Top Tech News: 21st February, 2018

Airtel Offering 5GB of 4G Data at Rs.98 with a validity of 28 Days


Airtel is offering 5GB mobile data at the price of Rs.98 with a valdity of 28 Days.

Currently, the new offer is only applicable in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana circle.

The new Airtel recharge pack offer is launched with the aim at providing heavy-data to their prepaid users who consume a lot of Internet content but do not have much need of voice calls.


Reliance Jio will invest Rs.10,000 Crore in UP in next 3 years


On Wednesday, Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited Mukesh Ambani said Reliance Jio will invest another Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh over the next three years.

Ambani also said, Jio will make available over two crore Jio-Phones in UP within the next two months on a priority basis."


WhatsApp adds the new "Group Discussion" Feature in its Latest Update


With the latest update, WhatsApp will add a new "Add group description" tab in a group.

The new group description feature comes with a 500-character limit and will help the new members in getting a brief idea about group's purpose and activities before joining it.

Currently, the new feature is available on WhatsApp beta version 2.18.54 on Android and WhatsApp beta version 2.18.28 on Windows Phone

The new feature is expected to be available on iPhone soon in the coming days.


Critical Bugs found in uTorrent which allow malicious websites to steal downloaded files as well as control your computer simultaneously


Travis Ormandy who is researcher at Google Project Zero has recently discovered the serious bugs in popular BitTorrent program, uTorrent.

These bugs also allows the hackers to monitor and keep track of all the downloads which had been made by the user in past.

These critical bugs also allow any malicious website to download harmful code into the startup folder of Windows. By doing this, the malicious code will start automatically when the user boots up their system.

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