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ScienceFirstpostNASA shares incredible pictures of Mars captured by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to celebrate its 15th anniversary
The orbiter has managed to capture the multiple spacecrafts - Spirit, Opportunity as well as the Curiosity rover - trekking and exploring Mars.
ScienceFirstpostClimate change wiped out Siberia's woolly brown rhinos 14,000 years ago, study of 14 fossils reveals
Though humans hunted the rhinos, their population remained steady for 12,000 years before an abrupt period of warming.
TechnologyNews18Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i With 180-Degree Hinge, 10th-Gen Intel Processors Launches in India
Lenovo's latest addition to the Yoga family comes with the latest 10th-gen processor options from Intel, an Nvidia GeForce MX350 GPU all packed in a slim design form factor.
ScienceNews18New Low-cost Test Can Diagnose Covid-19 in Just 20 Minutes, Say Scientists
The rapid molecular test is highly accurate and easy to use, making it a prime candidate for use in settings with limited testing capabilities, according to the researchers.
BusinessThe GuardianApple and Google remove Fortnite video game from app stores
Apple and Google remove Fortnite video game from app storesMove over payment guideline violations prompts maker Epic Games to take legal action
BusinessBusiness Insider10 things in tech you need to know today
Apple walks into Fortnite trap. Apple prepares to bundle. Epic Games sues Google.
TechnologyNews18iOS 13.6.1, iPadOS 13.6.1 Updates Rolled Out With Fix For 'Green Tint' Screen Issue
iOS 13.6.1 and iPadOS 13.6.1 updates offer an incremental update over the previous version, also fixing an Exposure Notification issue.
ScienceFirstpostPuzzling dimming of Betelgeuse's brightness could be due to supernova, study suggests
The mystery has enthralled skywatchers since the star began to lose brightness, and fast, in October 2019.
TechnologyNews18The Next Google Wear OS Update Promises Big Performance Improvements For Smartwatches
The Wear OS watches are also adding a new hand washing timer that will detect when you are washing your hands and put a helpful countdown timer on your wrist to let you know if you have washed your hands for 30 seconds or not.
TechnologyNews18Airtel Xstream Fiber Plus Mesh Plan Is A Whopping Rs 25000 Per Year And Still No Unlimited Data
The Airtel Xstream Fiber Plus Mesh Plan is an evolution of Airtel Xstream Premium plan, which is priced at Rs 1,499 per month with 500GB data at 300Mbps speeds. As the Xstream Fiber Plus Mesh Plan, it costs Rs 2,083 per month, or Rs 25,000 per year.
TechnologyFirstpostEpic Games sues Apple, Google for dropping Fortnite from app stores over payment policy violations
Google said Fortnite will remain available on Android, just not through its app store.
TechnologyNews18Realme Narzo 10A to go on Sale Today via Flipkart & Realme.com: Price, Offers and More
The company’s budget offering was launched alongside the Narzo 10 and features triple-cameras at the back and a big 5,000mAh battery.
BusinessNews18You Could Have Apple Subscription Bundles Very Soon, And They May Be Called Apple One
Services is big business for Apple, and clocks as much as $50 billion a Year for the company, alongside the hardware sales that include the iPhone, iPad, Mac devices, Apple Watch and the AirPods.
NewsBusiness InsiderPoll finds that 80% of Canadians want the US-Canada border to stay closed for the rest of the year, as the coronavirus pandemic rages on in the US
"Montana is directly south of us, is having a second spike of cases right now, and I don't feel sorry for anybody that gets stopped at the border."
HealthBusiness Insider'Patients are suffering across the board': A Texas ER doctor said hospitals are getting overwhelmed with patients of varying causes as the state gets battered by coronavirus outbreaks
"It's really important to really present the whole picture of how our healthcare system is doing, and it's not doing well," Dr. Natasha Kathuria said.
TechnologyNews18Wasn’t Everyone Booing Apple Till Fortnite Also Got Kicked Off The Google Play Store?
The developers implemented their own in-app payment system which bypassed the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store for in-app purchases and subscriptions, and avoid paying the 30 percent cut for every transaction.
BusinessThe TelegraphHow Fortnite ended up at war with Apple over the 'app tax'
Few of the 350 million people who play Fortnite had been born 36 years ago, but the company behind the wildly popular online video game still chose to roll back the years in its attack against Apple. During the 1984 Super Bowl, Apple debuted a now-iconic advert in which a blonde heroine wielding a sledgehammer breaks through a sea of grey proles, smashing a giant screen displaying a Big Brother figure. Back then, Apple was the underdog against the dominant “Big Blue”, IBM. In “Nineteen Eighty Fortnite”, the animated parody released by Epic Games on Thursday, Big Brother has been replaced by a rotting apple, wearing sunglasses unmistakeable similar to those sported by Apple’s chief Tim Cook. The heroine was now a character from the video game, her sledgehammer a unicorn-headed pickaxe. Fortnite - a brightly-coloured and fast-paced shooter in which 100 players are whittled down to one over 20 minutes – does not reward subtlety, and Epic’s ad contained little of it. It portrayed Apple, once the underdog, as the all-powerful totalitarian. On Thursday, Epic launched a stunning lawsuit against Apple, accusing the iPhone maker on nine counts of illegally trouncing competitors to its App Store and the “tax” the company requires developers to pay after Fortnite was removed from the store. “Apple has become what it once railed against,” Epic’s lawsuit said. “The behemoth seeking to control markets, block competition, and stifle innovation.”
ScienceFirstpostNASA's TESS completes its two year primary mission; begins extended journey
TESS had spotted 66 confirmed exoplanets during the primary mission and there are over 2100 celestial bodies.
BusinessNews18Fortnite maker sues Apple, Google after removal of game from app stores
Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday removed popular video game "Fortnite" from their app stores for violating the companies' inapp payment guidelines, prompting developer Epic Games to file federal antitrust lawsuits challenging the two companies' rules.
TechnologyFirstpostRealme Narzo 10A to go on sale today at 12 pm: Pricing, sale offers, specifications
Realme Narzo 10A is powered by MediaTek Helio G70 SoC and offers up to 4 GB RAM and up to 64 GB storage.
BusinessSky NewsFortnite sues Apple and Google after it is dropped from app stores
The developer of Fortnite has launched a lawsuit against Apple and Google after the tech firms dropped the game from their app stores.
TechnologyIndiewire‘Fortnite’ Removed from Apple and Google App Stores as Developer Sues Both Companies
The popular video game was removed from the stores after its developer introduced a direct-payment option to avoid app store fees.
ScienceNews18Climate Change, Not Humans, Led to the Extinction of the Woolly Rhino
Today, the closest living relative of the woolly rhino is the Sumatran rhino.
BusinessDeadlineApple & Google Bans ‘Fortnite’ Publisher Epic Games From App Stores; Epic Sues Both, Posts Taunting ‘1984’ Ad Parody – Update
UPDATED, 6:45 PM: Google today also barred Epic Games from its app store, which caters to Android users. As of late Thursday, neither was allowing the publisher's uber-popular Fortnite game to be downloaded and installs on devices through their outlets. Epic then also sued Google. Read more about the case below. PREVIOUSLY, 1:50 PM: Apple banned Epic […]
BusinessBusiness InsiderFortnite maker Epic Games just set an antitrust trap for Apple, and Tim Cook walked right into it
Epic Games could prove to be Apple's most formidable opponent yet. By luring Apple into its trap, it showed just how cunning it could be.
