Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel are the two most used spreadsheet programs. But what happens when a Google Sheets user sends a file to an Excel user? You might know that Google Sheets comes with an in-built export mechanism, which allows users to export a Google Sheet document to open it in Excel.
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Here’s why the launch of next Samsung Galaxy S series smartphone is delayed
Some earlier rumours suggested that Samsung might launch the smartphone in August along with its next generation foldable smartphones and Galaxy Watch 4 series. But, a new report reveals that the launch of Galaxy S21 FE is in trouble due to chip shortage.
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Sunday, June 13, 2021
Toshiba changes board nominees as two step down in deepening crisis
The shake-up follows an investigation that found the company had colluded with the Japanese government to pressure foreign investors, a revelation that its second-largest shareholder called the greatest corporate governance scandal in the world in the last decade.
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Lawsuit claims iPhone, other Apple devices infringe on wireless patents
The complaint, lodged in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, claims that Apple products -- like iPhones and iPads -- infringe on specific claims in 13 different patents owned by non-practicing entity Smart Mobile, LLC.
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Spotlight on Xbox Game Pass as Microsoft showcases upcoming games
Several of the game launches announced by Microsoft at the E3 conference came from video game publisher Bethesda, behind hits such as Fallout and Doom. Microsoft last year bought ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda, for $7.5 billion.
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Government rules out NIC data breach, says email system 'totally safe & secure'
The email system is "totally safe and secure", government says, dismissing a report claiming that data breaches in firms like Air India, BigBasket and Domino's had exposed email accounts and passwords of NIC emails to hackers.
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Krafton to launch $5 billion plus IPO next week, sources say
Krafton, the company behind blockbuster video game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), will launch its IPO early next week in what could be South Korea's largest listing in 11 years, people familiar with the matter said.
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Saturday, June 12, 2021
How to stop Facebook from tracking you
Facebook introduced new tools for its users last year. This tool allows users to see what data about you on Facebook is being accessed by third-party apps and websites. The tool known as ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ allows users to control these data sharing settings.
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Friday, June 11, 2021
Researchers develop tech that uses human body as medium to transfer power between devices
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a technology that enables a single device, such as a mobile phone placed in the pocket, to wirelessly power other wearable devices on a user's body, using the human body as a medium for power transmission.
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How to verify whether a covid vaccine certificate is authentic or fake
This QR is placed on the certificate for the sole purpose of verification. So, no one can use Photoshop to photo edit any random vaccine certificate and create a fake vaccine certificate. Here’s how to check the authenticity of a Covid vaccine certificate in India
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McDonald's operations in South Korea and Taiwan hit by data breach
McDonald's Corp, the world's largest burger chain, said on Friday that a data breach in South Korea and Taiwan has exposed some customer and employee information, making it the latest global company to be targeted by cybercriminals.
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E3 2021 preview: Dates, where to watch, schedule and more
The biggest game show of the year, E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is set to kick off tomorrow (June 12). This year, however, the event will be held digitally just like every other tech event this year thanks to the covid-19 pandemic.
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Karnataka High Court dismisses pleas by Amazon, Flipkart to quash CCI's antitrust probe
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) announced a probe in January 2020 into Amazon and Flipkart following a complaint from a trader group which alleged they were promoting some "preferred sellers" and in turn hurting business for other, smaller sellers.
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Frequent run-ins with India govt cloud US tech expansion plans
Twitter joins compatriots Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and Facebook-owned WhatsApp in long being at loggerheads with the administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over data privacy bills and policies some executives have called protectionist, but tension has escalated in recent weeks.
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How Lakshmi transformed from dentist to data analyst
Lakshmi Venkatesh was introduced to the basics of yoga by her mother when she was barely six. At 43, what has changed is the complexity of the asanas she performs. What has not changed is her drive to learn and master new asanas every time she rolls out a yoga mat on the floor. This is the same mantra she follows in her professional life. She likes to keep learning.
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Cloud liberates app owners from IT infrastructure
Cloud has been the biggest story of the past year in the tech world. And that continues. Cloud was growing even before the pandemic, but the scalability, flexibility and agility that cloud provides has become invaluable to almost every company as people work, shop and bank from home.
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Puneet takes sabbaticals before big moves
In Puneet Singh’s first job, he was working with a hospital to deliver applications that stored the medical records of patients. He still remembers the call with the hospital the day his team unfortunately ran into some problems. "They told me if the doctors don't get the information on time, it could result in deaths," he says.
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How AI is set to revolutionise the field of endoscopy
The inside of a human body can be a disorienting and dynamic landscape to the untrained eye. Doctors spend years training to visually identify subtle signs of disease and have relied on endoscopy – medical imaging via a long tube – to look closely at those hard to reach places. But now there's a digital revolution going on in the field of gastroenterology and endoscopy that has the potential to greatly increase positive patient outcomes.
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Who said coding is boring! Great coders weave stories like Rowling
Many look at lines like these for (i = 0; i < 100; i++){printf("hello");} and wonder how anyone can spend their lives writing such stuff. So we asked some of India’s best coders what kept them going, and the answers were surprisingly uniform.
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Thursday, June 10, 2021
What Apple’s new ex BMW hire means
Kranz, who was most recently the chief executive of electric vehicle startup Canoo Inc, will report to Apple veteran Doug Field, who led development of Tesla Inc's mass-market Model 3 and now runs Apple's car project, the report said. Bloomberg reported the news earlier on Thursday
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SK Telecom to conduct spinoff in November for future chip tech
SK Telecom, South Korea's top wireless carrier, decided on Thursday to spin off a new investment company in November to expand its foothold in new tech sectors, as well as conduct a 5-for-1 stock split aimed at improving shareholder value.
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Paytm, MakeMyTrip, Infosys may soon help you with COVID vaccine bookings
Paytm, Infosys and MakeMyTrip are among companies seeking approval in India to provide online COVID-19 vaccine bookings, the head of the government's tech platform said, as the country tries to make it easier for its huge population to book shots.
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How to access Reliance Jio services on WhatsApp
Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio has launched a new WhatsApp chatbot for its users. Using the service, Jio prepaid, postpaid and broadband customers can access several features such as plans, order a new SIM, get JioFiber support and more using WhatsApp.
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India and Australia to expand cyber security cooperation
The two sides discussed a range of issues relating to emerging technologies in the cyber domain at the first meeting of the India-Australia Joint Working Group (JWG) on cyber security cooperation, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
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ByteDance launches Volcano Engine brand to offer TikTok 'secret' to businesses
ByteDance launched its new Volcano Engine brand to offer the proprietary algorithm used to power TikTok's personalised recommendations to more corporate clients, as the company seeks to expand beyond mainstay consumer products.
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British watchdog plans investigation into Amazon's use of data: Report
Britain's competition watchdog is planning a formal competition investigation into e-commerce company Amazon.com Inc, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing three unidentified people familiar with the situation.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Have an Echo device? Amazon may help itself to your Wi-Fi
Amazon has launched a program that forces users of many Echo smart speakers and Ring security cameras to automatically share a small portion of their home wireless bandwidth with neighbors. The only way to stop it is to turn it off yourself.
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El Salvador becomes the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender
El Salvador's Legislative Assembly has approved legislation making the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender in the country, the first nation to do so, just days after President Nayib Bukele made the proposal at a Bitcoin conference.
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Twitter appoints new board member to replace Elliott's Jesse Cohn
Alemayehou will join the board immediately and Cohn will step down, the company said in a release. Elliott, one of Twitter's top 20 investors, will continue to engage with senior management and the board through an "information sharing and engagement agreement," Twitter said.
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Huawei to be excluded from JPMorgan bond indices
US bank JPMorgan said it will exclude Huawei's dollar bonds from some its most influential investment indices from the end of next month, following the latest ratcheting up of U.S. sanctions on Chinese technology firms.
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Microsoft, 5 other firms fined for personal data leaks by South Korea's watchdog
South Korea's data protection watchdog said on Wednesday that it has imposed monetary penalties on six companies and institutions, including technology giant Microsoft and an affiliate of local internet giant Kakao, for failing to protect personal information of their clients by negligence.
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EU antitrust regulator cite concerns about voice assistants' exclusivity practices
A year-long inquiry into voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri and other internet-connected devices has led to among more than 200 companies expressing concerns of potential anti-competitive practices, EU antitrust regulators said on Wednesday.
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Indian gamers now prefer PCs over mobiles in remote era, claims report
For nine in 10 Indians, gaming especially on personal computers (PCs) helps relieve work and study pressure while reducing stress and inducing positive feelings in the remote era, a new HP India report showed on Wednesday, clearing indicating that gaming on big screen is now being preferred over mobiles in the country.
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DRDO invites EoI to transfer technology of '2-DG' Covid treatment drug for bulk production
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which developed 2-Deoxy-D- Glucose (2-DG), a drug used for treatment of Covid-19 patients, has called for Expression of Interest (EoI) to transfer the technology to Indian pharmaceutical industries for production.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Bitcoin falls to 3-week low as IRS seeks approval for reporting rules
Bitcoin fell to a three-week low on Tuesday amid signs of institutional investor caution, while the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service called for lawmakers to provide authority for tighter reporting rules on crypto transfers.
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Google loosens its search engine grip on Android devices in Europe
The move by the world's most popular internet search engine comes as the 27-country bloc considers rules that could be introduced next year to force Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook to ensure a level playing field for competitors.
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Criminal gangs reveal plans, proposed killings on FBI-run messaging app
Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a messaging app secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday, as they unveiled a global sting operation they said dealt an "unprecedented blow" to organized crime in countries around the world.
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Singapore court jails techie for racially offensive tweets, slurs to Indians: Report
A 35-year old senior executive at a software company in Singapore, who made racially offensive tweets in April last year, including slurs to Indians and condemning Indian immigrants about COVID-19, was jailed for three weeks on Tuesday, a media report said.
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Select Committee of Parliament still to finalise report on data protection law: IT Minister
The areas covered by the draft bill on data protection include consent, what comprises personal data including sensitive personal data, exemptions which can be granted, grounds for processing information, storage restrictions for personal data and individual rights.
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Samsung bets on Europe 5G orders to grow network equipment business
Samsung Electronics is banking on Europe to maintain growth momentum in its network equipment business, a senior executive said, as 5G rollout widens and industry leader Huawei Technologies of China focuses on its domestic market.
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Apple's biggest iCloud Plus feature will not be available in these countries
The feature was one of a number of privacy protections Apple announced at its annual software developer conference on Monday, the latest in a years-long effort by the company to cut down on the tracking of its users by advertisers and other third parties.
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Cyber attacks on crypto users' devices see four times increase: Report
With the rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies, the attacks on crypto users quadrupled in the first quarter this year, as cybercriminals installed malicious programs called Miners to steal cryptocurrency from infected devices, a new report has showed.
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Infosys announces collaboration with Archrock
IT major Infosys has announced a collaboration with Archrock, Inc., a leading provider of natural gas compression services in the U.S, to integrate digital technologies and mobile tools for its field service technicians.
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COVID-19: ISRO develops 3 types of ventilators, to transfer technology
The Indian Space Research Organisation has developed three types of ventilators, and has come forward to transfer the technology to industry forclinical usage as the country battles the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic.
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Google agrees to change some ad practices after French watchdog imposes fine
The authority also fined the Mountain View, California-based company 220 million euros ($267.48 million) after a probe found it abused its market power in the intricate ad business online, where some its tools have become almost essential for large publishers.
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Meet the new, unstoppable Indian tech honchos on world map
The latest to join the elite tech CEOs' club is Rajesh Nambiar, currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant India, who has replaced Malcolm Frank, Executive Vice President and President, Digital Business and Technology at the IT major.
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Elon Musk's "quickest production car" has been cancelled
Model S Plaid+, which would have been Tesla's highest-end model with a driving range of 520 miles, was unveiled at a battery event last year and Musk said it would adopt its next-generation 4,680 battery cells. But production was pushed back to 2022 from the end of 2021.
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