PUBG or Player’s Unknown Battlegrounds is a battle royale game that almost everyone is familiar with these days. The game has seen massive popularity amongst teenagers and adults alike. Needless to say, a lot of school-going kids and students are hooked to the game, and this has led to an overall decrease in academic performance for a lot of students. Amidst rising concerns, On March 8, 2019, the state government of Gujarat announced that anyone found playing PUBG will be arrested under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code. On March 13, 10 students were arrested for the same in Rajkot, Gujarat.
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What nonsense is this?!
— Dhruv Rathee (@dhruv_rathee) March 13, 2019
People are getting arrested just for playing #PUBG? Now Govt will lecture us on what mobile games to play?
Government is not a parent of every child in the country! pic.twitter.com/FmBz5O2tQk
This is the first time that people will hear anything of the sorts of “arrests made for gaming”. People were outraged, and a lot of them took to Twitter to address the issue. The students were ultimately released on bail, the police commissioner clarified. He also added that the booked students will be tried in a court in spite of all the circumstances.
The game ban wasn’t just limited to PUBG Mobile. A similar ban was also imposed on the “Momo Challenge”, which is a series of challenges that the user must complete in order to achieve victory and meet an imaginary character called “The Momo”. According to reports, the game involved self-harming acts that eventually led to suicide. A lot of children were affected physically as well as mentally because of the game. Another noteworthy mention is the infamous “Blue Whale” challenge that had similar self harm provoking traits.
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As of now, the PUBG game is legal in the rest of the country, but seeing how the government is creating awareness regarding the game, the game may be banned in other states as well. In such a case, protests on social media may be seen, owing to the huge player base of the game.
Apple’s leading witness for the case, former engineer Arjuno Siva was supposed to testify in the court on March 7. However, as per reports, he was unable to reach the destination, and the Qualcomm’s defence defense was accused of witness tampering by the Apple counsel. Moreover, the company called its former employee a “tainted witness” when he failed to turn up for the hearing.
Hence, Qualcomm is seeking US$ 31 Million in damages from Apple, which roughly breaks down to US$1.40 per iPhone sold. The infringed patents are as follows:
The touchdown of the Dragon capsule was the last part of SpaceX’s Demonstration – 1 mission. The reason why the mission was of utmost importance is NASA’s upcoming Commercial Crew Program, under which the agency is planning to send NASA astronauts to a USA owned spacecraft. So, the SpaceX DM1 was basically a test run to prove that it is capable of space travel, and it struck off as “better than expected” as per SpaceX and NASA representatives.
The demonstration’s first step took place at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, where the capsule was placed on SpaceX’s very own Falcon 9 rocket. At 1:19 pm IST (2:49 am EST) on March 2, liftoff happened, and the DM1 made its way towards the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon then auto-docked with a port on the station, something that had never been achieved by SpaceX previously.
Out of the three main stages of the mission, two were a complete success, which included the liftoff and the docking. The biggest challenge of the DM1 mission was the splashdown, which had to demonstrate that the capsule carrying cargo (and humans, in the future) can safely penetrate the earth’s atmosphere and land safely where it was intended to. At 1:02 pm IST (2:32 am EST), the Crew Dragon undocked from the ISS and started preparations for its descent to earth. The Crew Dragon ignited its thrusters for a period of 15 minutes to leave its orbit and began its descent to earth.
The capsule exceeded the speed of sound while falling to the earth’s surface. After minutes of intense heating, the Crew dragon deployed four parachutes and gently “splashed down” in the Atlantic ocean, 200+ nautical miles away from the coast of Florida. SpaceX’s recovery boat, Go Searcher collected the capsule and will bring it back to the shore for further tests.
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Along with the suit, Warner/Chappell Music also filed a motion seeking an interim injunction to prevent Spotify from including its songs in the application without a valid license. Spotify claimed that it could offer the songs in the app in conformance with its request for receiving a statutory license under Section 31 D of the Indian Copyright Act.
Shortly after filing the Section 31 D application, Spotify had decided to give up a sum of 528,000 Euro to one of Warner/Chappell’s partners. There is no explanation of how Spotify arrived at this conclusion, but Warner Chappell refused this sum of money. The American Music publishing company then prompted Justice SJ Kathawalla to ask the Swedish music streaming service to deposit a lump sum of Rs. 6.5 crore with the Court. At the same time, the High Court also directed Warner/Chappell to return the 528,000 Euro back to Spotify.
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The Spotify India Website is also live, where users can find all the information they need regarding Spotify subscriptions. According to the website, users can avail Spotify premium services at Rs. 119 per month, with more options for a day, week, month, quarter, 6 months and a year. People can choose from a premium subscription plan which allows users to avail a free 30 day trial, a prepaid plan which starts from Rs. 129 a month, and a student plan which offers up to 50% discount on the beforementioned plans.
Post release, Spotify will have to go up against music streaming applications like JioSaavn, Gaana and more. Exclusive music launches from the music vendor can also be expected soon if Spotify wants to make a statement in the Indian music streaming industry. And with a market as huge as India, doing so becomes a compulsion rather than a luxury.
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When 5G was announced, reports said that the new network would be more secure than the previous iteration. Instead, the researchers unveiled three different kinds of attacks which hackers can use to breach a network which is running on 
The primary form of breaching is called a Torpedo attack. It exploits a vulnerability in the paging protocols that various carriers such as Verizon and Sprint use. The protocol actually notifies the person about an incoming call or text message. As per reports, if multiple phone calls are made and dropped to a single node, it might trigger a paging message without informing the target device. This way, the hacker may derive the user’s location, and he can further hijack the paging channel via the IP address.
A lot of reports and complaints originated around 7 pm IST, saying that a lot of Xbox one gamers couldn’t boot their Xbox One up. Even after restarting it several times, there wasn’t a fix available to the problem. Meanwhile, a lot of gamers started reaching out to the Xbox Support page on Twitter, creating a mess. Literally everyone saw that coming.
Xbox support tweeted a while later (you can check out the tweet 
Some hours later, Xbox support got back to their user base with the relieving news that the issue has been resolved. Gamers were able to get back online and text their buddies ‘Servers are back up, let’s play’. According to some tweets, the issue was caused due to a service update, that had to be rolled back in order to fix the outage. But hey, all’s well that ends well.