Author: News Desk
Modsy has abruptly ceased offering design services, laid off its designers and left its customers in disarray.Several customers have been left with unfinished renovations and project orders in process.
Healthtech platform Eka Care raises $15 million in Series A, led by Hummingbird Ventures, with participation from 3one4 Capital, Mirae Assets, Verlinvest, Aditya Birla Ventures, Binny Bansal, Rohit MA, and other investors. It plans to use the capital for product development, hiring, educating consumers on the benefits of maintaining a health profile, and helping doctors move to digital practice.
UIDAI announces a ‘Bug Bounty’ programme. It is to find out any vulnerabilities in Aadhaar’s data security system. UIDAI looks for 20 top white hat hackers for the purpose. They should expose vulnerabilities in Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR). It is a common initiative among multinational companies. The candidates will sign non-disclosure agreements with UIDAI. This will avoid breach of sensitive information acquired during the process. Aadhaar is the world’s largest digital identity programme. It hosts personal and biometric data of more than 1.32 Bn Indians.
Google and Chevron, part of a $250 million funding raise for TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion startup with an unconventional strategy that has now raised a total of $1.2 billion.Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, also participated in the round.
Open Network Digital Commerce (ONDC) expands its pilot to 15 more locations. In Kerala, it will be available in Kannur, Thrissur, and Mannar. Other places are Noida, Faridabad, Lucknow, Bijnor, and Chennai among others. The network began its pilot on April 29 Started in Delhi, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Bhopal, and Shillong. So far, ONDC has onboarded 100 merchants. One of the recent entrants is Snapdeal. Snapdeal will debut next month.
Ola Electric announced the investment of $500 million. It will be for setting up its state-of-the-art Battery Innovation Centre (BIC) in Bengaluru. The BIC would be one of the world’s largest and most advanced cell R&D facilities. It will have more than 165 “unique and cutting-edge” lab equipment. That will cover all aspects of cell-related research and development. The centre would be capable of developing complete packages of battery pack design, fabrication and testing under one roof.
The Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR) in Varanasi has developed a technique through which potato and tomato can be grown on a single plant. They named it as ‘pomato’ .Pomato was developed last year and IIVR scientists have been trying to further improve the quality and quantity of the same. They have now succeeded in growing brinjal on the pomato plant and this is aptly called ‘Brimato’ .Chillies are also being grown on the Brimato plant.
WhatsApp is working on a new feature that may allow users to post voice notes on their status updates. This feature is under development & is not ready to be released to beta users. A voice note shared as a status update may be called “voice status” .The feature will only be shared with the people you choose within your status privacy settings. The voice note will be end-to-end encrypted as other images and videos shared to your status.
US lawmakers scrutinise VPN servers. They approached the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for it Urged FTC to stop abusive and deceptive data practices. Lawmakers say VPN providers exploit and mislead unwilling consumers. VPN allows users more safety while connecting to the internet. However, the industry has deceptive ads It is also rife with abusive data practices. India had earlier issued new directions to tackle this issue. NordVPN, SurfShank, and Express VPN had removed their servers from India.
Kerala government’s second instalment of the poverty alleviation programme will kick off this month. Microplans for each of the 64,006 families is being worked out. These families have been identified as extremely poor in a statewide survey. “On the human development front, Kerala takes another lead. The government is formulating a microplan for 64006 families to end the extreme poverty in the state. A comprehensive survey has been conducted under the leadership of local self-government institutions. #keralaleads,” tweeted M.V. Govindan Master, Minister for Local Self Governments and Excise, Kerala. As part of the initiative, local bodies have been advised to coordinate…