100th Day Of Lockdown

Total Cases

605,180

18,198

Recovered

359,896

11,515

Deaths

17,848

412

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A soldier of the Swiss army holds a smartphone with an app using Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP-3T) Thursday, April 30, 2020. The debate on privacy is especially urgent in Europe, where academics and civil liberties activists are pushing for solutions that protect personal data. (Photo | AP)

Apps on Google, Apple APIs not allowed to track location, indie app Aarogya Setu does

Aarogya Setu, which runs on its own Application Program Interface or API, is not bound by international privacy protection norms
05 May 2020 8:33 PM
Deep-pocketed companies such as Intel, which is sitting on USD 11.4 billion cash, are expected to forge ahead with their investments in fields they believe will turn into gold mines. After Intel bought Mobileye, the self-driving car startup's revenue has ballooned from $210 million in 2017 to $879 million last year. That’s a reflection of the big bets being placed on automated driving by both major technology companies, such as Google spinoff Waymo and Apple, and automakers such as General Motors and Toyota. (Photo | Mobileye)

Intel buys Moovit app to boost bet on self-driving cars in times of social distancing

The chip maker plans to combine Moovit with Mobileye, a self-driving car specialist that Intel bought for about USD 15 billion in 2017.
05 May 2020 3:20 PM
Trump calls the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post 'fake news', and a lot of scrutiny that Amazon comes into is attributed to this. However, the US House Judiciary Committee has been investigating Big Tech Companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple on anti-trust and data privacy issues. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has testified in such hearings earlier. Now it is Jeff Bezos' turn. (Photo | AFP)

Will Jeff Bezos testify in US House about Amazon's alleged predatory practices?

US lawmakers on Friday wrote to Bezos saying they would use legal means to force him to appear if he didn’t do so voluntarily
02 May 2020 3:30 PM
Headspace is one app for both physical and mental fitness. It is primarily focused on guided meditation and offers meditation techniques based on your requirements. (Photo | Flickr - EGIZU Getxo Euskaldun Elkartea)

Talking Tech | Miss your gym, not your workout

There are many handy apps that not just help us be fit but look at overall health and wellbeing.
02 May 2020 12:13 PM
While Google makes revenues from its products too, Facebook and Twitter mainly depend on income from ad sales

Google, Facebook, Twitter gain plenty of users amid covid but lose major ad revenue

As travel and shopping shut down, advertising on the three platforms plummeted, but now as lockdown curbs begin to ease, things may look up
01 May 2020 8:02 PM
Two years ago, YouTube began testing panels providing vetted sources of information on topics prone to bogus assertions such as the world being flat.

YouTube adds fact-check panels to videos with bogus claims in US

Fact-check information panels highlight credible findings by third-parties so YouTube viewers can make informed decisions about claims.
29 Apr 2020 3:13 PM
Google's Play Store has apps with child abuse material, links to WhatsApp groups which are encrypted are found on Twitter, the NCPCR said, indicating the need for big tech companies to do more proactively to shut down child sexual abuse material.

NCPCR issues notice to Google, WhatsApp, Twitter over child sexual abuse material

A recent report by India Child Protection Fund showed that there has been a spike in searches for child sexual abuse material amid lockdown
26 Apr 2020 10:51 PM
Quarterly updates are due this week from Google parent Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, all of which will see an impact from the pandemic.

Big Tech firms booming amid pandemic try to highlight covid efforts to burnish image

Quarterly results looming, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft do not want to be seen as having cashed in on the coronavirus crisis
26 Apr 2020 10:22 PM
Some 300 leading academics urged governments to dismiss the centralised approach to an app they were backing, saying it risked undermining public trust. They said an approach being developed by Apple and Google, whose operating systems run most of the world’s smartphones, was more privacy friendly. (Photo | AP)

Germany backs Google and Apple's covid app, ditches alternative over privacy concerns

Backing for a pan-European app that was to keep data on a central server was stopped over criticism from a nation haunted by Nazi-era spying
26 Apr 2020 9:40 PM
Facebook made the aggregated survey information from its users available at https://dataforgood.fb.com/covid-symptoms-map/, while the data for the all responses including from Google users will be published on Carnegie Mellon page covidcast.cmu.edu soon.

Virus 'heat map' from Facebook, Google user surveys visualises spread of COVID-19

Carnegie Mellon researchers said they received about one million responses a week from Facebook users, and 600,000 from Google users.
20 Apr 2020 8:57 PM
Granted that Google and Facebook give news content legs. They take the story beyond the geographical limits of the newspaper’s reach. But if the disseminator makes nearly all the profits and shares mere peanuts with the producer of the content, how long will news production survive?

Why Google, Facebook must pay for news content worldwide

Governments of France, Spain and Australia have ordered the giant aggregators to pay publishers for content, but will the duopoly accede?
20 Apr 2020 3:55 PM
The Silicon Valley is bracing itself for a layoff in the startup community. (PTI Photo)

Silicon Valley prepares for layoffs, reduction in salary and job freeze

Companies that are selling to travel and tourism industries will see a huge dip in their business fortunes
14 Apr 2020 2:52 PM
In addition to Facebook, LeadCloak's software also targeted a number of other technology companies including Google, Oath, WordPress, Shopify, and others. (Photo | AFP)

Facebook sues Indian techie for running deceptive ads, fake news on coronavirus

Basant Gajjar's company LeadCloak provided ad-cloaking software to sneak fake news and scams past Facebook and Instagram's ad review system
10 Apr 2020 4:23 PM
Lack of adequate security has been a huge and seemingly endless problem with Zoom.

Google bans Zoom on devices used by staff

Employees may continue to use the videoconferencing app to connect to friends and family over browser or mobile
09 Apr 2020 4:13 PM
Google, which collects large amounts of data from users of its myriad services, plans to publish information about the movement of people to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of physical distancing measures.

Privacy could be the loser as governments rely on tech in combat against coronavirus

Most governments are accessing location data of mobile phone users in anonymised forms, but rights groups worry about privacy breaches.
04 Apr 2020 3:25 PM
Like the detection of traffic jams or traffic measurement on Google Maps, the new reports will use “aggregated, anonymised” data from users who have activated their location history. (Representative Image)

New Google site will help governments monitor user location data to fight coronavirus

Reports on users’ movements in 131 countries will be published on a website and will chart movement trends by geography, a Google blog said.
03 Apr 2020 4:50 PM
The Google News Initiative is using its extensive CrossCheck network to help newsrooms respond quickly and address escalating content that is causing confusion and harm.

Google partners with Boom Live in India to fight against coronavirus misinformation

The tech giant has committed USD 6.5 million worldwide to help factcheckers through its Google News Initiative
03 Apr 2020 2:01 PM
The IBM Summit at a national laboratory in the US has already been working on a project to create a potential drug for the coronavirus COVID-19

US ties up with IBM, Amazon, Google to use 16 supercomputers for coronavirus research

Researchers working on projects chosen by a consortium will be given remote access to the supercomputers for drug and vaccine research
23 Mar 2020 1:11 PM
A snapshot of the new Google coronavirus website

No screening for coronavirus on Google’s new website as Trump said, it has only info

The website points to authoritative resources for coronavirus information and will soon be available in more languages and countries.
22 Mar 2020 2:02 PM
Brussels’ warning comes less than a month after US officials said thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts had embarked on a coordinated effort to spread alarm about the virus.

Russia spreading fake news about coronavirus to worsen crisis in US, Europe, says EU

An internal EU document warned that pro-Kremlin media outlets were promoting disinformation to undermine trust in healthcare systems
18 Mar 2020 10:12 PM

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Here are Indian alternatives to the 59 banned Chinese apps

The ban on Chinese applications offers an opportunity for India’s tech ecosystem. (Photo | Flickr - Limelight Leads)
 

They could beat private eyes tailing cheating spouses! We’re talking about COVID apps

The COVID-19 apps also continuously collect and process highly sensitive and personally identifiable information, about health, location and direct identifiers like name, age, email address and voter or national identification of a user.
 

Won’t support evildoers: Snapchat won’t recommend Trump anymore to users

Trump's campaign denounced the move, claiming that “Snapchat is trying to rig the 2020 election, illegally using their corporate funding to promote Joe Biden and suppress President Trump.” (Photo | AFP)
 

But where are the kirana stores? JioMart launches in 200 cities without them

JioMart, which declared itself an aggregator of neighbourhood grocery stores, is currently looking similar to the BigBasket model of ecommerce. (Representative Image | Pixabay)
 

Dear Swiggy, when can I have my swig in the South?

While liquor outlets have opened in most places in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, Kerala is still holding out. The state, whose largest source of revenue is alcohol sales, has exercised restraint in opening up its state-owned Beverages Corporation (Bevco) outlets, cautious about triggering a setback to its successfully continuing fight against COVID-19, as people would inevitably crowd the wine shops
 

Don’t let Big Tech turn the world into a China, Noam Chomsky warns

Noam Chomsky speaking at the International Forum for Emancipation and Equality in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 12, 2015. The conference was organized by the Argentinian Ministry of Culture of the Nation through the Secretariat of Strategic Coordination for National Thought. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Augusto Starita)
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Without fail every morning, an orderly (please don't call them ward boy) came by to change my bed clothes. (DC Photo: Rajesh Jadhav)

My life in Covid-19 quarantine
Having made Mumbai’s streets his canvas and DSLR camera his paintbrush, photographer Star Udyawar’s narration of everyday life in the maximum city is riveting. As can be seen in his various portrayals of the city like the historic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), Dhobi Ghat with its colourful backdrop, and the famous Sea-link. For Udyawar, perspective is key as it defines the in-depth relationship between the objects in a picture along with the dimensions that a viewer perceives.

Framing the Mundane
A model walks the runway at the Pamella Roland fashion show during New Yo)rk Fashion Week at Pier 59 Studios on February 7, 2020 in New York City. (AFP

The best pictures from New York Fashion Week
T K Sandeep is a photographer whose work consists of moody video poems and photo poems. One of his recent projects was a calendar in which he got hijras and transgenders in Kerala to tell him their dream professions, and then he photographed them dressed as those professionals.

A selection of photographer TK Sandeep's work
The dress featured a fairly simple silhouette with a plunging neckline. But the drama is brought by the feathered veil/cape element. It also had a bow at the neck for added drama. (Photo: AP)

Valentino fashionably interprets A Midsummer's Night Dream
A man sports a colourful headgear with traditional motifs. (Photo: AP)

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