Shubham Prajapati

Isro puts Chandrayaan-2 setback behind ends 2019 on positive note

The GSAT-20 satellite is scheduled for mid-2020. It is a next-generation high-throughput satellite that would address the country’s connectivity issues

The Indian Space Research Organisation has gotten over the setback it suffered on account of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, and has ended the year with six launch vehicle missions and seven satellite missions. The number is lower than that achieved in 2018, when Isro had completed 16 missions and was preparing for some major milestones, including the launch of Chandrayaan-2, preparing for India’s first human space programme ‘Gaganyaan’ and its mission to the Sun: Aditya-1.

At the beginning of the year 2019, Isro said it was planning as many as 32 missions, including 14 launch vehicles, 17 satellite and one Technology Demonstration missions. The complex Chandrayaan-2 and the development flights of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle or SSLVs, were an intrinsic part of this plan. SSLVs are the new member in the Launch Vehicle family.

After completing 16 missions in 2018, Isro started the year 2019 not with a launch, but with the signing of an MoU with industries to…read more

Best midrange smartphones of 2019

lists top five mid-range smartphones price under Rs 25,000 and launched in 2019

Technology news: The midrange phone segment became the battleground for most smartphone manufacturers in 2019. As a result, it became one of the most populated smartphone categories of the year, with several launches. It was this category that also became the playground for phone makers to roll out their technology innovations with regard to imaging – one of the features that grew to become a key defining parameter in most smartphones of 2019. From premium designs to versatile imaging, midrange smartphones launched in 2019 were full of surprises and technology innovations.

Lists top five best sub-Rs 25,000 smartphones that were launched in 2019:

Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro

Redmi Note 8 Pro This was one of the most comprehensive smartphone ones in the midrange segment could get this year. From 64-megapixel quad rear cameras to a gaming-centric processor and fast-charge support, the phone has…read more

OnePlus announces $7000 bug bounty programme, partners with HackerOne

The company has also partnered with HackerOne, a hacker-powered security platform as part of its efforts to better protect users from cyber threats

Premium smartphone maker OnePlus on Thursday announced that it will offer a bug bounty offering upto USD 7,000 (about Rs 4.9 lakh) to security experts who discover and report potential threats to OnePlus’ systems.

The company has also partnered with HackerOne, a hacker-powered security platform as part of its efforts to better protect users from cyber threats.

OnePlus Global Security Response Centre will engage academics and security professionals to responsibly discover, disclose and re-mediate issues that could affect the security of OnePlus’ systems and will help OnePlus proactively counter potential external threats to user security, OnePlus said in a statement.

Security researchers around the world can proactively search for…read more

India, US discuss 5G technology, risks posed by Chinese-made telecom giants

President Donald Trump has asked American firms to stop doing business with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, alleging that it was a tool of Chinese intelligence

Technology news: The US has discussed with India the “risks” posed by Chinese-made communication networks, including 5G, pose to the treasured freedoms, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said, amidst the Trump administration stepped up its pressure against Chinese telecom giants.

President Donald Trump has asked American firms to stop doing business with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, alleging that it was a tool of Chinese intelligence.

Pompeo told reporters at a joint press conference with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar and Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the US Defence Secretary Mark Esper that the 5G issue was discussed during the second edition of the 2+2 ministerial dialogue between India and the US here…read more

Beijing reprimands Xiaomi, Tencent over users’ privacy infringement

China, which exercises close surveillance of online activity, has recently tightened its scrutiny of companies that gather data from consumers

Chinese tech goliaths Tencent and Xiaomi have been denounced by Beijing for planning applications that encroach on clients’ protection, even as the Communist system hoards its own assortment of individual information.

China, which exercises close surveillance of online activity, has recently tightened its scrutiny of companies that gather data from consumers.

Xiaomi Finance and Tencent’s texting administration QQ were among many hazardous applications named and disgraced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Thursday.

QQ powers clients to permit the application to follow their use…read more

Indigenous missile system Pinaka successfully flight-tested for second day

The navigation system of the missile is also aided by the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS).

India’s indigenously created Pinaka rocket framework, which is fit for striking up to scope of 75 kilometers, was effectively flight-tried for the second back to back day on Friday, in a lift to its big guns control, protection sources said.

Created by Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), the Pinaka MK-II rocket is adjusted as a rocket by incorporating the route, control and direction framework to improve the end precision and upgrade the range, they said.

The rocket framework, equipped for striking into hostile area up to a scope of 75 kilometers with high exactness, was terminated from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur close…read more

Nearly 6000 Saudi accounts removed from Twitter for violating policies

The 5,929 accounts removed are part of a larger group of 88,000 accounts engaged in “spammy behaviour” across a wide range of topics

Twitter says it has removed nearly 6,000 accounts it has deemed tied to a state-backed information operation in Saudi Arabia.

Twitter says the accounts violated its “platform manipulation policies” and targeted discussions related to Saudi Arabia and advancing its geopolitical interests.

The 5,929 accounts removed are part of a larger group of 88,000 accounts engaged in “spammy behaviour” across a wide range of topics.

But Twitter isn’t disclosing all of them because some might be compromised accounts.

Twitter began archiving Tweets and media it deems to be associated…read more

Facebook to combat fake news with this new fact-checking program: Know how

The company will work with data services provider Appen to source community reviewers

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would ask network commentators to reality check content in an experimental run program in the United States, as the online life stage hopes to identify falsehood quicker.

The organization will work with information administrations supplier Appen to source network analysts.

The web based life monster said information organization YouGov led a free investigation of network analysts and Facebook clients, who will be enlisted as temporary workers to survey content hailed as conceivably bogus through AI, before it is sent to Facebook’s outsider reality checking accomplices…read more

OnePlus to launch its Concept One phone at CES 2020, 8 Pro to follow soon

The OnePlus Concept One special event will be held from January 7 to 10 next year, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at The Wynn, Las Vegas

Chinese handset creator OnePlus on Tuesday reported that it will present its first-historically speaking idea telephone, the ‘OnePlus Concept One’ at CES 2020.

The OnePlus Concept One unique occasion will be held from January 7 to 10 one year from now, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at The Wynn, Las Vegas.

Pete Lau, Founder and CEO, OnePlus, as of late uncovered that the organization will have its own unique occasion at CES one month from now.

Furthermore, the cell phone producer is allegedly wanting to dispatch another cell phone OnePlus…read more

Dave Clark: ‘The Sniper’ who transformed Amazon’s delivery system

The Sniper demonstrated his determination yet again on Sunday, when-at the height of the holiday shopping rush-he essentially fired FedEx Corp.

Soon after being named Amazon.com Inc’s. worldwide coordinations boss in 2013, Dave Clark held a phone call with his new reports. During the meet-and-welcome, as indicated by an individual on the call, Clark portrayed his initial vocation propensity for prowling in the shadows of Amazon distribution centers and investigating bums he could fire, which earned him the moniker The Sniper. Clark talks in a monotone and is difficult to peruse, yet the message was clear enough: The new supervisor needed his subordinates to realize that he will give little stand access the method for guaranteeing that clients get their requests on schedule.

The Sniper exhibited his assurance once more on Sunday, when—at the stature of the Christmas shopping surge—he basically terminated FedEx Corp. Clark’s group had seen that FedEx’s conveyance execution was slipping and restricted outsider shippers from utilizing the coordinations mammoth’s ground organize for the remainder of the period.

Clark has not overlooked the shambolic Christmas period of 2013. Only months after he had assumed control more than, a blend of foul climate and strategic bottlenecks crashed occasion conveyances and constrained Amazon to…read more