Sunday, July 14, 2019
How to Watch England vs New Zealand World Cup Final Live Online Right Now
China Internet Report 2019 shows the scale of 5G infrastructure plans across the country, huge untapped potential for e-commerce in lower-tiered cities, more (Zen Soo/South China Morning Post)
China Internet Report 2019 shows the scale of 5G infrastructure plans across the country, huge untapped potential for e-commerce in lower-tiered cities, more — The China Internet Report 2019 offers insight into key China technology trends, with deep dives into 11 key sectors and expert commentary …
Amazon Prime Day Sale: First time launches, deals sneak peek and all you need to know
In just a few hours, Amazon will open the Prime Day Sale to offer discounts on a range of products to savvy shoppers. The Prime Day sale will kick off at midnight on July 15 in India, and it will be for the first time ever that the sale will run for 48 hours. With new deals starting at regular intervals through Prime Day, members can save on them across categories covering smartphones, TVs, laptops and appliances, among others. Anyone can shop and save on Prime Day by joining Prime www.amazon.in/primeday today.
“With Prime Day, we are excited to bring to our members over 1000 new product launches, great deals and blockbuster entertainment with new titles from Prime Video and playlists on Amazon Prime music. Prime Day brings some of the biggest deals across categories like smartphones, TVs, fashion and beauty, appliances and many more. Our teams have been working for months to source these unique offers and we welcome members who will join us as we celebrate our biggest Prime Day ever,” Akshay Sahi, Director & Head of Prime, Amazon India, said in a statement.
Prime Day new product launches
Smartphones
One Plus 7 (Mirror Blue)
Samsung M40 (Cocktail Orange)
LG W30 – On Open sale only for Prime members with a new colour variant – Aurora Green
Oppo F11 Pro (Waterfall Gray)
10.or G2
TV & large appliances
Haier 43-inch Full HD LED Smart TV
TCL 55-inch 4K Ultra HD Certified Android Smart TV
TCL 43-inch New Version 4K UHD LED Smart TV
Blaupunkt 32-inch Family Series HD Ready LED TV
LG 43-inch 4K Ultra HD LED Smart TV
LG 55-inch 4K LED Smart TV
Kodak 43-inch 4K UHD LED Smart TV
Sony 32R422F with Fire Stick Bundle
CloudWalker 55-inch Cloud 55SU 4K LED Smart TV
IFB 6.5 kg Alexa enabled front load washing machine
Whirlpool 7 kg stain wash fully automatic top load with inbuilt heater
Bosch 6.5 kg Front load washing machine with speed wash
Whirlpool 265 L Frost-Free Double Door Refrigerator with deepfreeze technology
Haier 565 L frost free side by side refrigerator with twin inverter technology
LG 14 place settings dishwasher with powerful steam feature
Electronics
Intel powered Laptops from Lenovo, Microsoft and HP
Sennheiser premium range of bluetooth headphones
Huami Amazfit BIP lite smartwatch
Boat headphones and speakers
HP Laserjet and Alexa-enabled printers
Seagate Hard disks (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD)
CP Plus 360 Pan tilt 1080p wireless security cameras
iBall Alexa-enabled audio and accessories
Samsung Solid State drives up to 1 TB
JBL Cinema Soundbars
Boult Audio Wireless Headphones and speakers
Prime Day Deals Sneak Peek: Deals on smartphones, home appliances, TVs and Alexa-enabled devices
Best Smart Home Deals
Voice exclusive deals: Existing Echo customers will be able to use their Echo devices to use Alexa voice shopping and buy 9W smart bulb for just Rs 99 (95 percent discount). Customers can say ‘Alexa, what are my deals?’. Customers can add the bulb to their cart through their voice and either: a) complete the checkout through voice (APay or COD) or use A.in app or desktop site to checkout.
Smart Home devices: Users who buy an Echo Dot device will get a free Syska 9W bulb
Smart Home deals
Echo Dot + Fire TV Stick + Syska 9W bulb at Rs 4999.
Echo + free Syska 9W bulb
Echo Plus + free Hue bulb
Echo Show + free Hue bulb
Get Mi Camera for Rs 1499 (Rs 2299) with the Echo Show 5
Get Echo Show 5 free on purchase of select HP printers (HP OJP 9020, HP OJP 9010, HP OJP 8026)
Deals on Amazon Devices
Amazon says that it is offering “lowest prices ever” on Amazon devices, including Amazon Echo, FireTV and Kindle.
Echo
Lowest prices ever on Echo Dot (third gen), Amazon Echo, Echo Plus (second gen), Echo Show and Echo Show 5
Fire TV
Lowest prices on Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick 4K
Buy Fire TV Stick 4K for full price and get a Fire TV Stick free
Kindle
Best offers ever on All-New Kindle & All-New Kindle Paperwhite
Get Rs 5000 off/Upto 17 percent off on Kindle Oasis (ninth gen)
Alexa Built-in Devices
On Prime Day, shoppers can avail up to 60 percent off on Alexa Built-in products across headphones, speakers and TV category.
New Alexa Built-in products like the iBall decibel (black) headphones and TCL television launching exclusively for Prime Day
Smartphones
Up to 40 percent off on smartphones from the top brands
Up to Rs 8,000 extra off on exchange on range of smartphones from Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo and Vivo
Rs 3,000 extra on exchange on Samsung M40
No Cost EMI starting only ₹1066
Up to Rs 14,000 off on OnePlus phones
Up to Rs 6,500 off on Xiaomi phones
Up to Rs 15,000 off on Samsung smartphones and additional exchange offers up to Rs 8,000
Up to Rs 40,000 off on Apple with unbelievable offers on iPhone XR, iPhone 7, iPhone 6S
Up to Rs 20,000 off on Huawei smartphones
Up to Rs 15,000 off on Honor smartphones
Up to Rs 20,000 off on Oppo smartphones and additional exchange offers up to ₹7,000
Up to Rs 20,000 off on Vivo smartphones including prepaid offers
Up to Rs 10,000 off on Nokia smartphones with unbelievable offers on Nokia 6.1 and Nokia 8.1
Up to 70 percent off on power banks, earphones and other mobiles accessories
Consumer Electronics
Amazon is offering over 5000 deals from over 150 electronics brands.
Up to Rs 35,000 off laptops with No Cost EMI and exchange offers.
Minimum Rs 5,000 off DSLRs and mirrorless cameras from Canon, Sony and Fujifilm
Active noise cancellation headphones starting Rs 7,490 from Sennhieser, Bose and Sony
Wireless Ink tank printers starting Rs 9,999
TV & large appliances
Air conditioners: Up to 45 percent off, No Cost EMI starting Rs 1299/month
Refrigerators: Save up to Rs 35,000, No Cost EMI starting Rs 999/month
Washing machines: Up to Rs 11,000 off, No Cost EMI starting Rs 799/month
Televisions: Up to 50 percent off, No Cost EMI starting Rs 1500/month
Smart TVs: Up to 50 percent off, No Cost EMI starting Rs 1700/month
Games and gaming hardware
Up to Rs 10,000 off on gaming consoles
Up to 75 percent off on antivirus and business software
Up to Rs 10,000 off on PS4 consoles
Up to 40 percent off on video games
Up to 50 percent off on gaming accessories
Shoppers can also use one of the means highlights below to save and get rewards while shopping on Prime Day.
Customers can get 10 percent instant discount using HDFC debit/credit cards.
Customers can shop using pre-paid instruments at Amazon.in and get Rs 1100 back on food, travel, bill payment and send money as follows:
Faasos: 20 percent back up to Rs 100
Goibibo: Flat Rs 500 back (minimum purchase of Rs 6000)
Redbus: 5 percent back (up to Rs 150)
1MG: 15 percent back (up to Rs 150)
Bill payments and recharges at Amazon: Up to Rs 150 back
Send money using Amazon app: Flat Rs 50 back
Prime members can book domestic flights on Amazon.in during Prime Day Sale and get up to Rs 2500 back.
Prime members can get Rs 100 to 2000 back on money transfers.
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Google shuts down Blog Compass just 10 months after launch
Google launched their blog management tool named 'Blog Compass' late last year which could connect sites running either WordPress or Blogger and give the owner valuable insights into trending topics as well as a centralised dashboard for analytics or comments. However, the app is now dead, adding yet another grave in the Google Graveyard. It has been shut down just 10 months after its initial launch.
Blog Compass, however, is still available for download on the Play Store, but opening it only displays a goodbye note which says, "After several months, we have decided to turn down the Blog Compass app. If you want to continue managing your blog, check out the Blogger or Site Kit by Google for WordPress".
A reason for the abrupt shut down could be user reviews, which showed that users were having issues with the app as early as October 2018. Multiple users complained about being unable to sign in with a Google account. As per the Play Store, the Blog Compass app amassed somewhere between 10,000 to 50,000 installs over its lifetime.
It seems like the app hardly had a chance to succeed since it was only limited to India for its entire life cycle. The app for Google's own Blogger platform hasn't been updated since way back in 2016. It seems like Google's interest in the blogging platform may be dying down.
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Saturday, July 13, 2019
A look at how surveillance is becoming more prevalent with almost nothing restricting how it is used, as automatic license plate reader software becomes cheaper (Josh Kaplan/Slate)
A look at how surveillance is becoming more prevalent with almost nothing restricting how it is used, as automatic license plate reader software becomes cheaper — Cheap surveillance software is changing how landlords manage their tenants and what laws police can enforce.
Germany-based Staffbase, a mobile-first employee communication and experience platform, raises $23M Series C, bringing its total raised to $35M (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)
Germany-based Staffbase, a mobile-first employee communication and experience platform, raises $23M Series C, bringing its total raised to $35M — Staffbase, a mobile-first platform that enables employees to communicate, access work-related services and stay updated with company information, has raised $23 million in Series C funding.
Pipefy, which is developing a process pipeline management platform for enterprise clients like IBM, raises $45M Series B, bringing its total raised to $65M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Pipefy, which is developing a process pipeline management platform for enterprise clients like IBM, raises $45M Series B, bringing its total raised to $65M — Pipefy, a San Francisco firm developing a process pipeline management platform for enterprises, today revealed that it this month closed …
Amazon Prime Day Sale starts tomorrow: 12 tips to get the best deals and discounts
A look at Estonia's four and half year old e-residency program, which now has 55,000 e-residents and is unlikely to attain its original goal of 10M by 2025 (Kalev Aasmae/ZDNet)
A look at Estonia's four and half year old e-residency program, which now has 55,000 e-residents and is unlikely to attain its original goal of 10M by 2025 — Instead of the goal of gaining 10 million e-residents by 2025, Estonia is now focusing on security and usability.
TrickBot is back with a new attack that has compromised 250 million email addresses
The TrickBot malware has returned with a new attack that may have compromised around 250 million email addresses. Earlier this year TrickBot worked side-by-side the Ryuk ransomware to siphon millions of dollars for hackers, and now it is back again in less than a year. According to a report by Deep Instinct, a cybersecurity company, a new variant of TrickBot was revealed that joins forces with a malicious, email-based infection and distribution module named TrickBooster. The malware now has new capabilities such as stealing cookies.
The method for the attack hasn’t undergone too much change from previous methods, at least at the beginning of the attack. TrickBot infiltrates a victim’s computer and then the malware makes the machine download TrickBooster. This, in turn, reports back to a dedicated command and control server with a list of email addresses and log-in details which are gathered from the victim’s Inbox, Outbox and Address Book. After this, the TrickBooster server orders the infected machine to send malicious infection and spam emails. All these emails are then deleted from the Outbox and Trash so that the victim doesn’t realise the threat.
Deep Instinct investigated TrickBooster and its network infrastructure to find a database comprising of 250 million email addresses that were gathered by TrickBot operators. These email accounts were also, in all likeliness, targeted with the malicious emails. An email dump was recovered and this included about 26 million email accounts on Gmail, 19 million on Yahoo, 11 million on Hotmail, 7 million on AOL, 3.5 million on MSN, and 2 million on Yahoo U.K. Further investigation revealed that the compromised accounts involved several government departments and agencies in the US which included the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and more. There were also some government organisations and universities affected in the UK and Canada.
According to Deep Instinct, the discovery of TrickBot “highlights the success and sophistication of TrickBot”. The model of attack was described as “a powerful addition to TrickBot’s vast arsenal” of attacking methods. According to reports, the cybersecurity company stated that they are continuing their research and analysis in TrickBooster, and they will also be reporting details of the new TrickBot attack to the authorities.
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Profile of Meiya Pico, which claims a 40% share of the digital forensics market in China and which is believed to be linked to a spy app used by Chinese police (South China Morning Post)
Profile of Meiya Pico, which claims a 40% share of the digital forensics market in China and which is believed to be linked to a spy app used by Chinese police — Meiya claims a 40 per cent share of the digital forensics market in mainland China Net profit was US$44 million last year …
Friday, July 12, 2019
RPF 2019 – Constable (Group A) Final Merit List Released
How companies like Kenworth, ZF, and Team Inc., are using HoloLens and Microsoft Teams for employee training, and communication with frontline workers (Karen Weise/New York Times)
How companies like Kenworth, ZF, and Team Inc., are using HoloLens and Microsoft Teams for employee training, and communication with frontline workers — CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — When Toby Bouska Jr. started assembling cabs for Kenworth semitrucks last year, he learned the ropes by observing longtime workers at the factory.
Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...
