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rated at 16-megapixel and 2-megapixel with autofocus, and two at the front standing at 24-megapixel and 2-megapixel. The Nova 3i comes equipped with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage which can be further expanded up to 256GB. The Nova 3i is backed by a 3,340mAh battery and runs the company’s EMUI 8.2 based on Android 8.1 Oreo. Priced at Rs 20,990, it is accompanied by GPU Turbo technology, Smart AI shopping, and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. UPI 2.0 officially launched, introduces new features
National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI)’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) has received a new update, known as UPI 2.0 which has resulted in the inclusion of new features on the platform. UPI 2.0 includes the new One time mandate with block functionality which will allow users to block a particular amount of money in the account, reserved for future transaction. Once the user permits, the blocked money will get debited from the account. Additionally, the UPI Mandate is digitally signed by the user prior to its blocking in the holding bank with customer’s PSP bank (app providing bank). The updated platform now has the ability to link overdraft accounts, alongside the linkage of savings and currents accounts. The OD account status can further be viewed in the UPI apps. UPI 2.0 has the digital invoice feature to keep an eye on the transactions made. Facebook Messenger Kids now allows children under 13 to add friends Facebook has added a new feature to its under-13 chat application Messenger Kids, which makes it easier for the children to add their friends on the platform.
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business. The company has partnered with Alibaba for Cloud Computing Infrastructure. It will soon offer enterprise-messaging solution in partnership with DingTalk. “Parents have to turn on a setting that creates a four-word passphrase that is used to generate these contact requests,” Tech Crunch reported recently. The connection requests will be sent directly to the parents, who have to still approve every contact before they can interact with their kids via the platform. Both parents will receive a contact request from their child and both have to approve the request before the kids can begin chatting. The new feature will allow kids between the ages of six and 13 to exchange photographs, videos and text messages with their friends and with adults once they have been approved by their parents. Paytm launches AI cloud for India
One97 Communications, the parent entity of Paytm has announced the launch of its AI Cloud computing platform “Paytm AI Cloud for India” for developers, startups and enterprises. The platform is mainly aimed at offering business-centric apps for organizations that need high-quality solutions for cloud computing, automate their workflow, easy payments, messaging and customer engagement without the hassle of managing hardware and software. In a statement, the largest digital payments company said that Paytm AI Cloud processes and stores all their consumer data locally in servers located only in India while conforming to the highest security and privacy standards. The company has
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Apple gets patent for Face ID on Mac After incorporating the facial recognition feature in iPhone X, Apple could be replacing its Touch ID in Mac by Face ID with gesture controls in the future as the tech giant has got a fresh patent to the same effect. The patent granted to Apple recently suggests that the “computer may apply a face detection algorithm at step 92 in order to detect the subject’s face of depth map”, 9to5Mac reported. This patent suggests how body language more generally -- head, torso and arm -- could be used to signal intent to the Mac. This is, however, not the first patent application Apple made for facial recognition on the Mac. One predating the launch of iPhone X described a way of allowing Macs to automatically log users in, even if the devices were in sleep mode when users approached them, the report said, adding that the scope of the new patent is a little broader. Vokal now available on Android and iOS Vokal, India’s largest knowledge sharing platform in Indian languages, has launched their product on iOS and Android. Vokal, a peer-topeer knowledgesharing platform, enables knowledge sharing using voice and video. It offers users to ask questions in regional languages and get them answered by experts. Users can ask the question in either voice or text.
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