Technology
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Japanese C2C marketplace Mercari to double workforce in India
New Delhi: Japanese C2C marketplace Mercari on Monday announced the opening of its new office for their Global Center of Excellence (GCoE) in Bengaluru and is taking strategic steps to expand its…
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Govt’s ONDC reaches 50K restaurants, takes on Zomato-Swiggy dominance
New Delhi: Giving a tough fight to Zomato-Swiggy dominance in online food delivery market, Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), an initiative of the government, on Monday said that 50,000 restaurants are…
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Will make sure that X competitor to LinkedIn is cool: Elon Musk
San Francisco: Elon Musk on Sunday took on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, saying he will make sure that the X (formerly Twitter) competitor to LinkedIn is cool. X has already revealed plans to take…
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Compliance panel keeps Samsung in check: Committee chair
Seoul: Ensuring compliance and ethics is taking root in the corporate culture within Samsung Group, its compliance committee chairman has said, as its management learned the lesson that it must pay a…
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China’s Alibaba, S. Korea’s Naver launch GPT rival AI models
Hong Kong: Chinese internet giant Alibaba has launched new artificial intelligence (AI) models that can understand images and perform more complex conversations. The two new models, called Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, will be…
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Japan’s lunar lander, X-ray mission to launch on Monday
Tokyo: After Chandrayaan-3’s success, Japan’s space agency is set to launch a lander and a X-ray mission on the lunar surface on Monday. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) SLIM (Smart Lander…
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Vivid imaginations can help people feel more ‘present’ in VR, shows study
London: People with vivid imaginations are more likely than others to believe they truly inhabit the worlds they visit in virtual reality (VR), according to new research. This finding, published at this…
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YouTube to add support for RSS uploads for podcasters by year-end
San Francisco: YouTube product lead Steve McLendon has confirmed that the platform will add support for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) uploads for podcasters by the end of the year, among other updates.…
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Microsoft Launcher for Android to get ChatGPT-supported Bing Chat
San Francisco In the generative AI era, Microsoft is updating its Launcher application for Android with ChatGRP-supported Bing Chat integration. According to reports, the feature will also roll out to Microsoft Surface…
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HackerRank lays off 53 employees amid economic uncertainty
New Delhi: HackerRank, a leading technology hiring platform, has laid off 53 employees globally amid the ongoing economic uncertainty. Vivek Ravisankar, Co-founder and CEO of HackerRank, sent an email to employees last…
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Online math learning platform Cuemath lays off 100 more staff: Report
New Delhi: Online math learning platform Cuemath has laid off 100 more employees amid a challenging macroeconomic environment for edtech companies, the media reported on Saturday. Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital…
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Several top news publications block OpenAI from accessing their content
San Francisco: Several top new publications like The New York Times, CNN and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) have blocked Microsoft-backed OpenAI to access their content to train its AI models. The…
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Chrome’s reading mode may read articles for you
San Francisco: Google is reportedly experimenting with a text-to-speech feature for Chrome’s reading mode on the desktop which will read articles for users. As per X (formerly Twitter) user Leopeva64, the feature…
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WhatsApp scam calls back to haunt Indian users, this time from US
New Delhi: WhatsApp users in India on Saturday witnessed a new wave of scam where cyber-criminals started calling people on the platform from fake US numbers, pretending to be their senior office…
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Discord starts notifying users affected by March data breach
San Francisco: Popular chatting platform Discord has started notifying users affected by a March data breach, about three months after the company announced the attack in May. According to a data breach…
