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Android-maker Google has agreed to bring back Indian apps it had delisted from its Play Store. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.Also in this letter:■ Nasscom plea to Karnataka govt on cab fares■ ETtech Done Deals■ ONDC’s one-year journey Google to reinstate delisted Indian apps on Play Store after govt intervention IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw (centre), Google India head Sanjay Gupta (on Vaishnaw's right), and startup representativesGoogle is ‘temporarily reinstating’ apps of Indian internet companies that…

Bianca Bustamante, one of the best young female race-car drivers in the world, can weave a rocket through traffic at more than 200 mph without breaking a sweat. But until recently she couldn’t so much as back the family sedan out of the driveway without risking a ticket.“I’m always being driven by my mom or my dad,” said the teenager, who last year competed in the all-female F1 Academy series with Italy’s Prema Racing and became the first woman signed to represent McLaren Racing in its driver development program. And she…

Case study of a precipitation event starting at 23:50 UTC on 25 March 2021, with a tornado outbreak across several states of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. NowcastNet provides the only results that have forecast skills on high-intensity precipitation and show the sharp structures of several supercells for the 3-h horizon. a, Geographic context for the predictions. b, A single prediction at T + 1 h, T + 2 h and T + 3 h lead times for different models.…

NOTE: The following interview contains spoilers for Black Adam #12, out in stores and digitally today. You’ve been warned! After a long absence of writing mainstream comics, Christopher Priest made a grand return back in 2016 with the Deathstroke ongoing series as part of the Rebirth initiative from DC Comics. Since then, Priest has brought his idiosyncratic writing style to numerous comic projects at DC, including the Justice League. When a Black Adam 12-issue limited series penned by Priest debuted last year, the…

Ian Dunt starts his lacerating analysis of Westminster with an extended case history. It concerns Chris Grayling at the time he became secretary of state for justice in 2012. Having inherited a probation service that was creaking at the seams, he decided to privatise the whole thing, turning over the delicate business of managing ex-offenders to a selection of security firms that had no experience of that kind of work. The big idea was that they would be incentivised with a “payment by results” system, calculated…

Succession is back, sweeping portentously over New York’s skyline, reeking of money and menace. Like the very best seasons of The Real Housewives, it has everything: fabulous couture, looming mansions, smashing mini-breaks and the generous invitation to pity or despise almost all the characters in it.Succession led the way, but since we last left the Roys in late 2021 there has been an explosion of “eat the rich” on screen. The rich have been skewered figuratively in The White Lotus and literally in The Menu. In Triangle…

The Madras High Court has ordered maintenance of status quo against digital payment app MobilePe and its group companies in the matter of offering unified payments interface (UPI) and Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) services. Justice M Sundar granted the injunction while passing interim orders on an application arising out of a civil suit from PhonePe. In its suit, PhonePe contended that the defendant companies had infringed upon its trademark.Read Also The judge found the logos of the plaintiff company PhonePe and the…

Image: Marvel StudiosThe Comic-Con trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was a somber, mournful affair that couldn’t be anything but after the sudden passing of Chadwick Boseman. And though much of the film will be about the film’s returning characters (and their real life stars) grieving, Wakanda Forever is going to show the wider ramifications of T’Challa’s death. Namely, that the rest of the world considers Wakanda ripe for the picked. As reported by Germain Lussier on the show floor, Wakanda Forever’s D23 footage…

Image via Amblin Entertainment Jurassic World: Dominion will be operating on a much bigger scale than any previous entry in the saga, and not just because of its Tyrannosaurus-sized cast. If you cast your mind back four years to the end of 2018’s Fallen Kingdom, you’ll remember that dinosaurs were released into the Earth’s eco-system, meaning that they’re no longer confined to one island and have spread throughout the planet. The Jurassic franchise has always operated in the sci-fi realm, of course, but this…

On 28 April, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) issued new directives, first reported by Mint, that require Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers to store user data for five years. What does that mean? Mint explains: What does the directive say? Under the new directions, VPN providers will need to store validated customer names, their physical addresses, email ids, phone numbers, and the reason they are using the service, along with the dates they…