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• Indian researchers built the country’s very first native microprocessor

  India has taken its first step in microprocessor development thanks to a research team of Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M). The researchers have built the country’s first native microprocessor, ‘Shakti.’ The chip was manufactured at Semi-Conductor Laboratory ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Binance enters Singapore with funding from state-owned investment firm

  Leading cryptocurrency exchange desk Binance has received a backing from Singapore's government-owned holding company Temasek ...

  • Neer Varshney

• China drafts regulation to stamp out blockchain anonymity

  After killing all legitimate cryptocurrency businesses in the country, Chinese authorities are now turning their attention ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Coinbase confident Japan will let it sell cryptocurrency by 2019

  Japan's tough stance on cryptocurrencies may be a mood killer for most businesses, but Coinbase thinks it gives it an edge ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Why Kazakhstan should stop worshipping Tesla and Uber

  Importing western technologies into underdeveloped countries only increases the gap between more and less technologically ...

  • kazakhtelecom

• A $35 patch reportedly let anyone in the world generate India's Aadhaar IDs

  For $35, you could compromise the software used to generate an Aadhaar ID, just like the one used by more than a billion ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Tencent teams with Chinese government to choke kids' game time

  Remember last week when we found out China was going to be putting the squeeze on game companies in an effort to combat childhood shortsightedness? And we didn't know exactly how that'd look because the Ministry of Education were frustratingly vague? Well now we know exactly how it's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Apple reportedly pauses its plans to launch payments in India

  Apple's hit the brakes on its efforts to bring mobile payments to India - leaving fans waiting indefinitely for the feature ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• China wants to save kids' eyes by cutting down on video games

  Chinese officials are concerned about the rise in childhood myopia -- and one of their solutions is to regulate that old ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Hackers sell data of 130 million Chinese hotel guests on the dark web for 8 Bitcoin

  It seems China's crackdown on cryptocurrencies doesn't extend to the dark web. A hacker is selling the per % sonal data of ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Google rebrands its Tez payments app to Google Pay in India, adds instant loans

  Last September, Google launched Tez, an app for money transfers in India. At its annual event, the company announced it's ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Microsoft is using blockchain to curb spam calls in India

  If you thought blockchain was completely useless as a technology, Microsoft is out to prove you wrong — by taking care ...

  • Neer Varshney