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Axis bank announces joint bank accounts for same-sex couples. You can name your same-sex partner as your nominee on bank accounts

Axis Bank, in line with its ‘DilSeOpen’ philosophy today announced #ComeAsYouAre, a charter of policies and practices for their employees and customers from the LGBTQIA+ community.
In keeping with the same spirit of the Apex Court and the Bank’s wider ESG aligned commitments, it has initiated of #ComeAsYouAre – a charter of policies and practices that embrace diversity, equity and inclusion within the organization and for its customers.
Employees have a redressal process:Axis Bank has a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy and a Human Rights Policy that offers redressal to challenges faced by employees from this community.

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WhatsApp has over 1,000 contractors moderating content, including private messages and media: Investigation Report

Deploying an army of content reviewers is just one of the ways that Facebook Inc. has compromised the privacy of WhatsApp users.
These contractors pass judgment on whatever flashes on their screen — claims of everything from fraud or spam to child porn and potential terrorist plotting — typically in less than a minute.
WhatsApp’s increasingly aggressive business plan is focused on charging companies for an array of services – letting users make payments via WhatsApp and managing customer service chats – that offer convenience but fewer privacy protections.

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Bitcoin mining consumes around 91 terawatt-hours of electricity annually.
With increased competition, bitcoin mining has become an industry of its own, requiring specialized machines, servers, and huge data centers with enough cooling capacity to keep the computers from overheating.
As noted, the internal mining process itself has become more complex; according to the New York Times, a single desktop computer could easily mine bitcoin back in 2011, when the cryptocurrency had little following.

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