Fortnite High Stakes Event, Week 9 Challenges Delayed Due to Controller Issue Popular battle royale game, Fortnite, was expected to receive patch v5.40 later today which would bring along a bunch of changes, including the new High Stakes event. However, according to a new tweet from Fortnite, the update is being pushed back to Thursday due to a controller issue the development team found in patch v5.40. Due to the discovery of a critical controller issue, we’ll be moving the release of v5....

Google Maps Update Adds Events Section, Altitude Data for Cycling, Walking Google has begun the roll out of a new update for Google Maps on iOS which has upgraded the app to version 4.57 and has introduced a couple of new features. The first new feature brought by the update is an ‘Events’ section, which compiles interesting events taking place nearby users’ current location. As per the latest update’s changelog, the Events section will give information about‘everything happening nearby whether it’s a late night comedy show, a movie in the park or visiting your favorite chef’s weekend popup’....

Google to Assist India’s Election Body in Tracking Political Ads, Campaign Finances Meddling in elections has become a major headache for law enforcement authorities in today’s hyperconnected world. Ad campaigns have been used by all kinds of agencies to target voters and influence mass opinion. Google, the leader in online advertising, recently introduced a new policy in the US which sought to boosttransparencywhen it comes to political ads, and now, the company is trying to generate a similar effect in India....

Google Wants to End URLs to Bring in Safer and Simpler Web Addresses There was once a time when ‘.com’ was all you had, with the odd .net and .org, but today we have quirkier names such as ‘.xxx’, ‘.io’ and ‘.ai’ and evenemojis as domain names. Then there are long referral trails and UTM strings with every URL. It’s become a confusing mess for users, and at the same time, a prime opportunity for cybercriminals to trick them into scams....

Instagram Said To Be Working on Standalone Shopping App Fresh from a successful launch of a YouTube competitor,IGTV, Instagram is looking to step up to rivals in the e-commerce category with a standalone shopping app. As reported byThe Verge, this shopping app could allow Instagram users to browse through goods sold by brands and businesses on the platform and buy them from within the app itself. As for the name, it couldessentially be called ‘IG Shopping’but nothing is set in stone and could change over the course of development....

Lenovo ThinkPad E480 Laptops Launched in India, Priced at Rs 36,999 Onwards Lenovo has launched its latest ThinkPad E-series laptops in India. All models in the ThinkPad E480 lineup come with a 14-inch display, but are available in a multitude of different options and configurations in terms of CPUs and storage. All the devices have been launched with either 7th- or 8th-Generation Intel Core processors, with options ranging from the entry-level Core i3 (7th-gen) to the premium Core i7 (8th-gen)....

Mobiles to Drive 90% Of Airline, Hotel Bookings in India by 2022: Facebook-KPMG With more and more Indians using phones for shopping experiences, nearly 9 in 10 airline ticket purchases and hotel bookings will be mobile influenced in the country by 2022 — creating a $19 billion and $12 billion sales opportunity for airline and hotel brands respectively, a Facebook-KPMG report revealed on Wednesday. Nearly half of the total consumer loss in airline ticket purchases (11 percent out of 23 percent) and hotel bookings (16 percent out of 32 percent) is on account of media friction (consumer drop-off from their purchase journey)....