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Google uses TLS (what is called standard encryption) to keep your emails relatively safe in transit. (The service does also have the more secure S/MIME encryption, but it’s only available for business and educational institutions.) There are, however, other ways you can keep your personal data a little safer, and one is by using Google’s confidential mode. Google introduced its confidential mode for Gmail in 2018. The setting allows people to send messages that can expire and prevents recipients from copying their contents, forwarding them to others, or downloading them. You can use confidential mode on a desktop or through…

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group will launch Ethereum option contracts on its platform on September 12. The company announced that it’s waiting for regulatory review, and if approved, these new investment products will join its ETH futures and mini futures contracts. The new option contracts will be offered at a size of 50 ETH per contract and will track the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate, the press release confirmed. In addition to its Ethereum-based products, the CME offers Bitcoin options, futures, and micro-sized options contracts. The new Ethereum options will rollout days before “The Merge” is launched on mainnet.…

Bitcoin (BTC) long-term holders are knuckling down as a record portion of the BTC supply stays dormant for years. Data from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode confirms that the percentage of the supply now stationary for at least five years is higher than ever. 2017 BTC buyers not this year’s sellers Bitcoin has recovered almost 40% from its macro lows of $17,600 just two months ago, but for the cryptocurrency’s diamond hands, it has been a non-event. Those who purchased BTC in 2017 or earlier continue to hodl their stake, and the trend points to more, not less, hodling in recent…

Axis Bank has increased its marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) by 5 basis points (bps) across tenors from August 18. The private lender revised its lending rate after the central bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) on August 5 increased benchmark policy rates by 50 bps earlier this month, taking the repo rate to 5.40. According to Axis’s website, overnight and one-month MCLR stand at 7.85 per cent; three-month MCLR is at 7.95 per cent; six-month at 8 per cent; one-year at 8.05 per cent; two-year at 8.15 per cent; and three-year at 8.20 per cent. …

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Over the past decade, cloud adoption has become the rule, not the exception. And yet, many companies that have embraced the cloud are feeling the acute burden of a spike in spending. In other words, cloud usage may be costing many businesses more than they are actually saving. Despite that, 69% of businesses globally have accelerated their migration to cloud computing over the last six months and end-user spending on public cloud services worldwide is predicted to swell to nearly…

Instagram is tired of creators making their videos in Reels and then heading over to TikTok. While using Reels this week, The Verge discovered that when trying to download an edited clip to an iPhone, the audio from the clip disappeared. This means if you want to export the footage from Reels to use in another app, you have to actually post the Reel first in order to save the sound. As recently as late July, it was possible to download the clip with audio and use it in a separate app — like, say, TikTok — without posting it…

When people think of Ukraine in 2022, they are unfortunately reminded of the still ongoing conflict between the country and Russia. Nevertheless, during this time, Ukraine also managed to receive an unprecedented amount of donations which the country used to get food, medicine, water and other vital components. Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect here is that these donations were mostly made via crypto and other digital assets instead of through traditional means like banks. As such, a cryptocurrency exchange known as QMALL has announced a partnership with Ukrainian boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk. Both Oleksandr and QMALL share a common goal,…

Bitcoin (BTC) briefly broke above $25,000 on Aug. 15, but the excitement lasted less than an hour and was followed by a 5% retrace in the next five hours. The resistance level proved to be tougher than expected but may have given bulls false hope for the upcoming $335 million weekly options expiry. Investors’ fleeting optimism reverted to a sellers’ market on Aug. 17 after BTC dumped and tested the $23,300 support. The negative move took place hours before the release of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) minutes from its July meeting. Investors expect some insights on whether the…

It is easy to pile up multiple bank accounts, necessitated when you change jobs, chase higher interest on deposits in different banks, or even set up joint accounts. However, maintaining all these accounts can get cumbersome. The World Bank, in its latest Global Findex report, stated that one-third of Indian bank account holders had an inactive account in 2021. About half of the respondents with an inactive account cited no need for this account as one of the primary reasons for not using it. Experts suggest that 2-3 bank savings accounts are sufficient for an individual and the rest should…

WhatsApp introduced a new feature for desktop users through which you can answer calls and chat, even when the phone is switched off. If your phone is switched off and not linked with your WhatsApp desktop app, you would not have to link again for accessing WhatsApp on your desktop. Also read | WhatsApp’s new privacy features: Here’s everything you need to know The latest WhatsApp Desktop feature will come in handy for users who don’t want to use WhatsApp on their smartphones while working. According to a report by WABetainfor, the meta-owned platform,…