Technology

Cosmopolitan publisher Hearst lays off 41 ‘talented’ staffers across magazines

San Francisco: Hearst Magazines, which has publications like Cosmopolitan, Elle, Seventeen, Harper’s Bazaar and Men’s Health under its umbrella, has sacked 41 “talented” union staffers due to “company restructuring”. The employees impacted…
GitHub Copilot Chat now available in public beta for business users

San Francisco: Microsoft-owned open-source software platform GitHub has announced that the Copilot Chat is now available as a “limited” public beta for all business users on Visual Studio and VS Code. “This…

Dunzo faces legal notices by FB, Nilenso over unpaid dues of Rs 4 crore

New Delhi: Homegrown quick-grocery delivery provider Dunzo has faced a legal notice by Facebook India Online Services Private Ltd (“FBI”) and Bengaluru-based software consultancy firm Nilenso over unpaid dues of Rs 4…
People get ‘Emergency Alert’ message from govt, raise issue on Twitter

New Delhi: Several people in India took to Twitter after they received a test “Emergency Alert – Severe” message from the government on their mobile phones. The message, which caused some people…
Indian smartphone market to touch $42 bn in sales despite poor 2023 1st half

New Delhi: The Indian smartphone market is likely to reach $42 billion in overall revenue this year, up by around 18 per cent over previous year, selling about 140 million units, a…
Google in talks with journalists to help them write news stories via AI tool

San Francisco: Google is reportedly in touch with journalists at prominent media houses to help them write news stories via its artificial intelligence (AI) model that can churn out proper articles. The…
Microsoft Teams getting AI-powered makeup filters

San Francisco: Microsoft has announced that it is rolling out artificial intelligence (AI)-powered makeup filters in the video conferencing platform ‘Teams.’ “Regardless of where they are working, employees want to stay engaged…

Google officially launches Nearby Share for Windows

San Francisco: Google has officially launched Nearby Share for Windows which makes it easier to share files between Windows PCs and Android devices. “With nearly 3 billion active Android devices around the…
Biases in ChatGPT may worsen health inequalities for ethnic minorities

London: Systemic biases in the data used by Artificial Intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT in healthcare may worsen health inequalities for ethnic minority populations, scientists have argued. Epidemiologists from the universities…
Tesla to train driverless cars, license FSD software to another automaker

San Francisco: During Tesla’s second-quarter 2023 investor call, Elon Musk said that the company is planning to license its Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver-assist technology to another major automaker. According to The Verge,…
Unity launches beta programme for Apple visionOS

San Francisco: Unity, the leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, on Thursday launched a beta programme for visionOS, enabling developers to create games and apps for Apple Vision…
Microsoft slashes 1,000 jobs, mostly in sales, customer services: Report

San Francisco: Microsoft has reportedly reduced its workforce further by 1,000 over the past week, mostly in sales and customer services teams. According to a report in Insider, citing sources, the new…
Swiggy now uses generative AI to boost user, restaurant experiences

New Delhi: In an effort to boost user experience, online food delivery platform Swiggy on Thursday said that it will be using generative AI techniques to build products and services to enable…
Report says hateful, violent posts rise on Twitter, CEO Yaccarino denies

New Delhi: Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has refuted a report which claimed there has been a surge of “hateful, violent, and inaccurate” information on the Elon Musk-owned platform. Yaccarino said Twitter has…
Galaxy Watch series to feature Samsung Wallet, Thermo Check & WhatsApp

San Francisco: Samsung on Thursday announced that Samsung Wallet, Thermo Check and WhatsApp are coming to its Galaxy Watch series. “A range of new apps for its Galaxy Watch series will bring…