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[nextbigwhat.com]( #News [Hero Electric to install 10,000 EV chargers in partnership with Massive Mobility]( - Hero Electric, India’s largest two-wheeler electric vehicle maker, has signed an agreement with Massive Mobility to install 10,000 two-wheeler EV chargers across the country, in a bid to increase its charging infrastructure by nearly tenfold, sources said. - Massive Mobility, a Delhi-based EV startup which offers end-to-end EV charging solutions, will install these 10,000 EV chargers in the next 12 months across cities where Hero Electric sees the highest numbers of sales, a source with direct knowledge told Entrackr on condition of anonymity [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announces new space venture]( - Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, has announced a new space venture called ‘Privateer Space’. - A Private space company is starting up, unlike the others. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Ethereum wallets may soon replace Google, Facebook to sign in to web services]( - Open-source software maker of decentralized identity and data management Spruce on Monday said it has been selected as the winner of Ethereum Foundation and Ethereum Name Service’s new Request for Proposal for sign-ins on the internet. - The RFP titled ‘Sign-in with Ethereum,’ ideates allowance of users to use their Ethereum accounts to access web services instead of accounts owned by large corporations such as Google, Facebook, and Apple. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Zoom, Facebook’s Oculus partner for VR meetings]( - Video conferencing giant Zoom has announced a partnership with Facebook’s Oculus to enable virtual reality meetings in the near future. - Announced a month ago in open beta, Horizon Workrooms is Facebook’s dedicated VR app to let Oculus headset users come together as digital avatars in the same VR space for meetings. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show]( In five presentations over 18 months to this spring, the researchers conducted what they called a “teen mental health deep dive” and follow-up studies. They came to the conclusion that some of the problems were specific to Instagram, and not social media more broadly. That is especially true concerning so-called social comparison, which is when people assess their own value in relation to the attractiveness, wealth and success of others. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Zomato Co-founder Gaurav Gupta Resigns]( - Zomato co-founder Gaurav Gupta, one of the instrumental figures behind food delivery giant’s landmark initial public offering earlier this year, has resigned on Tuesday. - Gaurav Gupta joined Zomato as business head for table reservations in 2015. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [99% of Indian SMBs plan to offer contactless services permanently: Salesforce]( - BENGALURU : As small and medium businesses are adopting technology to help their businesses, 99% of such SMBs in India plan to offer contactless services permanently, according to a ‘Small and Medium Business Trends’ report based on a survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Salesforce. - 72% of SMBs globally have increased their online presence in the last one year post the pandemic, so they can connect with customers from the comfort of home, according to the report. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Drone Used To Smuggle Drugs Into India, 6 Kg Heroin Recovered]( - Border Security Force has recovered 6 kilogram of heroin in Pakistan border. - The Border Security Force has recovered 6 kilogram of heroin that was smuggled to India from Pakistan with the help of a drone in Punjab’s Amritsar. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [South Korean antitrust regulator fines Google $177M for abusing market dominance]( - The U.S. tech company has restricted market competition by prohibiting local smartphone makers like Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics from customizing their Android OS, through Google’s anti-fragmentation agreements, according to the antitrust regulator statement. - The KFTC banned Google LLC, Google Asia Pacific and Google Korea from imposing local smartphone developers to sign the AFA and make changes on details about the existing version. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [India, Singapore to link their fast payment systems UPI & PayNow]( - The Reserve Bank of India and the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Tuesday announced a project to link their respective fast payment systems – Unified Payments Interface and PayNow which will facilitate instant low cost cross border fund transfer. - UPI is India’s mobile based, ‘fast payment’ system that facilitates customers to make round the clock payments instantly using a Virtual Payment Address created by the customer. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [YouTube Shuts Down Popular Discord Music Bots Rythm and Groovy]( - Rythm is the most widely-used Discord music bot by a long shot, with an estimated 560 million Discord users, about 30 million of them are active each month. - Rythm has announced on their website that after “receiving a notice from YouTube,” it will shut down its popular bot on September 15th. Groovy received a similar notice on August 24th, and was shut down on the 30th. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Xiaomi to Discontinue Mi Branding]( - In a recent move, the dominant Chinese smartphones manufacturer Xiaomi has announced that it will drop the Mi branding from its smartphones and other products. - As the Mi branding will be removed, the product portfolio under the brand will have the prefix Xiaomi. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [20% of fully vaccinated people in Odisha fail to develop antibodies]( - The Bhubaneswar-based Institute of Life Science said about 20 per cent of the fully vaccinated people in Odisha have failed to develop antibodies against SARS-CoV2, and they may require booster doses. - Though Odisha has so far inoculated over 61.32 lakh people with both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, including more than 10 lakh people in Bhubaneswar, about 20 per cent of them have failed to develop antibodies against SARS-CoV2, and they may require booster doses, said ILS director Dr Ajay Parida. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Aknamed acquired by PharmEasy at $144 Mn valuation; co-founders exit]( - IPO-bound online pharmacy company PharmEasy has acquired a controlling stake in Bengaluru-based healthcare supply chain startup Aknamed in a primary and secondary deal. - Importantly, PharmEasy has completely bought out the stake of five promoters of Aknamed who collectively controlled a 50.67% stake. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Glitches remain on I-T portal ahead of Finance Minister’s deadline]( - The Income Tax portal remains a festering worry for taxpayers scrambling to file their returns, ahead of the September 15 deadline set by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the portal’s tech developer, Infosys, to resolve glitches. - Some glitches still remain to be sorted out even as there has been some ‘gradual improvement’ in the portal’s interface, said Suresh Surana, founder of RSM India, listing out several hiccups. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Uber chief technical officer to step down]( - An Uber logo is seen during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 2, 2020. - Sept 14 – Uber Chief Technology Officer Sukumar Rathnam is stepping down as the company’s head of engineering, Business Insider reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( [Covid-19 Delta variant wave may soon peak in US, likely to become endemic]( - The latest coronavirus wave in the United States driven by the Delta variant could soon peak, but experts warn against complacency and expect the virus will be part of everyday life for years to come. - Uncertainties remain: for instance, people with breakthrough Covid infections might still get long Covid. [chai.nextbigwhat.com]( Did you enjoy this issue? [Yes]( [No]( [NextBigWhat]( NextBigWhat [@nextbigwhat]( #ChaiNews: News over chai. Short and Crispy! 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