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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 to go on its first sale today at 12 pm via Amazon

Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 comes with a starting price of Rs 11,999. It will be available on Amazon and Mi.com at 12pm. https://ift.tt/3hwCSFE

TikTok Launches $200 Million Fund to Help Creators Earn a Livelihood

TikTok unveiled plans for a $200 million "creator fund" to add content from emerging social media personalities to the fast-growing video-sharing app. The move comes with TikTok seeing strong... https://ift.tt/3eVIojl

Redmi Note 9 to Go on First Sale Today at 12 Noon via Amazon, Mi.com

Redmi Note 9 will go on its first sale today, July 24, via Amazon and Mi.com starting 12pm (noon). The phone was launched in India earlier this week in three RAM and storage configurations. It also... https://ift.tt/30FpKXL

Amazon India to Open 10 New Warehouses, Takes Country Total to Over 60

Amazon India's unit on Thursday said it will open 10 new warehouses in the country and begin offering auto insurance, in moves that will help the e-commerce giant widen its reach in a key growth... https://ift.tt/39pfNBZ

MakeMyTrip begins restoring salaries of employees three months after pay cuts

The company's domestic flight booking volumes are currently at 15-20% of pre-Covid-19 levels and hotel bookings are at 10-12%. There has also been a gradual improvement in bus bookings, Magow said. https://ift.tt/3jA3d7v https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Selina Finance, a London-based online lender for SMBs that leverages business owners' home equity, raises $53M Series A in equity and debt financing (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Selina Finance, a London-based online lender for SMBs that leverages business owners' home equity, raises $53M Series A in equity and debt financing — When you need a loan, the cost and speed of getting it can be as critical to get right as the financing itself, a principle that might …

Amazon Prime Day sale: What to expect in deals, discounts on smartphones, TVs, accessories, other gadgets and appliances

The dates are out for Amazon Prime Day sale 2020. The two-day sale will start August 6 and run through August 7. Prime Day sale is an annual sale exclusively for Amazon Prime members. Here's a ready reckoner on discounts that Prime members will get on gadgets, appliances and tech accessories. https://ift.tt/2D5b9go

Intel chip delay forces shift to using more outside factories

The setbacks will have little effect in the next few quarters, but will cause a years-long domino effect, delaying chips meant to counter the rise of rivals AMD and Nvidia https://ift.tt/2OXlUUl https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Elon Musk's SpaceX in talks to raise funds at $44 billion valuation: Report

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule delivered NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station in May, marking the first U.S. space capsule to do so with a crew since 2011. https://ift.tt/32QlAPp https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Apple starts making its flagship iPhone 11 in India

Apple may decide to export the model from India, reducing dependence on China https://ift.tt/2WRxNjd https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Realme 6i Will Launch in India Today at 12:30pm: Watch Live Stream

Realme 6i will be launched in India today, July 24, at 12:30pm via a live stream on the company's social media channels. The phone is said to be a rebranded Realme 6s that was launched in Europe... https://ift.tt/2CHbbuU

HBO debuts first His Dark Materials S2 trailer at San Diego Comic-Con@Home

HBO’s His Dark Materials season 2 trailer.

The trailers and sneak peeks just keep coming from the virtual San Diego Comic Con @Home, running all this weekend. HBO dropped the first trailer for the second season of His Dark Materials, an adaptation of the best-selling fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman. While there were supposed to be eight episodes in this second season, just like S1, production was shut down due to the pandemic, so there will only be seven episodes.

(Some spoilers for S1 below.)

First published in 1995, the three books in the series are The Golden Compass (published as Northern Lights in the U.K.), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. They follow the adventures of a 12-year-old girl named Lyra, who lives in a fictional version of Oxford, England, circa the Victorian era. Everyone has a companion daemon in the form of an animal—part of their spirit that resides outside the body; Lyra's is named Pantalaimon. Lyra uncovers a sinister plot that sends her on a journey to find her father in hopes of foiling said plot. That journey takes her to different dimensions (the fictional world is a multiverse) and ultimately to her own coming-of-age.

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Filing: NY charges First American Financial over massive 2019 data breach caused by a software update flaw, in the first enforcement of 2017 cybersecurity rules (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

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Filing: NY charges First American Financial over massive 2019 data breach caused by a software update flaw, in the first enforcement of 2017 cybersecurity rules — In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp …

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost return to horror-comedy roots with Truth Seekers teaser

Amazon's new supernatural comedy series Truth Seekers reunites Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

A group of part-time paranormal investigators team up to uncover a deadly conspiracy in the first teaser for Truth Seekers, a forthcoming sci-fi/horror comedy series from Amazon starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The first teaser was unveiled today at San Diego Comic-Con @Home, which has had to switch to an online-only, virtual format this year due to the continuing pandemic.

Created by Pegg, Frost, James Serafinowicz, and Nat Saunders, the eight-episode series is envisioned as a cross between The X-Files and the British TV series Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World. Each episode will focus on a specific paranormal incident, a throwback to a classic monster-of-the-week format. Rather than going with pure spoof, Truth Seekers will apparently take its horror aspects seriously.

“You have to not make fun of the horror,” Pegg said during the Comic-Con panel. “It’s tempting with genre fare to parody that... but I think the key for horror-comedy is to take the horror seriously.”

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