PUBG Mobile 0.13.0 Update: Release Date, What's New, and More

PUBG Mobile is receiving its 0.13.0 update tomorrow, and ahead of that, the developers have posted the changelog on Twitter.

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Fintech startup Loktra wins Start-up challenge hosted by NTTCom-NetMagic

Loktra, a financial solutions company which offers an efficient lead management system for any kind of financial institutions, took the trophy at the NTTCom-NetMagic Start-up Challenge which was held in Mumbai on June 10. This start-up challenge aimed to support budding Indian tech start-ups, by providing them with the limelight and also giving a couple of them a little boost financially in the form of a cash prizes bestowed upon the winners.

The stage was set for 15 tech start-ups to pitch their unique ideas to a set of panellists at St Regis, Mumbai. The NTTCommunications-NetMagic Start-up Challenge sifted through over 300 applications to arrive on 15 tech start-ups that proved most promising. Out of these 15 participants, the winner would be granted $15,000, the runner-up $8,000, and the second runner-up $5,000 USD. Following a welcome note delivered by Sharad Sanghi, Managing Director and CEO of NTTCom-NetMagic, and a keynote speech by BV Jagadeesh, Managing Partner at KAAJ Ventures, the eclectic group of individuals was ready to pitch their ideas to the panel, took the stage. Each start-up was given 5 minutes to pitch their idea which was followed by a Q&A session that lasted for 3 minutes. 

Winner - Loktra

Loktra took the trophy for their lead management system which impressed the panellists

Loktra, founded by Akhil Bhiwal, impressed panellists by offering a one-stop destination for financial institutions to run their daily operations on. The platform offers customer sourcing, lead management and quick TAT (turnaround time). It also lets institutions efficiently manage their internal staff. Their main aim, which they achieve using AI and ML technologies, is automating sales of financial institutions. Using Loktra, financial institutions can track agents using location-based tracking which utilises geo-coding and tracking features. The hassle of having to assign an agent to a lead is removed since Loktra allows automatic lead distribution and operations planning. The AI utilised enables financial institutions to prioritise their leads completely, based on on-field progress tracking. Bhiwal and team received $15,000 for this startup and won the challenge.

Runner-ups - Innovision and Drona HQ

Innovision secured the first runner-up position with their product BrailleMe

Coming in as the first runner-up was Innovision, founded by Shyam Shah, an alumnus of IIT Bombay. The company has created BrailleMe, a braille tablet to bring the digital world to the visually-impaired. The electronic display has two components - a six dot 20 cell braille screen with small electronic pins moving up and down which form the script and a 6-key Perkins style keypad with 20 routing buttons. Users can even connect this screen to screen readers like NVDA, Voice Over and BrailleBack - providing them with a combination of audio and braille to access digital content. Coming in as the second runner-up was DronaHQ, which is a platform that allows businesses to build an app without using any code. They donned #NoCode for their innovative platform which uses dynamic data binding by utilising excel formulas and native experience. The drag-and-drop mechanism is employed for adding components to the app which makes it very user-friendly. Divyesh Kharade, CEO of DronaHQ and Jinen Dedhia, the Managing Director of the company received $5,000 for their start-up.

DronaHQ placed as the second runner-up in the Start-up Challenge

Participants

The rest of the 12 tech-start-ups received participation certificates for their entries and some much-needed limelight. They presented some innovative tech ideas as well. Invento Robotics showed off ‘Mitri’, an AI-enabled robot which can gauge a customer’s age, sex, visit frequency and more in commercial stores. Aubotz provides smart robots for floor cleaning automation like their R2 iClean Scrubber Dryer which they plan to drive into schools, hotels, airports, etc. Avidia Labs uses AR, VR and mixed reality to sell or provide subscription plans for their products such as AVR Magicpedia and AR Magicpedia which can be used by children to understand difficult learning concepts by making them more interactive and immersive.

Edubuk is a start-up which aims to turn students’ passions into careers. The platform conducts an online test after which the results are used to calculate top 3 intelligence spots and top 30 career paths. Faclon Labs utilised IoT devices to collect data which can give insights which help with civic management in the water, energy and infrastructure domain. Users can see the data in real-time and their IoT devices can be deployed on the premise as well as the cloud. G-Square is a company that provides AI and ML-based financial solutions. They provide data analytics, forecasting and business intelligence solutions. 

Ghost Vision is an AR company which delves headfirst into many industries. They have created a wearable device with a large FOV (field of view) to generate better AR content, an AR food app which allows you to visualise your food in 3D before you eat it and an AI assistant, Diana, who converses like a real person with a personality. Kidaura Innovation created a solution for diagnosing children suffering from disorders like autism spectrum disorder and ADHD by using a game which deciphers the child’s disorder using ML. KredX is an invoice discounting platform and an integrated cash flow solutions provider. Invoice discounting helps fill the gap in working capital cycles.

Phulkian technologies aims to solve real-world issues, especially in the defence sector. They are an indigenous solution for weather forecasting which is done by using an upper atmospheric sounding system which utilises NavIC. Tardid technologies created the BRAINBOX, an AI platform which specialises in safeguarding businesses’ critical assets such as machines from unplanned downtime while reducing risk and increasing safety. Galactica.AI provides geospatial analytics. They generate insights from satellite and UAV (drone) imagery. The start-up ventures and provides solutions in four spaces - energy (solar), infrastructure, defence, and environment.

While these companies failed to impress the panellists as much as the winner and the runner-ups did, they did manage to put forward innovative tech solutions in various domains and sectors. 

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WhatsApp bug founder from Manipur awarded Rs 347 lakh, gets mentioned in Facebooks Hall of Fame

WhatsApp has reportedly awarded $5,000 (Rs 3.47 lakh approx) to a 22-year-old civil engineer from Manipur. As per a PTI report, Zonel Sougaijam found a bug in WhatsApp that affected the privacy of a user and made a responsible disclosure about it to Facebook in March this year via the company’s bug bounty program. The social media platform’s Security team acknowledged the bug submission by Sougaijam on the very next day of the bug's submission and the flaw was apparently patched within 15-20 days. Alongside a bounty for discovering and responsibly reporting the bug to Facebook, Sougaijam also got his name ncluded in Facebook’s ‘Hall of Fame’ portal. 

"During a voice call through WhatsApp, the bug used to allow the caller to upgrade it to a video call without the authorisation and knowledge of the receiver. The caller was then able to see what the other person was doing, violating the privacy of the receiver," Sougaijam told PTI in a statement. As per the report, Facebook sent an email to Sougaijam that states, "After reviewing this issue, we have decided to award you a bounty of $5,000." If the bug was not discovered and patched, it could’ve been a privacy nightmare for users. 

Speaking of privacy, Facebook has confirmed that it will start displaying ads in WhatsApp Status from next year. Olivier Ponteville, the Head of Media at Be Connect Agency tweeted the announcement. It’s not really known how the ads will be regulated on WhatsApp since it uses end to end encryption and on what basis will the app users get to see ads. Currently, websites use cookies to keep track of users, understand what they are interested in and target ads based on that. However, since WhatsApp uses phone numbers for an account, along with end-to-end encryption, it’s currently unclear how ads will work. 

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Netflix to Release The Division Movie Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Chastain

Netflix has picked up worldwide distribution for Tom Clancy’s The Division movie, which will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain.

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Oppo foldable phone with pop-up camera spotted in patent renders

We saw some new foldable phones at this year’s Mobile World Congress 2019 event, from smartphone makers like Samsung and Huawei. Oppo also quietly announced a foldable handset that was said to be a prototype and the company’s Vice President, Brian Shen, said that there is no big improvement in user experience due to a foldable screen. However, the company executive asked users to show their interest in the device in a Weibo post. Back in 2018, the company applied for a patent of its foldable phone with the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO), and as noted by LetsGoDigital, the company has been granted the patent. 

The patent filing consists of phone renders of Oppo’s foldable device. However, unlike other foldable phones, the patent hints at the presence of a pop-up camera module. The screen also features thinner overall bezels since the camera is moved in the pop-up module. The renders also suggest that the camera can be operated in both folded and unfolded display scenarios, and depending on the form factor, it can be either used as a front or the rear camera setup. Additionally, while the Samsung Galaxy Fold features a display that folds inwards, the Oppo handset’s screen folds outwards, same as the Huawei Mate X. 

The patent renders also reveal the presence of a 3.5mm audio jack on the smartphone. Additionally, it shows off the hinge mechanism Oppo could end up employing on its foldable device. However, since this is a patent, we suggest you don’t get your hopes too high for now as there’s a good chance that the company might not use the technology at all.  

Speaking of foldable phones, the Samsung Galaxy Fold is expected to be announced soon. However, the inner display on early units supplied by the company to phone reviewers in the US broke down. The company issued a statement saying that it is looking into the issue but reassured that the phone will be launched soon. While the Huawei Mate X was shown off as an innovative product, the company itself is in hot water since it was placed in the US Entity List. The company is banned from using Android and it is currently under a 90 day grace period to deliver updates to its phones. You can read more about this here.

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Huawei PC supply chain severely hit post US Ban, India launch of laptops highly unlikely

After Huawei reportedly asked Foxconn to cut down smartphone production following sanctions placed on it by the United States of America, it is now being reported that the Chinese company is also asking its PC suppliers to halt the supply and developmet of its MateBook and MagicBook laptops. As reported by Digitimes, Huawei has sent notices to its PC supply chain partners asking them to halt all deliveries.

According to the report, while Huawei’s smartphone supply chain still stands strong because of pre-sourced components, the PC supply chain has been “severely hit” by the US ban. Companies like Intel, AMD and Microsoft, which traditionally partner with Huawei to supply hardware and software for its laptops, have been restricted by the US Department of Commerce to do any business with the company.

While Huawei is reportedly working on a new Operating System for smartphones (owing to current Android ban), it does not have an alternative to using the Wintel architecture (Windows and intel). The lack of alternatives in the PC space have resulted in rumours that the company might have to exit this industry completely. Reports of Huawei halting the development of new PC models also points to a possible shutdown of Huawei’s Notebook business.

Huawei had plans of launching its laptops in India as well. Last year, Jim Xu, Vice President of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group had told some Indian journalists that the company will diversify its product portfolio in India, to possibly include PCs. However, those plans could be stalled if the business environment remains unstable for Huawei.

This year, Huawei launched the MateBook 13, MateBook 14 and a refreshed MateBook X Pro. The new MateBook series features hardware from US companies like Intel and software from Microsoft. They also pioneered a feature called OneHop, which allows you to transfer files back and forth between the MateBook and Huawei smartphones with just a tap. You can check out OneHop in action in the video below.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10 could launch in two sizes, 4170mAh battery

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is the new focus of leaksters, with alleged details surfacing every few days. Now, through tipster Ishan Agarwal, we learn of some key specifications of the upcoming smartphone along with some model numbers.

This year, it would appear that Samsung is making a shift in how it offers their flagship devices. The company already introduced a smaller Galaxy S10e, and now, It looks like we may be getting two variants of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10. Samsung could announce the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy Note 10, with model numbers SM-N975 and SM-N976, respectively. According to the tipster, both the smartphones will sport a 4170mAh battery, with the key difference being the size of the display. While Samsung is expected to use their new Dynamic AMOLED panels on both the phones, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is expected to ship with a 6.4-inch display while the Note 10 Pro will have a larger 6.8-inch screen. The Galaxy Note 10 will start with a base storage of 128GB while the Note 10 Pro will have a minimum of 256GB on-board storage going all the way up to 1TB. No work for now on whether Samsung will be using their UFS 3.0 storage chips on the upcoming Note.

There has also been speculation about the charging speed of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 10, with some rumours pointing to the possibility of 45W charging. It is now being speculated that the Note 10 models will instead ship with a 25W charger, which is still a lot better than the 15W adaptive charging the company has been using for a long time. Other rumours point to the use of Snapdragon 855 and Exynos 9825 chipsets depending on the region and a center-placed punch hole camera. There is also unsavory rumors of the Note 10 ditching the headphone jack, which would be very unfortunate. The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is expected to be announced on August 10.

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