Month: April 2022

India is set to launch its digital gaming research initiative to develop high-end technologies for an immersive gaming environment with an aim to promote and popularise Indian culture, a senior official said. The Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Digital Gaming Research Initiative will have three verticals – R&D in Learning and Leisure Gaming Platforms;
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India could soon become the tech hub for the global operations of Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world. Senior leadership members from the company are presently in India, looking to expand their software team. The Coinbase leadership has offered “inclusivity” and “remote working ecosystem” as parts of the incentives it is
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Global digital payments giant Visa has opened up an innovation studio in Kenya, its first in Africa and sixth globally, after posts in Dubai, London, Miami, San Francisco and Singapore. The studio will bring together developers, Visa’s internal and external clients, and other partners to co-create payment and commerce solutions. “Sub-Saharan Africa is a fast-growing
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Ever wondered how social media companies make money? The likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit all let you sign up and use the website for free—which billions of users have done. How do these platforms generate income and stay profitable? Most social media networks make money through advertising to you. There are other methods, like
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Decentralized exchanges are crucial for the crypto industry, allowing tokens and coins to be bought, sold, staked, and stored. While most cryptocurrencies and exchanges are legitimate, focusing on security and privacy, this has not always been the case in the past. In fact, one exchange, in particular, was used to scam users out of $200
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Microsoft has increased the prices of Office 365 and Microsoft 365 for nonprofit customers around the globe. The change, which will come into force from September 1, will make Microsoft products up to 28 percent costlier for nonprofits globally. It will impact Microsoft Office 365 E1, Office 365 E3, and Office 365 E5 licence prices.
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Spotify’s $90 in-car entertainment system “Car Thing,” which went on sale to the general public in February, is gaining a number of new features. The company announced today it would add one of users’ most-requested features — the ability to add songs and podcasts to a queue — alongside other updates involving voice commands, playlists,
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One of the main problems users have had with Twitter over the years has been the fact that there is no edit button available. Finally, however, Twitter has confirmed that it is working on this very feature. Founded in 2006, Twitter has resisted requests for an edit button due to uncertainty about how to safely
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Apple appears to have ignored macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina while fixing two zero-day vulnerabilities that it patched in macOS Monterey 12.3.1 last week. The issues were found in Apple’s audio and video decoding framework AppleAVD and the Intel graphics driver. Separately, Apple has released the first public beta of macOS Monterey 12.4 just
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