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New Malware has affected more than 14% of Indians
Multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider, Kaspersky Lab on Sunday, 12th January 2020 has released a notification according to which more than 14 percent Indians have been affected by a new Trojan application based malware dubbed as ‘Shopper’ which has been ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
‘Mani App’ for Visually Challenged launched by RBI
India’s central bank, Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has launched a mobile app named ‘MANI’ on Wednesday, 1st January 2019 that will help in identifying the denomination of currency notes for the visually challenged persons. MANI stands for Mobile Aided Note ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
NPIC to export UPI, sets up subsidiary: RBI Governor
The Unified Payment Interface was introduced in India in 2016. Based on its performance, Google has recommended similar service called FedNow to the US Federal Reserve Board. With its growing popularity, the RBI on December 16, 2019 announced that NPCI ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019
Google Earth covers 98 percent of the Entire Population
Google Earth developed by the global search engine, Google has revealed that it now covers more than 98 percent of the world population, and has 10 million miles of street view imagery captured. 10 million miles is equal to a ..
Sundar Pichai promoted as Alphabet CEO after Larry Page, Sergey Brin step down
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer(CEO) of Google LLC was named and promoted as the new CEO of Alphabet Inc on Tuesday, 3rd December 2019. Google is the largest subsidiary of California based Alphabet Inc. The alphabet was founded on 2nd ..
Google services to be integrated into Outlook.com by Microsoft
Outlook.com is a web-based suite, which offers webmail, contacts, tasks and calendaring services was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in 1996 by the name Hotmail, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1997. Microsoft has now started testing its ..
NHA and Google tie up for Ayushman Bharat Implementation
The National Health Authority (NHA) has joined hands with international giant Google to collaborate as well as strengthen the implementation of government’s flagship health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY). Key Highlights of Collaboration The NHA and ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019
West Bengal’s Midnapore becomes 5000th Wi-Fi enabled railway station
The Midnapore railway station has become the 5,000th railway station to be Wi – Fi enabled. According to RailTel, Rail Wire Wi – Fi is the biggest public Wi Fi in the world. About Rail Wire Wi – Fi Rail ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2019
September 27: Google celebrates its 21st birthday
Google celebrated its 21st birthday on September 27, 2019, with a doodle of a vintage computer and a Google homepage on it. When was Google founded? Google was founded by PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2019
Quick Facts: Google win in European Union’s top court on the “right to be forgotten” globally
The European Union’s top court on 24th September, 2019, ruled that Google does not have to apply “Right to be forgotten law” globally. This means that the US based Tech giant has to remove data links to personal information only ..