Month: April 2020

The government on Sunday prohibited the sale of non-essential items through e-commerce platforms during the ongoing lockdown, four days after allowing such companies to sell mobile phones, televisions, laptops, refrigerators, and ready-made garments. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla issued an order excluding the non-essential items from sale by the e-commerce companies from the consolidated revised
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One of the best tools we have to slow the spread of the coronavirus is, as you have no doubt heard by now, contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing, who does it and how, and do you need to worry about it? In short, contact tracing helps prevent the spread of a virus
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Making the chief operating officer (COO) of firms such as Amazon and Flipkart responsible for strict implementation of social distancing and sanitisation norms and staff compulsorily downloading the Aarogya Setu app are among the measures proposed in the draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for e-commerce operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the government allowing e-commerce
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Facebook has promised to do more to stop the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 WhatsApp Limits Forwarding to Fight Misinformation WhatsApp has introduced new limits on message forwarding in an attempt to stop the spread of misinformation about COVID-19. Read More . Because, despite its previous efforts, people are still sharing absolute nonsense about the
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  The American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns over the Bluetooth-based contact tracing tool that Apple and Google are collaborating on, citing that the move could invade user’s privacy—if it even works at all. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has released a statement on the joint COVID-19 contact-tracing collaboration between Apple and Google.
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Flipkart has restarted smartphone selling in India. E-commerce giants had been limited to selling only essential goods after PM Modi announced a nationwide lockdown from March 25. However, the Indian government recently approved selling of smartphones online in India, and Flipkart has opened its mobiles category for orders. The company says that the mobiles category
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NASA on Friday said its astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan returned to Earth, alongside Roscosmos’ Soyuz Commander Oleg Skripochka. The space agency said Morgan’s extended stay in space will help increase knowledge about how the human body responds to longer duration spaceflight, The space agency revealed the trio had departed the International Space Station
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A coalition of EU scientists and technologists that’s developing what’s billed as a “privacy-preserving” standard for Bluetooth-based proximity tracking, as a proxy for COVID-19 infection risk, wants Apple and Google to make changes to an API they’re developing for the same overarching purpose. The Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) uncloaked on April 1, calling for
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  For the newest iPhone SE, the decision whether or not to upgrade is more complicated than you’d think. Let’s explore who should, and shouldn’t, upgrade to the iPhone SE. The all-new iPhone SE (2020) While not Apple’s top-of-the-line model, that iPhone SE has a lot to love. Whether you are coming from an original
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Samsung Research Institute-Bangalore (SRI-B) has built a ‘Hand Wash’ application which prompts users to clean their hands, a key precautionary measure to stay safe amid the rising coronavirus concern The application on Samsung’s Galaxy Watch reminds users periodically about hand wash and makes sure the activity lasts at least 20 seconds. “The World Health Organization
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