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Japanese video game giant,Nintendo, has announced a new Labo cardboard accessory for itsSwitch gaming console. Called theVehicle Kit, the DIY package is now the third ‘Toy-Con’ kit after the Variety Kit and the Robot Kit, and lets users build controls for a car, a submarine and a plane. Priced at $69.99, the kit includes 25 cardboard sheets, one reflective sticker sheet, one sponge sticker sheet, one string, four grommet sets, and a bunch of rubber bands in various sizes....

When JPay launched a tablet which could help rehabilitate inmates in the prisons of the USA by helping them communicate with people outside, it might not have imagined that these tablets would be used for stealing. Sadly that has happened and inmates in different correction across the state of Idaho havestolen more than $225,000 in creditsby exploiting a vulnerability in the tablet. Jeff Ray of Idaho Department of Correction informs thatmore than 350 inmateswere able to “intentionally [exploited]a vulnerability within JPay to improperly increase their JPay account balances“....

With the launch of iPhone X, speculations about the redesign of the iPad started budding. Numerous reports in the past have pointed that new iPad models launching this year will have a notch to accommodate Face ID, have smaller bezels, and could possibly omit the home button too. Now, as per the latest piece of information,Apple is planning to purge the headphone jack from iPadsas well. Coming straight from Apple’s suppliers, it is to be believed that the upcomingiPad Pro models will be smaller and thinnercompared to earlier models without cutting down on the screen size....

The Apple Store app for iOS has been updated to version 5.1, bringing features revamped search interface that like the App Store and iTunes Store now highlights trending searches, apart from support for voice search. The update will allow users to tap the microphone icon along the search bar to dictate their search details instead of typing. The search results page has been revamped as well, featuring a new card-based interface that would ease sorting through the results, 9to5Mac reported late on Friday....

Starting today, i.e. July 28, a wide range of electronics and home appliances including budget televisions, washing machines, and refrigerators, willreceive a price cut, thanks to the reduction in the percentage of Goods and Services Tax (GST). This is amoment to rejoice for Indian consumers, especially if they have limited funds to buy new appliances. Flipkart has nabbed the opportunity tocelebrate this decrease in GSTand has launched asale involving the products which have been discountedfollowing the government’s announcement....

Googlecurrently has seven services with over a billion users each.YouTube, Android, search,Gmail, Maps,Chrome, Google Play all take their pride of place at the top of the heap as the most-used services on offer from Google. Now, yet another popular Google service is all set to join its illustrious stablemates, with the company announcing at the just-concludedCloud Next conferencethat its online file storage service,Google Drive, is expected to become the eight member to reach the milestone‘later this week’....

Google has been at the forefront oflightweight apps and low-end phones with the Android Goprogram. But even though the Go version of apps help you save space, they can sometimes lack features. One of the major apps that had this drawback wasGoogle Maps Go, but Google has fixed it to some extent today. Google Maps Go lacked navigation. You could search for places nearby or see the distance between your work and home locations, but you couldn’t navigate between the two....

India is following the footsteps of the European Union and is likely to soon have a legislation which limits the control which tech companies enjoy on the user datastored and “harvested”by them. A committee headed by Supreme Court justice BN Srikrishna haspresented a draft of the billwhich protects the privacy rights of digital users in India. As per the213-page draft bill, the regulation will put acts like the collection and processing of large volumes of user data using new technologies under the category of “significant data fiduciary”....

Thedraft data protection lawrecommended by the Justice Srikrishna Committee provides for exemptions for processing of personal or sensitive personal data for various purposes, including security of the state and journalistic activities. The 213-page report, prepared by a 10-member committee set up last year under the chairmanship of the retired Supreme Court judge, Justice B.N. Srikrishna, was submitted to Law and Electronics Minister Ravishankar Prasad on Friday. “The data protection law will enable an exemption to the processing of personal or sensitive personal data if it is proportionate and necessary in the interest of the security of the state and is pursuant to a law that meets the test of constitutionality,” the report said....

Back in January this year, Logan Paul uploaded acontroversial YouTube videoabout his visit to Japan’s Aokigahara forest a.k.a the suicide forest. While Logan Paul addressed the event multiple times on his timelineafter returning to YouTube, a lot of questions about his actions were still unanswered. But, thanks to Casey Neistat, a popular lifestyle vlogger, we now have a bit more clarity on Logan Paul’s life in the aftermath. Casey Neistat sat down with Logan Paul for a 30-minute interview in his studio in New York....

After havingannounced the Moto G6 series in Brazilback in April, Lenovo launched some of those devices in India a few weeks later. While the companylaunched the Moto G6 and the Moto G6 Playin the country in June, the G6 Plus remained conspicuous by its absence. Now, however, the company seems all set to launch the device in the country. The Motorola India Twitter handle this week revealed that the Moto G6 Plus will soon be available in the country, and posted a 16-second teaser video detailing some of the attributes of the device, including the supposed AI smarts of its camera....

The reason for this temporary outage was thatMoviePass ran out of money and defaulted on paymentsto merchants. In order to resume its services, ithad to borrow $5 millionfrom hedge fund Hudson Bay. Last year, the company was acquired by Helios and Matheson Analytics, which reduced the price of MoviePass’ services to $10 per month. This allowed the company to rake up several million new customers but has also pushed it to the edge of bankruptcy....

The draft personaldata protection lawrecommended` by the Justice Srikrishna Committee proposes exemption of those personal information from disclosure under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, which can cause harm to the person concerned. The 213-page report, prepared by a 10-member committee set up last year under the chairmanship of the retired Supreme Court judge, Justice B.N. Srikrishna, said the data protection law is designed to limit the processing of personal data to legitimate reasons where the flow of information is beneficial and respects autonomy of the data principal....