Google’s added biometric checks to Chrome’s autofill security !!

Google has added a few security tools to protect your passwords and financial information saved on Chrome’s autofill better. One of these features will be use biometric information, like fingerprint etc, to verify your identity when you want to use your credit card online.Google has rolled out a couple of security tools to protect the financial information and passwords that you saved with Chrome’s autofill feature. One of them will allow you to verify your identity using biometric information, such as your fingerprint, whenever you want to use your credit card online. Currently, these…

Reliance Makeover Is Being Carefully Watched !!

Things nobody should lose in a taxi – their phone and wallet – are what India’s richest man wants to control. And Mukesh Ambani intends to do it in a market of a billion-plus consumers. The oil-and-petrochemicals tycoon’s digital services startup requires him to dominate the use of mobile devices, while his retail chain, India’s largest, needs maximum grip on customers’ moneybags. Through that the fog of the pandemic, the billionaire’s flagship Reliance Industries Ltd. is showing glimpses of this twin-track strategy. Although padded by a one-time gain from selling…

UK Researchers Trial Robots to Ease Social Care Burden During COVID-19 Pandemic !!

Pepper’s skill set includes making phone calls, identifying missing items in the kitchen and occasional aerobics instruction. Now, after a surge in loneliness among vulnerable groups during the coronavirus pandemic, this robot’s potential as a companion have earned her a role in a Scottish university’s assisted living all experiment with artificial intelligence. Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have programmed robots, including Pepper — who was launched as per the world’s first humanoid in Japan in 2014 — to perform tasks normally carried out by care workers. “We are specifically interested in…

Microsoft Edge Bug Crashed Browsers When Default Search Engine Set to Google, Now Fixed !!

Microsoft Edge browser is started crashing for users who has selected for Google as their default search engine. The crashes went on around for four hours before Microsoft fixed it. This issue only affected users who had Google selected as their default engine. This issue was affecting users on both MacOS and Windows, according to reports. Microsoft acknowledged the issue, and suggested a workaround of turning off search suggestions while it worked on a fix. As per a report by The Verge, the browser is started crashing when users typed into the…

New Education Policy: Five big changes in school, higher education explained….

The Indian government on Wednesday replaced a 34-year-old National Policy on Education, framed in 1986, with the New Education Policy of 2020. The NEP, approved by the union cabinet, makes sweeping reforms in school and higher education including teaching. Some of the biggest highlights of the NEP 2020 are, 1) a single regulator for higher education institutions, 2) multiple entry and exit options in degree courses, 3) discontinuation of MPhil programmes, 4) low stakes board exams, 5) common entrance exams for universities. New Education Policy 2020: Important highlights: Schooling starts…

Apple, Huawei gain bigger share of shrinking China smartphone market !!

Huawei Technologies and Apple both are increased their share of the China smartphone market in the second quarter of 2020, bucking a broader trend as the overall market for handsets continued to contract. Huawei shipped 40.2 million devices in China in the second quarter, 8% more than a year earlier, to increase its share of the market to a dominant 44%. Apple saw a substantial year on year growth of 35%, selling 7.7 million units, though its sales made up only 8.5% of the total market. Overall smartphone shipments in China…

COAI 25 Years of Mobility in India – Desh Ki Digital Udaan webinar: Here’s what PM Modi said !!

During the 25 Years of Mobility in India – Desh Ki Digital Udaan webinar conducted by COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India), Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi left a message about all the possibilities of mobile connectivity and how the country has progressed over the years. “When the first mobile call was made in India on 31 July 1995, very few would be have known the possibilities that it could be usher in. Indeed, reality has painted the picture of a digitally connected world better than we could have…

NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance Poised for Launch Today !!

NASA’s latest Mars rover Perseverance is launches Thursday on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life — and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time. Take-off is scheduled for 7:50 am (5:20 pm IST) from Cape Canaveral, Florida on board a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. If all goes to plan, Perseverance will reach the Red Planet on February 18, 2021, becoming the fifth rover to complete the voyage since 1997. All so far have been American. China launched its first Mars rover last week, which…

Google Pixel 4a launch date revealed with lots of Easter Eggs !!

After the months of delays Google has finally confirmed the launch of Pixel 4a for August 3. Google did not specifically say that it’s the Pixel 4a but it’s most likely the mid-range phone. Google updated its Twitter and Facebook pages to tease the launch of its new phone. There’s a bit of work required though to figure out the Pixel 4a launch. First is the cover photo on Google’s Twitter and Facebook pages. It has a dot on the side indicating the punch-hole camera and “The Google Phone” written…

Reliance Jio announces Q1 2020 results, adds over 15 mln new customers despite pandemic !!

Reliance Jio on Thursday announced the results for the first quarter of 2020. In its quarterly report, the company said that its profits is increased by the 182.8% from ₹891 crores in the first quarter of 2019 to ₹2,520 crores in the first quarter of 2020. The company also announced that it had added 15.1 million new customers despite the Covid-19 pandemic and that its total customer base at the end of June 30, 2020, stood at 398.3 million. Reliance Jio, in its quarterly report, also revealed that its wireless…