Thursday, February 28, 2019
India telcos seek clarity on Huawei, ZTE from global peers, groups
Mobile wallets get 6 months to find a digital KYC route
Zomato gets notice from FSSAI, asked to get food safety licence
Rising India-Pak tension turns social media into a virtual battlefield
Spotify looks to test new features in India
India will be the test ground for new features: Spotify India head
Twitter to liaise with India's election body, boost hiring ahead of polls
Facebook to release long-awaited privacy feature, Clear History, later this year
Samsung, Huawei agree to settle two-year old patent dispute in U.S. court
BlackBerry sues Twitter for patent infringement
How to locate your ‘silent’ iPhone
Facts not fears should decide Huawei's future in Europe, say analysts
Samsung, Huawei agree to settle two-year old patent dispute
Bharti Airtel teams up with Nokia to upgrade its data centres
DoT to "carefully study" if China's Huawei can be a threat to India
India must make its own chips for data security, says Telecom Secretary
How to select channels on Airtel Digital TV under the new TRAI rules
Google makes AI grammar checker available for all G-Suite users
Mukesh Ambani first Indian to join top 10 richest list: Hurun Research
Most laptops, desktops vulnerable to cyber attacks through plug-in devices, says report
Reliance Jio to become country’s top telecom service provider: Report
Apple allows app developers to offer discounted subscriptions to past subscribers
Twitter says working with India poll panel to address political bias in real-time
Samsung accused of blatantly copying Swatch's watch faces
Investigation: at least two Canadian provinces keep databases of sensitive info obtained from at-risk people, often without consent, sparking privacy concerns (Nathan Munn/Motherboard)
Investigation: at least two Canadian provinces keep databases of sensitive info obtained from at-risk people, often without consent, sparking privacy concerns — The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people's lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.
Dow Jones' watchlist of 2.4M high-risk individuals, including current and former politicians, criminals, and terrorists, was exposed on an unsecured AWS server (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Dow Jones' watchlist of 2.4M high-risk individuals, including current and former politicians, criminals, and terrorists, was exposed on an unsecured AWS server — A watchlist of risky individuals and corporate entities owned by Dow Jones has been exposed, after a company with access …
Ionic Security, which helps companies secure sensitive data stored on enterprise clouds and devices, raises $40M Series E, bringing total raised to $162.4M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Ionic Security, which helps companies secure sensitive data stored on enterprise clouds and devices, raises $40M Series E, bringing total raised to $162.4M — Atlanta, Georgia-based Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress) has raised $40 million in series E financing led by JPMorgan Chase …
Equipment from Cellebrite, popular with law enforcement for hacking into iOS/Android devices, is selling for $100-$1,000 on eBay; new units usually cost $6,000 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
Equipment from Cellebrite, popular with law enforcement for hacking into iOS/Android devices, is selling for $100-$1,000 on eBay; new units usually cost $6,000 — When eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K., he came across an odd-looking device.
Though Seattle repealed its "head tax", Amazon says it won't use the 722K sq. ft. in Rainier Square tower it had leased, which would have housed up to 5K staff (The Seattle Times)
Though Seattle repealed its “head tax”, Amazon says it won't use the 722K sq. ft. in Rainier Square tower it had leased, which would have housed up to 5K staff — The lease was one of the biggest in Seattle history — enough space to hold at least 3,500 employees and perhaps up to 5,000.
Source: Motorola plans to launch its foldable smartphone, likely a revival of the Razr brand, this summer (Roger Cheng/CNET)
Source: Motorola plans to launch its foldable smartphone, likely a revival of the Razr brand, this summer — Motorola is jumping into foldable phones. And it's likely doing it with one of the most iconic names in the business. — Motorola, a unit of Chinese consumer electronics giant Lenovo …
Figure, which uses blockchain tech to provide home equity loans, raises $65M; founded over a year ago by ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, Figure has raised $120M total (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
Figure, which uses blockchain tech to provide home equity loans, raises $65M; founded over a year ago by ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, Figure has raised $120M total — Figure, a 13-month-old, San Francisco-based company that says it uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans online …
Study of VC-backed deals over the last five years finds that 77.1% of VC-backed founders were white, 1% were black, and 9.2% of startup founders were female (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Study of VC-backed deals over the last five years finds that 77.1% of VC-backed founders were white, 1% were black, and 9.2% of startup founders were female — Maybe the VC community is tired of hearing about it; certainly, there are plenty of people who are tired of dealing with it.
BlackBerry sues Twitter for allegedly infringing six messaging patents; BlackBerry sued Facebook and Snap in 2018, also alleging messaging patent infringement (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
BlackBerry sues Twitter for allegedly infringing six messaging patents; BlackBerry sued Facebook and Snap in 2018, also alleging messaging patent infringement — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of illegally using technology …
RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud survey of enterprises and SMBs: Azure adoption grew from 45% to 52%, reaching 85% of AWS adoption, up from 70% last year (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)
RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud survey of enterprises and SMBs: Azure adoption grew from 45% to 52%, reaching 85% of AWS adoption, up from 70% last year — The RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera highlights how enterprises are spending more on cloud computing …
Fitbit reports Q4 net income of $15.4M on revenue of $571.2M and says it sold 13.9M wearables in 2018, down 9% YoY; stock down 14%+ after hours (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)
Fitbit reports Q4 net income of $15.4M on revenue of $571.2M and says it sold 13.9M wearables in 2018, down 9% YoY; stock down 14%+ after hours — James Park, CEO of Fitbit, said “we expect our Fitbit Health Solutions revenue growth to accelerate to approximately $100 million and to grow non-device consumer revenue.”
Square reports Q4 adjusted revenue of $464M, up 64% YoY, 15M Cash App MAUs in Dec. 2018, up from 7M YoY, issues weak Q1 guidance; stock down 6%+ after hours (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
Square reports Q4 adjusted revenue of $464M, up 64% YoY, 15M Cash App MAUs in Dec. 2018, up from 7M YoY, issues weak Q1 guidance; stock down 6%+ after hours — - Payment company Square reported fourth-quarter results that beat analysts' expectations for earnings and revenue on Wednesday.
In a letter to the CA government, Apple confirms that 190 employees, including 124 engineers, will be laid off from its self-driving car division on April 16 (Roland Li/San Francisco Chronicle)
In a letter to the CA government, Apple confirms that 190 employees, including 124 engineers, will be laid off from its self-driving car division on April 16 — Apple will lay off 190 employees in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale in its self-driving car division, the company said.
Box misses Q4 expectations with $163.7M revenue, up 20% YoY and compared to $164.2M estimated, and issues weak Q1 guidance; stock drops 24%+ after hours (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
Box misses Q4 expectations with $163.7M revenue, up 20% YoY and compared to $164.2M estimated, and issues weak Q1 guidance; stock drops 24%+ after hours — - Shares of Box fell as much as 23 percent in after hours trading Wednesday after the company reported its Q4 2019 earnings.
Review of Shadow Ghost, a $140 streaming game console made by French startup Blade, which runs a $35/month cloud gaming service that now has ~65,000 subscribers (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
Review of Shadow Ghost, a $140 streaming game console made by French startup Blade, which runs a $35/month cloud gaming service that now has ~65,000 subscribers — French startup Blade, the company behind Shadow, is launching a new set-top box to access its cloud gaming service — the Shadow Ghost.
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, curated by Bill Gates
Samsung Galaxy A50, Galaxy A30, and Galaxy A10 Debut in India
Asus Reveals List of Phones Expected to Get Android 9 Pie in 2019
5G Presents Security Challenge for Telecom Operators
Facebook Not Sharing Key Disinformation Data With EU: Report
Watch the New Trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Redmi Note 7, Redmi Note 7 Pro India Launch Today: Watch Live Stream
Facebook Watch to Broadcast El Clasico Live and Free in India
Oppo F11 Pro Specifications Leaks Tip MediaTek Helio P70 SoC, 6GB of RAM
Apple Fires 190 Employees From Project Titan Self-Driving Car Project: Report
Oscar-Winner Rami Malek Is Reportedly in Talks to Play a Bond Villain
TikTok App Fined in US for Illegally Gathering Children's Data
Huawei P30, P30 Pro Leak Reveals Camera Setup, Gradient Design
Motorola's Foldable Phone to Debut 'No Later Than Everybody Else'
Samsung Galaxy M30 First Impressions
FedEx to Test Last-Mile Delivery Robot
Samsung Galaxy M30 With Triple Rear Cameras Launched in India
Google Duo Now Available on the Web, Allows Both Voice and Video Calls
OneWeb Launches First Internet Satellites in Race With SpaceX
Lyft commits to going 'all-in' with AWS to support autonomous vehicles push
M&S and Ocado announce £750m food delivery joint venture
Apple self-driving car layoffs give hints to division's direction
Mudrex now brings bots to crypto trade
Chipset innovation: India enters into an elite club, says Aruna Sundararajan
Tech Mahindra to collaborate with TBCASoft for cross-carrier blockchain platform
Migrating blue whales rely on memory to find their feeding grounds
Breakfast spots, coffee shops, and watering holes pepper the daily commutes of modern urban humans, but we try to remember the ones where we get the best food or drinks. If we do longer journeys routinely, we also keep track of the best grazing grounds—a diner, a gas station with the best snacks, and so on.
Blue whales, according to research published in PNAS this week, seem to make similar mental notes. On their annual migration, their path takes in the spots that have proven to be the most reliable feeding grounds over the years. In doing this, the whales may bypass hotspots that pop up and fade from one year to the next, suggesting that they rely heavily on memory to find a solid meal. But in a world where “normal” is shifting rapidly, the endangered whales may no longer be able to rely on the abundance of those old, faithful feeding grounds.
Why do whales go where they go?
Blue whales are the largest animal that we know to have lived, and that means they need colossal amounts of food. Despite this, they’re picky eaters, feeding almost exclusively on small crustaceans called krill, which they eat by lunging through a large swarm with an open mouth, trapping the animals in their mouths while the sea water filters back out. And they manage to find sources of food while migrating from a summer near the poles to a winter spent closer to the equator.
Read 9 remaining paragraphs | Comments
First trailer for The OA looks as strangely surreal as its predecessor
Netflix will release Part II of The OA, its critically divisive, genre-busting drama, on March 22, 2019.
Fans of Netflix's 2016 surprise hit series The OA, rejoice—the first trailer for Part II just dropped. Be forewarned: it's fairly spoiler-y for those who haven't already seen Part I. Then again, there are probably people who are still puzzling over what, exactly, happened in Part I of this genre-busting show—is it science fiction? Fantasy? A supernatural drama? So perhaps a refresher would be welcome.
(Warning: major spoilers for season 1 of The OA below.)
Part I opened with an adopted young woman, Prairie Johnson (Brit Marling), miraculously returning home after being missing for seven years. Her adoptive parents are thrilled and perplexed, not just about where she's been all this time, but because now their once-blind daughter can see. Prairie befriends several misfits from the local high school: four boys (Steve, French, Buck, and Jesse) and a teacher, Betty Broderick-Allen (Phyllis Smith), dubbed "BBA." Over the rest of the season, she tells them her story, beginning with a near-death experience (NDE) when she was a child, the same accident that left her blind.
Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments
Pokémon Sword and Shield will hit Switch in “late 2019”
-
Scorbunny makes his fiery debut.
Following a brief teaser back at E3 2017, Nintendo and the Pokémon Company finally gave the world its first look at the next entry in "the main series of Pokémon RPGs" this morning. Named Pokémon Sword and Shield, the games will hit the Nintendo Switch in late 2019, the company said.
In a short announcement video, Nintendo revealed the three new starter Pokémon for these eighth-generation games: Grookey, a "mischievous" chimp with "boundless curiosity"; Scorbunny, a fiery rabbit that's "bursting with energy"; and Sobble, a "timid" water lizard that fires attacks while hiding in water.
The games will take place in the Galar region, a new environment with countryside, cities, plains, and mountains to explore. "The people and Pokémon live here, and they work together to develop the industries in the region," game director Shigeru Ohmori said.
Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments
This is the Polestar 2, a new battery EV from Volvo’s performance brand
-
This is the Polestar 2, the first long-range battery EV from Volvo's new spinoff. [credit: Polestar ]
Back in the olden days, Polestar was Volvo's in-house tuning arm, the same way BMW has M Division or Mercedes-Benz has AMG. Polestar would take regular Volvos like the S60 and V60 and breathe on them, adding more power, a sportier interior, and often a coat of shocking blue paint. In fact, a Polestar S60 even held a production car record at the Nürburgring until Porsche and then Alfa Romeo came along and beat it. But that was the old Polestar. In 2017, Volvo revealed it had bigger plans for the name.
Now, Polestar is a brand of its own, one that will specialize in electrified performance vehicles. We saw the first of these, the Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid, when it was revealed in 2017. That car will be a carbon fiber-bodied coupé with 600hp (447kW) that will only be made in small numbers. For the rest of us, there's the Polestar 2, which was unveiled on Wednesday morning. It's a mid-sized, five-door fastback sedan, built using Volvo's Compact Modular Architecture which also underpins the XC40 crossover.
The specs are rather impressive. There's an electric motor at each axle providing the car with a combined 300kW (408hp) and 660Nm (487lb-ft), supplied by a 78kWh battery pack. That should be sufficient for about 275 miles of range on the EPA cycle when tested or 500km on the new but less-accurate European WLTP test. The interior shots reveal that the Swedes have lost none of their touch when it comes to interior design, although the all-black interior is a little somber.
Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
TSNPDCL 2019 – Jr Personnel Officer Exam Result Released
MPSC 2019 – State Service Main Exam Final Result Released
BFUHS Recruitment 2019 – 173 Asst, Associate Professor & Other Posts
PBNRHM 2019 – Sr Treatment Supervisor & Health Visitor Exam Date Announced
India Government Mint 2019 – Jr Technician Exam Result Released
Bihar Police 2019 – Sub Inspector Main Written Exam Call Letter
TSCAB 2019 – Asst Manager & Staff Asst Exam Result Released
10 questions software developers should expect in a job interview
This programming language is earning US developers $100,000 a year
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Report: Microsoft and VMware are working on software to ease porting apps built on VMware's virtualization tech to Azure as part of a broader partnership (Tom Krazit/GeekWire)
Report: Microsoft and VMware are working on software to ease porting apps built on VMware's virtualization tech to Azure as part of a broader partnership — One of the biggest obstacles to the growth of cloud computing is inertia, as companies that spent tens of millions of dollars …
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices "without hanging up and rejoining" via its Android, iOS, and web apps (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and re...
-
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
-
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...
