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Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian, received the sentence for his role in a 2011 heroin transaction on Friday, court documents showed, with the country under lockdown to try and curb one of the highest coronavirus rates in Asia.

To become an effective tool for public health authorities, a contact tracing app has to be widely used -- experts say by at least 60 percent of the population -- but also provide them with needed information about who is getting sick as well as where, which can be important for taking quick measures to close hotspots.

The news of the data breach could result in a hefty fine for the budget airline, which has already been forced to ground its flights because of the COVID-19 pandemic and is battling its founder and biggest shareholder in a long-running dispute over the carrier's business strategy.

Net profit tumbled 64 percent in January-March to $43 million (roughly Rs. 325 crores) but was ahead of a Refinitiv consensus estimate of $7.5 million (roughly Rs. 56.7 crores). Revenue slid 9.7 percent to $10.6 billion (roughly Rs. 80,237 crores).

WhatsApp Web lets you use WhatsApp via your computer’s Web browser and is basically a mirror of the chat messenger. Read this article to know how to use WhatsApp on laptop and master WhatsApp Web.

Google has released Chrome 83 as the latest version of its Web browser. The new Chrome version brings a list of privacy controls as well as some interface-level changes to deliver an upgraded experience to Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS users.

Apple TV+ is finally getting into the back-catalogue business, in a bid to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ Hotstar. Separately, Apple paid $70 million for Tom Hanks’ World War II movie Greyhound.

Today, VMware announced the general availability of VMware Cloud. VMware Cloud is what the company calls their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings. Their Infrastructure-as-a-Service provides Dell VxRail servers running VMware software like VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, and VMware NSX. VMware is the biggest name in virtualization and has been for so long that you may not remember that the company started in 1998. (more…)

Today, Dell Technologies announced that it has teamed up with Google Cloud to launch Dell Technologies Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud. This new technology offers what the companies are calling a simplified management of private and public cloud storage to help control exponential data and application growth and ease the flow of files across their private clouds and Google Cloud. Dell is also announcing other Dell Technologies Cloud advancements. (more…)

Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon.