TECHNOLOGY

Twitter appoints Apurva Dalal as Director of Engineering in India
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Dalal has more than two decades of engineering experience spanning global organisations such as Uber, Google, and eBay, who last served as the engineering site lead for Uber Bengaluru.
Now transfer your FB posts, notes to Google Documents, WordPress
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"To better reflect the range of data types people can now transfer to our partners' services, we're renaming the tool ‘Transfer Your Information," said Steve Satterfield, Director of Privacy and Public Policy.
OPPO brings A54 smartphone in 3 variants to India
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The 16.55cm A54 with punch-hole display and housing Mediatek Helio P35 (MT6765) Octa-Core Processor will be available from April 20 in three colours (Crystal Black, Starry Blue and Moonlight Gold) in Flipkart and retail outlets in the country, the company said in a statement.
Twitter, Facebook, Snap join White House Covid vax campaign
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The White House through its Covid vaccination campaign aims to address vaccine hesitancy. Earlier, it had set a date of May 1 for states to open coronavirus vaccine eligibility to all adults, but later it was preponed to April 19, the Verge quoted Axios as saying on Sunday.
FB set to take on Clubhouse, Zoom with social audio products
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The likely products, to be unveiled on Monday (US time), are an audio-only version of videoconferencing product Rooms, a Clubhouse-like audio chat product, a podcast discovery product that will be connected with Spotify and another product that will let Facebook users record brief voice messages and post them in their newsfeeds, reports Vox.
Nokia joins LG Uplus to tap S Korea's 5G equipment market
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Nokia said it will deploy its small cell AirScale Indoor systems in indoor locations across the country, including shopping malls and office buildings, for LG Uplus' 5G network.
Domino's India hacked? Credit data of 10L users on 'sale' for Rs 4 cr
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According to Alon Gal, CTO of security firm Hudson Rock, a threat actor has claimed to have hacked Domino's India database worth 13TB. The threat actor is looking for around $550,000 (approximately Rs 4 crore) for the database and saying they have plans to build a search portal to enable querying the data, Gal claimed.
India to become top EV producer in due course: Gadkari
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In his address at Amazon's Smbhav Summit 2021, the minister said that lithium-ion batteries will be fully manufactured in the country in the next six months. "India is moving ahead towards making electric vehicles. In due course of time, we will be the number one electric vehicle maker in the world," Gadkari said.
Google One is among world's first ioXt-certified apps
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Based on these same guidelines, more than 20 industry stakeholders, including Google, Amazon and mobile app security tester NowSecure, worked together to build a specific standard for mobile apps, reports Android Police.
Samsung Galaxy A22 4G pops-up at BIS India: Report
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According to GSMArena, a certain SM-A225F was recently spotted on the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) website. Beyond the SM-A225F/DS moniker, indicating that the phone will have dual-SIM support, there is hardly any other info available on the A22 4G, the report said.
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