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Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet, at the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2020.

20% Google employees to permanently work from home, Pichai says

Google employees can also choose to choose to work from anywhere other than their main office for up to 4 weeks a year. Their managers must approve such requests.

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Nikita and Nishita Baliarsingh, co-founders of Nexus Power

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

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

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

Ishan Patra The game had about 200 million registered users worldwide by November 2018, and it reached the 350 million users mark in May last year.

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

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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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Google, Intel partner to speed up cloud native 5G deployment

Facebook adds features to curb child exploitation content on its platform

Amazon teams up with Mahindra, deploys nearly 100 EVs for deliveries

SolarWinds hack required massive, sophisticated effort: Microsoft president

Chipmakers in drought-hit Taiwan order water trucks to prepare for 'the worst'

Microsoft Office 2021 will be available for Windows, Mac users

Microsoft launches Surface Pro 7+, Hub 2S 85” in India

Surface Pro 7+ features a removable SSD for data retention, which in combination with Microsoft BitLocker protection, makes it easy for customers to retain sensitive data if something happens to their device.

SpaceX's Internet to go global by 2022

In another tweet, Musk assured to double the internet speed to 300 Mbps and to reduce latency to 20ms by end of this year.

Australian lawmakers expected to pass amendments to Facebook, Google law

Facebook said it would restore Australian users' access to news in light of the compromise it had reached with the government.

French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with news publishers

This comes amid complaints by French news publishers that Google failed to hold talks with them in good faith to find an agreement.

Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro review: worth the ₹18k price tag?

The Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro come with Intelligent ANC. But is it worth the buying power?

Singapore trials Smartphone app offering mini check-ups

It offers a diagnosis of the user's health condition,relying solely on a smartphone camera that can measure heart rate by picking up changes in the reflectivity of light on the user's skin between heart beats according to blood flow underneath.

Microsoft teams up with EU publishers amid Facebook's Australian spat

Facebook last week imposed a news ban in Australia in protest against a forthcoming law that would require online platforms to reach deals to pay news outlets for content, or agree on a price through arbitration.

Airtel, Qualcomm team up for 5G push in India

(Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.)Bharti Airtel has partnered

Chinese spies cloned U.S.’s cyber weapon and used it for years

The U.S. version of the tool was cloned by a Chinese-affiliated attack group labelled APT 31 or Zirconium in 2014, the report said.

‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’ game review: A tribute to 16-bit beat-em-ups

Inspired by the comic of the same name, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World- The Complete Edition is a retro treat that is at home on the Nintendo Switch

Microsoft, Bosch partner to build a connected car software platform

The duo plan to integrate cars with cloud to allow software downloads to happen easily and to reduce technical complexities in development.

What happens to your WhatsApp account after May 15

Since the backlash from its users began in January, WhatsApp has been trying hard to get them back on its platform, by using several methods including reaching out to users via the “status” feature

Apple reclaims top smartphone seller position from Samsung

Apple along with Xiaomi were the only two smartphone firms in the top five to experience growth

All about Powerplay, the new privacy-themed card game from India

Ditch your ordinary playing cards, PowerPlay is here to get you thinking about data breaches and Government intervention

Australia closer to passing watershed Google, Facebook laws

The country is on course to become the first to introduce laws that challenge big technology firms' dominance in the news content market, with Canada and Britain considering similar moves.

UK court blocks Epic Games from contesting Apple's Fortnite ban

The UK tribunal said Epic's suit against Alphabet Inc's Google could move forward, but deemed that the United States would be a better forum for its case against Apple.

Facebook to end Australia news blackout

After govt. agrees to tweak law, firm says it will pay media companies for content; Google to follow suit

EU looks to drones, space communication to get ahead in tech race

EU industry commissioner Thierry Breton said the projects would help the bloc stand on its own feet instead of relying on other countries

Predicting tsunamis with the world’s fastest supercomputer

The AI model developed by Fujitsu Laboratories can predict flooding forecasts for specific areas, making it easier to evacuate people and offer insights on potential damage to surrounding infrastructure

Android 12 developer preview | Here's all the new features and updates

With the new features, the tech giant wants to keep privacy and security at the core of new version.

Apple M1 Macs are being targeted with malware, security researcher says

Patrick Wardle, an independent macOS security researcher named, found GoSearch22.app, which is an instance of the ‘Pirrit’ adware.

Instagram accounts take downs and the role of ‘OGUsers’ explained

Facebook said it had taken down many Instagram accounts a few weeks ago, stating that an account-hijacking forum called ‘OGUsers’ was involved in stealing accounts by way of hacking and SIM swapping

Chennai records over 8 million malware threats in 2020, report says

Quick Heal said it detected and blocked over 80,000 malware threats every hour while a total of 1.91 million ransomware were detected.

Australian won't change planned content laws despite Facebook block

Facebook has strongly protested the laws and last week abruptly blocked all news content and several state government and emergency department accounts.

Foxconn chairman says expects "limited impact" from chip shortage on clients

The global spread of COVID-19 has increased demand for laptops, gaming consoles, and other electronics. This caused chip manufacturers to reallocate capacity away from the automotive sector, which was expecting a steep downturn.

India’s cyber defenses breached and reported; govt. yet to fix it

Two weeks on, and after repeated follow ups, the country’s nodal agency is yet to give any update on remedial actions taken and breach notification processes followed.

Weekly Bytes | Apple’s next-gen Face ID tech, Chromebooks outpaced Macs in 2020, and more

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

Australia’s new Bill to regulate Facebook, Google figures in Morrison’s chat with PM Modi

It assumes significance as India has looked at reining in social media platforms

Carmakers wake up to new pecking order as chip crunch intensifies

Car manufacturers including Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors have cut output as the chip market was swept clean by makers of consumer electronics such as smartphones - the chip industry's preferred customers because they buy more advanced, higher-margin chips.

U.S. sees Facebook dispute as a matter between companies and Australia

The social media giant is locked in a battle with Australia over legislation that would require FB, Google to pay news outlets

Apple granted a patent for a pencil with multiple functionalities

Users holding the Pencil will be able to conduct in-air gestures to control Macs, Apple TV boxes and advanced televisions.

Amazon is testing a new way to sell its “favourite concepts”

To start with, the Seattle-based company has revealed three concepts compatible with Alexa — a smart sticky note printer, a smart nutrition scale, and a smart cuckoo clock.

Coming bill would allow U.S. news publishers to team up when negotiating with Facebook, Google

Social media companies use news to attract customers and have been accused by news publishers of not sharing enough advertising revenue with them.

Facebook says its new features can help debunk common climate myths

The social networking platform added the information centre in September last year, attempting to curb misinformation around climate, and has now expanded reach to 12 countries including India

Google restructures AI team after researcher’s contentious departure

The company’s announcement included a video interview of Croak highlighting her decades of experience working on ground-breaking technology, with over 200 patents in areas such as Voice over IP

YouTube to add auto video chapters, in-video shopping and launch Shorts

As people get more involved with the latest gaming consoles and VR headsets, YouTube wants to cash in on this opportunity.

Epic Games files antitrust complaint against Apple in EU

The company accused Apple for not just harming but completely eliminating competition in app distribution and payment processes.

Long, tense with cat photo for relief; how the GameStop hearing unfolded

Hedge fund managers Gabe Plotkin, whose Melvin Capital lost 53% in January in the GameStop frenzy and Ken Griffin, who built both Citadel LLC and market making business Citadel Securities, also spoke.

EU says copyright laws make situation different from Australia

Under the EU's tougher copyright rules, online platforms will have to sign licensing agreements with musicians, performers, authors, news publishers and journalists to use their work.

Canada vows to be next country to go after Facebook to pay for news

Last year, Canadian media organizations warned of a potential market failure without government action. They said the Australian approach would permit publishers to recover C$620 million a year

Google Meet, Classroom and Chrome OS to get several new features

The California-based tech giant said in a blog post it would like to unveil more than 50 new features.

WhatsApp to reach out to users via 'status' and banners on proposed privacy policy update

Firm says it had encountered misinformation on now-suspended new policy

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