TECH NEWS: September 2020

Wednesday 30 September 2020

Indian startups blame Google for "unfair exploitation" of Play Store's monopoly after Google began to enforce its in-app purchasing policy with 30% commission (The Economic Times)

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5% import duty on key component used in TV manufacturing from October 1 The finance ministry, through a notification on Wednesday, prescribed 5 per cent customs duty on open cells for LED/LCD TV panels.

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Facebook says, as part of its recent crackdown on QAnon and "militia" movements, it has removed 6,500 groups belonging to 300 organizations (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Facebook says it will ban Facebook and Instagram ads that seek to delegitimize the outcome of an election, including calling specific voting methods fraudulent (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

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Google introduces a new Android feature called Hold for Me, which uses Assistant to monitor held phone calls and notify the user when taken off hold (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Horoscope Today: Astrological prediction for October 1, what's in store for Aries,...

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Had to learn how to write murder mystery: Chetan Bhagat on new book

After writing seven bestselling fiction novels, some which went on to become Bollywood blockbusters, Chetan Bhagat decided to reinvent himself by turning to a new genre: murder mysteries.

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Tuesday 29 September 2020

Taipei-based travel startup KKday raises $75M Series C, says a pivot to domestic package tours has helped after sales plunged 90% in March (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

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Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian national convicted by a San Francisco federal jury in July for hacking LinkedIn and Dropbox in 2012, sentenced to 7+ years in prison (DataBreaches.net)

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Coinbase offers an exit package with four to six months severance pay and six months COBRA for employees who are not comfortable with its apolitical mission (Frank Chaparro/The Block)

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Not Even Disney Can Live on Dreams Forever

Disney’s California locations remain closed because of state restrictions, while the Florida parks have been operating with limited capacity and weaker attendance than Disney anticipated.

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Broadband 'so bad I work from my friend's shed' Customers of a service for rural areas say they have been unable to join video meetings. September 30, 2020 at 04:35AM

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Coronavirus doctor's diary: Trying out tech that may help make worship Covid-secure Dr John Wright looks at the kit installed in a Bradford mosque in the hope of limiting the spread of Covid-19. September 30, 2020 at 06:26AM

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Sonos files another patent lawsuit against Google, alleging infringement of five wireless audio patents across the entire line of Nest and Chromecast products (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Sources: DOJ is expected to sue Google as soon as next week and is currently urging state attorneys general to sign onto the lawsuit (Reuters)

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LG says its Wing smartphone will be available in the US beginning October 15 from Verizon and later this fall from AT&T and T-Mobile, starting at $1,000 (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

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Fall could bring chill to dining out

U.S. restaurants are moving warily into fall, hoping their slow recovery persists despite the new challenge of chilly weather and a pandemic that’s expected to claim even more lives.

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With masked guests, Dior returns to catwalk in Paris

Christian Dior kicked off Paris Fashion Week in earnest on Tuesday with a socially-distanced runway show as models paraded around an art installation recalling Gothic-style stained-glass windows to a live choir performance.

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Cloudflare launches a free "privacy-first" analytics tool to rival Google Analytics that records how users engage with websites without invasive tracking (David Meyer/Fortune)

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“Teens and creators drive trends on Instagram”

Vishal Shah, VP of Product, Instagram at Facebook in an exclusive chat with the HT Brunch.

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Clubhouse courted fresh controversy after a conversation with hundreds of listeners devolved into a platform for anti-Semitic comments on a Jewish holy day (Bloomberg)

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Apple and Epic Games stated in a court filing on Tuesday that their coming court battle should be decided in a bench trial by a judge, not a jury (Mikey Campbell/AppleInsider)

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Apple says several of its services including App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade are facing outages (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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Tencent to take private NYSE-listed Chinese search engine Sogou in a $3.5B deal; Tencent had previously revealed that it had a 39.2% stake in Sogou in July (Reuters)

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DivvyDose, an online pharmacy competing with Amazon's PillPack and Walmart's CareZone, is acquired by UnitedHealth; source says deal was worth $300M+ (Christina Farr/CNBC)

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Twitter hires Rinki Sethi as its new CISO following its July 15 hack; Sethi previously worked at cloud data management company Rubrik (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

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Prior to their Wednesday direct listing debuts, the NYSE set reference prices for Palantir at $7.25 and Asana at $21 per share (Wall Street Journal)

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Seattle unanimously approved new regulations that would ensure Uber and Lyft drivers earn minimum wage, the second US city to establish the standard after NYC (Monica Nickelsburg/GeekWire)

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Horoscope Today: Astrological prediction for September 30, what's in store for Aries,...

Astrology today: Read the predictions for September 30, what’s in store for Aries, Leo, Virgo, Libra and other zodiac signs.

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Need to ensure countries take their obligations seriously to combat climate change:...

India on Monday underscored the need to ensure that the nations take their obligations seriously to combat the climate change with the urgency it deserves.

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Studies shows 230 times higher one year cancer risk if tumor cell clusters are detected...

A landmark study published in the American Association of Cancer Research’s prestigious journal ‘Cancer Prevention Research’ has shown that it is possible to identify healthy individuals with higher risk of cancer based on a simple blood draw.

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ASUS 1st ever dual screen ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 gaming laptop now in India The ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 (GX550) integrates two displays in an ultra-slim form.

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A deep dive into Signal, whose downloads surged in the US amid BLM protests, as it becomes an app of choice among protesters, dissidents, and journalists (Billy Perrigo/TIME)

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Barun Sobti: The virus can be fought, if you are careful

Actor Barun Sobti talks about shooting in the Covid world and says, “Everyone is worried about getting sick. But the more you think about it, the worse it will be.”

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Nokia clinches 5G deal with BT to replace Huawei in EE network The Finnish firm will become the largest provider of base stations and antennas to EE's network. September 29, 2020 at 01:31PM

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Russian startup NtechLab, which helps analyze footage captured by large number of surveillance cameras in real time, raises $13M (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

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Skin perils in the humid weather

The humid weather makes our skin look duller and dehydrated. As soon as the remnants of the monsoon system come to the fore, our skin does the unimaginable and you have acne, impurities, blackheads and pores. This weather makes all of us load up on our serums and facial mists.

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World Heart Day 2020: Here's how yoga keeps your heart healthy

World Heart Day: It is extremely essential to take care of one’s heart to lead a healthy lifestyle. Ahead of World Heart Day, let’s take a look at how yoga and spirituality together can work as the best tools to help mitigate undue stress and worry from one’s life.

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October 2020 smartphone launches: These powerful phones hitting Indian markets Here's looking at some highly anticipated smartphone launches in India in October 2020.

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Monday 28 September 2020

World Heart Day 2020: Use heart to beat cardiovascular diseases

World Heart Day 2020: In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Heart Federation urges people around the to ‘Use Heart to Beat CVD’, saying that, “In the time of Covid-19, taking care of your heart is more important than ever before.”

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US 2020 election: Social media's nightmare scenario Potential election chaos will play out on social media, and Big Tech is worried. September 29, 2020 at 10:51AM

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TikTok ban: How did TikTok stay online in the US? Sophia Smith-Galer explains why President Trump shifted his position on banning new downloads of the app September 29, 2020 at 04:45AM

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'If you steal music, you aren't a real music fan' The music industry is trying to clampdown on the latest form of music piracy known as stream-ripping. September 29, 2020 at 05:22AM

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French startup Exotec, which builds autonomous industrial robots for warehouses, raises $90M Series C led by 83North (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

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McAfee has filed for a Nasdaq IPO in a filing with the SEC, listing the size of the offering as $100M which is a placeholder likely to change (Bloomberg)

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Two-month long annual Sabarimala pilgrimage season to be held mid-November with...

Announcing steps to conduct the annual pilgrimage to Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple, the Kerala government on Monday said the two-month long season from November 16 will be held strictly adhering to Covid-19 protocol.

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Pew survey of 12K+ US adults: 26% said they get news from YouTube while only 23% of those said they "often" get news from channels of established news orgs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Disney sells TrueX, an ad-tech company it absorbed as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019, to Gimbal; a source says for less than $100M (Sahil Patel/Wall Street Journal)

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Boston- and Shenzhen-based XtalPi, which uses AI for drug discovery and development, raises $319M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

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Microsoft is investigating an authentication error impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Office, Teams, Power Platform, and Dynamic365 (Chris Duckett/ZDNet)

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Horoscope Today: Astrological prediction for September 29, what's in store for Aries,...

Daily horoscope: Are the stars lined up in your favour? Find out the astrological prediction for Aries, Leo, Virgo, Libra and other zodiac signs for September 27.

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Scientists create a microscopic robot that ‘walks’ The scientists behind a microscopic "walking" robot hope their tech could one day be used against cancer. September 29, 2020 at 04:48AM

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Will Pandemic Normal Become Just Plain Normal?

One feature of the Covid-19 Era is how much the standard ways of seeing and doing things have been remixed and turned upside down. The obvious question is then whether people will decide to make these new arrangements permanent or return to the old.

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Identified tourism sites can be turned into green zones with use of only bio fuels:...

Identified tourist sites or iconic spots will be turned into green zones where vehicles using only eco-friendly fuel will be allowed to ply.

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NHS Covid-19 app: 10m downloads - and lots of questions We look at why you can't log out of a venue, and how to change your postcode on the app. September 28, 2020 at 05:51PM

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China's Sina Corp., which operates Weibo, agrees to go private in a $2.59B deal, after an entity led by its chairman boosted its offer to $43.30 per share (Peter Elstrom/Bloomberg)

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Noyo, which provides APIs that link health insurance companies, brokers, employers, and more, raises $12.5M Series A led by Costanoa Ventures and Spark Capital (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)

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Kioxia Holdings, the chipmaker spun out of Toshiba in 2018, calls off $16B IPO after saying that export restrictions on Huawei were hurting its business (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)

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Philippines payment processing startup PayMongo raises $12M Series A led by Stripe, says it has processed almost $20M in payments since launching (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

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Singapore is the first country to use facial verification in a national identity scheme, to be part of SingPass for access to government and business services (Tim McDonald/BBC)

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Memoir of India's first woman radio newsreader to be out in October

The life and times of India’s first woman radio newsreader Saeeda Bano will unravel in a new book, originally written as a memoir in Urdu.

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Uber secures right to continue operating in London A court renews the ride-hailing giant's London licence despite previous safety concerns. September 28, 2020 at 03:27PM

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Uber wins legal fight to regain London license as a judge overturned a ban by the city's transport regulator TfL (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

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LinkedIn rolls out its own version of Stories and adds Zoom, BlueJeans, and Teams video integrations as part of wider redesign (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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People have started to live with the virus. Things are getting back to normal: Erica...

Actor Erica Fernandes, who shot for her TV show for almost two months, feels while she was initially anxious and scared, gradually with precautions, she accepted the new normal.

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Happy 38th birthday Ranbir Kapoor: Peak into the actor's fitness regime and best...

As the ‘Rockstar’ rings in his 38th birthday on September 28, here’s gushing over some of his recent best looks, intense workout sessions and diet plans that go into making him look like the absolute heartthrob he is.

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