Month: June 2020
Flipkart to reapply for food retail licence – but why was its proposal rejected?
Flipkart’s Farmermart, the e-commerce outlet’s ambitious plan to operate a full-fledged food retail business, including its own private label, a grocery supply chain and even open stores, has run into trouble. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has rejected the e-tailer’s proposal to sell food products…
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A service that detects ‘China apps’ goes viral in India
The app’s name says it all: Remove China Apps. Developed by a self-proclaimed “Indian startup” named OneTouch AppLabs, Remove China Apps crossed 1 million downloads within 10 days of launch in May. Its overnight success came amid rising China-Indian tensions over the countries’ disputed border in the Himalayas. Most of…
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Big changes could be coming to Linux programming
After recently making the switch from Intel to AMD, Linus Torvalds has come out against 80-character-lines as a de facto programming standard. As reported by The Register, Torvalds shared his thoughts on the topic of line lengths in a recent Linux kernel clean-up post where he argued that limiting lines…
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This Dell laptop is the best Windows alternative to the Apple MacBook Pro 16
Today’s best Dell XPS 15 deals Dell XPS 15 Laptop – w/ 9th… Dell XPS 15 7590… Microsoft US Dell XPS 15 Laptop – w/ 9th… Dell XPS 15 7590 Laptop 15.6… Show More Deals Let’s be clear, straight off the bat; the 16-inch Apple MacBook Pro is the most…
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Tweets, Dissent, And A Virtual Walkout: Facebook Employees Voice Their Concerns With Zuckerberg’s Trump Approach
Josh Edelson / Getty Images A Facebook employee walks by a sign displaying the “like” sign at Facebook’s corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California, on October 23, 2019. Facebook employees publicly voiced their disagreement with their company by staging a virtual walkout on Monday, following CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision…
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‘Valorant’ 1.0 launch adds a new character, game mode and map
After all the teasing, jostling for keys and hyped up streams, Riot’s new 5v5 FPS Valorant is about to officially launch. The game is already live for players across the Asia-Pacific region, and and will go live in the Americas in about twelve more h… Source
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