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NASA added a surprise fifth passenger to the Crew-1 mission currently en route to the International Space Station -- a plush The Child (aka Baby Yoda) from "The Mandalorian." The doll is what's known as the "zero-gravity indicator" -- typically a soft, small object that is allowed to float free in the spacecraft cabin to provide a simple, but effective confirmation of when it passes into the phase of a spaceflight where Earth's gravity no longer holds significant sway.

Crew-1's other four passengers are all actual people -- NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, along with JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. They're on their way to the ISS to staff it for the next half a year, on NASA's first operational commercial crew mission, courtesy of partner SpaceX, which certified its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft for human flight earlier this year.

SpaceX and NASA successfully launch four astronauts to space for first operational Dragon crew mission

Baby Yoda won hearts with its debut on Disney's original streaming show "The Mandalorian" last year, and continues to woo audiences with this year's second season. It earned its colloquial nickname because it's a juvenile version of whatever the heck the original Yoda from the "Star Wars" saga is. In the new series, the youngster regularly earns reprimands from the series' titular bounty hunter for messing around with his spacecraft controls.

The Child merch is already white-hot, but zero-G indicators of past have also notably become hot ticket items following their trips to space. On SpaceX's first human spaceflight mission, the Demo-2 test flight that took place earlier this year, a Ty Flippable dinosaur called "Tremor" quickly flew off shelves following its own free-floating antics.
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14/11/2020

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12/11/2020

Quick Newz Film actor Asif Basra was found hanging in a private complex in Dharamshala. Forensic team is at the spot and police are investigating the matter.

It is being reported that the actor had a property on lease for the past five-six years in McLeodganj, Upper Dharamshala - and used to visit the hill station often, nestanown for his role in the thriller series Paatal Lok, Mr Basra had appeared in a number of Bollywood films, including a movie on the 1993 Mumbai blasts Black Friday and the 2002 Gujarat riots Parzania.

10/11/2020

Twitter is working to expand the use of its "misinformation" labels on misleading tweets. The company has developed a new feature, not yet live, that would pop up a "misleading information" label when a user tries to "Like" a tweet that's been labeled as misinformation.

The feature was discovered by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong in the Twitter app code. She confirms the addition doesn't prevent a user from continuing to "Like" the tweet, however -- it just slows you down.

A similar warning appears today when users attempt to retweet posts labeled as containing misinformation.

This new feature would fall in line with other measures Twitter has been taking to slow the spread of misinformation on its service, including a recent change to how retweets work. On October 20, 2020, Twitter began to prompt anyone who goes to retweet something to share a quote tweet instead.

The added bit of friction is meant to help users pause and think about what they're amplifying, as did the change which pushed users to click through and actually read the content they're sharing.

In addition, Twitter also rolled out a series of new policies ahead of Election Day in the U.S., to further guide its handling of misleading tweets. Beyond just labeling misinformation, it applied more aggressive warnings and restrictions on tweets from U.S. political figures, including candidates and campaign accounts, as well as other U.S.-based accounts that met certain thresholds in terms of followers, or tweet engagements.

Warnings were placed over tweets claiming premature victory, and had been designed largely in response to Trump's broad hints that he would not easily concede. But use of these aggressive warnings may dwindle in the weeks and months ahead, given that Trump's legal challenges do not look promising.

Though the election may have highlighted the problem with misinformation to a greater degree than usual, it remains a significant problem for today's social platforms to address. There are now a number of users who don't want to deal in facts, resorting to even calling fact-checking organizations biased against them. It's unclear that any user interface tweaks at this point can help solve this problem.

Twitter says it tries to deamplify misinformation today by not allowing those labeled, misleading tweets to appear in Search or injected into users' Timelines (if they don't follow the account). But those tweets can still be replied to, liked and retweeted.
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07/11/2020

Quick Newz Amazon will invest about $2.8 billion in Telangana to set up a new AWS Cloud region in the southern state of India, a top Indian politician announced on Friday.

The investment will allow Amazon to launch an AWS Cloud region in Hyderabad by mid-2022, said K. T. Rama Rao, Minister for Information Technology, Electronics & Communications, Municipal Administration and Urban Development and Industries & Commerce Departments, Government of Telangana.

The new AWS Asia Region will be Amazon's second infrastructure region in India, Amazon said ina press release. It did not disclose the size of the investment.

“The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region will enable even more developers, startups, and enterprises as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations to run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in India,” the e-commerce giant said.

But there is a lot in it for Amazon as well. Jayanth Kolla, chief analyst at consultancy firm Convergence Catalyst, told TechCrunch that by having more cloud regions in India, it will be easier for Amazon to comply with the nation's data localization policy. This compliance will also help Amazon, which currently leads the cloud market in India, attract more customers.

AWS has courted several high-profile businesses as customers in recent years. Some of these include automobile giant Ashok Leyland, life insurance firm Aditya Birla Capital, edtech giant Byju's, Axis Bank, Bajaj Capital, ClearTax, Dream11, Edelweiss, Freshworks, HDFC Life, Mahindra Electric, Ola, Oyo, Policybazaar, RBL Bank, redBus, Sharda University, Swiggy, Tata Sky and Zerodha.

Kolla said there is a possibility that in the future several more states in India will introduce their own versions of data localization laws. "This is also a big win for the state government of Telangana, home of the high tech city Hyderabad, for attracting this level of investment," he added. This is the largest foreign direct investment in Telangana, a state that was formed in 2014, said Rama Rao.

“Businesses in India are embracing cloud computing to reduce costs, increase agility, and enable rapid innovation to meet the needs of billions of customers in India and abroad,” said Peter DeSantis, senior vice president of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services, in a statement. “Together with our AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, we’re providing customers with more flexibility and choice, while allowing them to architect their infrastructure for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability across geographic locations.”

The investment illustrates the opportunities Amazon, which has poured more than $6.5 billion into its India operations to date, sees in the world's second largest internet market.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft have explored various ways to expand the reach of their cloud services in India. Microsoft inked a long-term deal with telecom giant Jio Platforms last year to offer millions of businesses access to Office 365 and other Microsoft services at a more affordable cost. Earlier this year, Amazon formed a strategic alliance with Airtel, one of the largest telecom operators in India. As part of the deal, Airtel will sell AWS to many of its customers. Microsoft today has three data center regions in India, while Google has two.

At stake is India’s public cloud market, which, according to market research group IDC, is expected to be worth $7 billion by 2024.

06/11/2020

Quick Newz WhatsApp Pay has finally gone live in India.

•WhatsApp in its blog has mentioned that it wants to make money transferring as easy as sending messages on the app.

•WhatsApp Payments is available for all iOS and Android users.

WhatsApp Pay has finally gone live in India. The company on Friday announced that the feature will be available in India starting today. WhatsApp in its blog has mentioned that it wants to make money transferring as easy as sending messages on the app. India currently has many payment apps including Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay among others.

Announcing the new feature, WhatsApp said in a blog, “Starting today, people across India will be able to send money through WhatsApp. This secure payment experience makes transferring money just as easy as sending a message. People can safely send money to a family member or share the cost of goods from a distance without having to exchange cash in person or going to a local bank.

WhatsApp has designed its payments feature in partnership with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) using the Unified Payment Interface (UPI), an India-first, a real-time payment system that enables transactions with over 160 supported banks.

06/11/2020

PUBG Mobile, the sleeper hit title that was banned in India two months ago over cybersecurity concerns, is plotting to make a return in the world’s second largest internet market, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.

The South Korean firm has engaged with global cloud service providers in recent weeks to store Indian users' data within the country to allay New Delhi's concerns about user data residency and security, one of the sources said.

The gaming giant has privately informed some high-profile streamers in the country that it expects to resume the service in India before the end of this year, the other source said. Both the sources requested anonymity as they are not authorized to speak to the press. PUBG Corporation did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.

The company could make an announcement about its future plans for India as soon as this week. It also plans to run a marketing campaign in the country during the festival of Diwali next week, one of the sources said.

In recent weeks, PUBG has also engaged with a number of local firms including SoftBank-backed Paytm and telecom giant Airtel to explore whether they would be interested in publishing the popular mobile game in the country, an industry executive said. A Paytm spokesperson declined to comment.

Chinese giant Tencent initially published PUBG Mobile apps in India. After New Delhi banned PUBG Mobile, the gaming firm cut publishing ties with Tencent in the country.

Late last month, two months after the ban order, PUBG Mobile terminated its service for Indian users. “Protecting user data has always been a top priority and we have always complied with applicable data protection laws and regulations in India. All users’ gameplay information is processed in a transparent manner as disclosed in our privacy policy,” it said at the time.

With more than 50 million monthly active users in India, PUBG Mobile was by far the most popular mobile game in the country before it was banned. It helped establish an entire ecosystem of esports organisations to teams and even a cottage industry of streamers that made the most of its spectator sport-friendly gameplay, said Rishi Alwani, a long-time analyst of Indian gaming market and publisher of news outlet The Mako Reactor.

PUBG Mobile's return, however, could complicate matters for several industry players, including some that are currently building similar games to cash in on its absence and their conversations with venture capital firms over ongoing financing rounds.

It would also suggest that more than 200 other Chinese apps that India has banned in recent months could hope to allay New Delhi's concerns by making some changes to where they store their users data. (That was also the understanding between TikTok and Reliance when they engaged in investment opportunities earlier this year.)
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05/11/2020

Quick Newz New Delhi: Delhi has reported over 6,000 coronavirus cases within 24 hours, for the second consecutive day. The national capital - which has been facing its worst COVID-19 wave since the pandemic hit the country early this year - has logged 6,842 new cases in a day, which is its highest ever tally. On Tuesday, it reported 6,725 cases - its previous single-day record.

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