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PUBG Corp on Thursday announced PUBG Mobile India, a "new game created specifically for the Indian market" nearly two months after revealing that it was exploring ways to provide its own PUBG experience for India following the government’s ban over privacy concerns. The announcement comes close on the heels of PUBG Corp parent firm Krafton signing a global partnership with Microsoft that allows PUBG Mobile to be hosted on Redmond’s Azure cloud platform.

PUBG Mobile India is PUBG Mobile localized for the Indian market with a virtual simulation training ground, clothed characters, and green hit effects to reflect the virtual nature of the game. In its India-focused avatar, PUBG Mobile will also try and promote healthy gameplay habits among players by placing restrictions on the amount of time they spend on it.

But even more importantly, PUBG Corp said, it "will conduct regular audits and verifications on the storage systems holding Indian users’ personally identifiable information to reinforce security and ensure that their data is safely managed."

Apple's next generation of iPhones, dubbed the iPhone 13 for now, will sport major improvements on the camera front. This information comes from noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities, who posted a new research note, which was reported by MacRumors.

According to the report, Kuo has said that the iPhone 13 will see improvements on the camera front with regard to the Ultra Wide camera on the high-end versions. Apple is expected to continue with four models of the iPhone as well in 2021 just like with the iPhone 12 series. The screen sizes are expected to remain the same; the 5.4-inch mini version along with two 6.1-inch options and the biggest will be the 6.7-inch version.

With the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max version, the ultra-wide camera will get upgraded to f/1.8 aperture, 6P (six-element lens) with autofocus, notes Kuo. The existing version comes with f/2.4 aperture on the iPhone 12 series and 5P element lens and fixed focus for the Ultra-wide lens. The improved ultra-wide lens is expected to continue with the iPhone 2022 series as well, according to the analyst. 

WhatsApp seems to be on a spree of introducing new features to its users worldwide. As for the latest, the Facebook-owned chat app will focus on keeping the platform clean by allowing people to report a spam number with proof.

In an updated feature currently available to WhatsApp beta testers, users can now report a contact to WhatsApp for spam or abusive behaviour on the app. The update will allow WhatsApp to verify if a report is reliable, through a copy of the recent messages from the reported chat.

Since there is no way that WhatsApp could access a user’s message, it was never able to verify a report since the feature had been existing on the app. The update will allow WhatsApp access to the most recent messages from the chat with the contact being reported.

Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted that the Cupertino giant is not done for the year after the launch of the iPhone 12 series and has more products coming up in the last two months of the pandemic-affected 2020. While revealing Apple’s massive revenue earnings in the third quarter of 2020, he said, “Without giving away too much, I can tell you that this year has a few more exciting things in store,”.

There are a few long-rumoured products that can be a part of the launches in the remaining two months of the year. Here’s a look at potential launches.

AirTags is one of the devices that has been delayed for almost a year now. These are just small metal discs with silicone on the edges and the Apple logo in the middle which can be used to track anything via Find My App on iOS devices. As per the rumours, they can cost anywhere between $69 to $99.

New Delhi: The Indian Army has announced the development and launch of its own secure messaging app. The smartphone messaging and communication service is called SAI, or Secure Application for Internet, and will be used for internal communication purposes. The smartphone app features end-to-end encryption to secure all communications, including texts, voice and video calls, and has been made live for Android devices at the moment. According to a press statement issued by the Ministry of Defence, the SAI app has a flexible code base that can be programmed to specific needs of India’s armed forces, and all data will be relayed through local, in-house data servers.

According to the Ministry of Defence, the SAI app will feature an interface and operations similar to commercially available messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram and other encrypted communication apps. “The application has been vetted by a CERT-in empaneled auditor, and the Army Cyber Group. The Raksha Mantri, after reviewing the functionalities of the app, complimented Col. Sai Shankar for his skill and ingenuity for developing the application,” a ministry spokesperson said in the statement.