Facebook appears to be blocking the hashtag #Sikh for some of users. This was highlighted by a huge number of users on Twitter and independently verified by Gadgets 360 as well. Curiously, the blocking of the hashtag appears to be happening selectively, as some of the members accounts could not search for the term, but results were showing up for others. Gadgets 360 has reached out to Facebook for more details about why #Sikh was hidden, and why this appears to have been done only for some users but not…
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Jets with enhanced protection to join PM’s fleet by September!!
Two specially modified Boeing-777 Aircraft, capable of countering missile threats, will join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Air India One fleet by September-end, two people are familiar with the development said on Wednesday. The first head-of-state Boeing-777 Aircraft will arrive in India from the United States by the end of August followed by the second one a month later, they said on condition of anonymity. The planes will come equipped with self-protection suites (SPS) consisting of aircraft infrared counter measures, advanced integrated defensive electronic warfare suite and the counter-measures dispensing system to protect…
Read MoreZoom Plans to Strengthen Encryption for Paying Clients, Institutions !!
Zoom has attracted millions of the free and paying customers amid the pandemic, in part because users could join a meeting – something that now happens 300 million times a day – without registering. Video conferencing provider Zoom plans to strengthen encryption of video calls hosted by paying clients & institutions such as schools, but not by users for its free consumer accounts, a company official said on Friday. The company, whose business has boomed with the covid-19 pandemic, discussed the move on a call with “civil liberties groups and…
Read MoreGovernment Launches Rs 50,000 Crore Plan To Boost Electronics Manufacturing!!
Government launched Rs 50,000 crore plan on Tuesday to boost electronics manufacturing in the country, saying it would be start by offering 5-global smartphone makers incentives to establish or expand domestic production in India. The government is offering a Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) involving cash worth 4% to 6% of additional sales of goods made locally over five years, with 2019-2020 as the base year, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told in a news conference. Names of the top five companies, which would have to meet investment and sales thresholds to be…
Read MoreSpaceX Crew Dragon Delivers Two Astronauts to International Space Station !!!
Around 24 hours after launching from Florida, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule delivered NASA astronauts”Bob Behnken” & “Doug Hurley” to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first US space capsule to do so with a crew since 2011. The space station’s current crew welcomed them aboard with the hugs and handshakes on schedule at 1:25pm EDT (10:55pm IST), after executing the critical spacecraft docking milestone and kicking off the crew’s potentially months-long stay in the orbital laboratory. Applause could be heard from the station’s downlink to mission control in…
Read MoreValorant Out Now in India, Europe, Coming to America in a Few Hours!!!!
Valorant — Riot Games’ is new free-to-play online first-person shooter — is out now in INDIA, most of Asia-Pacific, and Oceania. It’s actually been available since 4:30am IST. The Windows PC-only game is also available in Europe, Turkey, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Russia, and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), having gone live at 7am CET / 6am BST. “Valorant” will release later in North America (including the US), Latin America, and South America at 5am PDT / 8am EDT. Those Valorant launch times are courtesy of a tweet by…
Read MoreAdd a ‘0’ Before Dialling a Mobile Phone Number, Says TRAI !!!!
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday released its latest recommendations of developing a ‘Unified Numbering Plan’ to ensure adequate numbering resources for the fixed line (aka landline) and mobile services in the country. This will lead to the current phone numbers changing — existing mobile numbers will require a “0” in front of them to dial from a fixed line of connection. One of the key points mentioned in the recommendations include switching from 10 – 11 digits in case of regular mobile numbers, which will lead…
Read MoreRemove China Apps Crosses 50 Lakh Downloads Amidst Anti-China Sentiment!!
Remove China Apps, Android app that claims an to identify China-made apps on your Android phone and remove them, has gone viral in India. The app is currently at the top spot of Google Play’s top free apps list in the country and it has been downloaded over 50 lakh times since its launch on May 17. This development comes at the time when anti-China sentiment is high in the country, sparked by the novel coronavirus pandemic, India-China border dispute, and more. Another app playing on similar sentiments – Mitron…
Read MoreISRO congratulates NASA and spaceX for their “Historical” Manned Mission!!
Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) on Monday congratulated NASA and spaceX for their manned mission and termed as it “historic”. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft with two NASA astronauts on Sunday successfully docked with the International Space Station after the historic launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking an dawn of a new age in commercial space travel. Saturday’s liftoff also assumes significance that marks the launch of humans into orbit from US soil for the first time. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley had lifted off at 3:22 pm EDT Saturday (12:52am IST Sunday)…
Read MoreInternet Archive Sued by Publishers Over Scanning of Books!!
Four of United State’s biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright in fringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has illegally offered more than million scanned works to the public, including such as favorites Toni Morrison’s ‘Song of Solomon’, Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Blink’ and Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” “Without license and any payment to authors or publishers, Internet Archive scans print books, uploads these illegally scanned books to its servers, and distributes verbatim digital copies of the books in whole via public-facing websites,” according to papers filed Monday is federal…
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