Google, Facebook to Let Employees Work from Home Through 2020 Thecoronavirus pandemichas led a lot of companies across the globe to bring work from home policies to employees. Tech giants Google and Facebook will continue letting employees work from home till the end of the year. Google’s work from home policy is already in place until June and with this announcement, employees get to work remotely for the rest of 2020....
Hacker Stole 500GB of Data From Microsoft’s Private GitHub Repos: Report A hacker called Shiny Hunters claims to havestolen over 500GB of source code and other confidential data from Microsoft’s private GitHub repositories. According toBleeping Computer, the hacker got access to the data after breaking into the GitHub account of a Microsoft employee. The account is since believed to have been secured and the hacker apparently no longer has access to it....
JioPhone May Soon Get UPI Apps for Faster Payments According to a recent report fromThe Economic Timesciting two people familiar with the matter, Reliance Jio is in talks with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to facilitate Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment apps to Jio Phones for faster payments. The report further states that the telecom giant has already started working on the NPCI infrastructure for implementing it. As per industry sources, this move could increase the adoption of UPI in the country and would widen the audience of leading UPI-based payment apps like Google Pay, Paytm, and PhonePe....
Microsoft ‘To Do’ Updated with New Features as Wunderlist Shuts Down In a bid to attract users migrating from the popular productivity appWunderlistthat Microsoft finally shut down on Wednesday, the Redmond giant has updated its own Microsoft To Do with new features. Below are the new features available on To Do. Microsoft has finally added the option to see all the complete and incomplete tasks in one place. The new smart list can be switched on from To-Do’s Settings....
New Apple TV with A12X Chipset Ready to Ship: Rumor Apple TV, the smart TV box from Apple has been rumoured to be in line for a refresh for quite some time. Today, famed Apple leaker, Jon Prosser said that a refreshed Apple TV model is ready to ship. In his tweet, Prosser said that the updated Apple TV model will feature the A12X chipset and come in two storage variants — 64GB and 128GB....
NRAI to Start Its Own Food Delivery Platform In a bid to end the dominance of food aggregators likeZomatoand Swiggy, the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) is planning to develop a food delivery platform. The platform could have over 6 lakhs hotels and restaurants onboard. The announcement was made by Anurag Katriar, president of NRAI in a ‘COVID-19 Townhall’ event on Wednesday. The platform is said to go live once the lockdown imposed across the country in wake of the coronavirus pandemic gets relaxed....
Nvidia ‘GeForce Now’ Cloud Gaming Service Adds 19 New Titles Even as itplans to launch on Chromebooks and Android TVlater this year,Nvidia’s GeForce Nowcloud gaming service has been losing access to a whole host of popular titles from some of the biggest publishers in the video gaming industry. However, it isn’t all bad news for the platform, as it has now announced that it isadding at least 19 new gamesto its catalogue, including titles from the Conan and Hitman franchises....
