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Brit Limited has announced plans to launch Ki, a standalone business and the first fully digital and algorithmically-driven Lloyd’s of London syndicate. The business will aim to reduce the amount of time and effort taken for brokers to place their follow capacity, and Google Cloud will bring to Ki enterprise-grade cloud solutions powered by innovative technologies that enable rapid transformation at scale. Adrian Poole, Head of Financial Services, and Google Cloud said, “We are proud to be the cloud provider for Ki, and to collaborate with Brit to transform the…

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Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specializing in science and health, has launched a new resource to aid healthcare workers on the front lines of managing the novel coronavirus health crisis. The covid-19 Healthcare Hub provides free access to toolkits, expert insights, research resources and covid-19 guidelines. The Hub’s toolkits include evidence-based clinical overviews, drug monographs, care plans, order sets, and procedure videos for clinicians delivering care and information to patients. Clinicians will also find the latest information and guidelines from government health agencies, medical societies and public health…

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Samsung India announced it was starting home delivery of its lending services — Samsung Finance+, thus, making it simpler for them to buy Galaxy smartphones at easy finance at their homes. Samsung’s Finance+ is currently available across 12,000 dealers in nearly 300 towns across the country. To avail the Samsung Finance+ service, earlier customers had to earlier walk-in at select dealerships. However, now, the handset maker is facilitating home-delivery of Samsung Finance+ service to customers to ensure social distancing norms. “At Samsung, consumers are at the heart of everything we…

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Qualcomm today announced its latest chipset for the mobile market, the Snapdragon 768G 5G. The chipset is a follow-up to the semiconductor maker’s Snapdragon 765G that announced last year in Hawaii. The Snapdragon 768G 5G is a part of the brand’s mobile gaming chipset series and comes with several of the latest features that is warranted a mobile processor. Like the 765 and 765G, the 768G is based on 7nm die lithography and a hexacore of Kryo 475 CPUs. Running at a maximum clockspeed of 2.8GHz. It’s also still using…

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After many delays due to the coronavirus lockdown in the country, Xiaomi is finally hosting an online event, wherein it will launch the Mi 10, alongside the Mi Box and Mi True Wireless Earphones 2. The Mi 10 has already been launched in China, and it has arrived in a few global markets as well. Now, the company is finally bringing it to the Indian market. Key features of the phone include a 108-megapixel main camera and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC. Xiaomi is all set to launch its 108…

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization, announced the launch of TCS WaferWise, a cloud-based wafer anomaly detection solution that harnesses the company’s contextual knowledge of the semiconductor industry and the power of deep learning technology, to help chip makers digitally reimagine their product quality assurance process. TCS WaferWise is a cloud-based solution that leverages custom AI models to automatically detect and classify anomalies by analyzing nano-scale images generated during the semiconductor manufacturing process. The solution runs on Google Cloud and utilizes TCS’…

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Facebook’s Covid-19 community help hub is getting new features for people to help local businesses, blood banks and nonprofits. Facebook will start rolling out these features today. Facebook’s Covid-19 community hub can be accessed from this link. This is however not available in India. Here, Facebook has launched a Covid-19 information center which is visible on top of the news feed. It sources Covid-19 information from reliable sources like the World Health Organization and Ministry of Health and Welfare. The updated Covid-19 community hub will let users purchase gift cards…

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Smartphone brand Vivo on Sunday launched its “VIVO Smart Retail” (VSR) model to enable its offline retailers to begin smartphone sales once business resumes. Vivo’s VSR model is a ‘click to mortar model,’ built by the company with the support of over 20,000 retailers and 30,000 in-store promoters, the company said. Vivo has adopted this new model to enable business continuity for its pan India retail network that will help consumers connect with retailers from the comfort of their homes. Through this model, Vivo has enabled a lead generation system…

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