Tuesday, January 1, 2019

APPSC Group 1 Notification 2019 – Apply Online for 169 Various Vacancies

APPSC has issued Group I Notification for the recruitment of 169 Various Vacancies. Candidates who possess Degree may apply online from 07-01-2019 to 28-01-2019.

MP SET 2018 – MP State Eligibility Test Exam Dates Announced

Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission (MPPSC) released exam dates for MP SET-2018.

TNPSC 2019 – Asst Librarian & Jr Epigraphist Answer Key Released

Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) has released tentative answer key for the posts of Asst Librarian & Jr Epigraphist.

Chandigarh Police 2019 – 520 Constable Exam Result Released

Chandigarh Police released exam result for 520 Constable Posts.

RPF Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 798 Constable (Ancillary) Posts

Railway Protection Force recruits 798 Constable (Ancillary) Posts. Candidates with 10th class can apply online from 01-01-2019 to 30-01-2019.

SSC 2019 – AE & JE Result Released

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has announced result for Asst Engineer & Jr Engineer.

Source: Netflix to hire Activision Blizzard's Spencer Neumann as its new CFO starting in early 2019; Activision said it intended to fire Neumann in a filing (Kenneth Li/Reuters)

Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Source: Netflix to hire Activision Blizzard's Spencer Neumann as its new CFO starting in early 2019; Activision said it intended to fire Neumann in a filing  —  (Reuters) - Netflix Inc is expected to announce in the next few days that it has poached media finance veteran Spencer Neumann …



All photos uploaded to Twinning, Popsugar's tool to match a user's photo with a celebrity's, were accessible from a public AWS storage bucket that is now locked (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
All photos uploaded to Twinning, Popsugar's tool to match a user's photo with a celebrity's, were accessible from a public AWS storage bucket that is now locked  —  I thought the worst thing about Popsugar's Twinning tool was that it matched me with James Corden.



Tech trends for 2019: foldable phones, 5G, cashierless retail, privacy legislation, autonomous delivery wagons, IoT edge computing, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Tech trends for 2019: foldable phones, 5G, cashierless retail, privacy legislation, autonomous delivery wagons, IoT edge computing, and more  —  From delivery wagons and foldable phones to privacy crackdowns and corporate health tracking, the coming year will make good on some of the tech industry's biggest promises



Screenshots suggest Google is testing group calling and a low light mode in its Duo video chat app for Android (Scott Scrivens/Android Police)

Scott Scrivens / Android Police:
Screenshots suggest Google is testing group calling and a low light mode in its Duo video chat app for Android  —  Group calling and a low light mode in Google Duo have been rumored for some time, but we now have our first glimpse of the features in action.



Parents are often shocked by inappropriate videos on TikTok, a major hit with teens that Sensor Tower says was the most downloaded app on iOS in H1 2018 (Selim Chtayti/Agence France-Presse)

Selim Chtayti / Agence France-Presse:
Parents are often shocked by inappropriate videos on TikTok, a major hit with teens that Sensor Tower says was the most downloaded app on iOS in H1 2018  —  TikTok's video-sharing app was the most downloaded on Apple's App Store in the first half of 2018, beating out Facebook, Instgram and Snapchat



Since Waymo started testing driverless vans in Chandler, AZ in 2017, nearly two dozen attacks have been made on them including slashed tires and thrown rocks (Simon Romero/New York Times)

Simon Romero / New York Times:
Since Waymo started testing driverless vans in Chandler, AZ in 2017, nearly two dozen attacks have been made on them including slashed tires and thrown rocks  —  CHANDLER, Ariz. — The assailant slipped out of a park around noon one day in October, zeroing in on his target …



Chinese online brokerage Futu Securities files for a US IPO, seeking to raise up to $300M, and says it had $92M in revenue for the year ending September 2018 (NASDAQ.com)

NASDAQ.com:
Chinese online brokerage Futu Securities files for a US IPO, seeking to raise up to $300M, and says it had $92M in revenue for the year ending September 2018  —  Futu Holdings, the largest China-based online broker age, filed on Friday with the SEC to raise up to $300 million in an initial public offering.



Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt raises $182.5M to build its cryptocurrency exchange; sources: regulatory hurdles delay its plans for bitcoin futures (Frank Chaparro/The Block)

Frank Chaparro / The Block:
Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt raises $182.5M to build its cryptocurrency exchange; sources: regulatory hurdles delay its plans for bitcoin futures  —  Bakkt, the cryptocurrency venture by Intercontinental Exchange, has scored $182.5 million to build out its platform aimed …



China-owned spacecraft maker CASIC launches first of 156 satellites intended to provide internet service by 2022 to rural China and then to developing countries (Echo Huang/Quartz)

Echo Huang / Quartz:
China-owned spacecraft maker CASIC launches first of 156 satellites intended to provide internet service by 2022 to rural China and then to developing countries  —  Over the weekend, China launched a satellite into low-earth orbit, the first step of a plan to provide global satellite internet …



Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force that creates boom towns (New York Times)

New York Times : Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force...