WhatsApp releases host of new features: 5 things you need to know !!

WhatsApp is finally getting the much-awaited features. The company on Wednesday announced that the Facebook-owned messaging app will finally be getting the Animated Stickers, QR codes, Dark mode for web and desktop, improved video calls, and disappearing status feature for KaiOS. The features will be rolled out for both Android & iOS apps in the coming weeks. Days before its release, Wabetainfo the WhatsApp features tracker, had informed the users that the company is testing the QR codes feature and working on the Animated stickers feature. Another highly anticipated feature…

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World Economic Forum ‘Data Flows’ Project Hopes To Globalize Information Exchange !!

Countries have stock exchanges, commodities markets and various types of bourse systems to enable the formalized trading, pricing and exchange of corporate stocks, securities, goods and services. Although traditional of these commodities markets are likely to exist for many years to come (trading everything from tea to tin as they do), we’re now at a point on the digital evolution curve when data itself has become a marketable product, a tradeable entity and a thing of value. Surely we need some kind of exchange system for data then? If not…

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Artificial Intelligence Is Experiencing Growing Pains !!

Is Artificial Intelligence(AI) ready to move out from the labs and proofs of concept and into the mainstreams of enterprises? Leading industry observers say yes, it’s ready — but organizations may still need some preparation. “We’ve to moved beyond the phase of ‘Is AI a shiny object?’ toward an broader mainstream adoption and actual value creation,” says Bryce Hall, associate partner with McKinsey, noting that data from a survey of 2,300 executives shows a nearly 25% year-over-year increase in the use of AI in basis of standard business processes. Hall…

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Chrome OS to run Steam starting with 10th Gen Intel Chromebooks !!

Google has been working on bringing Steam support to Chrome OS(Operating System) for a while now and reports have it now that Chrome OS will run Steam and it is going to start with Chromebooks. For almost over a year now, Chrome OS has supported Linux apps under a project called Crostini. Crostini runs an entire Linux distribution under its hood in a virtual machine – much like a developer running an Android emulator on the desktop. Adding to that, there is a new project within the Chromium open-source code,…

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Google hosts Chrome web.dev LIVE: Here’s what it’s all about !!

Today is the last day for web.dev LIVE, a digital event held by Google for developers to connect, share ideas and build networks while learning new web techniques, something they couldn’t do while sitting at home. Usually, this happens every year at Google IO conference but since the event didn’t take place this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Google came up with web.dev LIVE. It was a three day digital event that started on June 30th and included short 3 hours content streams (in English) hosted on web.dev/live website….

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World UFO Day: Here are five of the most famous ‘flying saucer’ sightings !!

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) have captured people’s imagination for thousands of years. There are myths and legends, stories and folklore all woven around the experience of sighting “something” in the sky. Because it is merely “something”— a disk, a flash of light, an object the shape of nothing ever seen before— it is classified as a UFO. UFOs are more often than are not associated with aliens, since legends have it that these flying objects are being flown by, again, “someone” or “something”. This mystery surrounding UFOs has endured since…

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Indians flock to desi apps after ban on TikTok, 58 other China-linked apps !!

Desi TikTok rivals like Chingari, Mitron, Bolo Indya and Roposo are seeing huge surge in downloads ever since the ban on TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps. Chingari app registered 500,000 downloads in just 72 hours. Even before the India ban on Chinese apps, homegrown alternatives to TikTok were making news. With the ban in effect these desi TikTok rivals are seeing huge surge in downloads and users. TikTok was massively popular in India especially since it catered to even the smallest places across the country. TikTok has been removed from…

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UK regulators take aim at Apple’s search engine deal with Google !!

The payments by Alphabet Google to Apple to be the default search engine on Apple’s Safari web browser create “a significant barrier to entry and expansion” for Google’s rivals in the search engine market, the UK markets regulator said in a report released on Wednesday. The UK Competition and Markets Authority, in its final report investigating online platforms & digital advertising, said the arrangements between Apple and Google create “a significant barrier to entry and expansion” for Google’s rivals in the search engine market. Those rivals include Microsoft Corp’s Bing,…

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CERT-In Indian Cyber-Security Agency Warns of Malicious Google Chrome Extensions !!

  Internet users should exercise caution while installing Google Chrome extensions as the company has removed over 100 malicious links after they were found collecting “sensitive” user data, country’s cyber-security agency said on Wednesday. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In), the national technology arm to combat cyber-attacks and safeguard in Indian cyberspace, said it has also been found that these extensions contained code to bypass Google Chrome’s Web store security scans. The malicious extensions had the ability to take screenshots, read the clipboard, harvest authentication cookies or grab user…

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PhD chamber of commerce and industry (PHDCCI) in association with AICRA!!

New Delhi: PhD chamber of commerce and industry (PHDCCI) in association with AICRA hosted a webinar on the eve of World MSME week on devising ways to enhance business through AI. The webinar was resided by eminent heads of different sectors and associated with different domains including Sri Piyush Srivastava Additional Development Commissioner, Ministry of MSME Government of India, Mr Raj Sharma, President of All India Council for Robotics and Automation,Ms Laxmi Nageshwari Global lead Boston Ltd, Mr Sunil Goel Founder Bzait consulting. The discussion was centered around the adoption…

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