TECH NEWS: October 2020

Saturday, 31 October 2020

A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers (David Pierce/Protocol)

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Cloud video surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks raises $40M Series E from Accel to invest in new AI projects such as license plate recognition (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

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StackHawk, whose tech helps developers find application security vulnerabilities before they get into production, raises $10M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures (Nick Greenhalgh/Denver Business Journal)

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Wise, a fintech startup that partners with other companies so that they can offer business bank accounts to their own customers, raises $12M Series A (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

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Pandemic reinvents holiday hiring for retailers

The push to hire temporary workers has begun in earnest this holiday season — in some cases, weeks earlier than last year. But the pandemic has reshaped the kinds of jobs retailers are recruiting for.

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Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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DriveWealth raises $56.7M Series C for its digital brokerage services that help broker-dealers and its global online partners access the US securities market (FinSMEs)

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The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations (Mark Graham/Internet Archive Blogs)

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Forty-six top US companies including Apple, Google, and Twitter have filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to block Trump admin's H-1B visa changes (Nandita Mathur/Livemint)

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Odaseva, a France-based data protection services provider for large-scale Salesforce customers, raises $25M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures (Annie Musgrove/Tech.eu)

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Robot Bores: AI-powered awkward first date Two chatbots meet and put the world to rights online in battle to see who is most human-like. November 01, 2020 at 06:07AM

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Profile of Shield AI, which raised money from a16z and others to develop autonomous military drones that scan buildings to help soldiers clear them (Elliott Ackerman/Wired)

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Coronavirus pandemic: WHO expert says Covid-19 tests should play bigger role in...

Covid tests should be more widely used in international travel than quarantines, the chair of the World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee, Didier Houssin, said on Friday

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Children with asymptomatic brain bleeds as newborns show normal brain development...

UNC researchers published unexpected and surprising results from a study based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of newborn brains.

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RIP Sean Connery: James Bond star and former sexiest man alive dies at 90

Sean Connery, the Scottish-born actor who was the first to utter the famous movie line, “the name’s Bond, James Bond,” has died. He was 90.

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Misinformation on social media, alongside Trump's lies, is overwhelming local election officials across the US as they shoot down rumors via phone and email (New York Times)

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Halloween 2020 coronavirus edition: The year of all tricks and no treats

Each year on October 31, people of all ages go trick or treating, dress up as their favourite characters from popular media, carve pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns and prank their friends. But this year, it seems that nature has pulled the perfect prank on all of humanity collectively.

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Chip wars: The US v China Chips that power nearly all electronic devices are at the heart of the battle for global dominance. October 31, 2020 at 04:05AM

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Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and her dad: Should we make holograms of the dead? The hip-hop artist gave his wife a hologram of her dead father. How did he do it - and is it ethical? October 31, 2020 at 05:57AM

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Climate change: You've got cheap data, how about cheap power too? The iPhone transformed mobile phones in just 10 years. Could green energy see a similar revolution? October 31, 2020 at 05:58AM

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Apple to replace AirPods Pro with sound issues for free Apple said that a small percentage of AirPods Pro that were manufactured before October 2020 could experience sound issues.

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Filipino activists and journalists want Facebook to tackle deadly disinformation coming from the government, resulting in enemies being "red-tagged" and killed (Rest of World)

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Diet Sabya calls outs H&M India's Diwali ad starring Tamannaah Bhatia, Vikrant Massey,...

H&M India’s ad for the end-of-the-year festive season starring Sobhita Dhulipala, Tamannaah Bhatia, Vikrant Massey, Arjun Mathur, Radhika Madan, Karan Tacker takes you through your own journey during the coronavirus lockdown. Unfortunately, parts of the ad are copied from Karman Verdi’s 2020 artwork about his time during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Researchers identify new drug to treat Covid-19 patients

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Friday, 30 October 2020

A look at CISA's wide-ranging operation to secure the 2020 election against hacking, which includes the launch of a 24/7 virtual war room on Election Day (Joseph Marks/Washington Post)

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Sans gala or red carpet, a stylish fashion show at the Metropolitan Museum

The annual hoopla around the celebrity-studded Met Gala is so intense, it’s often forgotten who the real star is: the fashion exhibit inside. This year, it’s the only star. A stylish Costume Institute show at the Metropolitan Museum has opened, six months behind schedule.

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Halloween 2020: History, significance and celebrations around the world

Halloween 2020: Also known as All Hallows’ Eve is an annual celebration of all things spooky and fear inducing that takes place on October 31.

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Coronavirus mutation may have made it more contagious: Study

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CISA, FBI say an Iran-linked APT targeted unsecured state election websites to harvest US voter info used to send threatening emails to some Democratic voters (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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How social media is preparing for US election chaos Social media companies are making plans in case of unrest after election day. October 31, 2020 at 09:38AM

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Hands-on with the Dash Cart at an Amazon Fresh store: cart sensors worked fine, but a two-bag limit, bag fill limit, and real-world hassles hinder experience (Jeremy Horwitz/VentureBeat)

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Apple rejects an app designed to verify a person's ballot status in PA, says the app violates its guideline which forbids compiling user data without consent (Mikey Campbell/AppleInsider)

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Sources: Italy's biggest payments company Nexi is leading negotiations to buy its Nordic rival Nets in an all-stock deal worth around $10B (Reuters)

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Texas jury rules that Apple must pay VirnetX $502.8M for patent infringement, the lastest verdict in a 10-year ongoing legal battle; Apple says it will appeal (Bloomberg)

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Waymo releases public road testing data on its self-driving operations in Arizona between Jan. 2019 and Sept. 2020, says its cars drove 6.1M+ miles in 2019 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Positive outlook predicts less memory decline, finds study

A new study published in the journal of Psychological Science found that people who feel enthusiastic and cheerful -- what psychologists call “positive affect” -- are less likely to experience memory decline as they age.

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Bad news for PUBG lovers! PUBG Mobile, Lite version to stop working in India from today PUBG game was banned under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act.

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Brooklyn museum reaps $19.9 million from Sotheby's art sale

An assortment of works from the Brooklyn Museum generated $19.9 million at Sotheby’s Wednesday sale, led by a mid-century dining table and a Claude Monet landscape.

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Researchers extract Intel's secret key for encrypting and decrypting security updates that patch vulnerabilities on its Goldmont architecture-based CPUs (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Moment of pride for India: Ajanta Caves' deposit being preserved for eternity

A team of members from the data preservation facility - Arctic World Archive has initiated the deposit of India’s ancient historical site --Ajanta Caves --which will be digitised and restored for eternity.

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Study shows Covid-19 risk to firefighters, emergency medical workers in New York...

Firefighters and emergency medical workers in New York City were 15 times more likely to be infected during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic compared to the general public.

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As winter approaches, tourists flock to hilly areas in Nepal

As winter approaches, tourists have begun to flock to hilly regions of Nepal such as Dorje Lakpa and Jugal Himal on the outskirts of Kathmandu.

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For Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google business is booming Latest sales and profit figures from America's big tech companies exceed Wall Street expectations. October 30, 2020 at 03:30AM

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UK fusion experiment used in hunt for clean energy A pioneering nuclear fusion experiment based in Oxfordshire has been switched on for the first time. October 30, 2020 at 04:25AM

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Dog training technique helps robot learn and other news BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week. October 30, 2020 at 12:08PM

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Apple iPhone 11 available at only Rs 49,999 on Amazon --Details here Apple offers the iPhone 11 in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB variants and it comes in purple, green, yellow, black, white and PRODUCT(RED) colours.

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Thursday, 29 October 2020

Two same-sex couples in military marry in first for Taiwan

Two lesbian couples tied the knot in a mass wedding held by Taiwan’s military on Friday in a historic celebration with their peers.

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Thailand protesters take to street to mock fashion show

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Thailand returned Thursday to the capital’s business district to bring attention to their contention that the country’s monarchy holds too much power and influence.

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Japan eases travel curbs for China, eight others

Japan has eased travel curbs for China, Australia, South Korea and six other countries and regions.

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