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Author: Rishabh

A love for stories and urge to be more exposed to the outer world made Rishabh to work with Pixr8 as a content writer. He choses to go with his personal interest of writing and hence is a writer not only by profession, but also by heart and choice. He is currently pursuing his B-tech from Noida.
WhatsApp Accidentally Rolled Out Its Latest Feature ‘Private Reply’
30Dec By RishabhNo Comments
Tech

WhatsApp Accidentally Rolled Out Its Latest Feature ‘Private Reply’

WhatsApp is generally not known for mistakes, but recently it committed a blunder by accidentally rolling out its latest feature 'private reply' on Windows Phone beta users. This latest feature update will let users send private message to a person in a group chat, without letting other group members see it. WhatsApp is rumored to roll out the update for quite some time now, and is its one of the most awaited update. According to @WABetainfo, a WhatsApp watcher, the company added the feature only in the beta version and will taking it back in the next beta update. 'In the new WhatsApp beta for Windows Phone 2.17.344, the private reply feature is disabled. Probably WhatsApp has wrongly enabled it in 2.17.342,” WABetaInfo tweeted. WABetaInfo said that the option will only be availab...
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A Guy Orders Rs 33,000 Smartphone, What Was Inside Will Surprise You
29Dec By RishabhNo Comments
News

A Guy Orders Rs 33,000 Smartphone, What Was Inside Will Surprise You

Lately e-commerce sector has seen a boom in India. People are openly accepting it because its more about convenience and save a lot of time. These e-commerce websites often offers lucrative discounts to attract customers, but what is happening at the back-end is fraud. A similar case of fraud was brought up recently by Indiatimes where a user, Rakesh Chabaria from Mumbai ordered a smartphone online. On 23 December, when the parcel was received, he was shocked to see what was inside. Rakesh had ordered a phone but what was inside was beyond his expectations. We all have heard some news related to it but he never thought it would happen to him as well. Inside the box, instead of a smartphone was a big stone! The package that he received on December 23 was already very untidy ...
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HQ Trivia Will Be Available On Android This New Year’s Eve
28Dec By RishabhNo Comments
Tech

HQ Trivia Will Be Available On Android This New Year’s Eve

Have you heard about HQ Trivia app? Yes, the world popular quiz show app that was available only for iPhone users. Despite of its availability only on a single platform, it has attracted quite a number of users. This Christmas, it even crossed 730,000 players. HQ Trivia is an online trivia game show which offers prizes(money) to the users who make it to the end by answering all the 12 questions correct. Those who make it to the last, the prize money is distributed amongst them. HQ Trivia had been planning from quite some time to make a debut on Android platform, but has only released the beta version to a small subset of users. "Android update: we’re in limited beta as of Christmas Day & are working quickly on patches, so we can continue to roll it out to more testers througho...
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Elon Musk Promises On Twitter To Build Pick Up Trucks ‘Right After’ Model Y
27Dec By RishabhNo Comments
News

Elon Musk Promises On Twitter To Build Pick Up Trucks ‘Right After’ Model Y

It's just about a month that Tesla launched its electric semi-truck along with a surprise launch of Roadster in November, Musk took to Twitter today relying to a fan that he will soon launching a pick-up truck.   I promise that we will make a pickup truck right after Model Y. Have had the core design/engineering elements in my mind for almost 5 years. Am dying to build it. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2017 When a fan requested that he awaits on Tesla's pick-up truck, Musk tweeted,“I promise that we will make a pickup truck right after Model Y. Have had the core design/engineering elements in my mind for almost 5 years. Am dying to build it." When asked about the size of the pick-up truck and whether it will be comparable to Ford F150, he said,"Similar total size. M...
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Indian Apps Asking For Permissions That Are “Too Private” To Share : Report
26Dec By RishabhNo Comments
ANALYSIS

Indian Apps Asking For Permissions That Are “Too Private” To Share : Report

Indian apps may be a lot kinkier when it comes to seeking permissions from a user to allow him to use its services. A report released by a survey agency reveals the ugly truth of the smartphone app developers. We have already witnessed too many cases of apps stealing user's private data or remember the time when even Google was caught saving Android user's locations, even when turned-off manually. As per the report, on an average, Indian apps seek 7.9 dangerous permissions from its users. Android classifies some permissions as 'dangerous' when the data it permits access to is very sensitive or private. Data collected after granting such permissions can be used to track user's location, to build your profile and know minute details about your life. Out of the 100 apps that Arrka...
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Your WhatsApp May Stop Working From 2018!
26Dec By RishabhNo Comments
Tech

Your WhatsApp May Stop Working From 2018!

Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp has recently announced that it will end support for certain handsets from December 31, 2017. Eventually, time for some smartphone owners to let go of it or purchase a new one! WhatsApp in a recent release stated that starting January 1, 2018 the messaging app will stop working on Blackberry OS, Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone 8.0 and older. “We will no longer actively develop for these platforms, some features may stop functioning at any time. These platforms don't offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app's features in the future.,” the company said. WhatsApp had earlier announced it will stop support on many of these older devices. However, end of support may not strictly mean that the users will lose access to their W...
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Ratan Tata Backed Fashion Startup Kaaryah Shuts Operations After Three Years
22Dec By RishabhNo Comments
News

Ratan Tata Backed Fashion Startup Kaaryah Shuts Operations After Three Years

Gurugram-based online women's fashion portal Kaaryah has shut down after operating for over three years. The startup failed to sustain because of the lack of funds, said Nidhi Agarwal, the founder and CEO of Kaaryah. The company has also laid off its workforce of around 50 employees. “It was not sudden. We have been trying to raise funds for the last 18 months. We had broken even twice in 30 months. Honestly, my aspiration for the brand was to take it to Rs 100 crore revenues within 4-5 years of having started it. It looked very realistic should we have received normal amounts of funding, given that we were a very capital efficient and working capital-light company,” Agarwal told a financial daily. The employees were given a notice of two months before the official release. Some w...
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Belarus Adopts Cryptocurrency Law To Woo Foreign Investors
22Dec By RishabhNo Comments
BUSINESS

Belarus Adopts Cryptocurrency Law To Woo Foreign Investors

Belarus has legalized transactions in crypto-currencies, part of a drive to foster private sector growth and attract foreign investment by liberalizing parts of its Soviet-style economy. President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree on the move on Thursday, his press service said. Bitcoin, the world's most popular crypto-currency, has lost a third of its value since hitting a record high of close to $20,000 on Sunday, but its supporters dismiss warnings over volatility and say it is the start of a new monetary system not dependent on central banks. “All smart and intelligent people know what stability and order are,” state news agency BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying earlier this month. “They’re all trying to reach that shore. We’re prepared to arrange a dock and even a harbor.”...
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Founder Out Of Litecoins, Sells All After 7500% Rally
22Dec By RishabhNo Comments
News, USA

Founder Out Of Litecoins, Sells All After 7500% Rally

The world's fifth biggest cryptocurrency Litecoin founder Charlie Lee is all cashed in during a 75-fold rally this year. Founded back in 2011 in San-Francisco by a software engineer "sold and donated" all of his holdings over a past few days, he said in a Reddit blog post. The move was under the influence of various accusations where Lee was "accused of doing it(changing price of LTC) for personal benefit." "I have always refrained from buying/selling LTC before or after my major tweets, but this is something only I know. And there will always be a doubt on whether any of my actions were to further my own personal wealth above the success of Litecoin and crypto-currency in general," he added. Lee has sold or donated all his Litecoins and is "well off enough". "For the first time in...
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This Little Mistake May Force Elon Musk To Change His Phone Number
20Dec By RishabhNo Comments
News

This Little Mistake May Force Elon Musk To Change His Phone Number

Sometimes even tech moguls like Elon Musk make silly mistakes. Elon Musk committed a blunder on December 19 by accidentally revealing his cell phone number on Twitter. He was quick in realizing his mistake but for person who has more than 16 million followers, he was not fast enough. Here's what happened Musk in an attempt to contact John Carmack, the CTO of Facebook-owned Oculus, instead of sending him a private text message, posted a tweet, tagging him. This is what he tweeted: “Do you have a sec to talk? My cell is …” As soon as he tweeted, it went viral on twitter and some of his fans quickly took a snap of it. To the surprise, CNBC even called on that number. Although nobody picked up and the call went to voicemail, but they did hear Musk's voicemail greeting.Check it o...
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Know Why Television Media Firm NDTV Is Firing 25% Of Its Employees
20Dec By RishabhNo Comments
News

Know Why Television Media Firm NDTV Is Firing 25% Of Its Employees

The layoff trend has reached India now! We recently witnessed international companies like Teva, ESPN, GE and Siemens laying off a considerable number of employees. Now an Indian media firm NDTV added its name to the list. As per the filings in stock exchange, the television media firm will be firing 25 percent of its total task-force by the next month as it plans on focusing on English and Hindi news and digital content business solely. "The strategy we are adopting calls for a far leaner operation which will feed only our core business: our English and Hindi news channels, and NDTV Convergence and its digital teams that run our news and other apps and websites," the statement filed by NDTV said. NDTV will be minimizing its ancillary business that NDTV worked hard to expand over a sp...
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