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Uber Partners with Flipkart to Deliver Essentials Amidst Coronavirus Lockdown Uber has partnered with Walmart-backed Flipkart to deliver essential products to people in Delhi, Bengaluru, and Mumbai. This move follows the ride-hailing giant’s partnerships with BigBasket and Spencer’s Retail a few days back. “We understand how important it is for millions of Indians to access essential supplies during the ongoing nationwide lockdown…All these deals help in keeping citizens indoors so we can collectively support the government in helping contain the spread of COVID-19....

WhatsApp Imposes New Limit on Message Forwarding to Fight Misinformation WhatsApp has put a new limit on the number of people that a message can be forwarded to as part of its plans to clamp down on the wild rumors andcrazy conspiracy theories regarding the pandemic. From now on,WhatsApp users will only be able to forward messages to one single person, possibly making it more difficult to spread misinformation on the platform....

Apple Shipping Custom-Designed Face Shields to US Healthcare Workers In a video posted on Twitter over the weekend, Apple CEO, Tim Cook, revealed that the company has sourced more than 20 million face masks for healthcare workers through its global supply chain. The company had earlierdonated more than 6 million N95 masks to healthcare professionalsin the US and sourced around 10 million masks in all for the medical community in the country....

Bite-sized Video Streaming Platform Quibi Now Available in India The much-hyped mobile streaming service Quibi that offers “quick-bite” original content of 10 minutes or less for smartphone users has arrived in India, offering users a new entertainment platform starting Monday amid the COVID-19 lockdown. Led by longtime Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, the service is now available for a 90-day free trial for users. After the free trial is over, it will charge Indian users Rs 669 per month....

Bose Now Lets You Downgrade Headphone Firmware if You’re Facing ANC Issues After a series of complaints about Active Noise Cancelation starting with the ones dating back to January 19, 2017, professional audio equipment maker Bose has now addressed the claims of Bose QuietComfort 35 owners. The issue is believed to have got significant and easily noticeable with the firmware update version 4.5.2 the company rolled out this June.“Made an account to come and say the same thing- new update has severely lowered the quality of ANC, absolutely nowhere near where it was....

Deepmind’s New AI Can Beat You in Any of the 57 Atari 2600 Games Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that has been taking over every industry since the recent past. Fromsurveillance tasksto evenanalysing human traits, AI has shown great promises in every sector in which it has been implemented. Now, a new AI unveiled recently shows that it can beat human beings in all of the classic Atari 2600 games....

Google Maps Now Highlights Local Restaurants With Delivery and Takeout Options With billions of people around the world stuck inside their homes as part of social distancing guidelines issued by medical professionals, epidemiologists and the World Health Organization (WHO),Google Maps has started highlighting local restaurants and eateries that offer Takeaway or Delivery options. As seen in the screenshots below, the app now has separate ‘Takeout’ and ‘Delivery’ buttons on the top of its home page, and tapping on either one reveals the addresses and locations of nearby restaurants that offer those options....