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Netflix is soon expected to provide people with more content to binge-watch with the launch of a new extended service called N-Plus. The service will allow people to watch “insider” content related to various movies and shows. Also Read - Confused what to watch on Netflix? New ‘Play Something’ feature is here to help For this, the popular OTT platform is reportedly conducting a survey to see if users are up for the additional service. Here’s what could be up to Netflix’s sleeve. Also Read - Netflix introduces UI changes for the Kids profiles: See what's new Netflix’s N-Plus service to launch soon A report by The Next Web hints at a survey that is making the rounds for Netflix users. TWB’s Abhimanyu Ghoshal is one of those customers who are receiving the survey mails, which decide the existence of N-Plus. Also Read - Android app offering free Netflix may steal your WhatsApp data The survey reveals that the added service will be an opportunity for people to know more about the Netfl

     YouTube could soon make it easier for users to browse through videos by automatically translating video titles, descriptions, and captions in their native language, according to a report. The new feature on the popular video-sharing platform is powered by Google's own Translate app. A few users have reportedly spotted the feature, which seems to have been enabled through a server-side change. It can be expected to be available for more users soon. However, translations to only Portuguese and Turkish have been spotted so far. Android Police was the first to report on the new translation feature enabled for some users by YouTube . According to the report, some user were able to see video titles, descriptions, and captions from English to Portuguese and English to Turkish. As mentioned, the new feature takes the help of Google Translate to automatically translating the text, which can help users browse through videos more easily. The report said the feature is available for bot

India has given various domestic telcos, alongside certain network equipment vendors from around the world, approval to conduct six-month trials on 5G technology. Of note, however, is that none of the network equipment vendors in the trial will be from China. The decision to exclude Chinese manufacturers comes despite Huawei last year  receiving permission  to participate in India's 5G trial phase. The minister responsible for India's telco sector, Ravi Shankar Prasad,  last year said , "5G trials will be done with all vendors and operators". Instead of using Chinese network equipment, the 5G trials will use Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, and C-DOT kit, the Department of Telecommunications  said in a statement . In addition, Reliance Jio, one of the telcos that received approval, will conduct trials using its own indigenous technology. The other telcos that received trial approval are Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, and MTNL. For the trials, the telcos will use experiment

Representatives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter on Friday appeared before an Australian security committee as a united front, spruiking the idea that they're all working together to thwart nefarious activity, such as violent extremist material, from proliferating their respective platforms. The trio told the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security as part of its inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia that the effort is a joint one and that the best way forward was to not actually legislate a ban of all mentions of content deemed inappropriate. "We all know combating terrorism and extremism is a continuous challenge. And unless we can completely eliminate hate and intolerance from society, there's going to be hate and intolerance online," Facebook Australia's head of policy Josh Machin said. "It's also a shared challenge between governments, industry experts, academia, civil society, and the media." As

Google and Vodafone announced they're  extending their partnership  by six years, in part to build a powerful new data platform that can support the movement of 5,000 data feeds per day to the cloud.  The platform will allow Vodafone to better leverage its vasts sums of data, so they can offer new digital products and services to customers globally. While Vodafone and Google are building the platform to serve the telecom giant's needs, the companies will also explore the possibility of providing consultancy services to other businesses, either jointly or independently.  Vodafone first decided to move its large, on-premise big data systems to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) more than two years ago. Now, as part of their extended partnership, Vodafone is re-platforming its SAP system and moving them to GCP.  They're also co-innovating the new platform, called Nucleus, to integrate all of Vodafone's global data with a standard data model and common processes, data so

Accenture has redesigned the pharma major's business processes across key functions such as finance, supply chain, sales and procurement for better inventory optimisation, demand planning, workforce productivity and product availability. As part of the project, Accenture deployed a digital platform based on SAP S/4HANA®, a Microsoft Azure cloud-based data lake and Tableau dashboards, providing cloud-based analytics to help Mankind Pharma get deeper insights into its global business operations and performance. The platform integrates data in real-time from multiple sources across the supply chain, workforce and sales to provide a consolidated view of market insights. This can help the management team make informed decisions around business strategy, planning and product development.   The project was completed remotely during the ongoing pandemic with no impact on business continuity.   "At Mankind Pharma, we are committed to product innovation so we can provide high qualit

The Internet Society Italy Chapter is scheduled to celebrate a major anniversary, marking 35 years since the country’s first connection to the Internet.                                                    On that day in 1986, at about 6 p.m., a network connection was established between the former CNUCE Institute of the National Research Council in Pisa, Italy, and a location in Pennsylvania in the U.S. Italy was the fourth country in Europe to connect to the Internet, after Norway, the U.K., and Germany. The CNUCE Institute had been chosen to represent Italy in the ARPANET project, recalled Stefano Trumpy, the institute’s director at the time and current member of the Chapter. CNUCE had previously helped design and launch the first all-Italian geostationary satellite, SIRIO, back in 1977. The connection reflected the Italian team’s support of the TCP/IP protocols developed by Bob Kahn and Vint Cert, because of limitations with another networking technology called Open Systems Intercon

“There are so many dimensions data can be collected and data is collected, using IoT. The data is used for immediate attention, so you have to put the data under certain checks. This is ca Mr. Suhale Kapoor, Co-founder, and EVP Absolutdata- An Infogain Company, Mr.Rajesh Murthy, Founding Architect, and Vice President Engineering Intellicus Technologies, Mr. Krupesh Bhat, SignDesk, Mr. Avneet Singh Marwah, CEO Super Plastronics, speak to Ms. Vasudha Mukherjee, Editorial BWBusinessworld about the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and business productivity. Avneet Singh Marwah initiates the discussion to highlight the role of AI in our day-to-day life; “The biggest distraction in the last 4 years has happened because of smartphones. Now that will be shifting to the bigger screen, that is, smart TV. The biggest screen in your home will be connected to all your smartphone devices. Everything will be through your voice; your voice will be your new UI. Our vision is to expand AI t

     Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday urged people not to queue up outside Covid-19 vaccination centres in the national capital on Saturday when the third phase of the inoculation drive to cover all adults in the country is scheduled to start. "I request you to not queue up at the centres tomorrow. As soon as the vaccines come, we will make proper announcements. Only then people with appointments can start coming to the centres," Kejriwal said. Kejriwal said the Delhi government has not received the vaccines against the coronavirus disease yet. "We are in constant touch with the company. We are hopeful that the vaccines will reach by tomorrow or the day after. They have assured us that 300,000 doses of Covishield are coming to us first, tomorrow or the day after," he added.                                                  He said the Delhi government has requested both companies to make available 67 lakh doses each in next three months. "Delhi gov