Saturday, January 1, 2022

China stares at 1 million EV shortfall due to chip shortage in 2022

The global chip shortage is set to send China's EV industry into partial freeze in the first half of 2022, as there will be a shortfall of at least 1 million electric cars amid the soaring demand. https://ift.tt/3ELRXOw

Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda issues a New Year's Letter indicating the company will pursue blockchain games and NFTs in 2022 (Paul Tassi/Forbes)

Paul Tassi / Forbes:
Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda issues a New Year's Letter indicating the company will pursue blockchain games and NFTs in 2022  —  Well, we couldn't get more than a few hours without another major company tossing a lit match into the crypto/blockchain/NFT tinderbox, and this time it's (throws dart) Square Enix!



A Y2K22 bug in Microsoft's FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine appears to be stopping Exchange on-premise servers around the world from delivering email (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A Y2K22 bug in Microsoft's FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine appears to be stopping Exchange on-premise servers around the world from delivering email  —  Microsoft Exchange on-premise servers cannot deliver email starting on January 1st, 2022, due to a “Year 2022” bug in the FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine.



Sources: tax authorities conducted searches at some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges after detecting tax evasion of around $7M at Binance's WazirX (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
Sources: tax authorities conducted searches at some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges after detecting tax evasion of around $7M at Binance's WazirX  —  India's tax authorities have conducted searches at some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges including “Coinswitch Kuber …



PitchBook: supply-chain tech startups raised $24.3B in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2021, 58% more than all of 2020 (Jennifer Smith/Wall Street Journal)

Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal:
PitchBook: supply-chain tech startups raised $24.3B in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2021, 58% more than all of 2020  —  A flood of big money is pumping up valuations of logistics startups as global bottlenecks raise the profile of a once-overlooked sector



How to recover deleted Instagram photos on both iOS and Android platforms

Instagram has created a new option under this new feature which is known as the ‘Recently Deleted’ folder. You can find the deleted posts in the recently deleted folder of Instagram for 30 days, even if you delete one of your posts. You can either recover the post or can permanently delete it within the time period of one month. https://ift.tt/3FH1Mia

Friday, December 31, 2021

A number of women who believe they were tracked with AirTags say Apple's safeguards against stalking are insufficient (New York Times)

New York Times:
A number of women who believe they were tracked with AirTags say Apple's safeguards against stalking are insufficient  —  Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced.  Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.



Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigation into Apple's practice of mandating use of its own payments system for iPhone apps in the App Store (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigation into Apple's practice of mandating use of its own payments system for iPhone apps in the App Store  —  Indian antitrust watchdog on Friday ordered an investigation into Apple's business practices — in particular, the mandatory use …



This country is planning to build an 'artificial sun'

According to the plan, it will continue to improve operating technology in the field of KSTAR experiments, which are showing great results such as maintaining 100 million degrees of ultra-high temperature plasma (for 30 seconds in 2021), and will develop technology to maintain the temperature for 300 seconds by 2026. https://ift.tt/32MqzTq

Vivo Y21T price and specifications leaked online: Here’s what the smartphone may offer

Vivo is expected to launch its latest Y-series smartphone in India soon. The company has not yet revealed the launch date for the smartphone but it is expected to launch next month. https://ift.tt/3FKDHXV

This is how much world's 10 richest men added to their net worth in 2021

Led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world's 10 richest people added nearly $402.17 billion (India has a forex reserve of about $635 billion) in 2021. https://ift.tt/3pFpzcD

All Ola S1, S1 Pro electric scooters from first batch dispatched: CEO

After facing a long wait owing to production-related delays caused by the global chip shortage, Ola Electric revealed that it has dispatched all units of its S1 and S1 Pro electric scooters to its customers. https://ift.tt/32CdYCA

Amid pandemic, IIT Mandi sees top MNCs in placement drive

Even during the pandemic, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi has witnessed some of the top MNCs in the world participating in the placement drive this year, Prof Ajit K. Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Mandi, said on Friday. https://ift.tt/3pJDGxT

SBI Card, Paytm join hands for card tokenisation to protect cardholders' data

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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...