The day after it was reported that the Israeli security company NSO Group hacked iPhones of 36 Al Jazeera journalists, leading tech companies including Microsoft Google, Cisco, VMware and the Internet Association lodged an amicus brief in a court case brought against the NSO Group by the Facebook-owned WhatsApp. The NSO Group is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Facebook, which last year accused that the Israeli spyware maker used Pegasus in WhatsApp to infect some 1,400 people, mostly celebrities, journalists and human rights activists. Facebook has submitted detailed proof in the court about the Israeli company and the…
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Samsung, India’s most trusted consumer electronics company, has launched the industry’s first sophisticated smart garment treatment solution with the introduction of its revolutionary new AirDresser. Samsung’s new invention uses strong air and steam to eliminate contaminants, toxins and germs, refresh and sanitize garments and provide simple and comfortable clothing maintenance in luxurious living and working spaces. AirDresser introduces a new standard of clothing care that addresses unmet consumer needs for a more efficient method of refreshing, revitalizing, deodorizing and relaxing light wrinkles from their clothes on a daily basis. Consumers want to be able to take better care of…
Oppo revealed on Tuesday that it will set up the first 5G innovation lab at its Hyderabad R&D centre, adding that it would soon be launching three additional innovation labs dedicated to camera, power and battery performance. The company said that these labs will focus on making the latest and the most advanced technologies for the world. The team in India will also lead innovations for other countries, including Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Japan, and Europe. The new lab will deepen the development of core product technologies for 5G ecosystem and accelerate its rollout in the country. “With this…
Partially sponsored by the Macau government, the tech fair called “Beyond” has “support” from the Guangdong provincial government, which is setting up its own “Greater Bay Area” (Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macau and other cities) to compete with the San Francisco Bay Area, TechCrunch says. “Macau has very good infrastructure. With the entertainment industry and the hotels, I think it’s very suitable for doing an event that could potentially attract people to join,” Jason Ho, a Macanese venture investor, was quoted as saying. “Beyond” is likely to take place in mid-June next year. The annual CES 2021, a grand affair in…
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden got the first injection of coronavirus vaccine on Monday at a televised ceremony in his home state of Delaware. A 78-year-old former vice-president was administered Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which needs a second week apart to gain 98 per cent effectiveness. Biden’s vaccination mirrored that of his wife Jill Biden earlier the same day, the Xinhua news agency reported. “What I want to say is that we owe a lot to these guys,” said Biden, sporting a black mask, after he was fired at the ChristianaCare Hospital in Newark, Delaware. “The scientists and the staff who…
INdia’s top shuttlers, PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal, will be in action for the first time since the coronavirus-forced break as they participate in three upcoming Bangkok tournaments, including the coveted BWF World Tour Finals. With Olympic qualifications in mind, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) declared on Monday that a strong eight-member squad will compete in the next three tournaments scheduled for January. The squad, consisting of Olympic-bound shuttlers Sindhu, Saina, B Sai Praneeth, Kidambi Srikanth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, Ashwini Ponappa and N Sikki Reddy, will begin their campaign with Yonex Thailand Open from 12 to 17 January.…
PM Modi will give his inaugural speech at the India International Science Festival (IISF) 2020 today at 4:30 p.m. via video conferencing. Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan will also be present at the event. According to the website narendramodi.in, launched in 2015, the IISF is a festival to encourage science and technology. The goal is to connect the public with research, celebrate the joy of science and demonstrate how Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) will offer solutions for improving lives. The aim of the IISF 2020 is to help young people build skills in the 21st century with…
Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt began filming his next series, Anamika, starring Sunny Leone. “Due to lockdown, the process of shooting was on hold for some time. But the industry never stops working. So here we are back where we love to work,” Bhatt said. He said, “We’ve just started shooting with Sunny, and it’s been a nice as well as a thrilling start. The crowd will have a pleasure to watch Sunny mix martial arts with weapons. Anamika is a 10-episode Gun-Fu action series. Sunny can be seen like never before in an action avatar. The series is going to be…
Actor Kangana Ranaut still has the freedom to have a Twitter account and to share her opinions, the High Court of Bombay said while hearing a petition from a lawyer who wants Ranaut’s Twitter account to be blocked. The court asked the petitioner, Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh, to show how Kangana’s tweets have caused him personal injury or breached his fundamental rights. Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh said, “I am a Maharashtrian, a Mumbaikar, and she calls Pappu Sena to court. It hurts me, because it’s a personal injury.” The plaintiff argued that the actor had spread hatred between cultures and…
In order to refuse the fresh offer of talks by the Union Government, the farmers’ unions that are leading the protest are of the opinion that the three laws are pro-corporate and encourage the stocking and black-marketing of grain. However, the final decision will be made at the meeting of Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the United Front of Farmers’ Unions, on Tuesday. At a virtual meeting during the day, the leaders of the farmers’ unions said that the government had picked eight issues that it was now attempting to say to be the key issues, sources claimed to be private to…