Google Chrome launches new features at Google I/O conference
Google reports a handful of highlights Tuesday tending to user protection and security for cell phones and internet browsers as the search giants took the wraps off the most recent variants of its Android working framework and Chrome program. The updates were revealed at Google I/O, the organization’s yearly developers’ conference.
Why the new services introduced?
The new services are designed to improve using passwords. Storing photos privately and controlling what the Chrome browser remembers about you. Android 12, the newest version of the operating system that powers almost nine out of 10 smartphones globally. A new feature will process your personal data in a secure manner while powering AI-driven services. Android will also give users options limiting the precision of location that apps can collect.
What does these services do?
A large portion of features limits the individual information that can access about clients. Regardless of whether they be friends, third-party apps, or hackers with stolen passwords. One new service limits what Google itself gathers about your browsing history. Another expects to keep a greater amount of your own information and data on your phone instead of on Google’s servers.
“The big part of feeling safe online is having control over your data,” said Jen Fitzpatrick, Google’s senior VP of center frameworks and encounters.
Android 12’s private compute core
Android 12 is carrying out with various new security features. The working operating system will incorporate Private Compute Core, which measures individual data on your mobile. The thought is to permit administrations, like Smart Reply, Live Caption and Now Playing, to get to information about clients without taking it off the telephone or presenting it to settle. Those administrations require Google’s AI to work.
“All the audio and language processing happens on-device, isolated from the network to preserve your privacy.” Fitzpatrick said in a blog post.
Finally, Android 12 will let you choose whether to give apps your precise location or an “approximate location.” That’s based on your zip code. A precise location might make sense for something like a food delivery app but a weather app can work off of a more general location.
Google Chrome password manager upgrades
Google announced upgrades to its password manager, including a system to import passwords from other tools and systems. It also unveiled integration between the Chrome browser and Android apps, which extends the usefulness of the password manager beyond the browser by letting users log into app-based services on their phones or tablets.
Locked Google Photos
Google Photos will offer a locked folder where clients can store photographs they need to keep hidden. The locked folder silos photograph so they will not appear in different folders, shared organizers, or query items. The thought is to keep sensitive photographs off your camera ree. So you don’t need to stress over showing them to somebody you didn’t intend to while looking through different pictures.
Quick Delete options retroactive Incognito Mode
A new Google Chrome feature called Quick Delete will let you put your last 15 minutes of web browsing history into Incognito Mode. Erasing it from your browser. In Incognito Mode, Chrome won’t store your browsing activity, cookies, web form entries, or permissions you gave websites.
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Furthermore, at Google I/O, the online giant offers new reasons to stick with its service and to pay for it. This happens after Google imposes new limits on free photo storage.
Tech Tuesday Startup of the Week: MedznMore
Counterfeit medicine problem and MedznMore
According to various reports, during late January 2012, a fake medicine crisis at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) hospital in the Lahore region of Punjab, Pakistan, claimed the lives of over 100 heart patients. The incident involved patients who had been receiving treatment at the hospital and had been prescribed with counterfeit antihypertensive medicines. The fake medicines triggered a serious adverse reaction by depositing itself in the bone marrow and ending the body’s resistance. The generation of white blood cells stopped in the body. Among the symptoms of the disease were a severe chest infection, change in skin colour/pigmentation, low platelet count and blood vomiting. With such counterfeit drugs problems, a Karachi-based healthtech startup MedznMore came through to solve these dangerous problems.
MedznMore
It is a Karachi-based startup founded by Asad Khan and Saad Khawar. MedznMore is an online pharmacy, selling medicines with four-hour delivery in Karachi. The ‘more’ in its name refers to wellness products and medical devices which are also sold on its website. They have a home-delivering service that delivers the needed medicines at your doorstep without any hassle.
CEO Asad Khan comes with over ten years of experience in healthcare companies in the United States and Europe. Before starting MedznMore, he served Careem as a General Manager for almost three years. Saad Khawar, the co-founder and Head of Product & Strategy was previously with Pakistani online pharmacy startup Dawaai serving them as Head of Product. So they both came with an experience.
They launched this platform with an aim to tackle the problems regarding pharm retail in Pakistan with fastest medicines selling, identifying and creating awareness about counterfeit drugs.
MedznMore raising the largest seed funding
MedznMore has raised around $2.6 million in seed funding. This seed funding is one of the largest fundings for any startup in Pakistan and it will help the founders in realizing their vision of delivering medicine right at customer’s homes.
While sharing about the funding the founders stated,
“At MedznMore, we want to solve the chronic problem of counterfeit drugs in Pakistan. In order to ensure 100% authenticity, all our medicines are procured either directly from the manufacturer or authorized distributors. In addition, we want to make the process more convenient than your local pharmacy, ensuring order delivery within 4 hours at the most affordable prices.”
The company’s main goal currently is to maintain operations for medicine and healthcare products delivery for customers directly at their doorstep.
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Bill Gates left Microsoft’s board after allegations of a relationship with a staffer
Bill Gates entered into a more messier situation amid divorce!
Microsoft’s board members asked the company’s co-founder Bill Gates to step down from its board in 2020 as they conducted an investigation into his alleged romantic relationship with a female staffer that was deemed inappropriate, the Wall Street Journal reported.
An illegal mess
A law firm hired by the board began an investigation in 2019. After a Microsoft engineer alleged in a letter she had a years-long sexual relationship with Gates. People described as familiar with the matter told the Journal. During the process, some board members concluded that it was inappropriate for Gates to remain on the board of the company. He co-founded and led for decades, and Gates resigned before the board’s investigation was completed, the Journal reported. Microsoft confirmed an investigation into the matter was conducted.
“Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” a Microsoft representative said in a statement. “A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm, to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern.”
Gates did not comment on the current situation. But, a spokeswoman for the Microsoft co-founder confirmed to the Journal. She said the existence of “an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably.”
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Furthermore, she also said, “decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter. In fact, he had expressed an interest in spending more time on his philanthropy starting several years earlier.”
Gates and his wife Melinda Gates announced earlier this month that they were ending their marriage after 27 years. In a joint statement posted on Twitter, the couple said, “We no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives.” In a divorce petition, Melinda Gates described their marriage as “irretrievably broken.”
The Wall Street Journal reported on May 9 that Melinda Gate was already meeting with divorce lawyers since 2019 as she planned for the divorce. The paper further revealed that earlier revelations that Bill Gates had spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex trafficker. This could be the reason for filing for a divorce.
Apparently, Melinda Gates had worried about Epstein’s relationship with her husband. The New York Times reported in October 2019 that Bill Gates had met with Epstein “many times” since 2011. Bill Gates has denied any business relationship or friendship with Epstein.
Tech Tuesday Startup of the week: CreditBook
Being relevant with cash is about something other than getting by. Try not to stress that you’re not a number related marvel; incredible mathematical abilities aren’t actually important – you simply need to know essential addition and subtraction. Life is a lot simpler when you have great monetary abilities. What you go through your cash means for your money management and the measure of obligation you wind up carrying. In case you’re battling with cash the board issues a particularly living check to check despite bringing in a sizable amount of cash, at that point here are a few hints to improve your monetary habits. Who knew you could manage your finances that easily? A husband and wife duo of Hasib Malik and Iman Jamall along with Hisham Adamjee made Digital udhaar easy with their startup CreditBook.
CreditBook
CreditBook is accelerating the digitization of micro, small and medium enterprises across Pakistan. Through beginning with a simple digital ledger to track credit and expenses, they are empowering millions of underserved businesses across Pakistan. CreditBook manages your finances, track your payments. Update receiveables and helps to grow your business.
Features of CreditBook
Faster Repayments
With their Payment Reminder feature, you can automate reminders to the customers via Whatsapp or SMS every time a transaction is recorded. And this option is FREE. CreditBook believes in more transparency = faster repayments = more growth for the business.
Secured Data
Have a right to enjoy stress-free business with CreditBook. Your business can be accessed with a mere click of a button! You will find all the details related to credit and debt, for any number of customers on just your phone. No matter who manages your business, or how many times you install/reinstall the application. Your data is always end-to-end secured and available.
Controlling your expense and time
You can stay informed and control your expenses with your suppliers. With the CreditBook app, you can Monitor your overall financial health. Because good relationships create great businesses, and this app will help you flourish your business. You can also save hours by updating daily business accounts within minutes. No more looking up scraps of papers, illegible entries, or arguing with customers.
Pakistan’s CreditBook raises $1.5 million seed
With a large number of these businesses even today rely on pen and paper for bookkeeping. CreditBook digitizes and managed to raise $1.5million seed money to grow their business. Despite making any money from their own venture. The team still hopeful to change the finance managing dynamic in Pakistan. The investment generated from a mix of local and international investors. CreditBook could be considering monetization options but its focus, for now, remains on solving for the bookkeeping needs of its userbase. The ultimate goal is to equip micro-enterprises with information to help them increase their income.
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Tech Tuesday Startup of the week: Islam 360
Sometimes you might find yourself looking for authentic hadith or quranic references during a debate and you cannot just reach out to the nearest library for the references or weight to your argument. And apart from the argument you might want to learn for yourself. But there is a detailed text-book like startup by Zahid Hussain Chihpa. He has built a Quran and Hadith search engine called “Islam 360.”
Islam 360 Application
Islam 360 app is the brainchild of Zahid Hussain Chihpa, who listened to a verse somewhere but couldn’t recall the source and had no easy way to search. He says that he started manually typing a Romanised Urdu translation. And over the next year created a desktop application by the name of Search Quran in 2009.
Islam360 is an application that allows you to explore Islamic writing through a solitary stage. You can recite the Quran by parah (part), surah (section), tune in to its recitation with or without interpretation, or dive into the tafseer. Then again, you can look by word, refrain, express, or even the subject.
Hadith Search engine
This application also features a comparable indexation and search engine exists for Hadith too. Other than that, the application has a Qibla locater, Islamic schedule, prayers timer, and many more highlights. It also includeses voice order, Arabic instructor.
Quran features
- Read Holy Quran by Surah or Parah Listings
- Search the entire Holy Quran by Word typed in Arabic
- Read Holy Quran with translations in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Roman Urdu script
- Read Tafasir of the Quran by Taqi Usmani, Abul Ala Moudodi, and more.
- Add your own notes along with each Ayah of the Holy Quran
- Jump directly to any Ayah of your choice in any Surah of the Holy Quran and start reading from there.
- Easy share any Ayah with your friends and family
- Holy Quran’s recitation from at least 12 world-renowned reciters.
Hadith features
- Read Seven Primary Source Books of Ahadith of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.) that are considered most authentic in the Muslim Ummah Sahih Al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Jame Tirmazi, Sunnan Abu Dawood, Sunnan Nisai, Sunnan Ibne Maja, and Musnad Ahmed.
- Read Original Ahadith in Arabic, as well as Translations of Ahadith in both Urdu and English
- All Ahadith are fully Referenced with international numbering (from world-renowned Darus Salaam publications)
- Audio Available for Sahih Bukhari, Jame Tirmazi, and Sunnan Abu Dawud Translations.
- Read Ahadith chapter by chapter, as written in the original books.
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Other important features of Islam 360
Moreover, with this app you can check local namaz timings of your current residence – city, so you never miss your prayer. You can also check your Qibla from the app’s Qibla locator. This app has a tasbeeh counter you never miss your wazaif as well. And with 99 names of Allah (SWT) this app also features the Islamic calendar.
You can download the application Islam 360 from Playstore and Appstore.
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Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce after 27 years of marriage
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are getting a divorce
For quite a long time, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have been amazing powers on the world stage, their tremendous charitable commitments bearing the cost of their admittance to the most significant levels of government, business, and the not-for-profit area. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with enrichment of some $50 billion, has had an enormous impact in fields like worldwide wellbeing and youth training. Over the past year, the couple was visible combatting Covid-19. The sad and rather shocking news arrived from the couple that they are getting a divorce.
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates marriage
Bill and Melinda met after she joined Microsoft as a product manager in 1987. They dated each other for about a year. And then decided on two possibilities which Bill said to her, “You know, we cared a lot for each other. And there were only two possibilities: either, we were going to break up or we were going to get married.”
Gates married Melinda French on the Hawaiian Island of Lanai on January 1, 1994.
In a documentary “Inside Bill’s Brain,” which was released for Netflix. The 63-year old centi-billionaire quotes that he is grateful for his wife, Melinda. However, that was not very clear.
The couple was married for almost 27 years. They have three children: Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe.
Official statement from Bill and Melinda Gates
The couple took to social media to announce the shocking news. The statement reads, “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship. We have made the decision to end our marriage. Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives.”
Moreover, they said, “We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation. But we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives. We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.”
Book Review: Turning Down The Noise by Christine Jackman
This smooth and convenient book Turning Down The Noise – The Quiet Power of Silence in a Busy World opens with the four-year-old Christine Jackman. She is taking asylum in a cubby house at kindergarten since she required harmony and calm. Not that she considered it like that at that point. It required many years of living at a rushed time frame for her. To comprehend what her younger self been longing for. With this acknowledgment, she started her journey refreshing her silence. The silence covered inside us from inside. That is also a source of the multitude of customs from Christian religion to Buddhism.
About the Author – Christine Jackman
Christine Jackman is a journalist, writer, and communications consultant. Her adoration for a decent yarn has taken her from a newspaper cadetship in Brisbane. To an unfamiliar reporter’s posting in New York. And to the Federal Press Gallery. Recently, Christine has encountered how external clamor and developing digital interruptions can disintegrate our prosperity, peace our ability for imaginative or inventive work. Her most recent book, Turning Down the Noise, investigates that cutting-edge wonder. She is likewise the creator of Inside Kevin07.
The book in review – Turning Down The Noise
Christine set out on a mission for a superior method of being. Turning Down the Noise follows her excursion as she investigates what is befalling our minds and our lives. Regardless of whether from real commotion, openness to media, or the notifications on our phones. All the more critically, she uncovers how we can switch the harm through basic day-by-day acts. This intends to strip out the boosts and recover the silence.
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Channeling peace through zeal
Looking for approaches to channel and catch the significant serenity so frequently ailing in our lives. Christine composes with a delicacy of touch. She shares her own encounters and delving into her subject with the enthusiasm of an investigative journalist and a curious mind. She searches out the most ideal approaches to recover clearness. And significant serenity in an occupied and uproarious world. And afterward shares those with the reader such that both experienced meditators and those essentially needing a little harmony in their lives can identify with.
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She also looked into meditation as a restorative measure. Her book quotes, “I simply wanted to know what this thing was, this calm awareness that was flitting across my consciousness like a bird of rare and beautiful strangeness. One that takes flight whenever you turn to look at it directly.”
Christine Jackman addresses important topics like work, media stress, the beauty of nature, and other ways to bring silence into your life. Never preachy, she writes in a way where you can relate to yourself in different ways and think that you’re on the journey of self-help with her.
Apple sued for lying about waterproofing iPhones
After the Batterygate claims settlement for millions of dollars, the company Apple has come again under hot waters for lying about waterproofing iPhones and this time the company has been sued with class actions. According to a recent report by AppleInsider, Cupertino is being sued for misguiding its consumers. The company, which is thought to have drawn an exaggerated advertising policy on the water resistance of iPhones, is facing many complaints.
Recent lawsuit on iPhone waterproof controversy
In the claim lawsuit documented in the US Southern District Court of New York, Apple purportedly distorted the waterproof ability of the iPhone. Victims (Consumers) of the present circumstance likewise express their issue with the organization’s refusal to cover water harm in its guarantee.
Waterproof Apple iPhones was a lie?
iPhone models contain water resistance of differing degrees. iPhone 7 is advertised with IP67 assurance, offering most extreme execution up to a depth of 1 meter for as long as 30 minutes. iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max, then again, got IP68 accreditation and asserted up to 4 meters in a short time. On the iPhone 12, this figure was reported as 6 meters in thirty minutes. However, these are Apple’s cases… Plaintiff clients contend that this isn’t accurate.
Saying that the water-proof abilities of iPhones is overstated, clients said that the organization acquired these tests from research center utilizing static and unadulterated water. He contended that in zones where the water isn’t so perfect and fixed, this capacity would be baffled. While the users said their gadgets were harmed in water containing chlorine or salt; He expressed that this issue isn’t assessed under guarantee.
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Interestingly, this is not the first time that Apple isn’t condemned for the iPhone water resistance claims. The company was sued in Italy for a similar explanation a year ago and was fined 10 million Euros. The solitary justification for this high amount of fine was not the organization’s misrepresentation of its gadget. The way that the guarantee didn’t manage liquid harm was also compelling in the court’s sentence.
Russian hackers target US police in ransomware attack
US department of Police is in shallows when a team of Russian hackers attack them for hefty amount of money in return. The hackers also threatened them that they will leak information to criminal gangs if they do not give them the amount they asked for.
The ransomeware attack by Russian hackers
A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate has claimed to have stolen sensitive data, including on informants, the police force said. The cybercriminals posted screenshots on their dark web site supporting their claim to have stolen more than 250 gigabytes of data.
Details of the hack were posted by the DC police department on Monday, which has asked the FBI to investigate the “unauthorised access” to its computer network.
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There was no indication that any police operations were affected, and the force did not immediately say whether it had been hit by ransomware.
The Babuk group, a relatively new ransomware gang, said on its website that it had “downloaded a sufficient amount of information” from the database.
The group gave DC police three days to contact it or said it would “start to contact gangs in order to drain the informants”. Screenshots it posted online suggested it has data from at least four computers, including intelligence reports, information on gang conflicts, the jail census and other administrative files.
It said in a statement: “We are aware of unauthorised access on our server. While we determine the full impact and continue to review activity, we have engaged the FBI to fully investigate this matter.”
Tech Tuesday Start up of the Week: Retailo Technologies
It is definitely safe to say that B2B marketplace is the future of the world. Being an online platform which is operated by a third party that opens to buyers and sellers in a particular industry. From 2019 when coronavirus started to spread its roots, B2B marketplace boosted. We have seen Bazaar and Dastgyr with similar aims and this online process works smoothly. Your online platform is independently setup by a third party. Buyers and sellers can register themselves on it and also access to classified advertisements and request for quotations or buds in a particular industrial sector. One similar startup that aims to transform retail supply chains in the region with tech-enabled distribution marketplace that is Retailo Technologies.
Retailo Technologies
Retailo is an online B2B marketplace operating for manufacturers, distributors, and wholesellers from Riyadh and Karachi. It aims to technologically transform how retail supplychains work. It aims to develop a tech-enabled distribution marketplace to cater inefficiencies among the informal retail marketplace. Retailo is a brainchild of Talha Ansari, Mohammad Nowkhaiz, and Wahaj Ahmed. They carry experience from regional startups such as Careem, Rocket Internet, Daraz, Foodpanda, and Shopistan under them.
Their goal is to economically empower the SMEs operating in the retail sector through Retailo Technologies across the MENAP region and real time data to maximize value by making complex supply chains “uncomplicated.”
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Retailo offerings
Retailo offers countless options of maintaining the business through their applications, it offers.
Competitive Pricing
It also offers market competitive prices that help the retailer manage the inventory at a stable and optimum level.
One Stop for everything
You can login to Retailo’s application and you can get access to all kinds of their products in one place for your order placement.
Fast Delivery
Since B2B marketplace is the future and if you snooze you might lose a valuable customer, it offers fast delivery service which is timely and low-cost.
You can be both a buyer or a seller through their platform. You can download their application from Google play store.
Milestone
Retailo raises $2.3m in pre-seed round
Supply chain startup Retailo was also granted 2.3million in a pre-seed round led by Early-stage VC firm Shorooq Partners. On the event, they stated that it will focus on Saudi Arabia as their home market, and then establish a strong and more expanded network all over Pakistan. According to the report, Early-stage venture funds almost 500 Startups and 92 Ventures also participated in the round alongside strategic angel investors from the region. With the investment, it has become 92 Ventures’ first portfolio company.
They recently launched Hisaab that is a digital ledger app that allows you to record credit/debit entries.
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