“Despite their historical failings, I find them, now, to be a fit and proper person to hold a London PHV operator’s licence…I am satisfied that they are doing what a reasonable business in their sector could be expected to do, perhaps even more,” said deputy chief magistrate Tanweer Ikram in his ruling. For the uninitiated, the Transport for London (TfL) suspended Uber’s license in 2019 because Uber’s systems allowed unauthorized drivers to upload their photos to accounts of other Uber drivers....

Vivo V25: Specs and Features The Vivo V25 gets the Color Changing Fluorite AG Glass design, which produces two colors when the phone interacts with sunlight. There are two options to choose from, Surfing Blue and Elegant Black. There are flat edges too and the overall look is similar to that of the Vivo V25 Pro. The phone has a 6.44-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate, 1300 nits of peak brightness, a 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, and HDR10+....

Vivo X Fold+: Specs and Features The Vivo X Fold+ gets an 8.03-inch 2K Samsung E5 AMOLED curved display on the inside with support for a 120Hz refresh rate. The secondary display spans 6.53-inch and is AMOLED in nature and gets a 120Hz refresh rate. Much like its predecessor, the Vivo X Fold+ also folds like a book. The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC is paired with up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB UFS 3....

Now Book Namma Metro Tickets on WhatsApp WhatsApp has partnered with Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) for the new chatbot-based QR ticketing service for the Namma Metro. BMRCL has officially become the first to have introduced an end-to-end QR ticketing service on WhatsApp. The chatbot, which is powered by Yellow.AI, will allow people to buy tickets, get information on the metro timings, and more via WhatsApp. The service is available in English and Kannada and follows the typical process of using a chatbot on WhatsApp....

WhatsApp Pay Becoming Popular? A recent report by The Economic Times, citing sources familiar with the matter, suggests that WhatsApp has seen an increase in daily transactions after it started offering Rs 33 cashback for every Re 1 sent using the service to users. The daily transactions reportedly increased from a few hundred thousand a day to 2-3 million per day, which is a significant rise. “There is a noteworthy spike in transactions recently and they (WhatsApp Pay) are activating various cashback campaigns for existing and new users....

WhatsApp PiP Mode for Video Calls Coming Soon WABetaInfo, known for keeping a track of WhatsApp features, has revealed that the PiP mode for video calls is being tested as part of WhatsApp for iOS beta version 22.24.0.79. There’s no word on availability for Android. With this, you will be able to talk to people on WhatsApp video calls while checking out other apps, much like you can do while watching YouTube videos in the PiP mode....

YouTube’s Impact on Indian GDP and Employment: Report According to a research report by the independent consulting firm Oxford Economics, YouTube’s ever-growing creator ecosystem contributed Rs 6,800 crores to the Indian economy in 2020. Not only that, the platform became a primary source of income for millions of creators, generating 6,83,900 full-time jobs in the country. YouTube says that 72% of the creative entrepreneurs operating on the platform agree with the fact that the revenue from the ads on their YouTube channels has been an important source of income for them....

YouTube Will No Longer Make Rewind Videos Although we all know widespread criticism of YouTube Rewind videos in the past few years must have played a key role in this decision, the company wants you to believe that’s not the case. YouTube recently told TubeFilter that it’s shutting down Rewind because the “platform has become so massive that it is impossible to encapsulate its vastness and diversity within a minutes-long compilation....

In order to live stream Zoom meetings to YouTube, you should start a meeting and tap on ‘More’ in the Meeting/Webinar controls. You will now see an option named ‘Live stream to YouTube’. Once you tap on it, you will have to log in to YouTube and authenticate your account. After successful authentication, you can set the privacy of the live stream (Public, Unlisted, or Private) and tap on the ‘Go Live’ button....

For the uninitiated, Apple started removing port options from its MacBook models and only offered USB-C and Thunderbolt ports, starting back in 2016. This led users to rely on dongles and USB hubs to connect external devices. However, Kuo previously reported that Apple is planning to eliminate the Touch Bar, bring back MagSafe support, and add more ports to future MacBook devices. Now, the analyst reports that the company is looking to add the SD card reader and HDMI port to the 2021 MacBook Pro models....

6G in India when 5G isn’t Even Around Vaishnaw suggested that engineers and scientists have already started working on 6G technology. For those who don’t know, the agenda-setting webinar is organized by The Indian Express and the Financial Express. This year saw the fourth edition of the series. In a statement to the Indian Express, the minister stated, “6G development has already started. That will be seen somewhere in the time frame 2024 or 2023-end....

Price and Availability Dell has launched the Alienware X15 R2 and X17 R2 as premium gaming laptops with high-end components. Hence, the price of the latest gaming laptops from Dell starts at Rs 2,49,990 for the lower-end Alienware X15 R2. While the Alienware X17 R2 starts at Rs 2,99,990. Both laptops will be available to buy from Dell Exclusive Stores, Dell.com, and other large-format retail stores like Chroma and Reliance Digital Stores across India....

Android 13 Beta 3 Released Platform Stability for Android 13 ensures that all app-facing behaviors and APIs, including the official API Level 33 SDK, and NDK APIs are now final. Hence, developers can release their compatible updates without much hesitation. However, this update doesn’t bring in new features as one would have thought. Android 13’s third Beta also allows app developers to do all the final compatibility testing for their apps....

Plist files in Xcode 12.1 beta have revealed that the newly-announced iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max have 6GB of RAM, while the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Mini are still stuck with 4GB, like the iPhone 11. That’s according to Macrumors, who has published a screenshot showing 6GB of RAM in the iPhone 12 Pro, seemingly confirming an earlier Geekbench listing which also showed 6GB of RAM for the device....

Now, for those unaware, the new SharePlay feature on iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 lets users share their screen on FaceTime, stream music from Apple Music, and even watch movies together with friends on FaceTime calls. It is a pretty useful feature, especially in these times when remote work and lockdown have become the norm due to the pandemic. Although the company did not add this feature with the initial public release, Apple enabled them for users with its latest iOS 15....

While we are still waiting for third-party support in Windows 11 widgets, there exists a new widgets app called BeWidgets (via WalkingCat) that offers customizable modern widgets for your Windows 11 PC. BeWidgets For Windows 11 At the moment, BeWidget lets you create time, date, photos, app shortcut, finance, and weather widgets (was greyed out when I tried it, though) and place them on your Windows 11 desktop. You can customize these widgets to set your preferred width, height, background color, font style and color, and more....

Call of Duty: Mobile Werewolf Mode Dubbed the Werewolf mode, this new game mode in Call of Duty: Mobile will drop players in a confined area where they have to perform tasks and find, wait for it, the imposter amongst them. The imposter, just like in Among Us, is tasked to assassinate all the other players until they find him/her. As per a piece of footage (attached below) by Call of Duty: Mobile streamer Zenix, the Werewolf mode will allow 12 players to find weapons and ammo to complete different tasks....

Bing + o = Bingo! Get It? In a recent interview with Big Bets, Microsoft’s Product Manager Sandeep Paruchuri revealed that the former CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, wanted to release the voice assistant with the name, wait for it, Bingo! According to Paruchuri, Ballmer wanted a unified naming scheme for Microsoft’s products and services, and he pitched the name Bingo to make it sound similar to the name of Microsoft’s search engine Bing....

The leak was originally identified by researchers at Website Planet after spotting a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket that could be accessed by the public without any security authentication. Upon further analysis, the researchers found that the data belonged to the Barcelona-based software firm that was storing credit card data of travel agents and hotel customers without any security measures, thereby exposing personal and financial data of customers dating as far back as 2013....

Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale: iPhone 12 and 12 mini Let’s start with the iPhone 12 mini, which is the model I expect many users to pick up during the Big Billion Days sale event. It usually sells for around Rs. 56,999 online, but has been marked down to just Rs. 37,999 for the 64GB base variant. Add to this a flat Rs. 1,500 discount and 10% instant discount for Axis Bank and ICICI Bank credit card users, which brings down the iPhone 12 mini offer price to Rs....