IMAGE: Kirti Gupta, Manisha Keer and Rajeshwari Kumari. Photograph: SAI Media/Twitter Indian women's trap team trio of Kirti Gupta, Manisha Keer and Rajeshwari Kumari lost 4-6 to Russia to settle for a silver medal on the concluding day of the ISSF World Cup in Cairo. The Indian team engineered a fantastic comeback in the gold medal match on Thursday, coming back from 0-4 down to tie the final at 4-4. However, it could not hold on in the last series of 15-shot per team and had to be content with second best. The trio's effort ensured that the Indian squad finished the World Cup with two medals, with the men's skeet team bagging a bronze earlier in the tournament. Kirti, Manisha and Rajeshwari shot a combined score of 444 to make it to the gold medal match along with Russia, who topped the qualifying round with a total of 463. There were a total of seven 25-shot rounds, five of which had been shot in the previous days. On Thursday, all three Indian women shot scores of 20 … [Read more...] about Indian women’s trap team settles for silver in ISSF World Cup
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Google Breaks First Ad for Moto X Smartphone
It looks like Google is playing up its "made in America" credentials just as Apple appears to be doubling down on a similar strategy. Google's Motorola unit is planning to break ads for its Moto X phone on July 3 in The New York Times , USA Today and The Wall Street Journal , according to Advertising Age . The ad, from Droga5 , bills X as the "first smartphone designed, engineered and assembled in the U.S." Tagline: "Designed by you. Assembled in the USA." SEE ALSO: 10 Great Android Multiplayer Games The "designed by you" is a reference to the phone's ability to be customized to fit each consumer's personality, VP-Global Brand and Product Marketing Brian Wallace told AdAge . Image courtesy of Google … [Read more...] about Google Breaks First Ad for Moto X Smartphone
New-age Desi tech companies use cryptocurrency for pay, perks
CHENNAI: New-age tech companies are satiating their young workforce’s growing desire for digital money by using a workaround to pay either part of their salary, bonus or other incentives in cryptocurrency . For employers, this is a quick and easy transaction, while for employees the lure is the possibility of the crypto appreciating in value. There are two approaches taken by employers. One is to register their entities in crypto-friendly nations and pay their employees in cryptocurrency to avoid any legal or tax hurdles. The second is to record the payment as a rupee transaction in their books, but to facilitate the conversion of the rupee into cryptocurrency. An executive from a gateway company, which facilitates payments for cryptocurrency through banking channels, said, “Generally, we use a stable coin/cryptocurrency like Tether (USDt) to pay salaries. Employees can cash them out immediately or hold on to them.” Since Tether is pegged to the dollar, a systems … [Read more...] about New-age Desi tech companies use cryptocurrency for pay, perks
Twitter may soon get an ‘undo’ button
Social networking website Twitter is soon going to roll out a new feature that will allow users to “undo” their tweets . Reverse engineering specialist Jane Manchun Wong has posted a GIF on Twitter that shows how the feature may work. In the GIF, it can be seen that as soon as a tweet is posted, users may soon get the option to undo their tweet for a couple of seconds before it vanishes. Twitter is working on “Undo Send” timer for tweets https://t.co/nS0kuijPK0 — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) 1614921028000 Just yesterday, it was revealed that Twitter is working on rolling out e-commerce features as well. As per a tweet by Matt Navarra, the platform is testing a new card for tweets that will come with links to product pages on a shops’ website. These shopping cards will show details like product name and its price, shop name and a shop button. The company even confirmed to TechCrunch that these tweets would be organic rather than being ads. There … [Read more...] about Twitter may soon get an ‘undo’ button
Microsoft security flaw puts 20,000 US companies at ‘risk’
Washington: The hackers behind the powerful set of digital intrusion tools exposed by Microsoft Corp. this week are on a tear, breaking into organisations across the United States and Europe. With the weekend looming, experts say it is only a matter of time before the break-in tools are cloned by other spies or cybercriminals, with the potential to compound the problem for users of Microsoft's widely used Exchange email and calendaring software. Wielding tools that exploited four previously unknown vulnerabilities, the allegedly Chinese group that Microsoft dubs " Hafnium " has been breaking into email servers since January, remotely and silently draining inboxes of their messages without having to send a single malicious email or rogue attachment. Norwegian authorities said they had seen "limited" use of the hacking tools in their country. The Prague municipality and the Czech Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs were among those affected, according to a European cyber … [Read more...] about Microsoft security flaw puts 20,000 US companies at ‘risk’