Technology

Today, if we plan on commuting, ride-sharing apps like Ola and Uber have surely become a boon. 

They pick you up from your home and drop you at the exact location without requiring you to navigate throughout the way. After a tiring day at work, sometimes, that’s all you need. 

When the services initially started, it lured several cab drivers with lucrative cuts and incentives that attracted many. However, off recently, drivers working with these ride-hailing apps have been disappointed as the incentives have dropped and the targets to achieve existing incentives have become harder to reach. 

We’ve seen several strikes in the past, asking Uber and Ola to get an appropriate remuneration for their hard work, but none have been able to create a bigger impact. Looking at this the government has been working on issuing guidelines to help make the lives of the driving staff better and now it has finally issued new guidelines that actually seem to be doing more harm than good.

New Delhi: UBG Mobile fans in India are excited about the game's return to the country after the developers announced that PUBG Mobile will come back as a specifically tailored Indian version of the game, PUBG Mobile India. Now, a report has added to the excitement as it says that the game developers may organise PUBG Mobile India tournaments with as much as Rs 6 crore prize pools. It is being reported that PUBG Mobile India will be launched before the end of this year.

According to a professional PUBG Mobile gamer who goes by the name GHATAK, the first prize for a PUBG Mobile India tournament will be 6 crores. Further, he also said that professional PUBG Mobile India players' salaries will also be increased once the game is launched in the country. While there is not much substance to GHATAK's tweet apart from his own word, PUBG creators have said that they will invest heavily in hosting esports leagues exclusively for India. GHATAK said that the minimum salary of Tier 1 PUBG Mobile India gamers will be around Rs 40,00 to Rs 2,00,000.

Mumbai has become the first city in India to design a plan for development of designated spaces for women’s needs. The city has designed an urban plan with gender-focus on reserving physical and social infrastructure for women, reported by a national daily.

The plan provides about 90 land reservations to address women’s needs including education, health, housing and safety. It has been designed under the Revised Draft Development Plan 2034, the report said.

NGO Akshara Centre’s Nandita Shah told the paper the plan covers 24 municipal wards in the city. “In its scope and depth there's no parallel in any other Indian city plan," she added.

Google is claiming to have improved settings on Gmail that are aimed to provide users with more control over their data. The improved settings are an extension of Google's default auto-delete settings, introduced in May 2019. Google says that with the improved settings, users now have more control over Smart Features and Personalisation on Gmail. Smart Features on Gmail is the setting that automatically filters emails into neat tabs, and further enables Smart Compose and Smart Reply options. Personalisation, on the other hand, is the personalised user experience that is offered by accessing Gmail data (even from Chat and Meet tabs) on several Google platforms such as reminders for bills on Google Pay, restaurant reservations in Google Maps, and so on.

New Delhi: Google-owned video streaming giant YouTube has announced that it will not release a 'Rewind' video for 2020, the company's celebratory year-end video featuring top creators. YouTube made the announcement in a statement, saying that 2020 has been a 'different' year and it doesn't feel right to carry on if it weren't. “We know that so much of the good that did happen in 2020 was created by all of you. You have found ways to lift people up, help them cope, and make them laugh. You made a hard year genuinely better,” YouTube said in its statement.

According to an IANS report, large creators have backed YouTube's call for cancelling the 'Rewind' year-ender video. However, the report said that there were disagreements where some creators like JerryRigEverything said that besides all the wrong things that have happened this year, there are several things to be positive about. "Since 2010, we've ended the year with Rewind: a look back at the year's most impactful creators, videos, and trends. Whether you love it - or only remember 2018 - Rewind was always meant to be a celebration of you. Thank you for making a difference," the tweeted statement from YouTube said.