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Monday, December 2, 2019

Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite Briefly Sighted on Company Website: Report

Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite is expected to be a slightly more powerful phone than the Galaxy S10e, and is expected to pack 8GB RAM. https://ift.tt/3801yCe

Technical snag hits HDFC website and mobile application

With a customer base of 50 million, HDFC Bank is the largest private sector bank in the country and one of the largest retail banks in the world. https://ift.tt/33NKzjz https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Lil Nas X are the winners of the first Apple Music Awards

Apple now has its own music awards, with winners picked by Apple Music’s editorial team or based on streaming data from the service. The first recipient of its top award, Global Artist of the Year, is Billie Eilish. The Apple Music Awards will be streamed live on Dec. 4 at 6:30PM Pacific Standard Time from the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, with a performance by Eilish.

The Apple Music Awards has five categories. Its editorial team picks the winners for Global Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Album of the Year and Song of the Year are awarded based on streaming data. Eilish also won the Album of the Year and (along with her brother Finneas) the Songwriter of the Year awards, for “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?”, Apple Music most played album of the year, with more than a billion streams.

Breakthrough Artist of the Year went to Lizzo, for “Cuz I Love You,” while the first Song of the Year is “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X, the service’s most streamed track this year.

Winners will be given an trophy that contains “Apple’s custom silicon wafer suspended between a polished sheet of glass and a machined and anodized aluminum body… in a symbolic gesture, the same chips which power the devices that put the world’s music at your fingertips sit at the very heart of the Apple Music Awards,” read the company’s press release.

The launch of Apple Music Awards underscores the company’s increasing focus on services, as revenue from hardware slows. This year, it launched new subscription services like Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade, both of which emphasize exclusive content.

Apple Music competitor Spotify also recently announced its own music awards, with winners picked based on streaming and user engagement data. The first Spotify Awards event will be held in March 5 in Mexico City (the service’s biggest single market) and broadcast live on TNT in all Spanish-language countries in the region.

“The Apple Music Awards are designed to recognize the passion, energy and creativity of the world’s favorite artists. The musically diverse group of inaugural winners have sparked deep social conversation, influenced culture and inspired our customers around the world. We couldn’t be more excited to celebrate them,” said Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music and International Content, in its press release.

With mAadhaar app, you can leave your Aadhaar card at home; Here’s how

With the mAadhaar app, users can now carry the soft copy of Aadhaar card and can leave the original physical copy at home. https://ift.tt/2rS2doE

All You Need to Know About Inside Edge Season 2

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NASA Finds Vikram Lander on Moon, Releases Images of Impact Site

NASA has found the crash site and debris of Chandrayaan-2 Vikram moon lander following a tip from an Indian space enthusiast who examined pictures of the area of the moon taken by a US orbiting... https://ift.tt/2P25vOg

Airtel new mobile charges: New plans vs old plans; talktime, validity and other benefits

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Facebook to Allow Transfer of Photos, Videos to Google, Other Rivals

Facebook started testing a tool on Monday that lets users move their images more easily to other online services, as it faces pressure from regulators to loosen its grip on data. https://ift.tt/35YG86C

IIT placement season sees record salary offers

The current placement season at IITs is witnessing record salary offers from the likes of Google, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs. Annual pay packages of Rs. 30 lakh and more-going up to Rs. 1 crore and beyond- are more numerous than ever before. https://ift.tt/2DFhn3n https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

ETtech Top 5: Accel's new India fund, Slowing growth of AePS & more

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Amazon pulls goods with Auschwitz pics after outrage

In a Twitter post on Sunday, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum memorial said the Amazon ornaments which displayed images of the Auschwitz concentration camp were inappropriate and called the bottle opener “rather disturbing and disrespectful”. https://ift.tt/2P2ZO2y https://ift.tt/eA8V8J