Cristiano Ronaldo described himself as a "unique player" and insisted his career was not over as he arrived at his new club Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.Poco C50, a new member of the C-series of smartphones from Poco, will launch in the Indian market today. The brand officially announced the same on its social media platforms on Monday, after teasing the phone's release last week. The Poco C50 India launch micro-site has gone online on Flipkart ahead of the launch, revealing the details of the smartphone. The Poco C50 launch microsite verifies that the handset is powered by a MediaTek Helio A22 SoC.
According to the specifications, the upcoming Poco C50 is suggested to be a rebranded version of the budget Redmi A1+, launched in October 2022.
Before the launch of the forthcoming C-series smartphone, Poco India Twitter handle has already made a significant amount of information public. However, there has been no official word on the pricing of the smartphone yet. The company has confirmed that the Poco C50 will come in a Blue and a White colour variant. It is, however, not sure if they will be the only colour variants of the smartphone in India.
The listing of the smartphone on Flipkart microsite has confirmed several features of the upcoming smartphone, which include a 6.52-inch full-screen display with HD+ quality and a 120Hz touch sampling rate. The Poco C50 comes pre-installed with Android 12 Go Edition on top. However, there is no information about the smartphone's update to Android 13 in future.
Poco C50 houses a dual camera unit at the rear led by 8-megapixel primary sensor. For selfies, the smartphone has a 5-megapixel front camera, arranged in the water-drop style notch cutout. The dual camera unit is placed in a square-shaped slightly raised platform on the back, with an LED flash on the side of the sensors.
This smartphone gets a MediaTek Helio A22 SoC. The Poco C50 houses a 5,000mAh battery with support for 10W charging. The Poco C50 comes with a fingerprint lock scanner on the back, which is shown to provide leather-like texture.
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field during his Monday night game against the Bengals and was taken to a Cincinnati hospital where he is in "critical condition," the NFL said, adding that the match had been postponed.Italy's parliament has decided to impose a 26 percent capital tax on profits exceeding $2,060 (roughly Rs.1.7 lakh) generated out of crypto trading. The country has acknowledged the presence of the virtual digital assets (VDA) sector in the existing financial system This tax imposition will be implemented as part of Italy's budget plans for 2023. As of now, the country has not decided upon a definitive set of frameworks around the crypto sector. Bringing VDAs under the tax regime for Italy, hence marks a milestone moment for the up-and-coming fintech sector.
The country has listed some incentives for crypto investors to encourage them to declare their holdings. One such incentive allows taxpayers to slash their capital gains at 14 percent of the price of the held crypto asset that was recorded on January 1, according to a report by Bitcoin.com.
In addition, losses beyond the mark of $2,060 (roughly Rs. 1.7 lakh) incurred because of crypto volatility will be seen as tax deductions, that would be added as information in the next tax period in Italy.
Most transactions facilitated via crypto assets are anonymous and untraceable. By taxing crypto transactions, nations like Italy have joined countries like India, Australia, Portugal, and South Korea, in attempting to formulate tax laws for the crypto sector.
As of last month, Italy was waiting for its crypto tax bill to be signed into the law.
The country is estimated to have over 1.3 million crypto holders. It has been taking gradual but continuous steps in favour of the cryptocurrency industry so that players feel welcome to set up shop and generate revenue.
CryptoCom and Coinbase crypto exchange for instance, recently won approval from Italy's financial regulator to serve customers in the region.
Italy is also exploring ways to utilise blockchain technology. The government chose the Algorand blockchain to bring about improvements in existing banking systems starting this year. Algorand will support an upcoming digital guarantees platform in Italy to issue bank and insurance guarantees on blockchain, which is a digital ledger technology (DLT).
The UK, India, Australia, Portugal, and South Korea are among other nations that have created or are in the process of formulating tax laws for the crypto sector thriving in their respective territories.
The Mumbai Indians may have splurged Rs 17.50 crore on Australian allrounder Cameron Green in the IPL auction but the cricketer will be available to play only as a batsman in the tournament till April 13, thanks to Cricket Australia's workload management policy guidelines for pacers that franchises must follow.
A well-placed goal from Nuno Tavares and an own goal from Maxime Esteve handed Olympique de Marseille a 2-1 win over Montpellier, ensuring they maintained third place in Ligue 1 on Monday.
There were no potholes on the road where cricketer Rishabh Pant's car met with a near-fatal accident, a National Highways Authority of India official said on Monday. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, after meeting the cricketer at a hospital in Dehradun on Sunday, had said Pant told him that his car crashed while he was trying to avoid a pothole on the highway.
New Zealand pacer Adam Milne on Monday withdrew himself from the white-ball tours of Pakistan and India due to lack of preparation.A data breach at Toyota Motor's Indian business might have exposed some customers' personal information, it said on Sunday. Toyota India said it has notified the relevant Indian authorities of the data breach at Toyota Kirloskar Motor, a joint venture with Indian conglomerate Kirloskar Group.
"Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) has been notified by one of its service providers of an incident that might have exposed personal information of some of TKM's customers on the Internet", TKM said in an emailed statement without disclosing the size of the data breach or number of customers affected.
An unrelated issue at Toyota Motor's T-Connect service potentially leaked about 296,000 pieces of customer information, it said last October.
At the time, Toyota Group had stated it had found that about 296,000 pieces of customer information from its T-Connect service might have been leaked.
Back in October, the firm said 296,019 email addresses and customer numbers of those using T-Connect, a telematics service that connects vehicles via a network, were potentially leaked. The affected customers are individuals who signed up to the service's website using their email addresses since July 2017.
A third-party access could not be confirmed from the access history of the data server where the information was stored based on security experts' investigation, Toyota said in a statement at the time.
At the same time, it added that third-party access "could not be completely ruled out." There was no possibility, though, that users' sensitive personal information, such as names, phone numbers or credit card information, were leaked, Toyota had stated.
The Japanese automaker had not confirmed cases of the information being misused but cautioned that there was a possibility of spamming, phishing scams and unsolicited email messages being sent to the users' email addresses.
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India's digital prowess will grow in 2023 and over the next five years, driven by technology, start-ups, semiconductors, electronics and computing, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said allaying any concerns over tech winter, and predicting spring for the country's booming innovation ecosystem.
The comments by the IT minister are significant given the backdrop of slowdown headwinds in the West, recent spate of layoffs by US tech giants, global market turmoil, and talks of tech winter.
Chandrasekhar, who is the Minister of State for Electronics and IT, told PTI that global and domestic opportunities for digitisation continue to be "very strong".
He exuded confidence that India's trillion dollar digital economy vision is "well within our grasp" and "an absolutely incontrovertible fact".
The momentum of digital economy will continue in 2023, backed by enabling rules and laws that offer catalysing framework for technological growth and innovation, he promised.
It is pertinent to mention here that while India has tightened IT rules for the safety of digital and social media users, and work has started on new law for data protection, the norms for online gaming and contours of the draft Digital India Act are expected to be out soon.
"We see no winter...if anything, it is summer and spring for the next five years," Chandrasekhar asserted, citing the tech potential.
Demand for Indian talent, as well as products and technology that are designed in India and Made in India, continues to be robust, he pointed out.
"India as a market for consuming digital products and digital services is one of the biggest markets for the next 5-10 years. So all these (factors) point to India continuing its digital economy expansion to reach one trillion dollars in the next 4-5 years," Chandrasekhar said.
According to the minister, innovation and the start-up momentum will continue despite certain corrections now and then.
At the same time, companies cannot merely sit and relax, but will have to upskill and brace new business models to be relevant amid market disruptions, the minister noted.
Companies that do not innovate with agility, or adjust to changes will face challenges "created not by the market, but related to their own preparedness for this digital opportunity," he cautioned.
"...that trillion dollar digital economy is well within our grasp, and that we have a very reasonably high opportunity to reach the trillion dollar digital economy, firing on all cylinders, is an absolutely incontrovertible fact," Chandrasekhar said.
Since 2014 when India's digital might meant only IT and IT-enabled services, the country had taken rapid strides, diversifying and expanding into new areas.
Now while IT and ITES sector continue to grow at 15-20 percent per annum, there is also world-class startup and innovation ecosystem. While India has made a mark in electronics manufacturing, emerging as a production powerhouse, the year 2023 will also see rapid strides in deep tech innovation, semiconductor design, electronics design, blockchain, supercomputing, open compute initiatives, automotive, 5G and other emerging areas.
"In the coming five years, all these will continue to chug along at high rates of growth," Chandrasekhar said adding these new and emerging areas will attract investments, create digitalisation products, and services opportunity for the country.
"In those five years, will there be some corrections? Yes, this is the nature of tech...because tech is so disruptive and changes are so rapid, a company that was doing, say, something in the classic `Web2' area, will find itself totally irrelevant in the `Web3' space 1-2 years from now," he said underlining the need for companies to keep pace with technological changes.
Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis has confirmed he will partner compatriot Nick Kyrgios to defend their men's doubles crown at the Australian Open this month.
Paris Saint-Germain, without World Cup winner Lionel Messi and Neymar, lost for the first time in any competition since March 20 last year when they were defeated 3-1 at Lens on Sunday.
Chelsea dropped more points in their quest to climb back up the Premier League standings as Serge Aurier earned Nottingham Forest a 1-1 draw with Graham Potter's side on Sunday.