Chip Sales Rose 6.5% Globally In 2020 After Year-end Rush (Tech)

Global semiconductor sales rose 6.5% overall in 2020, as a recovery during the last three months of the year helped offset a sharp dropoff in March and April, when pandemic stayhome orders rolled out around the world.

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This Year’s Union Budget Is All Digital With Made In India Tablet As Out Goes The Bahi Khata (Tech)

The use of a Made In India tablet is a dual push for digitization as well as the Atmanirbhar Bharat push along with the Made in India initiative. Earlier, the government rolled out the Union Budget app for smartphones that will allow users to follow the budget updates on their phones.

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Apple Achieves Another Milestone – More Than 1 Billion Active iPhones in the World Currently (Tech)

Apple had announced the sale of its billionth iPhone in 2016 and said that it had hit 900 million active iPhone users in 2019.

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Invite-only Chat App Clubhouse Booms In Japan (Tech)

Private social audio app Clubhouse is growing rapidly in Japan and now ranks first among free apps on Apple's App Store in a test of its international viability following its latest funding round.

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Apple Just Made iMessage Even More Secure And The Best Part Is, You Don’t Need To Toggle Anything On (Tech)

The way the iMessage protective layer works is that the BlastDoor sandboxing essentially provides for what is a quarantine zone where the service can inspect an incoming attachment in a message, for any malicious code or add-ons, before it is released and you receive it as a new iMessage on your iPhone.

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Poco M3 India Launch Tomorrow at 12PM: Expected Price, Specifications and More (Tech)

Poco M3 comes as the successor to Poco M2 that came to India in November 2020. The smartphone will come with a triple rear camera and will be sold on Flipkart.

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As Google Eyes Australia Exit, Microsoft Talks Bing With PM (Tech)

Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday.

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Asus ROG Academy Aims to Mould Indian Gamers Into Professional Esports Players (Tech)

The Asus ROG Academy will be looking at Counter Strike: Global Offensive initially, and the company plans to look at other titles as well in the near future.

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LG Velvet Is Getting Stable Android 11 Update - Availability, Size, and Other Details (Tech)

LG Velvet was launched by the South Korean manufacturer in October last year in India. The smartphone came to our market after almost eight months of its global debut.

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Pay Your Credit Card Bill Today On CRED During The Budget And You May Win Back Income Tax You Paid (Tech)

The way this works is that you need to head to the My Money section in the CRED app on your Apple iPhone or Android phone, and select the Credit Score tab. As per the last reported numbers, CRED has a user base of 5.9 million credit card users with a median credit score of 830.

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Xiaomi Is Suing US Government For Wrongful Blacklisting, All Because Of Donald Trump’s Parting Shot (Tech)

Earlier this month, the outgoing Donald Trump administration had blacklisted Chinese tech company Xiaomi as well for alleged links to the Chinese military, something that the company is contesting and is calling it factually incorrect.

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