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MobiKwik Denies Security Breach While User Data is Up for Grabs on the Dark Web
There have been multiple reports circulating for over a month now in regard to a possible breach of MobiKwik’s servers. The company maintains that no breach has occurred. The alleged hack was initially reported by security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia on twitter earlier this month but until recently there were no means to verify the claims.…
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India Bans 59 Popular Chinese Apps Amidst Tension With China
The government of India has announced a ban on several popular Chinese apps including TikTok with immediate effect. The growing tension with China along the border has led to this unprecedented move. While these apps are among the few that are shady in their behavior it remains to be seen how effective the ban turns…
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Walmart Silently Lists Two New Onn Tablets Powered by Android 10 With a Pro Moniker
Amazon’s Fire range of tablets have been ruling the budget Android tablet segment for a while now since there were no cheap alternatives. Walmart previously launched their Onn series of tablets running a near stock version of Android certified by Google but they have been pretty underwhelming and remained unpopular. Walmart is now back with…
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Nvidia Announces RTX Series, Available For Pre-Orders In India
After weeks of teasing, Nvidia’s Turing GPUs are finally here. At Gamescom 2018 in Germany, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced three new GPUs: RTX 20180 Ti, RTX 2018, and RTX 2070 as successors to GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 1080, and GTX 1070. The biggest addition to the GPU is Ray Tracing, which Nvidia claims it…
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Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and the Union Budget 2018
Arun Jaitely, the finance minister of India, has formally presented the union budget 2018-19 in the lok Sabha today. While we are in no position to either analyze or comment on most of the schemes or announcements made today we need to clarify the stand the Government has taken on cryptocurrency since most of the…
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OnePlus giving away 10,000 Star Wars: The Last Jedi tickets to the community
Its hard to believe that its been just 3 years since OnePlus had entered the Indian market. To celebrate this, OnePlus is giving away 10,000 tickets for Star Wars: The Last Jedi to the community. The giveaway will be done in two phases on 13th and 15th December at 10am on oneplusstore.in and Paytm. Also, to…
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OnePlus announces Star Wars edition 5T
OnePlus, which just released the OnePlus 5T last month is already out with another product. But this time, it’s rather special. OnePlus teased a Star Wars Edition for the OnePlus 5T at the Bangalore Comic Con and the crowd went crazy! Here’s the video of the teaser played at the Comic Con: The new phone…
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Mozilla Announces Plan To Support Open Source Projects In India, To Invest ₹1 Crore
Mozilla, known for their Firefox browser, took to their blog to announce their plans to support open source projects in India. Mozilla has been involved in supporting various open source project over the years but this is the first time they have announced such an initiative for Indians. This comes under their newly launched…
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NVIDIA announces Final Fantasy XV for PC and PUBG improvements at Gamescom
NVIDIA has teamed up with Square Enix to bring a stunning version of the much awaited Final Fantasy XV to PC Gamers. Previously it was exclusive to the Playstation 4. The game comes to PC with a bunch of NVIDIA tricks up its sleeve. Square Enix has used their Luminous Engine along with NVIDIA’s GameWorks…
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Xiaomi’s next Mi Home Store heading to Chennai
A few months back Xiaomi opened their first ever Mi Home store in Bangalore, India and they were committed to opening 100 more stores in the next two years. A few months later, they’ve already expanded to Delhi and the next store seems to be in Chennai. We spotted the following ‘Coming Soon’ Mi Home Store at…
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Jio User Data Has Been Leaked, Affects More than 100 Million Indians
The user data of more than 100 million Jio sim users has been breached and readily available for anyone to access. This could very well be the biggest breach when it comes to the telecom industry. A website by the name “magicapk” has popped out of no where and was brought to my attention by…
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LeEco Republic Day Sale: Heavy discount on TVs and Accessories
LeEco is having sale on LeMall for the first time and here’s everything you need to know(Read the full article for an exclusive discount). The sale started on 20th Jan and will go on till 25th Jan, 4pm only on LeEco’s own site LeMall. There’s a cashback of Rs. 4,000 on Super3 X55 4K TV…
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14 Year Old Drone “Genius” From Gujarat Is A Fake, Did Not Invent Anything
I have been a drone enthusiast since long, the news of a 14 year old “genius” signing an MoU with the Gujarat government caught my attention but what set me off is the claim that the drone was “invented” by him. I decided to dig into the the claims made by him as well as…
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Reddit India User’s Satire Post Goes Viral As Propaganda
WhatsApp user base is increasing at an unprecedented rate and it is almost impossible to find someone owning a Smartphone without WhatsApp installed on it. It is undoubtedly a good sign for the average Indian to embrace technology but on the contrary propaganda is reaching new heights in digital India. Its been over a year…
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Narendra Modi App Hack & Its Rushed Cover Up
The “Narendra Modi” app had a vulnerability that compromised the private info of 7 million users who had registered on it. Before we proceed with this article we would like to explain the meaning of “Hack” to our media who for reasons best known to them have been calling this incident as a “Non hack” Hack…