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Elon Musk
Musk Shares Update On Tesla Launch In India, Says Facing Challenges

Tesla wants to begin selling imported cars in India this year but says taxes in the country are among the highest in the world.

PUBG Battlegrounds
PUBG: Battlegrounds Is Now Free To Play On PC, Consoles

With the game's transition to F2P, it introduces Battlegrounds Plus, an optional premium account upgrade that allows players to access a variety of new and exclusive in-game features.

Microsoft
Microsoft Lets Teams Users Chat Across Personal, Business Accounts

The feature is rolling out for Teams on the web, desktop and mobile.

Google Working On Tap-To-Transfer Feature For Media In Android 13
Google Working On Tap-To-Transfer Feature For Media In Android 13

The idea here is to provide users on tablets, foldables and Chrome OS laptops -- anything with a screen above 600 dp -- with an improved user interface.

Big Data, AI/ML To Be Most In-Demand Skills In India In 2022
Big Data, AI/ML To Be Most In-Demand Skills In India In 2022

To enhance customer engagement, more and more organisations are adopting chat bots which are forecast to empower approximately 45 per cent of organisations' customer support services by 2022.

Defence Ministry Surveys Its Land, Takes Measures For Its Protection
Defence Ministry Surveys Its Land, Takes Measures For Its Protection

The magnitude and location of land holdings and association of various stakeholders make the management of defence land not an easy task to maintain, so the Ministry had decided to establish a Centre of Excellence for this purpose only.

CCI Probing Google's 'Dominance' In News Aggregation Space
CCI Probing Google's 'Dominance' In News Aggregation Space

The plea for interim relief was filed by the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) in the CCI last October.

Twitter
Soon Retweet With TikTok-Like Reaction Videos On Twitter

The feature is similar to TikTok's video replies, which Instagram recently copied for its Reels feature.

Amazon Alexa To Fly With NASA's 1st Artemis Moon Mission
Amazon Alexa To Fly With NASA's 1st Artemis Moon Mission

The custom-built hardware and software by Lockheed Martin and Amazon will test Alexa, Amazon's voice-based virtual assistant, to respond to the transmitted audio.

TCL's first laptop
TCL Announces Its First Laptop At CES 2022

In terms of portability, the laptop measures 14 mm (0.55") thick and weighs 1.3 kg (2.87 lbs). TCL says it is the thinnest in its price range.

Fake Telegram Messenger Apps Hacking Devices With Lethal Malware
Fake Telegram Messenger Apps Hacking Devices With Lethal Malware

During the investigation, they found that the threat actor was able to leave most parts of the attack under the radar by separating the attack into several small files, most of which had very low detection rates by (antivirus) engines, "with the final stage leading to Purple Fox rootkit infection".

Elon Musk
Elon Musk's Net Worth Jumps $30 Billion In A Day

Meanwhile, Tesla delivered a record 936,172 vehicles in 2021, an 87 per cent increase over the 499,550 vehicle deliveries Tesla made in 2020.

Google Adds Five Stadia Pro Games For January
Google Adds Five Stadia Pro Games For January

Google has been gradually adding features to Stadia over the past two years since its launch, including a new 30-minute game trial for "Hello Engineer" recently.

WhatsApp Bans 1.75 Million Accounts In India In Nov 2021
WhatsApp Bans 1.75 Million Accounts In India In Nov 2021

"Over the years, we have consistently invested in Artificial Intelligence and other state of the art technology, data scientists and experts, and in processes, in order to keep our users safe on our platform," the company said.

Global Tech Platforms
Key Global Tech Platforms That Shut Shop In 2021

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, also announced plans to shut down its Internet balloon firm Loon. The former Google X project was spun out as an independent company of Alphabet in 2018 alongside Wing, Alphabet's drone business.

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