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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Aarogya Setu app now lets users delete account, erase data: Here’s how

Aarogya Setu contact tracing app in India is getting new feature this week. The developers have updated the app which allows people to delete their account from the database. This is possible when the users go to the settings on the app. They will have select the mobile number using which their account was created.

As you can see here, the delete account option comes with certain conditions. Go to Settings on the side menu of the app, click on Delete My Account, put your registered mobile number and click on Delete Account. Before you delete the account, the app tells you what all information will be removed.

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It says the user will permanently cancel their Aarogya Setu registration. They will erase app data on the phone. Having said that, it says the data from the government server will be erased after 30 days. This is the first time when we’re hearing about the option to delete the data for the user, if they wish to. Aarogya Setu has been developed with privacy policies that are not clear. Privacy critics from across the globe have questioned its purpose.

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To ease those concerns, the Indian government decided to host source code of the platform on GitHub. But many feel they need to do that for the server side as well. Aarogya Setu is available on iOS and Android. And as per the recent available data, the app has been downloaded by over 130 million users in the country.

Aarogya Setu misses Google-Apple notification API

US-based tech companies Apple and Google had recently been collaborating on the ‘exposure notification’ API for Android and iOS devices. The API was meant to work in countries that were heavily affected by the pandemic. It designed to work on one standard health and safety-oriented app in each country. In India, that was going to be the Aarogya Setu app. But the platform’s privacy and data policies don’t match with that of the API. Because of which the app is not compatible with the ‘Exposure Notification’ feature.



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