Tech News: February 2020

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Best prepaid plans that provide life insurance cover

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Internet giants threaten to suspend services in Pakistan over new regulations

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PUBG Mobile 0.17.0 update on March 3 to commence second anniversary celebrations

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Crossy Road Castle now available exclusively on Apple Arcade

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Apple could launch iPad keyboard with trackpad this year

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Toyota plans new $1.2 billion EV plant in Tianjin with FAW: document

Japanese automaker Toyota plans to build a new electric vehicle plant in the Chinese city of Tianjin with its local partner FAW Group, a document from the local authorities showed.

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The Vivo Blog: Apex 2020 finally shows up and overshadows Z6

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Facebook Messenger redesign that removes Discover tab now rolling out

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5 terrific Siri tricks you’ll use time and again

5 terrific Siri tricks you’ll use time and again

Siri means a secret in Swahili and in Norse, a beautiful woman who leads you to victory. To those of us in Appleland using the voice-controlled personal assistant, it stands for “Speech Interpretation and Recognition Intelligence.” And when you put Siri to work, she can move productivity mountains.

Elliott targets Twitter, seeking CEO Dorsey's removal: sources

Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp has amassed a stake in Twitter Inc and is pushing for changes, including removal of the social media company's chief executive, Jack Dorsey, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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Justice Srikrishna calls new Data Protection Bill a blank cheque to the state

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Facebook 3D Photos now available for single-camera phones: Here’s how to create and share

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GDC 2020 postponed after coronavirus-related cancellations

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Singer’s Elliott seeks to replace Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

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Elliott built a stake in Twitter, is pushing for changes: sources

Activist hedge fund Elliott Management, which often pushes technology companies to improve operations, has built a stake in Twitter Inc and is pushing for changes, including removing the chief executive officer, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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Astronomers detect biggest explosion since Big Bang

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Paul Singer's Elliott seeks to replace Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO: Sources

New York-based Elliott is one of the world's biggest activist investors with more than $40 billion in assets under mangement and has targeted companies ranging from eBay to AT&T to SoftBank in the last months for improvements. Its latest target is the microblogging and social network site and one of the hedge fund's requests is to replace four directors, the people said.

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Elliott built a stake in Twitter, is pushing for changes: source

Activist hedge fund Elliott Management has built a stake in Twitter inc and is pushing for changes, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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Self-regulation model may work for OTT companies: Govt

The government has said it does not have powers to regulate internet content, but suggested an institutional self-regulatory model similar to traditional media, a move that most online video streaming platforms have rejected.

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India needs to pick either West or China for 5G tech: Kotak

Kotak Mahidra Bank managing director Uday Kotak said in the Two System Technology world of 5G, India will have to think hard if it wants to align with the western technology system wherein we also have our political alignment or the Chinese technology system, which will be good for our economy.

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Could deepfakes be used to train office workers?

A consultancy that makes business training videos is advertising for a "deepfake expert".

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FCC proposes fining U.S. wireless carriers more than $200 mln over consumer location data

The Federal Communications Commission confirmed on Friday it voted to propose fining four major U.S. wireless carriers more than $200 million for failing to protect consumers' location information.

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U.S. moves high-level U.S. meeting on China tech, possible new Huawei curbs to March: sources

Trump administration officials have rescheduled for March 11 a critical meeting to discuss potential new U.S. restrictions on sales of technology to Huawei and China, people familiar with the matter said.

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Friday, February 28, 2020

Jio vs Airtel vs Vodafone-Idea: Prepaid plans under Rs 150 with unlimited calls, data

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NavIC: Know about India's own GPS, now available on smartphone

The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is officially called NAVIC which is an acronym for NAVigation with Indian Constellation. The regional geo-positioning system has been designed in India by ISRO to provide accurate positioning in India and around the Indian mainland. It is said to be more accurate than GPS.

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Coronavirus: Livestreaming karaoke and reality TV in virus-hit China

Reality shows in China have found creative ways to keep going while people are urged to stay home.

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Cloud Computing is not the energy hog that had been feared

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Facebook, Google and Twitter rebel against Pakistan’s censorship rules

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Jio vs Airtel vs Vodafone Idea: A comparison of 2GB per day data plans

All the telecom operators these days offer a decent 2 GB per day data on affordable plans. Here is a comparision of such prepaid plans being offered by Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel.

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A new Minimoon was found orbiting Earth. There will be more

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Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite in 512GB variant introduced in India: Price, sale date

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Apple loses pair of key operations, supply chain executives

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Chinese regulators remove 'Plague Inc' game from Apple's China app store

The video game "Plague Inc", which has surged in popularity amid the coronavirus epidemic, has been removed from Apple's China app store after regulators said it contained illegal content, its developer said.

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Realme 6, 6 Pro pre-orders open ahead of official March 5 launch

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HTC brings its new Wildfire R70 phone to India: Specs, features, price

HTC Wildfire R70 comes with a 6.53 inch display with high-definition resolution. It has an Mediatek octa core processor inside and runs on Android Pie operating system. The phone boasts three cameras in the rear panel including a 16 megapixel primary camera and two 2 MP additional cameras. For selfies, it has an 8 megapixel camera in the front.

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Biggest explosion seen in universe came from black hole

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Realme TV will bring innovations, content as per user needs: Madhav Sheth

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Baidu says first-quarter revenue may tumble as coronavirus takes toll on business, advertising

Baidu Inc, China's biggest search engine company, said first-quarter revenue could fall as much as 13% from a year earlier as the coronavirus epidemic puts the brakes on economic activity and advertising.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Facebook cancels F8, Microsoft pulls out of Game Developers Conference

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63,000-plus robots at Accenture’s operations

Manish Sharma, group operating officer at Accenture operations, takes charge of the $6 billion unit with over 141,000 employees on March 1, as part of Accenture’s recent reorganization. “I don’t want my people anywhere in the world to do boring jobs. We call it MRPT — measurable, repeatable, predictable and transaction work — that our people will not do,” Sharma told.

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Cognizant CEO sees a rainmaker in hybrid cloud

“We’re doubling our investment in cloud year-over-year. We want to grow faster and have stronger relationships with Microsoft, Amazon, Google but also leading Software-as-a-Service cloud vendors like Salesforce or Workday or SuccessFactors or SAP, and that is what our M&A strategy has been about,” Brian Humphries told.

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Commercial leasing to grow across 7 major cities over 4 yrs

According to Colliers International, between 2020-24, the office space is expected to witness average annual gross absorption of 5.1 million sq metres, outpacing the annual average gross absorption of the preceding five-year period by about 14%.

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