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How to escape from the slavery of old habits
When football coaches get their first job, they are given the role of an assistant coach with their alma mater or a team they once played with. After a couple of years, when they get promoted, they tend to replicate the same drills that they learned from their coaches.
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Analysts predict India’s short form video market to have 650 million users by 2025
Popularised by TikTok, the short form videos gave birth to many similar platforms and even got added as a feature on almost every popular social media app Instagram is on its way to becoming a video and entertainment platform with Reels – its version of short video – in focus.
Online gambling, fantasy sports apps may shut down in Karnataka from today
The controversial Karnataka Police Act, 2021 is set to come into effect from today, forcing all gambling websites to shut shop within the state.
Uber faces legal action over ‘racially discriminatory’ facial recognition ID checks
The union said it’s taking the action after the unfair dismissal of a former Uber driver, Imran Javaid Raja, and a former Uber Eats courier, Pa Edrissa Manjang, following failed checks using the facial recognition technology.
Udemy files to go public on back of growing B2B incomes
The company’s debut may prove to be the final major edtech IPO ahead of Byju’s eventual debut – how well Udemy performs in its public offering could impact others in its market, including some incredibly wealthy education technology players.
More details about the October 4 outage
The data traffic between all these computing facilities is managed by routers, which figure out where to send all the incoming and outgoing data.
Amazon CEO says video games could become the largest entertainment business
Games could end up being the largest entertainment category over the long haul, Andy Jassy, the chief executive officer, said Tuesday at a technology conference.
Big Tech bands together to form payments alliance in India
Big tech platforms including BookMyShow, Disney+Hotstar, Facebook, Microsoft have come together to form a group called the Merchants Payments Alliance of India, to contribute to policy conversations on behalf of merchants, relating to matters of digital payments.
In a first, e-fish market app ‘Fishwaale’ launched in this state
Assam Fisheries Minister Parimal Suklabaidya on Tuesday launched an application, stated to be India’s first e-fish market app.
Telegram gained over 70 mn new users during 6-hour global outage
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday that the messaging app gained more than 70 million new users during Monday’s Facebook outage, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearly six hours.
As risks from data breaches mount, RBI has no system to inform users, RTI reveals
The Reserve Bank of India has no system of alerting or informing customers whose personal data has been compromised in financial cybersecurity incidents like a data breach, RTI documents obtained by Entrackr revealed.
India’s AI market to grow at 20.2% CAGR to reach $7.8 bn by 2025
India’s AI market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.2% to touch $7.8 billion by 2025, research firm International Data Corporation said in a report.
WhatsApp Global Voice Message Player coming soon to your phone
As per the reports, WhatsApp has started working on a new feature called Global Voice Message Player.
TVS Motor, Tata Power in pact to create EV charging infrastructure in India
TVS Motor Company, one of India’s leading manufacturers of twowheelers and three-wheelers, has entered into a strategic partnership with Tata Power.
Ola acquires GeoSpoc to build next-generation location technology
Making the announcement on a blog post, Bhavish Aggarwal, co- founder and CEO, Ola said, “Dhruva and his team of Geospatial scientists and engineers will be joining Ola to develop technologies which will make mobility universally accessible, sustainable, personalised, and convenient, across shared and personal vehicles.”
Bengaluru-based online meat startup is India’s first D2C unicorn
Online meat startup Licious on Tuesday said it has raised $52 million from investors, including IIFL AMC in a Series G fund raise.