Month: July 2020
Rivals for Zoom sprout, now Airtel readying an app SMEs
Just the other day, JioMeet was launched. And already we have Bharti Airtel, which as a telecom service provider has a tieup with Zoom, on the verge of launching a video conferencing tool of its own. The Economic Times, quoting a person ‘close’ to Airtel’s plan, said that they are…
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Astronomers find the first known exposed core of a gas giant
Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are known to have cores at their centers, but seeing those is difficult — unless nature cooperates, that is. University of Warwick astronomers have discovered (via ScienceNews) what they say is the first known expos… Source
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India may require online shops to hand over site code
India’s plan to tightly regulate online shopping could give it a peek at how many internet giants work. Bloomberg says it obtained a draft e-commerce policy that would mandate access to sites’ source codes and algorithms. This would help prevent “dig… Source
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Tencent’s new blockbuster US game studio is led by a ‘GTA’ veteran
Tencent is determined to have more of an impact on gaming outside of China, and not just by pouring money into existing studios. Reuters reports that Tencent Holdings has created a new California studio, LightSpeed LA, that will develop and publish “… Source
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Go read this Daily Beast story about a new online school Elon Musk helped start
Back in 2015, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he had started a school to teach his five kids, eventually expanding it as a non-profit school for some children of SpaceX employees. He said at the time that his kids’ school wasn’t “doing things I thought should be done,”…
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Streaming this week: Babysitters’ Club and The Old Guard on Netflix, Palm Springs on Hulu
If you have spent the holiday weekend watching the Hamilton movie on repeat, let’s just say I’m not judging you. At all. Polygon has an interesting analysis about how different the musical is on film. But if you’re looking for a break from Lin Manuel & co. and want something…
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