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Apple ‘most popular’ iPhone model available at Rs 23,490 on Flipkart, check details here

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Apple iPhone 11 is one of the most popular iPhone models till date and it was the highest-selling smartphone globally of 2020. Apple iPhone 11 was the vanilla model in the iPhone 11 series that also comprises iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max. Apple iPhone 11 was available as an affordable option in the tech giant’s portfolio until September but the company discontinued the smartphone after the launch of Apple iPhone 14 series. Although the smartphone has been discontinued by Apple, it is still a good buy when you look at the features at the price it is offered at. Apple iPhone 11 During the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale and Flipkart Big Billion Days sale, Apple iPhone 11 was available at a massive discount and although the festive sales are now over, you can still get iPhone 11 with a great discount. Apple iPhone 11 is currently available at a discounted price of Rs 40,999 for the base model with 64GB storage capacity on Flipkart. The Apple iPhone 11 series was lau...

A comparison of the UAE's main streamers, from Netflix to Disney+

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  Disney’s streaming service will launch in the Middle East in June The June 8 launch of Disney+ in the Middle East will bring another A-list streaming service to an already crowded marketplace, and seems certain to ensure the rapidly growing service, which reported a 37 per cent year-on-year growth in subscriber numbers in its year-end report for 2021, will continue to add viewers at an impressive rate. With 129.8 million subscribers internationally at the close of last year (including its Asian Disney+ Hotstar offshoot), Disney still lags behind Netflix in terms of pure numbers — the grandaddy of the streaming services reported 221.84 million subscribers at the close of 2021 — but Netflix’s growth has been slowing in recent years, and it can only dream of Disney’s impressive ability to add new subscribers. Of course, having only launched in the US and other selected markets in 2019, Disney hasn’t yet had Netflix’s 15 years as a streaming service to reach peak viewers, and...

Apple and Meta gave users' data to hackers who used forged legal requests

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  Hackers affiliated with cyber-crime group ‘Recursion Team’ believed to be behind some forged requests Apple and Meta, the parent company of Facebook , provided customer data to hackers who pretended to be law-enforcement officials, sources said. Apple and Meta provided basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address, in mid-2021 in response to the forged “emergency data requests”. Normally, such requests are only provided with a search warrant or subpoena signed by a judge, the sources said. But emergency requests do not require a court order. Snap received a forged legal request from the same hackers, but it is not known whether the company provided data in response. It is also not clear how many times the companies provided data after receiving forged legal requests. Cyber-security researchers suspect that some of the hackers sending the forgeries are minors in the UK and the US. One minor is also believed to be the leader of the cyber-c...