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1. Now Pay for Metro, Parking & Shopping With One Nation One Card
What if you can own a card that not only works to pay for metros, but parking and even shopping too? The One Nation, One Card smart card launched this week claims to do exactly that.
This is a contactless smart card, which can be used across different platforms that includes transport, banking and retail. This means that the card can be used for transactions at ATMs for withdrawal of money. In addition to this, you can even use it for paying toll and parking charges as well.
The One Nation, One Card (ONOC) is India’s first indigenously-developed National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) and will be available from across 25 banks to people in the country.
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2. These PUBG Mobile Pros Have Some Chicken Dinner Tips For You
If anybody told you that playing video games all day will get you no where, well they were wrong. So wrong!
These days there are many out there who are earning lakhs just by playing games like PUBG, honing their skills by constant practice and ample game time. PUBG is one of the most played multiplayer mobile game in the world with almost 30 million daily active users. India is the second largest user base for PUBG after the US.
The Quint had the opportunity to catch up with two participants of the upcoming PUBG MOBILE India Series 2019, which is the first ever national level PUBG tournament being organised in the country and will take place on 10 March in Hyderabad.
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3. Zuckerberg Plans Privacy-Friendly Facebook But Offers No Clarity
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will start emphasising on new privacy-shielding messaging services, a shift apparently intended to blunt both criticism of the company's data handling and potential antitrust action.
But Zuckerberg didn't suggest any changes to Facebook's core newsfeed-and-groups-based service, or to Instagram's social network, currently the fastest growing part of the company.
"It's not that I think the more public tools will go away," Zuckerberg said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press.
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4. Amazon Music vs Gaana vs JioSaavn vs Spotify: How The Apps Compare
With cheap internet on mobile, video streaming isn’t the only feature to prosper in the country. Listening to streaming music on-the-go has also become possible, with a plethora of options waiting to sign users up.
After a long wait, Spotify finally entered the Indian market, going up against established names like Gaana, JioSaavn and Amazon Prime Music among others. Most of these platforms are either paid, while some are available free with a few conditions.
Here’s a detailed look at where all these apps stand, what they offer, how much do they cost and what localised elements do the global brands offer that their local peers already have in their armoury.
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5. USB 4 For Mobile & PCs Will Make Its Way in 2020: What to Expect?
USB Type C (with 3.0) is slowly going mainstream but we’re already hearing about USB 4.0 standard which is likely to hit two targets with one hit. By that we mean, the USB 4 will finally get support for speeds which have been there with Thunderbolt port for quite sometime and also manage to offer backward compatibility with previous port
The USB Promoter Group on Monday confirmed that, “50 companies are actively participating in the final stages of review of the draft specification. And the USB 4 specification is on track to be published around the middle of 2019.
That is the time when the details for the upgraded USB Type C to support USB 4 will be revealed.
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