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Consider Dakshina Kannada, Udupi as contiguous unit for inter-district movement, urges Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry




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Covid-19: Karnataka govt should demand economic package of Rs 50,000 crore from centre, says Siddaramaiah

Former chief minister of Karnataka and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday asked the state government to demand a special economic package of at least Rs 50,000 crore from the centre to deal with the coronavirus crisis.




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12 test positive in Bhatkal, all primary contacts of 18-year-old woman




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Three more Covid-19 positive cases reported in Dakshina Kannada

Even as health authorities are scrambling to find answers on who ‘P-0’ as far as First Neuro Hospital is, Dakshina Kannada district on Saturday reported three more positive cases. The trio have emerged primary contacts of P-578, a 69-year-old male from Kasba village in Bantwal taluk, who in turn was the primary contact of P-390, the first victim of Covid-19 in this coastal district. P-390 is among the three victims of Covid-19 in the district.




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Exclusive | Overpriced N95 Face Masks That You Bought on Shopping Sites Could Be Fake

The investigation brings to light the issue of unverified sellers cashing in on keywords and marketing products against the policies of e-commerce sites.




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Indian Origin Scientist On Team Uses AI to Classify Covid-19 Genome Signature in Minutes

This classification tool has already been used to analyse more than 5,000 unique viral genomic sequences, including the 29 novel coronavirus sequences.




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Assassin's Creed Valhalla is Set in Vikings Era: What the Game Storyline May Feature

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla still remains some distance away in the future, but more details should be released in the coming months.




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Best Apps to Work From Home Without Missing Out on Features

With most of us now working from home, it has become important to find the best replacement of our regular office use software. He




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Apple Services Business Hits All-Time Record to Soften The COVID Impact on The iPhone Sales

Services such as Apple Music, App Store, iCloud, Apple Arcade and Apple TV+ are raking in record revenues for the company. At the same time, products such as the AirPods, HomePod and accessories for the Apple Watch and the iPad Pro, to name a few, are also doing well.




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PUBG Mobile ‘Mad Miramar’: Golden Mirado, Canted Sight, Scoped Winchester 94 and More

PUBG Mobile has officially confirmed some of the new changes that we can expect in the upcoming update that is arriving on May 7.




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With Coronavirus Tests Made Free For All, Websites Crash in Los Angeles As Thousands Register

One of the websites used to schedule appointments showed there were no slots available for people not showing any symptoms or those who are not "front-line workers".




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Not Just Your Chats With Friends, WhatsApp Plays a Crucial Role For Businesses Amidst Lockdown

WhatsApp Business has more than 1 million businesses active on the app, in India. They are relying on a bunch of tools that WhatsApp has made available to them, to stay in touch with current customers as well as potential customers.




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Qualcomm Predicts 30% Drop in Global Phone Sales in Q2 2020 Due to Covid-19 Crisis

Qualcomm also said that there was a decline of 21% in mobile phone sales between January and March this year.




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Covid-19 Effect: HUL Expects Technology Adoption in Offline Business Areas

HUL said that is also planning to serve its customers through any channels, be it format stores, Kirana stores or online.




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SpaceX Dragon Manned Mission to Carry NASA Astronauts for Longer Than Expected

The launch is scheduled for May 27 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will arrive at the ISS the following day.




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Gotta be Aliens! There is a Powerful Radio Signal Coming From Within Our Galaxy

The SGR 1935+2154, a dead star that is around 30,000 light-years away from earth, registered for the radio observatories around the world with a single and millisecond-long burst of incredibly bright radio waves.




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Indonesia's Largest E-commerce Platform Tokopedia Probes Alleged Data Leak of 91 Million Users

"We found that there had been an attempt to steal data from Tokopedia users," a spokesman for the company said in a statement late Saturday.




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Silver Lake Investment in Reliance Jio Platforms: Everything To Know About The Investment Firm

Silver Lake was launched in 1999 with the focus on investment in technology companies. You may probably not know this, but it was in May 2011 that Silver Lake led Skype’s owners to conclude a deal that saw tech giant Microsoft buy the now-incredibly-popular video calling app for $8.5 billion.




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Reliance Jio Platforms, With Facebook & Silver Lake Investments, is Leading India’s Digital Shift

The fact is, Jio has been able to make its mark so far by reaching out to pretty much every strata of the society, and not just those who would potentially return higher revenues per user. The Jio mobile data pricing is the biggest example, which has completely changed the way the telecom industry operates.




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Reliance Jio Platforms And The Investment by Silver Lake: What This Means For You

Jio’s vision is to enable a Digital India for 1.3 billion people and businesses throughout India, especially small merchants, micro-businesses and farmers.




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Artificial Intelligence to Soon Predict Glaucoma Progression Faster Than Standard Methods

The new test called DARC can detect glaucoma progression 18 months earlier than the current gold standard method.




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Intel to Acquire Urban Transit Startup App Moovit for $1 Billion

Following the acquisition, Moovit could become part of Intel's Israeli automotive hub, which is anchored by the autonomous driving company Mobileye.




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Google Once Considered Acquiring Zoom Owing to Its Popularity

Discussions, however, never got more serious, and instead, Google banned Zoom for its employees across offices to promote its own app - Meet.




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Robots, Cameras Are Now Helping China Managing the Covid-19 Crisis: Here's How

China's methods to enforce coronavirus quarantines have looked like a sci-fi dystopia for legions of people.




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Long March 5B Rocket Launched by China, Test Flight Successful for Future Moon Mission

The Long March 5B will, one day, transport astronauts to a space station that China plans to complete by 2022 - and eventually to the Moon.




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More People Are Turning to Social Media, Music and E-Sports During Covid-19 Lockdown

Certain online activities have been given a major boost by internet users during the coronavirus lockdown around the world.




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Return of the QWERTY? Oppo's Patent for Future Phone Suggests Physical Keypad

The patent design suggests the keys on the keyboard be rather capacitive than tactile and the layout seems to be congested than wider.




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Call of Duty New Game to Launch by End-2020, Confirms Activision

Speculations suggest that the new Call of Duty title may be a follow-up to the franchise's Black Ops series.




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Is Facebook Free Basics Back? No, Improved Discover Starts by Killing Net Neutrality Arguments

But how is it different from the controversial Free Basics, which faced opposition particularly in India? The single biggest change is that it allows access to every website available.




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US Smartphone Sales Witness 21% Decline as Covid-19 Crisis Hits Both Demand and Supply

Among the major players, Google's smartphone sales experienced the highest 64 per cent year-over-year decline in the US market in Q1 2020.




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Earth's North Magnetic Pole Has Shifted All the Way from Canada to Siberia: Here's Why

Apparently, there's a tug of war going on between our planet's magnetic zones situated below North America and Asia.




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Facebook, Silver Lake And Now Vista: Jio is an Attractive Platform For Global Investors

These investments will push Jio’s Digital India vision for 1.3 billion people and businesses across the country, including small businesses, micro-businesses and farmers.




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Facebook, Youtube Remove 'Plandemic', A Viral Video Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation

The 26-minute video went viral this week across social media platforms.




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Sudhir Krishnaswamy: Key Things About the Only Indian on Facebook Oversight Board

The youngest ever vice-chancellor of NLSIU was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and looks to establish a precedent-setting moderation model at Facebook.




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Facebook Oversight Board Will Balance Free Speech, Says Sudhir Krishnaswamy

Sudhir Krishnaswamy also clarifies that he won't be representing cases related to India, but willl look at content moderation questions from around the world.




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Twitter Opposes US Govt's Claims That Accounts from China, Russia Spreading COVID-19 Hoax

The US state department accused China of colluding with Russia to manipulate social media platforms to spread fake news around coronavirus.




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Bitcoin Crosses $10,000 Threshold For First Time Since February Before Halving Again

Some analysts are predicting there are signs a major rally may be underway, with retail or individual investors involved.




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England Players Were Jealous of Pietersen's 'Massive' IPL Deal: Vaughan

Michael Vaughan has revealed that many former England players were jealous of Kevin Pietersen after the latter bagged a huge contract with the Indian Premier League (IPL).




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Top Indian Umpires Honing Third Umpiring Skills Through Simulation Activities Amid Lockdown

The advent of technology, in recent years, has helped the game of cricket but has increased the challenge as well.




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Kagiso Rabada Says 'Consistent' Virat Kohli Pushes Him to Give his Best

The 24-year-old has taken 197 wickets from 43 Tests while he has picked up 117 ODI wickets from 75 matches.




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Won't Accept Change of Asia Cup Schedule to Accommodate IPL: PCB CEO

Khan said the BCCI representative did not raise the IPL window issue at Thursday's ICC Chief Executives virtual meeting where he took part as PCB's representative.




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I Don't See MS Dhoni Wearing India Jersey Again: Harbhajan Singh

Dhoni last played for India in the World Cup semi-final against New Zealand in July last year.




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After Coronavirus, Legalisation of Ball-tampering Could be Considered - Report

Following the chief executives meeting of the ICC on Thursday, its medical committee, headed by Peter Harcourt, had issued an update.




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Haven't Heard Anything From MS Dhoni Since World Cup: Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma feels the best way forward is to directly ask Dhoni.




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Moises Henriques Opens up About Depressions, Says Considered Suicide

The 33-year-old, who played just 11 ODIs, 11 T20Is and four Tests for Australia, was diagnosed with clinical depression in 2017.




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Legalising Ball Tampering: Saliva is Must and Vaseline is no Replacement, Feel Nehra, Harbhajan

Nehra then gave the example of Englishman Lever who created a furore during his team's 1976 tour of India by applying vaseline during a Test match.




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Yuvraj Singh Recalls When He Almost Finished Stuart Broad's Career

He revealed Broad senior asked him for a signed jersey for 'almost' finishing his son's career.




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Cricket South Africa Want AB de Villiers to Captain National Side Once Again

De Villiers, an explosive batsman, announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket in May 2018 but of late there have been talks of an imminent return in the national team.




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VVS Laxman Recalls Incident When Sachin Tendulkar Locked Himself in Physio's Room

Laxman recollected the memories of the famous 1998 Test match between India and Australia played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.




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BCCI Yet to Take Call on Contract Extension of Ombudsman DK Jain

Justice Jain was appointed as Ombudsman cum Ethics Officer in February, 2019 and now it is up to the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to offer him an extension.