Social media travel app ‘Explurger’ with AI-based features launched, here’s what it does !!

There’s a new ‘Made in India’ social media app called ‘Explurger’ which comes with AI-based  all features. Explurger app is available on Android and iOS, and it has been launched in 27 countries globally including India. The Expurger app has been in beta for around a year now, and it is stable version is now available. On the Google Play Store, Explurger has over 5,000 downloads. The company said that the app has users from all the 26 countries including the US, the UK, Germany, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand….

PM Modi’s 74th I-Day speech highlights: ‘Covid-19 is not an obstacle big enough to hamper self-reliant India’s growth’ !!

India is celebrating its 74th Independence Day on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Rajghat and paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi as the celebrations started. The prime minister then it proceeded to the Red Fort where he remembered those who laid their lives for India’s Independence. PM Modi also applauded the grit and resilience of the country’s frontline workers in fight against Covid-19, which has killed thousands in the country. He also stressed on the need to become self-reliant. Seventy-three years of independence from the British rule is being…

ByteDance in talks with India’s Reliance for investment in TikTok !!

Chinese giant ByteDance  is engaging in early discussions with the Reliance Industries Limited for backing TikTok’s  business in India in a move to potentially save the popular video app’s fate in its biggest market by users, two people are familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. TikTok has been banned in India since June 29 as a fallout of geo-political tensions with China that led New Delhi to block the app along with 58 other Chinese apps over security and privacy concerns. India was TikTok’s largest market outside of China with over 200 million…

Detel launches Detel Easy electric bike in India for ₹19,999 !!

Detel on Thursday launched a two-wheeler electric bike in India. Dubbed as Detel Easy, the newly launched electric bike costs is ₹19,999 (plus the GST) and it is available in India in three peppy colour variants, which includes jet Black, pearl White and metallic Red. It is available for purchase at Detel India’s website, Detel-india.com and on b2badda.com. The company has partnered with Bajaj Finserv for EMI finance schemes for the customers. As far as the features are concerned, the newly launched Detel Easy is powered by a 6 pipe…

It takes hackers just 30 minutes to breach a local network !!

It takes hackers to just 30 minutes to penetrate a local network. New research from Positive Technologies has been shown how easy it is for hackers to breach any organisation’s local network by exploiting known software vulnerabilities.bExperts from Positive Technologies performed by external pentests on organisations in the IT, finance, fuel and energy, hospitality, government, entertainment and telecommunications industries and the results were compiled in the Penetration Testing of Corporate Information Systems report. In a penetration test, ethical hackers imitate what real attackers do. The term is often shortened to “pentest,” while…

Amazon wins loyal Walmart shoppers as Americans stampede online !!

Walmart Inc. shoppers are a pretty loyal bunch. But when virus-spooked Americans began avoiding stores earlier this year and shifting spending online, far more Walmart customers went to Amazon.com Inc. than Walmart.com. So even though Walmart, too, has thrived as an essential service amid the pandemic, Amazon is benefiting more. In the first week of February, for every dollar a shoppers spent with the two rivals, 66% went to Walmart and 34% to Amazon, according to Facteus, which tracks credit and debit-card spending for millions of shoppers. In the first…

Google beats lyrics scraping lawsuit by Genius !!

Google has beaten a lawsuit by Genius Media Group over the claims that it was the allegedly scraping song lyrics from the site. A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York dismissed the lawsuit stating that while the claims of scraping were credible, it did not constitute a copyright violation as the lyrics company wasn’t the original copyright holder of the lyrics. To give you some context, Genius filed a lawsuit against Google in December 2019 alleging that the company was lifting lyrics off its platform. This means…

Google turns Android phones into earthquake sensors !!

Alphabet Inc’s Google’s Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling out in California. Japan, Mexico and California already use land-based sensors to generate warnings, aiming to cut injuries and property damage by giving people further away from the epicenter of an earthquake seconds to protect themselves before the shaking starts. Seismology experts consulted by Google said turning smartphones into mini-seismographs marked a major advancement, despite the…

Microsoft delaMicrosoft delays Halo Infinite, the biggest game for Xbox launch !!

Microsoft’s Xbox team delayed “Halo Infinite”, the biggest video that is game planned for the November launch of its new console, partly due to the challenges of working from home during the Covid-19 outbreak. The change was made “to ensure the team has adequate time to deliver a Halo game experience that meets our vision,” according to a statement posted on the Halo Twitter account. Halo is a multibillion-dollar franchise that began with the first Xbox almost two decades ago. The delay may hurt sales of the new Xbox Series…

Paytm launches ‘India’s first’ Android PoS device for easy, contactless payments !!

Paytm has launched its first pocket Android PoS device for contactless ordering and making payments, for SMEs. This comes at an introductory price of ₹499 per month on a rental basis and is designed like a phone. “Styled like a mobile phone for accepting orders and payments on the go, this is the first such Android-based device to be introduced in India and is much more powerful than the portable Linux based POS devices presently available in the country,” claims Paytm. The firm says its PoS machine comes bundled with…