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Whatsapp Secretly Releases Beta Version of Payment in India

10Feb By NitishNo Comments

Tech

Whatsapp Secretly Releases Beta Version of Payment in India

Last month, it was reported that Facebook owned WhatsApp could launch its digital payment service in India which will allow peer-to-peer money transfer through the messaging app. After the feature's launch on November 07 in UK, the mobile application software is ready to launch the feature in India by this month. This comes as an enthralling news for the citizens of India as WhatsApp is the most used application by atleast 200 million daily users. The payment service will be launched in a beta version of its messaging app for now. Due to a lot of reasons such as, 2G data service, easy platform of WhatsApp, thousands of people depend upon the app solely, unlike Facebook, Instagram and other mobile app platforms that need a much higher data speed to perform. The latest feature of whatsap...

India’s First Electric Bike Launched at Auto Expo 2018

8Feb By RishabhNo Comments

Automobile, Tech

India’s First Electric Bike Launched at Auto Expo 2018

Bengaluru based tech startup Emflux Motors has launched India's first electric superbike what they call 'Emflux One' at the Auto Expo 2018 amidst high speed electric cars. The obvious, Kitna deti hai(what is the average and price)? Emflux One is a high-power beauty powered by Samsung's Li-Ion Batteries, that includes the Samsung SDi Cells which gives it a 200 km pump without compromising on acceleration and speed, the company says. The bike is powered by 60 kW AC induction motor, with power limited to 53 kW from the controller, which gives it a speed of 200 kmph (around 124 mph). The bike can reach from 0-100 km/h in just 3 seconds (for techies out there - the motor provides a torque of 84 Nm @ 8400 rpm, which is pretty amazing given it is battery powered). The highway r...

WhatsApp To Launch Group Video Calls, Tests Feature

7Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

Tech

WhatsApp To Launch Group Video Calls, Tests Feature

Facebook owned messaging service WhatsApp has been spotted testing its Group Video call feature, as it gears up to add many feature in its application. As per some reports, WhatsApp Group Video call may allow a user to add as many as 3 members in the group chat. Currently, WhatsApp allows video calls with only one person at a time. Generally, its users have been using Facebook's Messenger, Hangouts or Skype to video call with their friends group. This is one of the most awaited updates in WhatsApp's history after it introduced WhatsApp Call. Facebook has already added support for group video calls, not so long ago, hence making the move more obvious. However, you can add as many people in a Facebook Group Video Call, but same may not imply on WhatsApp. This development was first repo...

How Tesla’s First Truck Charging Stations Will be Built

3Feb By reutersNo Comments

Tech

How Tesla’s First Truck Charging Stations Will be Built

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Inc, has said little about how he plans to turn his prototype electric truck into reality. But Reuters has learned that Tesla is collaborating with Anheuser-Busch, PepsiCo and United Parcel Service Inc to build on-site charging terminals at their facilities as part of the automaker’s efforts to roll out the vehicle next year. Details of the partnerships, which have not been disclosed previously, are still being hammered out, but include design and engineering from Tesla, the companies said. They declined to disclose what portion of the building costs, if any, Tesla would pay, or whether Tesla would be compensated for its work. The firms are among nine major corporations that have placed pre-orders for Tesla’s truck, dubbed the Semi. With ...

Xiaomi Usurps Samsung To Become Top Smartphone Seller in India

25Jan By reutersNo Comments

Tech

Xiaomi Usurps Samsung To Become Top Smartphone Seller in India

Samsung Electronics has lost its crown as the top smartphone seller in India for the first time in six years, as it was outsold by China’s Xiaomi in the final quarter of 2017, data from two tech research firms shows. Xiaomi’s aggressively priced suite of high-spec handsets and market expansion strategy enabled it to take the top spot in the world’s biggest smartphone market after China, said Tarun Pathak of Counterpoint Research. The Chinese company, which is exploring a public listing and is now valued at close to $100 billion, entered India just over three years ago. Its strategy there has so far rested on flash sales on leading homegrown e-commerce player Flipkart and U.S. tech giant Amazon.com’s Indian site, an approach that helped it snatch market share without have to spend hea...

Netflix Crosses $100B Market Capitalization As Subscribers Surge

23Jan By reutersNo Comments

Tech

Netflix Crosses $100B Market Capitalization As Subscribers Surge

Netflix Inc snagged 2 million more subscribers than Wall Street expected in the final three months of 2017, tripling profits at the online video service that is burning money on new programming to dominate internet television around the world. The results drove Netflix to a market capitalization of more than $100 billion for the first time. Shares jumped 9 percent to over $248 in after-hours trading on Monday after rallying throughout the month and rising 53 percent last year. The company has signed up more than half of all U.S. broadband households and is building its customer base in 190 countries by spending billions on programming. Netflix picked up 6.36 million subscribers in international markets from October through December, when it released new seasons of critically accla...

Is Your iPhone X Secure Against ‘chaiOS’ Bug? Check Here

18Jan By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Is Your iPhone X Secure Against ‘chaiOS’ Bug? Check Here

'ChaiOS' is the latest bug discovered software developer Abraham Masri, that can cause the messaging app of iPhone to crash, or worse. The bug could even freeze your iPhone or restart it. What triggers it? The alarming 'ChaiOS' bug exploits the fact that iPhone Messaging app preloads the links of web-pages coming through a message. This is where the bug does its job. Masri explained that he created a webpage hosted on Github and stuffed its metadata with a large number of unnecessary characters. Messages crashes as soon as it tries to load all of this irrelevant information(characters), and even sometimes crashes the entire system. ? Effective Power is back, baby! chaiOS bug: Text the link below, it will freeze the recipient's device, and possibly restart it. https://...

Secure & Un-hackable Computer Network is Close to Reality

15Jan By Ankita SinghNo Comments

Tech

Secure & Un-hackable Computer Network is Close to Reality

Scientists have developed a method of securely communicating between multiple quantum devices, bringing a large-scale, un-hackable network closer to reality. To date, communicating via quantum networks has only been possible between two devices of known provenance that have been built securely. "We're in a technology arms race of sorts. When quantum computers are fully developed, they will break much of today's encryption whose security is only based on mathematical assumptions," said Ciaran Lee, from University College London in the UK. "To pre-emptively solve this, we are working on new ways of communicating through large networks that don't rely on assumptions, but instead use the quantum laws of physics to ensure security, which would need to be broken to hack the encryption,"...

Security Flaws Put Virtually All Intel, AMD Devices At Risk, Warn Researchers

4Jan By reutersNo Comments

Tech

Security Flaws Put Virtually All Intel, AMD Devices At Risk, Warn Researchers

Security researchers on Wednesday disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel Corp, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and ARM Holdings. One of the bugs is specific to Intel but another affects laptops, desktop computers, smartphones, tablets and internet servers alike. Intel and ARM insisted that the issue was not a design flaw, but it will require users to download a patch and update their operating system to fix. “Phones, PCs, everything are going to have some impact, but it’ll vary from product to product,” Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said in an interview with CNBC Wednesday afternoon. Researchers with Alphabet Inc’s Google Project Zero, in conjunction with academic an...

2Jan By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Not So Happy New Year For Bitcoin

The year 2018 seems "not" to be cryptocurrency friendly! Ever since the year 2015, it started the year by declining from its value, sliding from an all time high of $19,511, which it reached on December 18. The virtual coin fell to $13,624.56 as of 5 p.m. in New York on Monday, down 4.8 percent from Friday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s also a drop from the $14,156 it hit Sunday, according to coinmarketcap.com, which tracks daily prices. The cryptocurrency fluctuated in Asian trading on Tuesday, trading 1.9 percent lower as of 3:22 p.m. in Hong Kong. Compared to this, in 2017, Bitcoin started off around $1000 and gave returns of more than 1,300 percent. Ever since then it has ignited discussions among the economists and investor firms on Wall Street. The rally...

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...

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...