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News and Live Videos are Important to Facebook Again, Due to Coronavirus

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While Facebook’s key focus was on events and marketplace, it is now quickly shifting emphasis to live videos, groups and news.

Warning: Your 4G Network Has a Flaw That Can Track You and Steal Your Data

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Cyber security researchers at Positive Technologies have noted that attackers can track location and get sensitive data on 4G, and 5G isn't immune to it.

Corontine Platform by IIT Profs to Help Govt, Private Firms Build COVID-19 Trackers

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Created by a team from IIT Bombay, Corontine allows scalable features for apps to be built based on it, with geo-fencing and other relevant features.

ICYMI Tech Wrap of The Week: Free Apple Apps, Botched Windows Update, Abbot’s COVID Test And More

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A large chunk of the focus was on Coronavirus as tech companies did their best to rework policies and more in an attempt to make life easier for the public at large—chatbots, virtual screening tools, the fight against fake news on social media and donations to healthcare systems around the world kept them busy.

Everyone is Streaming More Than Ever, But it is Not Breaking The Internet: Why The Panic?

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Netflix explains they have removed the highest bandwidth stream for each of the streaming categories for home broadband users. But that doesn’t mean you will not get HD or Ultra HD content. Ookla data shows internet speeds are stable in India. So, why the panic?

Google to Donate $800 Million to Help Healthcare Systems Already Strained Globally

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The company will provide $340 million in Google ad credits to small and medium businesses active on its platform and $250 million in ad grants for the World Health Organization and many government agencies.

Amazon Wants Warehouse Workers to Shift to Groceries Unit, And Will Pay Them More

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This move, known as labor sharing, highlights how the ecommerce giant is reallocating some of its vast workforce to handle a spike in online sales of groceries, as millions of American are stuck at home amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Facebook Offers Coronavirus Chatbot on Messenger: Here's How to Use it

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After WhatsApp, Facebook has now made MyGov Corona Hub available through a chatbot on its Messenger app in India.

Abbott's New COVID-19 Test Can be Used Anywhere, Produces Results in 5 Minutes

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Abbott said in a statement that it plans to begin distributing the test next week and will ramp up manufacturing to 50,000 tests per day.

OnePlus to Finally Bring Always-On Display Feature to OxygenOS

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OnePlus' OxygenOS has been crucially missing the Always-on display feature which might finally launch soon as confirmed by the company.

Apple Releases COVID-19 Website and App With Screening Tool

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The app will also answer frequently asked questions about the coronavirus disease with official information from the CDC.

COVID-19 Pandemic Leads to 40 Percent Increase in WhatsApp Usage

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According to Kantar, in the later stages of the pandemic web browsing increases by 70 percent, followed by (traditional) TV viewing increasing by 63 percent and social media engagement increasing by 61 percent over normal usage rates.

Fighting Fake News on COVID-19: What India’s Social Media Companies are Doing

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News18 spoke to Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, WhatsApp and YouTube about their efforts to curb fake news and misinformation, and here’s what we found.

That 5G iPhone You Were Looking Forward To May Not Come Any Time Soon

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Supply shortage, closed factories, weakened economy and lesser disposable finances make this the worst time to launch a milestone iPhone.

Microsoft Xbox Series X Code Stolen in Cyber Attack on AMD, Reveals Company

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It is not quite clear as to how the stolen test files may affect the overall safety of the new Microsoft Xbox platform.

All Future True Wireless Earbuds May Come with Active Noise Cancellation

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...and we've all got Qualcomm to thank for it.

With So Many of Us Working From Home, is the Internet Under Severe Stress?

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What we are seeing today is certainly more traffic than ever before, but we will most likely survive just fine with available bandwidth.

Samsung's Plan to Take Over The Japanese Market Takes a Setback Due to Olympics Delay

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Samsung apparently had plans to heavily market the Galaxy S20 series during the Tokyo Olympics this year but due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the plans have gone awry.

Drones vs Coronavirus: This Indian Startup Will Use Drones to Sanitise Public Areas

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Chennai-based Garuda Aerospace says many state governments have already reached out to him for sanitising public areas, but their are hurdles to be crossed.

Indian IT Major Cognizant Offers Employees Up to Associate Level 25% Added Pay

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At a time when everyone is imposing pay cuts and laying off employees, Cognizant's step comes as a big positive effort during this time of stress.