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Narendra Modi launches portal to help, hand-hold MSMEs

Champions — Creation and Harmonious Application of Modern Processes for Increasing the Output and National Strength — has been described by the MSME Ministry as an ICT-based system set up to help such enterprises in the “present difficult situation”

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Remove China Apps crosses a million downloads

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‘Hack-for-hire’ firms targeting financial services, healthcare amid COVID-19 pandemic: Google

PTI “We have seen new activity from ‘hack-for-hire’ firms, many based in India, that have been creating Gmail accounts spoofing the WHO.”

Apple HomePod in a home environment

Apple HomePod review: An amalgam of mesmeric bass and progressive design

Divya Kala Bhavani The HomePod by Apple, which just made its way into the Indian market, is a stylish and functional addition to your abode. Here’s why:

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‘Hack-for-hire’ firms targeting financial services, healthcare amid COVID-19 pandemic: Google

PTI “We have seen new activity from ‘hack-for-hire’ firms, many based in India, that have been creating Gmail accounts spoofing the WHO.”

Various gaming platforms in India include Games2Win, WinZO Games, Hitwicket, Gamerji and Rummy.

Online gaming companies see 24% spurt in traffic

Special Correspondent Working professionals and students take to online games during lockdown

The official invite poster for ‘The Future Of Gaming’ by Sony Interactive Entertainment and PlayStation

gaming What you need to know before PlayStation’s ‘The Future of Gaming’ event

Divya Kala Bhavani The virtual event, scheduled for the early hours of June 5 (India time), could finally answer gamers’ questions about the PlayStation 5 and its exclusive gaming content

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Dell Latitude 9510, the world’s first intelligent 15-inch business PC

new launch Dell finally brings the 5G-enabled Latitude 9510 notebook to India

Divya Kala Bhavani The Latitude 9510, starting at ₹1,49,000, melds 5G and the best of the powerful engine that is the Dell Optimizer

Apple HomePod in a home environment

Apple HomePod review: An amalgam of mesmeric bass and progressive design

Divya Kala Bhavani The HomePod by Apple, which just made its way into the Indian market, is a stylish and functional addition to your abode. Here’s why:

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Latest solar probe to get first close up of the sun's polar regions

Local body creates online marketplace in Kerala

Facebook warns of hit to Oculus production from cornonavirus

Facebook’s Twitter account hacked

Credit, debit card details of 4 lakh Indians up for sale on dark net

Love in the time of CAA: Do your political opinions decide who you date?

Indian-led team develops software to reduce space taken by smartphone apps

The software “streams” data and code resources to an app from a cloud server when necessary, allowing the app to use only the space it needs on a phone at any given time

Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes a dig at WhatsApp with free phone hack emoji

Musk posted the image with the caption: “New emoji! Last one comes with free phone hack”

Twitter adds option to disable multi-column view for iPad

With the latest update, users can now hide the right-hand column altogether so that their attention is centred on the content of their timeline, MacRumers reported

You can now disable Netflix’s annoying autoplay feature

Users can now can choose to disable autoplay in two different formats — one that automatically starts the next episode in a series and one that autoplays previews while browsing

Watch | What happened to BlackBerry?

A video tracing the mobile company's journey through the years

Google Maps to expand commute options to more cities across India

“The public transport tab on Google Maps for Android now informs users about a journey that combines auto-rickshaw and public transport. It indicates how much time it will take, and which station they should take an auto-rickshaw to/from. The feature is available for Delhi and Bangalore and we’re looking to bring it to other cities across India,” Google Maps vice president Jen Fitzpatrick said in a statement.

Tinder users appropriating app for political campaigning, marketing: Study

The study found that Tinder’s off-label use — a term borrowed from pharmacology describing when people use a product for something other than what the package says — appropriates its infrastructure and sociocultural meanings

China’s mobile giants to take on Google’s Play Store: sources

Four companies — China’s Xiaomi, Huawei Technologies, Oppo and Vivo — are purportedly ironing out kinks in what is known as the Global Developer Service Alliance

Netflix starts streaming data saving AV1 videos on Android

AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9 encodes.

Google Maps seeks business, transit reviews in new look as it turns 15

The new look, which coincides with Google Maps’ 15th birthday, introduces a ‘Contribute’ tab to a menu at the bottom of the service’s mobile app, Google said in a blog post

Facebook, LinkedIn tell Clearview AI to stop scraping images

The controversial app uses over three billion images to find a match. These images have been sourced from various social media sites including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

OnePlus files patent for under-display selfie cameras

The patent seems to be similar to the implementation of the recently unveiled ‘Concept One’ smartphone by OnePlus that was showcased by the company at CES 2020 last month

Snapchat rolls out support for five more Indian languages

These five additional Indian languages are Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner steps down, updates profile

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn said Senior Vice President of Product, Ryan Roslansky, will become the CEO on June 1. He will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Over 100 organisations urge Facebook to halt encryption

Urging Facebook to halt plans to heavily encrypt WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, the open letter said this would allow child predators to operate on the site undetected

Concerned about abuse of platforms for fake news, porn; cos should be accountable: Prasad

On WhatsApp he said there is still a problem in identifying the originator of a rogue message.

Prices of chips, display panels to shoot up

China, where the outbreak originated, is home to manufacturing facilities of many of South Korea’s major tech firms, including Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc.

Coming soon: Awesome Neuralink update, says Elon Musk

Musk said the technology could be tested in a human patient with brain or spinal cord injuries as early as this year, CNET

Disney’s weapon against Netflix and Amazon in India: Hotstar

Disney’s control of Hotstar, which it acquired through the $71 billion purchase of Twenty-First Century Fox in 2019, gives Disney+’s entrance into the Indian market in partnership with Hotstar hundreds of millions of potential subscribers it can attract

LG, ZTE withdraw from Mobile World Congress, others may follow

While LG has become the first major South Korean company to give MWC 2020 a miss, others may soon follow suit, considering the threat that the virus poses, according to industry watchers.

Spotify hits 124 million Premium paid subscribers

Premium paid subscribers, which account for nearly 90% of its revenue, were 124 million.

Google says glitch sent people's videos to strangers

A small fraction of a percent of those who used a Google Takeout tool may have encountered the glitch.

‘Nowhere close to machines replacing humans’: Tech author David Moschella

In his latest book Seeing Digital, the writer addresses the questions and concerns we have regarding technology in the 2020s

No proposal to link social media users’ profiles with Aadhaar: Govt

Speaker Om Birla said there has to be a serious discussion on issues related to social media.

Twitter tightens rules to curb manipulated, misleading content

Twitter said it will consider whether the content has been substantially edited in a manner that fundamentally alters its composition and sequence.

Microsoft admits Teams was down due to expired certificate

The issue seems to be at least partially resolved and Microsoft shared the issue on the Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account.

BlackBerry phones face uncertain future as TCL parts ways

In a note shared on Twitter on Monday, TCL Communication said it “will no longer be selling” BlackBerry-branded phones as of August 31, 2020.

TikTok users going blind with new eye colour phone flash trend

The new TikTok challenge involves the use of the phone’s rear camera to shoot a video by keeping the flash on, pointing it at one’s eyes.

YouTube hits 20 mn paid subscribers, 2 mn join YouTube TV

YouTube ended 2019 at a $3 billion annual run rate in YouTube subscriptions and other non-advertising revenues, Alphabet Founder and CEO Sundar Pichai announced

T-Hub had to change from incubation to acceleration to scaling, says CEO Ravi Narayan

2020 marks T-Hub’s fifth year, so what’s changed?

Paytm rolls out all-in-one payment gateway for SMEs

Leading fintech start-up Paytm on Tuesday launched an all-in-one payment gateway, which enables digital payments through multiple methods for small

Facebook increases parental control features in Messenger Kids app

The new features will include access for parents to see their children’s chat history and will allow them to keep a track of the accounts, which are blocked or unblocked on the application, Facebook said

TikTok testing profile redesigns similar to Instagram

As per report, the new profile shifts follow count to the left and places more emphasis on user bio

Watch | India's NavIC system now on smartphones

A video on NavIC, India's own navigation system

Millions in China banish coronavirus blues with online games, video apps

Investors have seized on the trend, with shares of Chinese game publishers, such as Tencent, rising 2% in Hong Kong on Tuesday, outstripping a rise of 1% in the benchmark , while in New York, NetEase rose nearly 3%

Now, Google enables users to compare and recharge mobile plans

The search experience is currently available for users that have signed-in using their Android devices and collates prepaid service plans from Airtel, Vodafone-Idea, Jio and BSNL across India

Twitter adds Bitcoin emoji; Dorsey uses it in bio

Bitcoin emoji appears when users write a hashtag alongside the word “Bitcoin” or the letters “BTC”.

Facebook adds Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to board of directors

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Houston have been friends for several years, appearing in photos together at birthday parties and other events

Twitter says state-backed actors may have accessed users’ phone numbers

In a statement published on its privacy blog, Twitter said it had identified a “high volume of requests” to use the ‘contacts upload’ feature coming from IP addresses in Iran, Israel and Malaysia

Samsung to shut flagship store in China amid coronavirus fears

“We decided to temporarily close the store for safety,” a company official said. “The operation of the store will depend on the situation in China”, Yonhap news agency reported.

Alphabet shares fall as Google misses on sales, YouTube revenue disappoints

Alphabet Inc’s new Chief Executive Sundar Pichai had sought to counter slowing revenue growth in the company’s main advertising business by pointing to the Silicon Valley firm’s younger units

Apple's India shipments grew 17% in 2019

Increased local manufacturing, prudent pricing and refined go-to-market strategies helped Apple attain market success, said the CyberMedia Research (CMR’s) ‘Mobile Handset Review Report’.

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Delhi Home guard staff thermal screen the passengers waiting at the DTC bus stop amidst the lockdown imposed till May 31, in New Delhi on May 29, 2020.

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Migrant labourers walking towards Dr MGR Chennai Central via Poonamalee High Road

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Wajid Khan (R) with brother Sajid Khan of Sajid-Wajid duo during the Mirchi Music Awards in Mumbai on January 27, 2011.

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Public wait in the queue under the scorching sun defying physical distancing norms at a ration shop in South Alagapuram in Salem.

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A school teacher in Chennai Corporation school teaches tenth and twelfth standard students through online class in Chennai on Monday.

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This image made available by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, May 28, 2020 shows a label for the drug metformin.

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