Industry group: India to pilot parallel testing of new electronic devices to speed up approvals and reduce time to certification from the current 16 to 21 weeks (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)

Munsif Vengattil / Reuters:
Industry group: India to pilot parallel testing of new electronic devices to speed up approvals and reduce time to certification from the current 16 to 21 weeks  —  India will try out a strategy of parallel testing to speed up safety approvals for new electronic devices …

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Samsung launches a co-branded credit card with Axis Bank in India, where it has 175M customers, offering 10% cashback to customers buying Samsung products (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)

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The Reserve Bank of India plans to launch a retail pilot for its CBDC on December 1, after testing with nine banks since November 1 (Swati Bhat/Reuters)

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The Connectivity Standards Alliance releases the Matter 1.0 standard for smart homes and opens its certification program (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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Twitter’s head of trust and safety Ella Irwin says the company manually reviewed “any and all accounts” that violated its new policy by posting links to ElonJet (Sheila Dang/Reuters)

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