Sources: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is expected to testify before the House Financial Services Committee in a panel hearing on GameStop on February 18 (Zachary Warmbrodt/Politico)

Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Sources: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is expected to testify before the House Financial Services Committee in a panel hearing on GameStop on February 18  —  The hearing before the House Financial Services Committee with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is primed to be a blockbuster.  —  The Robinhood logo is displayed on an iPhone.

Network security provider SonicWall says hackers are exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability in one of its firewalls, and a patch is due Tuesday (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Network security provider SonicWall says hackers are exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability in one of its firewalls, and a patch is due Tuesday  —  “Highly sophisticated threat actors” exploit flaws in coordinated attack on SonicWall.  —  Network security provider SonicWall said on Monday …

Google has agreed to pay $2.5M to 5,500+ female engineers as well as female and Asian job applicants who were allegedly subject to pay and hiring discrimination (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)

Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Google has agreed to pay $2.5M to 5,500+ female engineers as well as female and Asian job applicants who were allegedly subject to pay and hiring discrimination  —  The US Department of Labor alleges systemic pay and hiring discrimination  —  Google has agreed to pay $2.5 million …

Sources: Democrats have complained to companies, including Google, that have suspended campaign donations, say they are being penalized for Republicans' actions (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Democrats have complained to companies, including Google, that have suspended campaign donations, say they are being penalized for Republicans' actions  —  Lawmakers say companies' suspension of campaign donations puts business priorities at risk  —  Lawmakers from both parties …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Asked Australian Lawmakers to Change Policy

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reached out to Australian lawmakers to discuss rules that would make internet giants pay news outlets for content but failed to persuade them to change policy, said the... https://ift.tt/2MHbHxA

Samsung Galaxy A72 Spotted Online, May Pack 5,000mAh Battery

Samsung Galaxy A72 is likely the successor of the Samsung Galaxy A71 which had a slightly smaller 4,500mAh battery but a similar 25W fast charging charger. The Samsung Galaxy A72 is reportedly listed... https://ift.tt/36rMXAE

LG Velvet starts receiving Android 11 update

LG has started rolling out Android 11 update for its last year launched mid-range smartphone -- LG Velvet 5G. The company released the beta build for the update last month and now it has rolled out the stable update of Android 11. https://ift.tt/2MlsQx4

Micron's Gurtej has more patents than Thomas Edison

Meet Gurtej Sandhu. He’s one of the most prolific inventors in the world. He holds over 1,335 US patents, more than the inventor of the electric bulb, Thomas Alva Edison (1,093 patents). And he was awarded IEEE’s prestigious Andrew S Grove award in 2018 for his contributions to the technology that is used to produce integrated circuits. https://ift.tt/3toyLSO

Qualcomm India engineers are behind many foundational wireless tech

Qualcomm has built a lot of the foundational technology that our wireless, digital world is based on. This dominance has been made possible partly by the extraordinary amount of R&D the company does in India. Its 10,000 employees across centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Noida account for about a quarter of the total Qualcomm workforce. https://ift.tt/3r8Zb8X

How cloud and SaaS are changing TV, OTT

The Australian Open is on right now. In the pre-quarter stage, there could be as many as 16 matches happening simultaneously. What television viewers get are highlights of each match. If an Indian is playing in one of those matches and you want to watch the full match live, you can’t. https://ift.tt/39FciJr

How to enable offline support for Google Calendar on web from your computer

Google rolled out a new feature that will allow users to use Google Calendar on Google Chrome from your computer even without internet connectivity. https://ift.tt/3pDAiBU

Xiaomi Says Legal Complaint Against US to Protect Its Interests

Xiaomi has filed a legal complaint against the US Department of Defence and the Treasury Department. The Chinese smartphone maker says that US's decision to include the company as a "communist... https://ift.tt/39AWl6J

WhatsApp Posting Status Messages to Allay Privacy Concerns

WhatsApp is now posting status messages to reassure users of its "commitment to privacy" in the latest attempt to keep them from switching to alternate messaging apps. A recent privacy policy... https://ift.tt/2YtVMWa

Apple releases an iCloud Passwords browser extension for Chrome on Windows (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Apple releases an iCloud Passwords browser extension for Chrome on Windows  —  Besides iTunes, Apple's biggest offering on Microsoft's operating system is the iCloud sync client for files, photos, and mail.  Apple is now extending its presence on Windows with an iCloud Passwords Chrome extension.

Amazon app quiz February 1, 2021: Get answers to these five question to win Rs 5,000 in Amazon Pay balance

There is usually one winner of the quiz whose name will be announced on February 2. https://ift.tt/3j2aey6