Month: March 2021
Flipkart, Mastercard, NABARD and PayU to pick stake in Tatas-helmed NUE Digital wallets in India
Walmart-owned Flipkart, Mastercard, PayU and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) are reportedly set to buy a 30% stake in Tata-promoted Ferbine, which plans to create a New Umbrella Entity (NUE) that will compete with NPCI (National Payment Corporation of India). The Tata group, it may be recalled,…
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David Brooks’s Side Hustle Was Funded By Facebook And Jeff Bezos’s Father
The Aspen Institute / YouTube / Via youtube.com David Brooks. New York Times columnist David Brooks is drawing a second salary for his work on an Aspen Institute project funded by Facebook and other large donors — a fact he has not disclosed in his columns. A Times spokesperson refused…
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Indian state government website exposed COVID-19 lab test results
A security flaw in a website run by the government of West Bengal in India exposed the lab results of at least hundreds of thousands of residents, though likely millions, who took a COVID-19 test. The website is part of the West Bengal government’s mass coronavirus testing program. Once a…
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Samsung Galaxy A82 5G with a dated chipset spotted on benchmark sites Samsung Galaxy A80
Samsung’s Galaxy A80 was released a couple of years ago and it came with a massive display. Interestingly this phone didn’t have a native selfie camera but the rear camera had a trick up its sleeve and would swivel to shoot selfies and videos on demand. It was a first…
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Bloomberg: Next Nintendo Switch can output 4K and has a 7-inch OLED
So what's next for the Nintendo Switch after a record breaking 2020? According to Bloomberg, a model with a larger OLED screen. The business outlet's sources indicate Samsung Display will start producing rigid 7-inch, 720p OLED touchscreens f… Source
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The next Moto 360 may have a Snapdragon 4100
A planned Motorola-branded Wear OS smartwatch with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Wear 4100 processor may have leaked (via 9to5Google). If the photos are real and not just renders, it could be a sign that the next Moto 360 (or whatever it’s called) could perform significantly better than the last, and may…
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