1. Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan on Friday said the Department
of Telecommunications (DoT) will unveil the roadmap for 5G or
fifth-generation by the end of June.
2. The US Senate today rejected a slew of immigration reform
proposals, including one backed by President Donald Trump, leaving
hundreds of thousands of young migrants who were brought to the
country illegally as children in limbo.
3. Domestic handset maker Karbonn Mobiles on Friday launched a new
smartphone, Titanium Jumbo 2. The smartphone is priced at Rs 5,999
and is available for purchase exclusively via Amazon India.
4. Umang Bedi, who was formerly the Managing Director of Facebook
India has now joined Daily Hunt as its Preseident.
5. Walmart Inc is in talks to purchase a stake of more than 40
percent in Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart, a direct challenge to
Amazon.com Inc in Asia's third-largest economy, two sources familiar
with the matter said on Friday.
6. Chinese smartphone maker COMIO on Thursday launched two new
smartphones in India. COMIO S1 Lite is priced at Rs 7,499, while C2
Lite will retail at Rs 5,999.
7. In a bid to give more power to women on the platform, dating app
Tinder is set to introduce a setting that makes it possible for women
to only interact with the men they message first.
8. According to a report by a market research firm Strategy
Analytics, with a record 51% revenue share, Apple took more than half
of the global smartphone revenues in the fourth quarter of 2017. The
total global smartphone wholesale revenues grew 8% annually to reach
an all-time high of $120 billion during the fourth quarter of 2017.
9. Home-grown ride-hailing application Ola has ordered an
investigation into fraud allegations against the company’s HR and
administration head, Yugantar Saikia, who was allegedly involved in
favouring select recruitment vendors and in return receiving money
estimated to be worth millions of dollars, according to a FactorDaily
report.
10. Airtel has rolled out a Rs 9 plan. Under the plan, the service
provider is giving unlimited local, STD and roaming calls along with
100 SMS. The plan comes with a validity of one day. Along with the
above mentioned benefits, the pack will also offer 100MB of data.
11. Technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning,
Internet of Things (IoT) will soon find their way into the new
curriculum prepared by All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE) for the country's engineering colleges. The new technologies
that will make their way to curriculum include AI, IoT, robotics,
machine learning and data analytics. This new syllabus will be
followed by at least 80% of the 3,000 engineering and technical
colleges across the country.
12. The Kremlin on Thursday rejected accusations by the British
Foreign office that the Russian government was behind the "NotPetya"
cyber attack of June 2017.
13. Google Voice Assistant that was made available in Reliance
JioPhones in December 2017, has seen a six-fold growth in its usage,
the company has announced.
14. Facebook has started opening up its Community Help feature -- part
of the Safety Check system -- to businesses and other organisations
so that that they can provide critical information and services for
people to get the help they need in a crisis.
15. Security firm Barracuda Networks has revealed that PDF files are
becoming a part of targeted cyberattacks that will compromise your
system. The firm reveals that within the span of three months they
scanned and discovered that 41 million PDF files were part of an
attack. These files consists of malicious websites with active
scripts.
16. An Indian language character is crashing iPhones across the world.
The Telugu language character sent as an iMessage or even if just
inserted in a text field can make user's iPhone unusable. Other than
iPhones, the bug also affects macOS, tvOS 11 and watchOS. This means
MacBooks and Apple Watches too are vulnerable to the bug. Apple has
acknowledged the bug and has said that it is working on a fix for the
same.
17. Global package delivery company FedEx Corp said on Thursday it has
secured some of the customer identification records that were visible
earlier this month on an unsecured server, and so far has found no
evidence that private data was "misappropriated."
18. Google has decided to remove this option and make it difficult for
users to get images with relative ease. In a tweet from its Google
Search Liaison account, the search giant revealed that, “Today
we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users
and useful websites. This will include removing the View Image
button. The Visit button remains, so users can see images in the
context of the webpages they're on.”
19. In a bid to stop the spread of fake news, Twitter will soon live
stream news, in a window next to the users' timelines, whenever a
major incident takes place.
20. Europe's justice commissioner told Facebook, Twitter and Google on
Thursday to do more to bring their user terms in line with EU law,
ramping up pressure on the tech giants after their efforts were
deemed too little.
21. Citibank is offering cashback of up to Rs 10,000 on Pixel 2 and
Pixel 2 XL smartphones.
22. The US derivatives regulator warned investors on Thursday about
cryptocurrency "pump-and-dump" scams that aim to rip off
investors by inflating the price of volatile virtual tokens through
spreading bogus information. The Commodities Futures Trading
Commission said in a statement that it had received complaints from
investors who had lost money in such schemes, and warned against
buying cryptocurrencies based on tips found on social media.
23. Amazon.com Inc will pay a $1.2 million penalty to settle nearly
4,000 alleged violations of U.S. law in a move to prevent harmful
exposure to pesticides through illegal sales, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency said on Thursday.
24. Bitcoin rose above $10,000 on Thursday for the first time in more
than two weeks, as investors bought back the digital currency after
having fallen 70 percent from its all-time peak hit in mid-December.
25. Joseph Redmon popular for creating an object detection system
called YOLO, Redmon had set in motion advances in a wide range of
fields - from cancer research to driverless cars. "Being
open-source, anyone who wants to dabble in image recognition
technology can use YOLO," says the University of Washington
graduate.
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