Technology
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boAt launches 1st ‘India-made’ headphones with head-tracking 3D audio, spatial sound
New Delhi: Homegrown audio and wearable company boAt on Monday launched India’s first headphones with head-tracking 3D audio and spatial sound features. By harnessing spatial audio technology and integrating state-of-the-art 3D accelerometers…
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Audio streaming platform Pocket FM completes 1st ESOP buyback worth $8.3 mn
New Delhi: Audio series platform Pocket FM on Monday announced it has completed its first ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) buyback worth $8.3 million. Several former and existing employees, holding vested stocks…
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Indians travelling to UAE can use PhonePe to make UPI payments
PhonePe, a leading Indian fintech application, has announced that users travelling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) can now make payments using UPI at Mashreq’s NEOPAY terminals. The collaboration is facilitated through…
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World Idli Day: Single Swiggy user spent Rs 7.3 lakh on idlis in one year
New Delhi: One Swiggy user from Hyderabad ordered idlis worth Rs 7.3 lakh in the past 12 months, the online food delivery platform said on Saturday on the occasion of ‘World Idli…
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This is how OpenAI aims to fight deepfakes with ‘Voice Engine’ in election year
New Delhi: As world leaders scramble to tackle the menace of deepfakes in a global election year, Sam Altman-run OpenAI is trying to develop beneficial AI, with a text-to-speech model called ‘Voice…
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Samsung, employees agree to 5.1 pc pay raise for 2024
Seoul: Samsung’s management and its workers agreed to an average 5.1 per cent pay raise for the year, sources said on Friday. The world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker reached an…
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Byju’s EGM on rights issue ends sans objections, dissenting investors skip meet
New Delhi: Embattled edtech company Byju’s on Friday held its extraordinary general meeting (EGM) called by the board of directors to raise the capital via the rights issue without any hassles. The…
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AI chatbot ‘Grok 2’ now in training, will exceed all expectations: Elon Musk
New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday said that AI chatbot ‘Grok 2’ is now in training and will exceed all expectations when it is finally released for the…
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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
San Francisco: Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was on Thursday sentenced to 25 years in prison in the US for seven counts of conspiracy and fraud…
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ShareChat secures nearly $49 million from key investors: Report
New Delhi: Social media platform ShareChat has raised $48.8 million via convertible debentures from its existing investors that include Temasek and Lightspeed. Startup news website Inc42 reported on Wednesday, citing the startup’s…
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Only 4 pc of Indian firms are ‘mature’ to tackle modern cyber attacks: Report
New Delhi: Only 4 per cent of organisations in India have the “mature” level of readiness needed to be resilient against modern cybersecurity risks, a new report showed on Thursday. Readiness is…
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New AI tool can predict fatal heart rhythm with 80 pc accuracy
London: British researchers have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict a person’s risk of a lethal heart rhythm with 80 per cent accuracy. Ventricular arrhythmia (VA) is a…
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NXP Semiconductors unveils industry-first platform for software-defined vehicles
New Delhi: NXP Semiconductors on Thursday said it has broken through the integration barriers for next-generation software-defined vehicle (SDV) development with the introduction of a new platform. The new industry-first vehicle software…
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NCLT refuses to defer Byju’s EGM to raise capital via rights issue
New Delhi: In a breather for embattled edtech company Byju’s, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Thursday refused to stay the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) called by the board of directors…
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New paper-based device to make on-spot glucose testing using smartphone
Jodhpur: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur have developed a new low-cost, paper-based analytical device that can be connected to smartphones to provide on-spot detection of glucose levels. The…
