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Apple has shifted the strategy of its Apple Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some games in development while seeking other titles that it believes will better retain subscribers. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant scrapped development contracts with multiple game studios earlier this year and informed them of the new approach, according to people familiar with the matter. On calls in mid-April, an Apple Arcade creative producer told some developers that their upcoming games didn’t have the level of “engagement” Apple is seeking, the people said. Apple is increasingly interested in…

New Delhi: While Indian newspapers and TV channels continue to pick up reports about the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from Chinese Communist propaganda sites, the Indian newspapers and websites cannot be accessed in Beijing now without Virtual Private Network (VPN) server. According to diplomatic sources in Beijing, the Indian TV channels can be accessed through IP TV as of now. However, Express VPN has not been working in the Communist state for the past two days on iPhone as well as on desktops. VPNs are powerful tools which allow users…

OneWeb makes so-called low-Earth orbit satellites that provide high-speed communications. It faces competition from Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink project and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon-linked Project Kuiper. Indian telecommunications tycoon Sunil Mittal has submitted a bid for OneWeb, the bankrupt satellite firm whose investors include SoftBank Group Corp., people with knowledge of the matter said. An arm of Mittal’s Bharti Enterprises Ltd. conglomerate made an offer for London-based OneWeb with backing from the UK government, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The UK…

A Google spokeswoman said the company did not yet know how the ads had got through its approval process, which uses a combination of automated and manual review. Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Monday that it had removed search ads that charged users searching for voting information large fees for voter registration or harvested their personal data. A Google spokeswoman told Reuters that the company’s misrepresentation policy barred such ads, which were found by the non-profit watchdog Tech Transparency Project when searching for terms such as “register to vote,” “vote…

The Indian unit of Amazon.com has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across fulfillment centers in the country, in line with its target to weed out the packaging material by June, the e-commerce giant said Today. The company said in addition to replacing packaging materials such as bubble wraps and air pillows with “paper cushions”, it had also swapped out packaging tapes with other bio-degradable options. “We have successfully eliminated single-use plastic in all our fulfillment centers a 100%,” Akhil Saxena, vice-president of customer fulfillment for the APAC, LATAM…

Hyderabad: Today’s Oracle announced an opening of its second cloud region in Hyderabad. This follows Oracle’s launch of Mumbai Cloud region in 2019.  With the latest opening, India joins the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and the European Union to have multiple Oracle Cloud regions. Oracle said that the new Cloud region will help its Indian customers and partners to access to all Oracle Cloud suite which includes platforms such as Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Autonomous Linux, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications. Last year, Oracle launched as many 20…

A couple of days ago a popular social media app called TikTok came in the headlines for its suspicious behaviour of snooping on the iPhone’s clipboard. While the company is yet to fix this, a couple of researchers have found additional 53 iOS apps that work in a similar fashion. As reported by Ars Technical, these 53 apps discovered by researchers Talal Haj Bakry & Tommy Mysk back in March have still not stopped snooping on the iOS device’s clipboards. It is said that these apps peek on the handset’s saved clipboard,…

Several people are forwarding a message on WhatsApp & social media platforms claiming that a COVID-19 exposure sensor has been silently “inserted into every phone.” The message is actually referring to the COVID-19 contact tracing system that Apple and Google have jointly built to enable exposure notification on both Android & iPhone devices. However, this doesn’t mean that a tracker has been installed to track your location or any other details. As per the message that has widely spread on WhatsApp, the COVID-19 exposure sensor has been installed on every single Android & iPhone device. The message…