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Big tech’s bet on nuclear power a bold climate strategy or a risky gamble?
Big tech companies including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon are exploring nuclear energy in response to rising electricity demand of...
Staff Writer
Dec 18, 2024

Character.ai faces lawsuit after its AI chatbot tells child to kill parents
Google-backed AI chatbot company Character.ai was slapped with a lawsuit in a Texas court in the US by two families that claim the...
Staff Writer
Dec 12, 2024


Court orders to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress
A California court has ordered Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org themes, plugins, and...
Staff Writer
Dec 11, 2024


Google’s new quantum chip can do 10 septillion years of computing in 5 mins
Google’s Quantum AI team has announced an advanced quantum computing chip, named Willow, that can run random circuit sampling (RCS)...
Staff Writer
Dec 10, 2024


Bitcoin scales a new all-time high of $100,000
Bitcoin (BTC), the cryptocurrency once dismissed as a niche and risky experiment, surpassed the $100,000 mark for the first time since...
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Dec 5, 2024


Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger forced to step down
Pat Gelsinger’s turbulent run as CEO of Intel came to end this week after the company announced that he is retiring and stepping down...
Staff Writer
Dec 3, 2024


Australia bans social media for children under 16
Australia has passed a new law to completely restrict children below 16 years of age from using social media. The Online Safety Amendment...
Staff Writer
Nov 29, 2024


Unintended consequences of AI's rapid advancement
AI is often called a double-edged sword as it can be used for causing as much harm as good. The rapid adoption of AI in recent years has...
Abhijit Ahaskar
Nov 25, 2024


How AI is changing the job landscape
Generative AI’s ability to learn from large datasets and create anything from art, text or computer codes with a human-level accuracy and...
Abhijit Ahaskar
Nov 22, 2024


Microsoft's new generative AI image model can screen for cancer
Microsoft has developed a generative AI-based medical image analysis model called BiomedParse that can improve early diagnosis of...
Staff Writer
Nov 20, 2024


CCI fines Meta Rs 213 crore for forcing users to accept data sharing policy
India's antitrust watchdog the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has slapped a fine of Rs 213 crore (approx $25 million) on...
Staff Writer
Nov 19, 2024


Google may be forced to sell Chrome as part of antitrust deal
US’ Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to force Google to sell its Chrome browser business to break the company’s monopoly in the...
Staff Writer
Nov 19, 2024

AI-powered deepfake scams shoot up during festive season sale
Recent advancements in generative AI have led to a proliferation of deepfake celebrity scams on social media, especially during online...
Staff Writer
Nov 18, 2024


OpenAI integrates web search in ChatGPT
OpenAI can now provide answers to queries about real-time events like a search engine, the AI startup announced on October 31. Earlier,...
Staff Writer
Nov 1, 2024


Meta to bring back face recognition tech to detect scams, verify users
Facebook -parent Meta Platforms is re-introducing face recognition technology (FRT) for user verification and scam detection, three years...
Staff Writer
Oct 22, 2024


Why AI scientists were awarded Nobel Prize for physics?
This year’s Nobel Prize for physics, shared by Geoffrey E Hinton and John J Hopfield, was the first to recognise groundbreaking work in...
Abhijit Ahaskar
Oct 15, 2024


Social media platforms accused of mass surveillance, targeting children
Social media and video streaming services are conducting “vast surveillance” on their consumers to monetize their personal data, said US...
Staff Writer
Sep 20, 2024

China follows EU’s lead in labeling AI-generated content
China wants digital platforms to label all content generated with artificial intelligence (AI). Cyberspace Administration of China, the...
Staff Writer
Sep 16, 2024
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