Cab hailing platform Ola plans to start its operations in London soon, and has already started hiring licensed drivers. This comes a day after Uber lost its commercial license to operate in the region following repeated safety failures. The Bengaluru-based company, which entered the UK with operations starting in Cardiff in last year, has expanded across Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, and other British cities.

Cab hailing platform Ola plans to start its operations in London soon, and has already started hiring licensed drivers. This comes a day after Uber lost its commercial license to operate in the region following repeated safety failures. The Bengaluru-based company, which entered the UK with operations starting in Cardiff in last year, has expanded across Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, and other British cities.

Vivo sub-brand iQoo has begun teasing the launch of a new device in India, which is expected to be the iQoo 5. The device is all set to launch in China on August 17 and the company may be looking to launch the smartphone in the Indian market as well. The iQoo 5 is confirmed to pack a 120Hz display and may support 120W fast charging, that can fully charge a 4,000 mAh battery in just 15 minutes. Another promotional listing has revealed that the iQoo 5 will be powered by the Snapdragon 865 chipset, and will have up to 12GB of RAM.

Realme C12 has made its debut in Indonesia ahead of its India launch on August 18. The smartphone features a 6.5-inch IPS LCD HD+ display with a waterdrop notch and MediaTek Helio G35 chipset, paired with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage. There&rsquo;s a 13MP triple rear camera setup, a 5MP selfie camera and a gigantic 6,000 mAh battery that supports reverse charging via a micro USB cable. The Realme C12 costs IDR 1,899,000 (&not;₹10,000) and will go on sale in Indonesia from August 16.

Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi has unveiled its first gaming-focussed laptop, dubbed the Redmi G. It features a 16.1-inch full-HD+ display with a maximum of 144Hz refresh rate and up to 10th-generation Intel Core i7-10750H processor. The gaming laptop comes with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti GPU, 16GB of DDR4 RAM and 512GB SSD. Xiaomi says the 55-watt hour battery is only good for 5.5 hours of 1080p local video playback or up to six hours of web browsing. The Redmi G gaming laptop will go on sale in China from August 18 at a starting price of &yen;5,299 (&not;₹57,100), but there&rsquo;s no word on Indian availability.

Instagram has awarded a security researcher a $6,000 bug bounty payout after he found photos and private direct messages on the photo-sharing app&rsquo;s servers long after he had deleted them, tech news website TechCruch reported. Instagram said it takes about 90 days for deleted data to be fully removed from its networks, systems and caches. But the researcher discovered that the servers still held his deleted data from more than a year ago, and could be downloaded using the company&rsquo;s data download tool. The Facebook-owned company said this was due to a bug in its system and that it&rsquo;s now been fixed.

China&rsquo;s Huawei and ZTE will be kept out of India&rsquo;s plans to roll out its 5G networks over national security concerns, according to a Bloomberg report. This follows similar concerns raised by the US, UK and Australia, which have raised red flags about the companies&rsquo; links with the Chinese government. On the other hand, the telecom ministry will restart pending discussions on&nbsp; approvals for 5G trials by Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea that were delayed by the nationwide lockdown.

The US National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have jointly exposed a sophisticated Russian hacking tool that has allegedly been used in cyber-espionage operations. The previously undisclosed malware, called &ldquo;Drovorub&rdquo;, was created by the Russian hacking group known as &ldquo;Fancy Bear&rdquo;, to break into Linux-based systems. The hacker group is infamous for alleged cyber attacks in the lead-up to the US presidential election in 2016. The NSA warned that the malware can take control of systems and move data on and off of them, and is designed specifically to evade detection.

The Realme Narzo 10A has gone on sale as part of the Chinese smartphone makers new range of budget devices launched in the country. It features a 6.5-inch HD+ Mini-Drop display and is powered by a MediaTek Helio G70 processor, paired with 3GB of RAM and a 32GB of onboard storage that is expandable. The smartphone comes with a 12-megapixel triple rear camera, a 5-megapixel selfie camera and a 5,000 mAh battery that supports reverse charging. The Narzo 10A costs ₹8,499 and is available to purchase via Flipkart and the Realme India website.

The developer of Fortnite has filed a lawsuit against Apple and Google after the tech firms dropped the wildly popular battle royale game from their app stores. It all began when Epic Games announced that it will offer a permanent 20 per cent discount on Fortnite's in-game currency if players purchase directly from Epic. The tech giants removed the game from their iOS and Google Play app stores, saying that this violated their app store guidelines, which would usually give them up to 30 per cent cut from in-app purchases. Epic responded by launching an antitrust lawsuit and said that &ldquo;Apple has become what it once railed against: the behemoth seeking to control markets, block competition, and stifle innovation.&rdquo; It then added insult to the injury by making a short parody of Apple's iconic "1984" ad.

A teardown by iFixit has revealed that Samsung's recently launched Galaxy Buds Live are "the most repairable earbuds". Many popular true wireless earbuds, like Apple's AirPods and AirPods Pro, have drawn criticism for not being repairable, essentially making them disposable devices. iFixit has given the Galaxy Buds Live a repairability score of 8 out of 10. It's worth noting that the Galaxy Buds Live are yet to be launched in India, being announced globally on August 5.

Game developer Bethesda has made it's Quake II title free to download for a 72-hour period, starting from 12PM Eastern Time in the US. To download the game, users will need to log in to the Bethesda Launcher. The game is being offered for free alongside the original Quake and Quake III as part of a charity event to donate funds to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Trevor Project, Direct Relief and UNICEF.

Call of Duty: Mobile's highly anticipated Season 9 has a confirmed launch date--August 16th. The new season brings with it a massive update, including the Gunsmith weapon customisation feature from the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series. The Shipment map is also being brought over, along with a World War 2 theme titled 'Conquest'. Battle Royale is also being updated, with four new locations and custom loadout airdrops, like in Call of Duty: Warzone.

Lenovo has introduced a new addition to its popular Yoga series in India, the Yoga Slim 7i. The premium laptop is powered by the latest 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor and packs in timesaving, AI-enabled attention-sensing feature to help users complete simple tasks with minimal effort. The ultra-slim laptop comes in an all aluminum unibody design with 180 degree hinges and offers full-HD+ IPS display with Dolby Vision support. It is also equipped with Intel Iris Plus graphics, and upto NVIDIA GeForce MX350 2GB GDDR5 graphics for additional graphics acceleration. The 7i gets up to 16GB LPDDR4X RAM and 512GB SSD as well as a high-capacity 4-cell 60Wh battery with Rapid Charge Pro. The Yoga Slim 7i starts at ₹79,990. It will be available across retail stores from August 14 and on online stores from August 20.

Smartphone maker Infinix has launched a new entry-level offering, the Infinix Smart 5. It features a 6.6-inch HD+ IPS LCD display and an unspecified 1.8GHz octa-core processor, coupled with 3GB RAM and 128GB of storage. There&rsquo;s a 13MP primary camera paired with two QVGA sensors and an 8MP selfie camera housed in a waterdrop notch. The 5,000 mAh battery supports 10W charging over micro USB. The Infinix Smart 5 will make its way in the country soon though exact dates or pricing haven&rsquo;t been revealed yet.

Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has launched a new smartphone, the Vivo S1 Prime. It features a 6.38-inch Full-HD+ AMOLED display and a Snapdragon 665 processor, paired with 8GB RAM and 128GB of storage. There&rsquo;s a 48MP quad rear camera setup and a 16MP selfie snapper in a U-shaped punch-hole cutout. Keeping the lights on is a 4,500mAh battery that comes with 18W fast charging support. The Vivo S1 Prime will go on sale in Myanmar from August 15 for MYR 389,800 (&not;₹21,700). Indian availability hasn&rsquo;t been announced yet.

Online tipster Jon Prosser has said that Apple's launch event for the iPhone 12 series will take place in October this year, instead of the yearly September schedule. However, Prosser has also indicated that the firm will launch the new iPad and Apple Watch in September, while delaying the new iPhone reveal. Recent reports have indicated that due to production delays amid the Covid-19 pandemic, not all iPhone models will go on sale together this year.

Apple's iOS 13.6.1 update has been rolled out to users, bringing with it fixes for a green screen tinting issue faced mostly by some iPhone 11 users. The update also addresses issues with storage space and the new Exposure Notification framework for Covid-19 contact tracing. Apple has said in its changelog notes that the tinting issue was being caused by a "thermal management issue", which the new update has fixed.

China's ByteDance is in early talks with Reliance Industries for investment in&nbsp;TikTok's&nbsp;business in India, TechCrunch reported on Thursday, citing sources.
The Indian government in June banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok and WeChat, for threatening its sovereignty and integrity after border tensions with China.
Microsoft Corp has been in talks to acquire the US operations of the video-sharing app.
Social media platform Twitter Inc has also expressed interest in having a deal with TikTok, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters late last week.

Facebook is rolling out a new notification screen globally to &ldquo;give people more context about Covid-19 related links when they are about to share them.&rdquo; The notification will tell users when the article or link was first shared along with its source. Facebook said that it will also direct people to its Covid-19 Information Center for users to access credible information from global health authorities. The new notification screen is part of the social media giant&rsquo;s larger efforts to combat rampant misinformation around the novel coronavirus.

Xiaomi&rsquo;s latest budget offering, the Redmi Note 9, has gone on sale in India via Amazon at a starting price of ₹11,999 for the 3GB+64GB variant. It features a 6.53-inch FHD+ display, a quad rear camera setup that includes a 48MP primary sensor and a 13MP front-facing camera. It gets powered by the MediaTek Helio G85 chipset, paired with up to 4GB RAM and 128GB of onboard storage. There&rsquo;s also a 5,020 mAh battery that supports 22.5W fast charging and 9W reverse charging.

Motorola&rsquo;s budget smartphone, the Moto G8 Power Lite, has gone on sale in India exclusively via Flipkart at a price of ₹8,999. It features a 6.5-inch Max Vision HD+ 20:9 display and runs on the MediaTek Helio P35 chipset, coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage. The Android 9 Pie powered smartphone packs a 16-megapixel triple rear camera setup, an 8-megapixel selfie shooter and a 5,000 mAh battery with 10W rapid charging.

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