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Mangaluru: 35% rise in fake news on social media during lockdown

Cyber experts have recorded 30-35% rise in fake news on social media during the lockdown while the internet usage has gone up by 30%.




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Second gaur moving towards its natural habitat: Forest department officials

The second gaur, that had taken refuge in a puddle on the banks of Phalguni river near Kulur bridge last evening, moved from there in the early hours on Thursday.




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In Karkala, teachers monitor SSLC students through calls

Karkala taluk had launched several innovative programmes during the academic year to ensure that students performed well in the SSLC exams. The taluk is aiming at 100% results. Block education officer (BEO) GS Shashidhar had launched




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




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MIT student sets Guinness record with smallest working drill




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Hundreds throng Mangaluru station on fake news of migrant train

Bandra, Majestic and now Mangaluru railway station. Misled by fake forwards on social media that trains were being run to take them home, more than 800 migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Assam and Bihar gathered at the station on Thursday and held protests after their hopes were dashed.




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Marathi Actress Amruta Takes an Entrepreneurial Path

Amruta Khanvilkar extending her wings to cover more facets of the entertainment industry.




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Apne Ghar Mein With Bigg Boss Contestants: Shefali Bagga | Showsha

Bigg Boss contestant, Shefali Bagga in a conversation with Shweta Rashmi, talks about her routine during the lockdown, her upcoming projects, and much more.




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Industry Dialogue: There is The Need For an Anonymous Yet Open Flow of Data For Contact Tracing

A fairly straightforward yet key process, contact tracing is attempting to determine every person that an infected individual has come into contact with. It is a crucial tool to help identify those people who are infected or might potentially be infected to ‘flatten the curve’.




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Coronavirus Impact: Amazon India Extends Support to SMB Logistic Partners With Special Fund

This Partner Support Fund for SMBs in logistics will be available to Delivery Service Partners (DSP) and select Transportation partners in India.




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You Can Finally Pre-Order The OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro in India: Here Are The Details

Amazon India has begun pre-orders for the new OnePlus 8 series which means that consumers will soon be able to purchase the new smartphone in the coming days.




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Indian Digital Tax May be Delayed as Covid-19 Impacts Google, Facebook, Others

India's new digital tax has caught the industry off guard as it was not part of the main proposals which the finance ministry had presented in parliament in April.




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PUBG Now Gets Added in Google Stadia's Game Catalogue; Members Get Free Access

The base PUBG game on Stadia can be purchased for $29.99, while the new Pioneer Edition is available for $39.99.




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Swiggy Runs Restaurant Health Checks, Meal Donation for Underprivileged During Covid-19

Swiggy has instructed restaurant and delivery partners to follow a strict sanitisation process, and also issued a fundraiser for the underprivileged.




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HCARD, a Robot Built by Indian Scientists, to Offer Contactless Treatment in Hospitals

Alongside the HCARD robot, CSIR's labs have been further contributing with contactless hospital waste management systems, sanitisation services and more.




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Paytm Mall Receives 3.5 Lakh Requests to Deliver Mobile, Laptops Amid Covid-19 lockdown

The company said it has also received over two lakh e-mails from customers for delivering the non-essential items with demand for mobile phones rising 200 percent.




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Apple 'Disbaled' FaceTime on Older iPhones and Now it Has to Pay $18 Million For Damages

Over 3.6 million devices are said to have been affected by the update and each class member will receive an estimated $3.




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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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Facebook Stock Soars in Q1 Earnings After Initial Drop Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

The social networking giant also said it counts 2.99 billion monthly users across its family of apps, compared to 2.89 billion in the previous quarter.




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Twitter Grants Access to Researchers With Real-Time Data to Study COVID-19 Tweets

The project aims to gather information about the spread of coronavirus, assessing the emergency response and tackling the misinformation during the crisis.




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Global Smartphone Output to See Record 16.5% Slump in June: TrendForce

Both Apple and Samsung will retain their first and third spots respectively but they are also expected to lose market shares as well.




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Call of Duty Mobile Season 6 Goes Live on Android and iOS: New Maps, Game Modes and More

The Call of Duty Season 6 is updated with version 1.0.12 is available on both Google Play Store and Apple App Store.




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Samsung to Start Mass Production of 5nm Chips in Q2 2020: All The Details Here

The production will take place at the start-of-the-art Samsung V1 facility located in Hwaseong, South Korea.




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JioMeet Video Conferencing Service to be Officially Launched by Jio Platforms Soon

JioMeet can be used for both personal and enterprise purposes, and has apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and a plugin for Outlook.




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Jio & Facebook Getting JioMart on WhatsApp Pushes a Big Digital Shift For 1.3 Billion Indians

Reliance Jio says this investment would enable new opportunities for businesses of all sizes. There is special focus on small businesses across India, and there is expectation that the new digital ecosystems will reach out to as many as 1.3 billion Indians, including via WhatsApp.




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Jio Adds 24mn Users in First Three Months of 2020, Annual Profit Soars by 177%

Reliance Jio now has over 388 million subscribers on its network, and looks set to grow stronger with a new investment from Facebook.




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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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Industry Dialogue: COVID Disruption is Proof That We Need to be Serious About 5G Networks in India

5G will help in easing out on the network congestion thereby improving user experience while streaming videos across platforms. It will also provide a smart data pipe for content; monetize broadcast spectrum and provide live streaming on-the-go sans data caps.




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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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COVID-19 Impact: Global Smartphone Sales Plummet 13% in Q1 2020, Samsung Worst Hit

This is the first time since Q1 2014, that the smartphone market has fallen below 300 million units in a quarter.




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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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EventBot Malware Can Steal Banking Data from Your Android Phone: How to Stay Safe

The malware spreads through side-loaded apps and gains deep level access to Android phones to extract sensitive data about banking apps.




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You Can Now Buy Non-Essential Items Online in These Districts: Full List Here

Sale of non-essential items will be resumed in offline stores as well, but only in standalone shops.




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Museums, Art Shows are Exhibiting Through Virtual Tours: Is This the New Future?

Museums, art exhibitions across the world are offering virtual tours to help people overcome the lockdown blues during the coronavirus pandemic.




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Battle Royale: Which of These Indian Video Conferencing Apps Would Win Govt Challenge?

Services such as EnableX, Troop Messenger, VacYa and Say Namaste are just a few of the startups looking to cash in on the lucrative expansion opportunity.




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Xiaomi India Says it is Not Collecting Any More of Your Data Than What You Allowed

Xiaomi India MD Manu Jain issued a statement saying that any data it collects from its #MiFans in India stays within rented servers in the country.




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5 Most Demanded OxygenOS Features Are Finally Coming to OnePlus Phones: See List

The new OxygenOS features will be rolling out to eligible OnePlus phones some time in late 2020.




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Coronavirus Impact: Smartphone Market Sees Zero Sales in April, No Clear Picture for May

Since the lockdown, smartphone manufacturing units are closed, retail shops are shut and online sellers are busy delivering groceries and other essential items.




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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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E-Commerce Players Witness Surge in Searches Related to Non-Essential Items

The government has allowed the sale of only essential products in the red zone through e-commerce platforms, non-essential products are allowed in green and orange zones, starting May 4.




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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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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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Amazon, Flipkart Begin Selling Non-Essential Items: Here Are All The Details

According to a notice on Amazon India’s website, non-essential products will be available for ordering in only select locations and deliveries may take longer than usual.




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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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Samsung India Announces 15% Cashback Offer, No-Cost EMI on TVs and Digitial Appliances

The offer applies to all Samsung consumer electronics products.




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Aarogya Setu Data Fully Anonymised, No Third Party Access Allowed: MyGov India

MyGov has assured that most of the generated data that may contain private identifiers is encrypted locally and fully anonymised to protect identity.




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Finally, The Microsoft Surface Pro X, Surface Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 3 Are in India

The prices for the Surface Pro 7 line-up start at Rs 72,999 while the Surface Laptop 3 costs upwards of Rs 98,999 and the Surface X is also priced at Rs 98,999.




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Moto Razr Expected to go on Sale Starting May 8, Flipkart Listing Reveals

The smartphone is priced at Rs 1,24,999 for the sole 6GB RAM + 128GB storage variant.




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If You Haven’t Already, Microsoft Just Gave You Another Reason to Switch to Edge From Google Chrome

The automatic switching for profiles will arrive with Microsoft Edge 83, which is expected by mid-May