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Nikita and Nishita Baliarsingh, co-founders of Nexus Power

This woman-run startup uses crop residue to create bio-batteries

Solving three problems at once, Odisha startup Nexus Power uses crop remnants to create bio-organic, fast-charging batteries for electric vehicles

Epic Games’ popular free-to-play game, Fortnite.

Epic Games’ Fortnite earned $9 billion in its first two years

The researcher will train AI and NLP systems to summarise questions in a comprehensive manner.

A voice assistant for the elderly to answer medical queries

Sowmya Ramasubramanian The model is an end-to-end question answering system, and improves on the assistant’s ability to understand the question, instead of asking the user to restate it

Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message.

Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message

Aditya Saroha Hackers first send users an SMS message which says “REGISTER FOR COVID VACCINE from age 18+” and asks users to register with the ‘COVID-19’ app.

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The company has received nearly 49,000 responses globally in 14 languages, the spokeswoman said.

Twitter hears from record respondents over world leader rules

Reuters Twitter’s month-long survey asked questions like whether world leaders breaking Twitter's rules should face "greater or lesser" consequences then other users and whether it was ever appropriate for Twitter to permanently suspend the account of a current president or prime minister

Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message.

Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message

Aditya Saroha Hackers first send users an SMS message which says “REGISTER FOR COVID VACCINE from age 18+” and asks users to register with the ‘COVID-19’ app.

Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings.

Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings

Reuters Bengio is expected to lead a new AI research unit at Apple under John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, two people familiar with the matter said.

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Apple’s AirTag viewed from front and from back. The front has a personalised engraving in the form of an emoji.

explained All about AirTag, Apple’s native tracking device for the absent-minded

Divya Kala Bhavani We delve into the intricacies of AirTag; from design to the ultra wideband technology to the inevitable privacy concerns

Amazon launches Fire TV Cube in India.

Amazon launches Fire TV Cube in India; users can control device with Alexa

Ishan Patra The far-field voice recognition in Fire TV Cube uses eight microphones and advanced beamforming technology to make sure Alexa clearly hears a user’s request when placed next to their TV.

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gamespot | Entertainment

‘Resident Evil Village’ game review: Survival horror at its finest — and most blood-chilling

High-tech hunt for scarce COVID-19 vaccines in India raises fear for fairness

Twitter hears from record respondents over world leader rules

Facing chips shortage, Biden may shelve blunt tool used in COVID fight

Epic Games’ Fortnite earned $9 billion in its first two years

A voice assistant for the elderly to answer medical queries

Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message

Hackers first send users an SMS message which says “REGISTER FOR COVID VACCINE from age 18+” and asks users to register with the ‘COVID-19’ app.

Twitter acquires news startup Scroll in push for subscriptions

The deal will help Twitter build a subscription feature, such as letting users access premium features from news outlets or a writer's Revue newsletter

Verizon sells internet trailblazers Yahoo and AOL for $5B

Verizon has been shedding media assets as it refocuses on wireless, spending billions on licensing the airwaves needed for the next generation of faster mobile service, called 5G

PlayStation and Discord to partner for social gaming

As part of the agreement, Sony’s video game company has made a minority investment in Discord’s Series H round.

Epic Games CEO cites Apple’s ‘total control’ over iPhones at first day of antitrust trial

Epic broke Apple's rules in August when it introduced its own in-app payment system in "Fortnite" to circumvent Apple's commissions. In response, Apple kicked Epic off its App Store.

Chipmaker TSMC eyeing expansion of planned Arizona plant

TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, announced in May 2020 it would build a $12 billion factory in Arizona.

'Speculative excess': ethereum finds new peak in sizzling crypto market

ETH hits new record of $3,457, ETH/BTC at nearly three-year high.

EBay says open to accepting to cryptocurrencies in future, exploring NFTs

A growing number of companies have begun to accept virtual currencies as a form of payment.

Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings

Bengio is expected to lead a new AI research unit at Apple under John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, two people familiar with the matter said.

This woman-run startup uses crop residue to create bio-batteries

Solving three problems at once, Odisha startup Nexus Power uses crop remnants to create bio-organic, fast-charging batteries for electric vehicles

‘Returnal’ review: A real test of bullet hell gaming

Sony’s latest first-party game is a bullet hell Roguelike that is equal parts satisfying, frustrating, addictive and a dream to control on the DualShock 5’s adaptive triggers

Microsoft to change its default Office font first time in about 15 years

The new fonts are available across Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft wants people to use them and give their feedback and comments on social media.

Microsoft 365 update | Convert Word doc into PowerPoint slide in a few clicks

The software giant has also added Show Changes feature in Excel for the web that allows users to track the changes made in an entire workbook down to a single cell.

TSMC says can catch up with auto chip demand by end June

Taiwan, home to a booming semiconductor industry, is front and centre of efforts to resolve that problem, and its chipmakers have vowed to ramp up capacity

Turkey adds crypto firms to money laundering, terror financing rules

Last month Turkey's central bank banned the use of cryptoassets for payments on the grounds such transactions were risky

Apple's app store goes on trial in threat to 'walled garden'

Epic charges that Apple has transformed a once-tiny digital storefront into an illegal monopoly that squeezes mobile apps for a significant slice of their earnings

Weekly Bytes | Zoom’s Immersive View, Self-driving vehicles on UK roads, and more

Here's our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size.

Microsoft to cut Windows store commission to 12% for PC games

The move may draw a larger proportion of game developers and publishers into Microsoft Store.

Facebook to roll out vaccine finder tool on mobile app in India

In this tool, vaccine centre locations and their hours of operation have been provided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)

Fortnite’s absence on Xbox Cloud Gaming service a ‘deliberate decision’ by Epic Games

Kreiner spoke about the availability of Fortnite on Nvidia’s cloud gaming service – GeForce Now – which lets gamers access their library of games purchased on multiple storefronts.

Facebook, Google lack effective scam reporting processes, U.K. watchdog says

Facebook and Google may be particularly attractive to scammers as the algorithms tend to recommend similar content, prompting users to view similar ads if they clicked on one scam ad, the survey noted.

EU approves rules on one-hour takedown of online terrorist content

The regulation will come into force on the twentieth day after publication in the Official journal and will start applying 12 months post that.

IBM to acquire software provider Turbonomic for over $1.5 bln

The acquisition is IBM's 11th since Arvind Krishna became chief executive last year. Krishna has been leading a major transformation, doubling down on the hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence areas.

Twitter shares fall as it warns of fizzling user growth, rising costs

The San Francisco-based company reported 199 million daily active users, up 20% year-over-year, compared to analysts' estimates of 200 million, according to FactSet data.

Why Apple has chips for iPhones while Ford got caught short

The contrasting results show how major players in the electronics industry, accustomed to the long time horizons of chip production, have mostly avoided major disruptions from the chip shortage

French watchdog warns of big tech's sway over payment services

The biggest tech firms also have such financial firepower, the watchdog says, that they can invest vast sums to better integrate payment tools into their systems, thus heightening the risk of locking in consumers into their platform.

Nokia CEO Lundmark flags chip shortage risks to telecom

The shortage has particularly hit the automakers and is now spreading to other industries. With every company that uses chips in production panic buying to shore up stocks, the shortage has squeezed capacity and driven up prices.

A feature to make Google Assistant pronounce names accurately

Assistant will listen to the pronunciation and remember it, without keeping a recording of the user’s voice.

WhatsApp rival adds scheduled voice chats, new web versions

Android users can also download the app directly from Telegram’s website instead of the Google Play store, the company added

Snapchat launches its own version of popular board game Ludo

The game that allows users to play with their friends on Snapchat is made in partnership with Moonfrog Labs, a Bangalore-based gaming company.

Apple soars past sales, profit targets with strong iPhone demand, warns of supply constraints

Sales to China nearly doubled and results topped analyst targets in every category, led by $6.5 billion more in iPhone sales than predicted and Mac sales about a third higher than estimates.

Google battles landmark UK class action over alleged iPhone tracking

Antony White, a lawyer for Google, told the first day of a two-day hearing that any maiden, U.S.-style data protection lawsuit could only seek redress under English laws if a data breach led to claimants suffering damage.

Ford announces new lab to develop lithium-ion, solid-state vehicle batteries

Opening next year, the $185 million lab in Michigan, U.S., will develop, test and build lithium-ion and solid-state vehicle battery cells and arrays with a cross-functional team of 150 experts.

Facebook temporarily blocks posts with hashtag #ResignModi, claims later it was a ‘mistake’

The social media giant said these posts were temporarily blocked due to a mistake and were not taken down on government orders.

Russian hackers still target U.S., other foreign organisations: U.S. security agencies

The latest advisory warns organisations that hackers do not seem to back down.

Netflix’s Play Something feature is here to solve your binge-watching indecision

Netflix’s new feature ‘Play Something’ is evocative of traditional TV. Cameron Johnson, Director of Product — TV & Kids, tells us about the UX decisions and the timing of this shuffle feature

India’s second wave of COVID-19 infections may dent smartphone shipments: report

Smartphone shipments grew nearly 23% in the first three months of 2021 compared to last year, crossing 38 million units

Alphabet sets profit record, plans $50 billion buyback

The results provided the first sign that Google services such as search and YouTube may hold on to gains made since lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions forced people to shop and communicate online over the last year

Microsoft sales grow on cloud strength, shares dip on heightened valuation

Booming sales in personal computers for working from home have also helped boost the company's Windows operating system business, Microsoft said

Spotify launches paid subscription platform for podcasts

The service comes a week after Apple introduced a subscription service for podcasts on Apple Music

Russia fines Apple $12 mln for alleged app market abuse

The FAS said in a statement it had imposed a turnover fine on Apple of 906.3 million roubles ($12.1 million) for the alleged violation of Russian anti-monopoly legislation

EU to hit Apple with antitrust charge this week

Spotify took its grievance to the European Commission in 2019, saying Apple unfairly restricts rivals to its own music steaming service Apple Music

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