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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…

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…

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 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…

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’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…

Although a good number of leaks and rumours have been given us an idea of what to expect from the upcoming iPhone 12 models, very little is known about the next-gen Apple Watch, tipped as Apple Watch 6.  Now, one of the patents unearthed by Patently Apple website, strongly hints at a feature of that may arrive in Apple Watch Series 6. It’s not a completely a new feature but is an improved version of the one that was revealed in Apple Watches back in 2018 – Fall Detection. In…

Google has made two more new announcements about the Google Maps for anApple platforms, according to an Ars Technical report. For starters, Google Maps will now work with the dashboard view on Apple’s CarPlay screens and second, the company is also relaunching the Google Maps app on the Apple Watch. The CarPlay dashboard support mode was introduced in iOS 13 last year and could only support Apple Maps. Other developers were allowed to take advantage of this in Marcha when iOS 13.4 was rolled out. Now, the inclusion of Google Maps…