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According to the officials, over 1,100 offers, including multiple pre-placement ones, were made to the institute's graduating students from various national and international organisations. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/3ijfPze

In May 2019, the FCC voted to deny another state-owned Chinese telecommunications company, China Mobile Ltd, the right to provide U.S. services, citing risks that the Chinese government could use the company to conduct espionage against the U.S. government. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2Zu4jIy

"India's measure selectively and discriminatorily aims at certain Chinese apps on ambiguous and far-fetched grounds, runs against fair and transparent procedure requirements, abuses national security exceptions and (is suspected of) violating WTO rules," Ji Rong, spokesman at the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, said in a statement. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2NFLSeG

The boogaloo movement's name is inspired by the 1984 breakdancing film "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo." Followers suggest that, just as the movie was a sequel, any coming conflict would be the sequel to the American Civil War. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2VyyX2w

The European Commission on Tuesday took another step towards accelerating up the rollout of high speed 5G across the European Union by adopting rules for small antennas, which are key to expanding data capacity and coverage. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2Zu1APm

Media Rating Council (MRC), a media measurement firm, will conduct the audit to evaluate how it protects advertisers from appearing next to harmful content and the accuracy of Facebook's reporting in certain areas. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/3ePSu6b

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Now summer holidays are once again a distinct possibility, here are the underwater scooters, kayaks and electric surfboards worth splashing out on from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2NGVKoo

The government has just given the go-ahead for e-scooters to be used on the streets. But the rules are still confusing from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/3gjfs61

In China, the coronavirus crisis has kick-started an overdue conversation about the illegal wildlife trade from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/31yhScA

With plans for zero-carbon planes and carbon capture, the prime minister's economic recovery is big on solutionism but offers very few real solutions to the climate crisis from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/31xHjeD

Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro Max comes in three colour options- Aurora Blue, Glacier White and Interstellar Black. It comes with a starting price of Rs 16,999. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2ZoO6oa

Realme Buds Q come in three colour options- Quite Yellow, Quite Black and Quite White. The headphones are priced at Rs 1,999. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2NI73MW

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New Zealand's monster penguins, which lived 62 million years ago, had doppelgangers in Japan, the U.S. and Canada, a study published today in the Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research has found. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2Zp39y7

When in 2010, former VC Michael Kim set out to raise a fund that he would invest in a spate of micro VC managers, the investors to which he turned didn’t get it. Why pay Kim and his firm, Cendana Capital ,  a management fee on top of the management fees that the VC managers themselves charge? Fast forward to today, and Kim has apparently proven to his backers that he’s worth the extra cost. Three years after raising $260 million across a handful of vehicles whose capital he plugged into up-and-coming venture firms, Kim is now revealing a fresh $278 million in capital commitments, including $218 million for its fourth flagship fund, and $60 million that Cendana will be managing expressly for the University of Texas endowment. We talked with Kim last week about how he plans to invest the money, which differs slightly from how he has invested in the past. Rather than stick solely with U.S.-based seed-stage managers who are raising vehicles of $100 million or less, he will split Cenda

Facebook’s recently launched app, Hobbi , an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down. The app first arrived on iOS in February as one of now several launches from Facebook’s internal R&D group, the NPE Team. Hobbi users have now been notified by way of push notification that the app is shutting down on July 10, 2020. The app allows users to export their data from its settings. In the few months it’s been live on the U.S. App Store, Hobbi only gained 7,000 downloads, according to estimates from Sensor Tower. Apptopia also reported the app had under 10K downloads and saw minimal gains during May and June. Though Hobbi clearly took cues from Pinterest, it was not designed to be a pinboard of inspirational ideas. Instead, Hobbi users would organize photos of their projects — like gardening, cooking, arts & crafts, décor, and more — in a visual diary of sorts. The goal was to photograph

Lyft’s self-driving vehicle division has restarted testing on public roads in California, several months after pausing operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Lyft’s Level 5 program said Tuesday some of its autonomous vehicles are back on the road in Palo Alto and at its closed test track. The company has not resumed a pilot program that provided rides to Lyft employees in Palo Alto. The company said it is following CDC guidelines for personal protective equipment and surface cleaning. It has also enacted several additional safety steps to prevent the spread of COVID. Each autonomous test vehicle is equipped with partitions to separate the two safety operators inside, the company said. The operators must wear face shields and submit to temperature checks. They’re also paired together for two weeks at a time. Lyft’s Level 5 program — a nod to the SAE automated driving level that means the vehicle handles all driving in all conditions — launched in July 2017 but didn’t starting testi

Originally priced at Rs 1,09,900, the 64GB storage variant of the iPhone XS Max can be purchased at Rs 69,900. It is listed with 36% off on Amazon. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/38kdL5p

More than a million people have been affected by flooding in northeastern India, where the death toll over the past week rose to 13, authorities said on Monday. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/3dLyFeL

The coronavirus pandemic has led a growing number of Westerners to see China as a top power, with the lead of the United States slipping, a study said Tuesday. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2VyjrU6

As the political climate in the United States becomes increasingly charged, some businesses are looking to have their voices heard on controversial issues. The impact of corporate sociopolitical activism on a company's bottom line depends on how the activism aligns with the firm's stakeholders, according to new research published in the Journal of Marketing. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/3eMs84W

Increasing gender diversity has been a long-sought goal across many of the sciences, and interventions and programs to attract more women into fields like physics and math often happen at the undergraduate level. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/3idEdST

How do you feel about your neighborhood now that you've been confined during a pandemic? A Michigan State University researcher conducted a study to quantify what makes people happy with their neighborhoods and discovered that it has almost nothing to do with the neighborhood itself. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2CNQpcE

A University of Wyoming researcher and her Ph.D. student have spent the last three years studying the decline of the Western bumblebee. The two have been working with a group of bumblebee experts to fill in gaps of missing information from previous data collected in the western United States. Their goal is to provide information on the Western bumblebee to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service while it considers listing this species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/3eOzrcc

New research has shown that Drax power station in North Yorkshire is the optimal site for the carbon capture and storage facilities that will be needed reduce carbon emissions and achieve the targets of 2016 Paris Climate Agreement. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/3eM4YM5

Stress wave propagation through grainy, or granular, materials is important for detecting the magnitude of earthquakes, locating oil and gas reservoirs, designing acoustic insulation and designing materials for compacting powders. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/3ibQib8

All per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) should be treated as one class and avoided for nonessential uses, according to a peer-reviewed article published today in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/3eGDyXQ

You can now tip your Ola driver. The Indian ride-hailing giant said on Tuesday that it has rolled out this feature to its users in India, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom — all the nations where it currently operates. Ola said riders in each market will see a range of denominations they can pick as the amount they wish to tip digitally. It plans to allow riders to pay a custom amount of their choice in a few weeks, a spokesperson told TechCrunch. All of Ola’s 2.5 million driver partners globally — from those who operate two-wheelers to four — can receive tips, the nine-year-old ride-hailing giant said. The addition of this feature comes as Ola looks to broaden its efforts to help its driver partners who have been financially hit in recent weeks after New Delhi and several other governments across the globe enforced a lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus . Uber first introduced the tipping feature in some states in the U.S. in 2017 and has since expan

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on all manner of professional sports this year, and cycling has not been immune. For example, the best-known race on the planet, the Tour de France, normally staged in July, has had to be pushed back to August 29 through September 20. That doesn’t mean that the world — and professional cyclists — can’t enjoy world-class racing this summer. In fact, beginning this coming weekend, 23 top men’s teams and 17 women’s teams will participate in a virtual version of the event that’s being hosted by six-year-old Zwift , after it was chosen by the official race organizer of the real tour, Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), as its partner on the event. It’s a coup for the Long Beach, Calif., company whose multiplayer video game technology is used by both amateur and pro cyclists and that, according to Outside magazine, is now the biggest player in the growing online racing world. Investors have noticed, funding the company to the tune of $170 million so far, says

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In the wake of the global pandemic, countries have delayed or backtracked on policies aimed at reducing plastic, while PPE is already ending up in the ocean from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2Vvjwb4

A group of former OneTrust employees are launching legal action after dozens of people were dismissed for “poor performance” from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2NFnSbv

Museums and galleries are reopening on July 4. But after three months with no income and no prospect of going back to normal, some may not survive from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/3dJPMxM

The sheer joy of living with a Googled Huawei – the best camera phone in the world and likely the best phone in the world right now from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/31tcWpv

Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro comes with a starting price of Rs 13,999. It can be purchased at 12pm on Amazon and Mi.com. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/3eLNBuH

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Uber has reportedly made an offer to buy food delivery service Postmates, according to The New York Times . According to the Times, the talks are still ongoing and the deal could fall through. For those that have been paying attention to Uber, this appetite is not new, albeit consistent. A little over a month ago, the ride-hailing company was reportedly pursuing an acquisition of Grubhub,   another food delivery company. Grubhub was ultimately acquired by Just Eat Takeaway in a  $7.3 billion deal , but only after the deal with Uber fell through over a variety of concerns. Food delivery market has set to benefit largely from the COVID-19 pandemic, as stores remain shuttered or switch operations to takeout only. Latest earnings from the public ride-hailing company show that its ride-hailing business is slowing while its food delivery service is growing like hell . Gross bookings for Uber Eats last quarter were $4.68 billion. So even though Uber still loses a ton of money ( $2.94 b

The United States government began measures today to end its special status with Hong Kong, one month after Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told Congress that Hong Kong should no longer be considered autonomous from China. The new actions include suspending export license exceptions for sensitive U.S. technology and ending the export of defense equipment to Hong Kong. Both the Commerce and State Departments also said further restrictions are being evaluated. The U.S. government’s announcements were made a few hours before news broke that China had passed a new national security law that will give it greater control over Hong Kong. It is expected to take effect on July 1, according to the South China Morning Post . The term “special status” refers to arrangements that recognized the difference between Hong Kong and mainland China under the “one country, two systems” policy put into place when the United Kingdom handed control of Hong Kong back to Beijing in 1997. These included dif

Despite the Wirecard fallout , German fintech startup solarisBank has raised a Series C funding round of $67.5 million (€60 million). Following today’s funding round, solarisBank is now valued at $360 million (€320 million). solarisBank doesn't have any consumer product directly. Instead, it offers financial services to other fintech companies through a set of APIs. With solarisBank, you can build a fintech startup and leverage solarisBank’s line of products to do the heavy lifting. It’s an infrastructure company in the banking space. While solarisBank might not be a familiar name, some of its clients have become quite popular. They include challenger banks, such as Tomorrow , Insha and a newcomer called Vivid , business banking startups, such as Penta and Kontist , trading app Trade Republic , cryptocurrency startups Bison and Bitwala , etc. Overall, solarisBank works with 70 companies that have attracted 400,000 clients in total. HV Holtzbrinck Ventures is leading the ro

The exposure notification technology jointly developed by Google and Apple has begun rolling out in India through updates on their smartphone operating systems — iOS and Android. Public health authorities in India could now use the API to build a contact tracing app that is integrated deeply with the mobile operating system, thus avoiding technical glitches such as loss of tracking when the app is in the background. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2VsNmNo

The emerging technologies that will transform remote working in years to come from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/389iRBz

Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia Oyj said on Monday it has won a 5G contract worth about 400 million euros ($449.48 million) from Taiwan Mobile to build out the telecom operator's next-generation network as the sole supplier. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2YI8Wj3

Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet, demonstrating a technique that could enable breakthroughs in the quest to understand how exoplanetary systems form and evolved. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/3gaQXHQ

Zuoyebang, a Beijing-headquartered startup that runs an online learning app , said on Monday it has raised $750 million in a new financing round as investors demonstrate their continued trust in — and focus on — Asia’s booming edtech market. U.S. investment firm Tiger Global and Hong Kong-based private equity firm FountainVest Partners led the six-year-old startup’s Series E financing round. Existing investors including SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital China, Xiang He Capital, Qatar Investment Authority also participated in the round, which brings the startup’s to-date raise to $1.33 billion. As we have previously noted in our coverage , Zuoyebang’s app helps students — ranging from kindergarten to 12th-grade — solve problems and understand complex concepts. The app, which offers online courses and runs live lessons, also allows students to take a picture of a problem, upload it to the app, and get its solution. The startup claims it uses artificial intelligence to identif

Extra Crunch is now live in Romania. That adds to our existing support in Europe in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and U.K.. There’s been reason to be bullish on Romania’s technology sector for some time. A TechCrunch op-ed called the country the “ Silicon Valley of Transylvania ” in 2016, noting that the number of startups in the country had grown by 20% from 250 to 300 in a year.  The country’s rich pool of developer talent (bullish notes on that matter here ) has also led to rising investor interest. Crunchbase data, for example, said that known venture round counts rose by 26% in the country in 2019, compared to 2018. And from a 2015-era trough, the country’s GDP has risen sharply , along with its GDP per-capita .  It’s no surprise, then, that Romania has been one of the most requested countries for Extra Crunch support in recent months. We’re happy to add the country to the list. You can sign up here . Extra Crunch is a membershi

Researchers have developed an Internet of things (IoT) device for soap dispensers which they say can ensure that people wash their hands properly for over 20 seconds as per the World Health Organization guidelines for COVID-19. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/3eHORiH

The exposure notification technology jointly developed by Google and Apple has begun rolling out in India through updates on their smartphone operating systems — iOS and Android. Public health authorities in India could now use the API to build a contact tracing app that is integrated deeply with the mobile operating system, thus avoiding technical glitches such as loss of tracking when the app is in the background. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/3i6eYSt

Transforming the light-converting chips into a platform for software - essentially akin to the PlayStation Plus video games service - amounts to a sea change for the $10 billion business, which built its dominance through hardware breakthroughs. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2BN8lUs

A giant panda gifted by China to Taiwan has given birth to a second female cub after being artificially inseminated, Taipei Zoo announced Monday. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/3g91bbT

Fears of confirming stereotypes about pregnant workers as incompetent, weak or less committed to their job can drive pregnant employees to work extra hard, risking injury. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2Bad3M8

A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists from UCL, ZSL and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera built and deployed by the team. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/31tC0N4

Environmental destruction may make pandemics more likely and less manageable, new research suggests. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2Vu8BP3

Gold mining significantly limits the regrowth of Amazon forests, greatly reducing their ability to accumulate carbon, according to a new study. The researchers warn that the impacts of mining on tropical forests are long-lasting and that active land management and restoration will be necessary to recover tropical forests on previously mined lands. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2YJBbOC

Free Press and Common Sense, along with U.S. civil rights groups Color of Change and the Anti-Defamation League, launched the campaign following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by Minneapolis police. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/31qNEsf

Careem has seen its overall business recover at an almost double-digit rate week-on-week over the past two months as countries eased restrictions. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/3idCiNV

While many in Silicon Valley might prefer to forget investor Mike Rothenberg roughly four years after his young venture firm began to implode , his story is still being written, and the latest chapter doesn’t bode well for the 36-year-old. While Rothenberg earlier tangled with the Securities & Exchange Commission and lost, it was a civil matter, if one that could haunt him for the rest of his life. Now, the U.S. Department of Justice has brought two criminal wire fraud charges against him, along with charges that he made two false statements to a bank and money laundering charges that, depending on how things play out, could result in a very long time in prison. Specifically, says the DOJ, the two bank fraud charges and the two false statement to a bank charges “each carry a maximum of 30 years in prison, not more than five years supervised release, and a $1,000,000 fine,” while the money laundering charges “carry a penalty of imprisonment of not more than ten years, not more

E-commerce giant Flipkart is planning to launch a hyperlocal service that would enable customers to buy items from local stores and have those delivered to them in an hour and a half or less. Yatra, an online travel and hotel ticketing service, is exploring a new business line altogether: Supplying office accessories. Flipkart and Yatra are not the only firms eyeing new business categories. Dozens of firms in the country have branched out by launching new services in recent weeks, in part to offset the disruption the COVID-19 epidemic has caused to their core offerings. Swiggy and Zomato, the nation’s largest food delivery startups, began delivering alcohol in select parts of the country last month. The move came weeks after the two firms, both of which are seeing fewer orders and had to let go of hundreds of employees , started accepting orders for grocery items in a move that challenged existing online market leaders BigBasket and Grofers. Udaan, a business-to-business marke

Both OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro smartphones are powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 and run on Oxygen OS based on Android 10 operating system. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/3idm7QH

Flies aren’t as efficient as bees, often getting distracted before they can carry pollen between plants, but the common hoverfly could help us out of a food crisis from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2CQJhfK

A new tool allows governments to try out different strategies to reach lofty goals from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2ZfRH7S

Masks are conquering Europe. Why is the UK resisting them? from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2VupDfQ

The FBI is renowned for pioneering forensic techniques. Photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg captures the scenes behind the science from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/3g9cZLm

A Russian mining giant behind an enormous Arctic fuel spill last month said Sunday it had suspended workers at a metals plant who were responsible for pumping wastewater into nearby tundra. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2CPXn0U

Hey everybody, welcome back to Week in Review. Last week, I wrote about Apple’s App Store controversy, which I’m kind of revisiting this week through the lens of how Apple’s WWDC announcements tease a change to what apps fundamentally look like in the future. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get this in your inbox  here , and follow my tweets  here . The Big Story Apple’s App Store has had a controversial month with developers demanding changes to how apps are monetized, but as Apple detailed the next versions of its operating systems at WWDC, it’s clear they believe third-party apps themselves have room to be fundamentally revamped. This week at WWDC, Apple debuted App Clips, a snappy new segment of third party experiences that scales down the idea of an app around just a single feature or two. A user can quickly call up an App Clip via a URL, NFC tag or visual code and download when the right context arises. In a lot of ways it’s just another notification

In the war between subscription video on-demand (SVOD) services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, Starz has been growing on the sidelines and fighting to be the preferred add-on for consumers on top of their primary subscription. That journey has required the longtime premium cable TV network to rethink its target audience, content strategy and pricing. It now has more than a million subscribers on its direct-to-consumer video platform and roughly seven million subscribers when including all the users of other SVOD services in the U.S. who pay for Starz as an add-on. I recently spoke to Jeffrey Hirsch, the company’s CEO since last September (and COO before that), about how he defines Starz’ overall strategy now and the process through which his team determined new pricing, new content strategy and international expansion. Below is our conversation, edited for length and clarity: TechCrunch: Who do you think of as Starz’ core audience? Jeffrey Hirsch: What we found from the data

The Trump administration’s decision to extend its ban on issuing work visas to the end of this year “would be a blow to very early-stage tech companies trying to get off the ground,” Silicon Valley immigration lawyer Sophie Alcorn told TechCrunch this week. In 2019, the federal government issued more than 188,000 H-1B visas — thousands of workers who live in the San Francisco Bay Area and other startup hubs hold H-1B and H-2B visas or J and L visas, which are explicitly prohibited under the president’s ban. Normally, the government would process tens of thousands of visa applications and renewals in October at the start of its fiscal year, but the executive order all but guarantees new visas won’t be granted until 2021. Four TechCrunch staffers analyzed the president’s move in an attempt to see what it portends for the tech industry, the U.S. economy and our national image: Danny Crichton Natasha Mascarenhas Zack Whittaker Alex Wilhelm Danny Crichton: Trump’s ban is a “self-

When “The Politician” debuted on Netflix last year , it divided the hosts of the Original Content podcast . After season two, we were more united: The show is not good. To be clear, “The Politician” is still pretty entertaining, thanks to a consistent dedication to packing as many ridiculous plot twists as possible into any given episode. But the glibness of its approach to contemporary politics feels emptier than ever. As teased at the end of season one, the show has jumped forward a few years from titular politician Payton Hobart’s contentious election for student body president. Payton (played by Ben Platt) is now a student at NYU, and he’s launched a longshot campaign for the seat currently occupied by veteran New York State Senator Dede Standish (Judith Light). While Platt’s performance remains compelling — especially in the rare moments when he gets a chance to sing — Payton still feels like a teenager playacting as a real politician, and his climate change-focused platform f

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.  Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox . Hi friends and first-time readers. Welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B. I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. Remember please reach out and email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, criticisms, offer up opinions or tips. You can also send a direct message to me at Twitter — @kirstenkorosec . Typically this space is where I philosophize about a specific event and emerging transportation trend. This week, let’s all take a pause to remember Jessi Combs , who was officially and posthumously declared to hold the fastest land speed record by a woman. The Guinness Book of World Records certified this week the 522.783 mph land speed record that Combs achieved August 27, 201