Technology
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Google Cloud’s new AI-tools to help accelerate drug discovery, precision medicine
New Delhi: Google Cloud on Wednesday announced two new AI-powered life sciences solutions to accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine for biotech companies, pharmaceutical firms, and public sector organisations. The tools, target…
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Less than 60 of 2 lakh Indian developers pay service fee above 15%: Google
New Delhi: Google on Wednesday defended its position on Play Store service fee for developers and its stance on user choice billing policy, saying that Google Play’s service fees are actually the…
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Instagram users can now comment on posts with GIFs
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) is rolling out the ability to comment on Instagram posts with animated GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format). Instagram chief Adam Mosseri announced that users can now post GIFs…
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India sees 4-spot jump in median mobile speeds globally
New Delhi: As 5G roll-out picks up speed thanks to Reliance Jio and Airtel, India climbed four spots for median mobile speeds globally in the month of April, from 64th position in…
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Apple flagship retails stores in India give accessibility top priority
New Delhi: As Apple previewed new software features for cognitive, speech and vision accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak,…
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Qlik acquires data management solution provider Talend
New Delhi: Data analytics and business intelligence platform Qlik on Wednesday announced it has acquired scalable data management solution provider Talend for an undisclosed sum. The combined entity is led by CEO…
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Apple unveils new tools for cognitive, speech, vision accessibility in its products
New Delhi: Apple on Tuesday previewed new software features for cognitive, speech and vision accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to…
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Google Bard’s new update improves summaries, sourcing
San Francisco: Google has released a new update to its AI chatbot Bard, improving the ability to provide summaries of information and tell users where that information has come from. “We’ve updated…
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Mark Zuckerberg announces Chat Lock on WhatsApp
New Delhi: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced a new WhatsApp feature called Chat Lock to safeguard intimate chats. The feature will let users protect their most intimate conversations…
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Qualcomm bets big on Hybrid AI in ChatGPT era
New Delhi: As generative artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots like Microsoft-backed OpenAIs ChatGPT and Google Bard take the world by storm, Hybrid AI will allow generative AI developers and providers to take…
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Amazon India lays off 400-500 employees as part of global restructuring
New Delhi: Amazon India has laid off around 400-500 employees from its Cloud division AWS as well as People Experience and Technology Solutions (PXT) or HR and support verticals. The downsizing in…
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Amazon to focus on using AI to speed up delivery services
San Francisco: Amazon has said that it will be focusing on using artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up delivery services, aiming to minimise the distance between its products and customers, the media…
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This robot with artificial memory may help find objects you’ve lost
Toronto: People often tend to forget where they’ve kept their phones or glasses. Now researchers have developed a novel robot programmed with artificial memory that can help find the lost objects. According…
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47% of Indian CSPs now prioritise upgrading firewalls as hacking rises
New Delhi: As Internet traffic volumes explode amid growing cyber-security threats, 47 per cent of senior IT professionals from communication service providers (CSPs) in India now give priority to upgrading firewalls and…
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MIT-World Peace University launches Asia’s first subsea research lab
Pune: MIT-World Peace University (WPU) has built the first-ever subsea research lab in Asia, with an aim to foster multi-disciplinary talent for the global oil and gas industry, the institute said on…
