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Reliance Jiohas posted a net profit of Rs. 612 crore on revenues of Rs. 8,109 crore during Q1 FY18-19, the company announced Friday. The EBIDTA (Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization), meanwhile, came in at Rs 3,147 crore. Jio’s user-base now stands at 215.3 million after adding a record 28.7 million new subscribers during the quarter. The company also reported a churn rate of just 0.30 percent, which it claimed was the lowest in the market....

Samsung does not like following the common trends in the industry, and when it does, it makes sure that the products shine above those from competitors. Now, the latest news from the industry suggests that the upcoming Galaxy S10 series of flagship smartphones from Samsung willfeature an in-display fingerprint solutionwhich will be unlike any competitor. Samsung, as per Taiwan’sDIGITIMES, will use anultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensorinstead of the optical sensor used by Vivo on two its flagships –Vivo X21andNEX, by Xiaomi on theMi 8 Explorer Edition, and Huawei on the Porsche Design Mate RS....

Aiming to grab a larger share of online smartphone market share, Samsung is set to launch a new Galaxy smartphone with “Infinity Display” in the country next week. The upcoming Galaxy device will be an online exclusive and feature super AMOLED display. It is likely to sport 4GB RAM and 64GB onboard storage, industry sources told IANS on Friday. Notably, this would be the tech giant’s second online exclusive smartphone in two months....

The Supreme Court on Friday raised concern over irresponsible behaviour of search engines and social networking sites like Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Yahoo in promoting objectionable material leading to lynching of people, and warned imposing Rs five lakh per day on them if they fail to develop a foolproof mechanism to prevent uploading of such material. A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta granted one month to the social media sites to ensure a foolproof mechanism to prevent uploading of objectionable materials including child pornography, gangrapes, and so on, on the social media sites....

Researchers have developed an Artificial intelligence (AI)-based system that can reveal your personality type just by looking at your eye movements. The system uses Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to demonstrate a link between personality and eye movements. The findings showed that people’s eye movements reveal whether they are sociable, conscientious or curious, with the algorithm software reliably recognising four of the “Big Five” personality traits — neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness....

The US President Donald Trump has once again incorrectly claimed that Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is planning to build new manufacturing plants in the country. During a speech at the White House on Friday that focused on the state of US economy, Trump said: “Apple alone is bringing in $230 billion and they’re building new plants, they’re building a magnificent campus, they’re gonna be spending their money very wisely, but they’re spending it in our country, not in some other country”....

A new study by scientists with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service suggests that what people tweet in areas affected by wildfire can be a reliable indicator of air quality conditions. Whether it is caused by wildfire or prescribed fire, smoke can have serious health ramifications, including aggravating respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, Xinhua reported. “With wildfire seasons becoming longer and more people living in fire-prone areas, smoke is becoming a greater public health concern,” researcher Sonya Sachdeva of the Forest Service’s Northern Research Station said....

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) last week put out aRequest for Proposal(RFP), calling media monitoring firms to track press coverage forAadhaarand submit regular reports to the authority, ostensibly, to gauge public sentiment about thecontroversial ID projectthat is yet to be accorded constitutional validity by the Supreme Court. Alarmingly enough, it has now emerged that the agency wants to track not only media reports, but also posts on Facebook and Twitter to identify ‘detractors’ and ‘influencers’ and run campaigns to ‘neutralize’ the ‘negative sentiments’ about Aadhaar....

As part ofDonald Trump‘s continued efforts to discourage immigrant workers from permanently settling down in the US, the country’s federal government is now looking to formally reverse the Obama-era rule called‘H4EAD’that allowed spouses of H-1B visa holders who were already awaiting green cards to apply for employment authorization in the country. Thousands of Indians work in the US under the H-1B visa, with a majority of them being employed in the technology sector....

While information about the upcoming device continues to remain scarce, a new image found withinMIUI 10is making people wonder whether Xiaomi has (inadvertently?) leaked the design of its upcoming smartphone. The images seen below were reportedly part of the MIUI 10 Chinese ROM, but they have apparently been removed in the latest versions of the software. As can be seen from the images, they resemble the supposedMi Mix 3 live photosthat were leaked late last month....

With thecompetition in the original contentspace heating up in India, YouTube isplanning to introduceoriginal programming of its own to stave offcompetition from the likes of Netflixand Amazon Prime Videos in the country. Globally, the company’s original content is produced under YouTube Originals banner, and is available mostly on YouTube Premium, which is not available in India just yet, but isexpected to be launched in the country soon. The programs range from dramas featuring award-winning actors to comedies with top YouTube creators and documentaries involving popular artists....

“One fileless threat, CactusTorch, uses the ‘DotNetToJScript’ technique which loads and executes malicious .NET assemblies straight from memory,” McAfee said in a statement. Both consumers and corporate users can fall victim to this threat. In corporate environments, attackers use this vector to move laterally through the network. “Fileless” malware takes advantage of the trust factor between security software and genuine, signed Windows applications.

Microsoft’s Xbox Ultimate Game Sale is live now and it’s the biggest Xbox One game sale we’ve seen all year. Users can avail up to 75% off digital Xbox games, with an added 10% off select games for Xbox Live Gold members. While there are a whole lot of games on offer, here are the 10 best deals you can grab during the Xbox Ultimate Game Sale: 1. FIFA 18...