Friday, 31 May 2024
DNA Exclusive: Analysis Of DK Shivakumar`s Black Magic Claim
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a16z-backed ZeroMark wants to give soldiers guns that don’t miss against drones
The product, which ZeroMark calls a “fire control system,” has two components: a small computer that has sensors, like lidar and electro-optical, and a motorized buttstock.
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Retired Soldier Passes Away On Stage While Dancing With Tricolour, Audience Mistakes It As Performance - Viral Video
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Thursday, 30 May 2024
You’ve spoken! Meet the Disrupt 2024 breakout session audience choice winners
TechCrunch Disrupt showcases cutting-edge technology and innovation, and this year’s edition will not disappoint. Among thousands of insightful breakout session submissions for this year’s Audience Choice program, five breakout sessions have soared to the top and were selected by thousands of people from around the globe to speak at this year’s event. Without further ado, […]
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Black Magic Steps In Karnataka Politics, Claims DK; Says `Goats, Buffaloes, Sheeps And Pigs...`
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Zero-day flaw in Check Point VPNs is ‘extremely easy’ to exploit
Check Point is the latest security vendor to fix a vulnerability in its technology, which it sells to companies to protect their networks.
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Prajwal Revanna, Accused In Sex Abuse Case, Flies Back From Germany To Face Arrest At Bengaluru Airport
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Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Mental health insurance platform ifeel raises a $20 million Series B
Ifeel is being offered as part of an employer’s or insurance provider’s healthcare coverage.
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Rajkot Gaming Zone Fire: District Court to Hear Plea Seeking Charges Against 13 Officers
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Bihar Schools, Coaching Centres Closed Till June 8 Due To Heatwave Condition
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Sensor Error Suspected In Record 52.9°C Temperature Reading In Delhi`s Mungeshpur, Says IMD
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Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Spyware maker pcTattletale shutters after data breach
The spyware maker's founder, Bryan Fleming, said pcTattletale is "out of business and completely done," following a data breach.
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AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they’re people
AI models are always surprising us, not just in what they can do, but what they can’t, and why. An interesting new behavior is both superficial and revealing about these systems: they pick random numbers as if they’re human beings. But first, what does that even mean? Can’t people pick a number randomly? And how […]
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Kolkata Turns Saffron And Green As PM Modi, CM Mamata’s Roadshows Electrify City
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DNA Exclusive: Analysing Final Phase Of Lok Sabha Elections 2024
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Monday, 27 May 2024
Amit Shah`s Bold Prediction On Lok Sabha Polls: Congress Under 40 Seats, SP Under 4
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DNA Exclusive: Analysing Final Round Of `Battle Of Bengal`, PM Modi’s Kolkata Roadshow
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Kashmir`s Climate Crisis: Record Heat And Overcrowding Threaten Fragile Ecosystem
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Good Monsoon Forecast For India As IMD Predicts Above Average Rainfall This Season
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Sunday, 26 May 2024
A venture capital firm looks back on changing industry norms, from board seats to backing rival startups
Last month, one of the Bay Area’s better-known early-stage venture capital firms, Uncork Capital, marked its 20th anniversary with a party in a renovated church in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, where 420 guests showed up to help the firm to celebrate, trade tips, and share war stories. There’s no question the venture scene has changed […]
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Cyclone Remal Makes Landfall, Heavy Rains Lash West Bengal, Odisha, Check Updates
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar`s Helicopter Runs Out Of Fuel During Election Campaign
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Saturday, 25 May 2024
Rajkot Gaming Zone Fire: 28 Killed Including Several Children; SIT Formed, 2 Arrested - 10 Overnight Developments
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The ups and downs of investing in Europe, with VCs Saul Klein and Raluca Ragab
When it comes to the world of venture-backed startups, some issues are universal, and some are very dependent on where the startups and its backers are located. It’s something we talked about this week in London, when TechCrunch took its StrictlyVC series of more intimate, more investor-focused events on the road. Sitting down with Saul […]
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Scarlett Johansson brought receipts to the OpenAI controversy
Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. OpenAI announced this week that it’s removing Sky, one of the voices used by its new GPT-4o model, after users found it sounded eerily similar to Scarlett Johansson’s AI character […]
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Anantnag-Rajouri Makes History With 53.60% Voting In Phase 6
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Friday, 24 May 2024
Startups Weekly: Drama at Techstars. Drama in AI. Drama everywhere.
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Well, folks, it looks like Techstars’ drama just got a new plot twist. CEO Maëlle Gavet is making her exit, leaving co-founder David Cohen to swoop […]
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Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha Election: Security Tightened in 4 J&K Districts Ahead Of Polling
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Heat Wave Alert In Kashmir: Fruit Crops Suffer As Climate Change Impacts Valley
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Thursday, 23 May 2024
Spotify to shut off Car Thing for good, leading users to demand refunds
Spotify is notifying customers who purchased its Car Thing product that the devices will stop working after December 9, 2024. The company discontinued the device back in July 2022, but had said at the time that it would still support the units that had already been sold. The company’s plans for the device have changed, […]
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DNA Exclusive: Analysis Of Political Violence In Bengal, Ground Report From Nandigram
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X should bring back stars, not hide ‘likes’
Elon Musk’s X is preparing to make “likes” private on the social network, in a change that could potentially confuse users over the difference between something they’ve favorited and something they’ve bookmarked. According to new posts by company employees, the decision to hide “likes” is meant to incentivize engagement, by allowing people to favorite content […]
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Meet Arti, E-Rickshaw Driver From UP`s Bahraich Who Won UK`s Royal Award, Met King Charles III
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Wednesday, 22 May 2024
DNA Exclusive: Analysis Of Pune Porsche Accident`s `Underworld Connection
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Pune Porsche Accident: Juvenile Court Sends Accused Teen To Observation Home After Outcry | Updates
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: `Postponement of Anantnag-Rajouri Polls A Strategy`, Says Omar; Alleges Shah Behind It
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Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Farcaster, a crypto-based social network, raised $150M with just 80K daily users
Farcaster, a blockchain-based social protocol founded by two Coinbase alumni, announced on Tuesday that it closed a $150 million fundraise. Led by Paradigm, the platform also raised money from a16z crypto, Haun Ventures, USV, Variant, Standard Crypto and others, according to a blog post by founder Dan Romero. Farcaster, the social protocol, invites developers to […]
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Microsoft’s new ‘Volumetric Apps’ for Quest headsets extend Windows apps into the 3D space
Microsoft announced on Tuesday during its annual Build conference that it’s bringing “Windows Volumetric Apps” to Meta Quest headsets. The partnership will allow Microsoft to bring Windows 365 and local PC connectivity to Quest headsets, enabling developers to extend their apps into the 3D space. “We’re deepening our partnership with Meta to make Windows a […]
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DNA Exclusive: Analysing Global Impact Of Singapore`s Covid-19 Wave
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Monday, 20 May 2024
Baramulla Create History With Record Voter Turnout In Phase 5 Of Lok Sabha Polls
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Contour Venture Partners, an early investor in Datadog and Movable Ink, lowers the target for its fifth fund
Longtime New York-based seed investor, Contour Venture Partners, is making progress on its latest flagship fund after lowering its target. The firm closed on $42 million, raised from 64 backers, for Contour Venture Partners Fund V, according to an SEC filing from May 17. The New York-based firm is targeting $70 million for its fifth […]
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Meta’s Oversight Board takes its first Threads case
Meta's Oversight Board has now extended its scope to include the company's newest platform, Instagram Threads, and has begun hearing cases from Threads.
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10 Naxalites Apprehended In Chhattisgarh`s Sukma District
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Sunday, 19 May 2024
Iran President Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Raisi`s Life In Danger As Search Operations Continue
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UK opens office in San Francisco to tackle AI risk
Ahead of the AI safety summit kicking off in Seoul, South Korea later this week, its co-host the United Kingdom is expanding its own efforts in the field. The AI Safety Institute – a U.K. body set up in November 2023 with the ambitious goal of assessing and addressing risks in AI platforms – said […]
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Why companies are turning to internal hackathons
Companies are always looking for an edge, and searching for ways to encourage their employees to innovate. One way to do that is by running an internal hackathon around a theme and having employees attack a problem together. It not only brings in new ideas and new ways to solve problems for the company and […]
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Saturday, 18 May 2024
PM Modi Claims Congress Gave 123 Properties To Waqf Board In Delhi` Prime Locations, Blames Oppn For 2020 Northeast Delhi Riots
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`Bibhav Denied Phone Password...Formatted It`: Delhi Police To Court Seeking Kejriwal Aide`s 7-Day Custody
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Friday, 17 May 2024
IndieBio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises
IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups. We took special note of a few, which were making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims that could pay off in a big way. Biotech has been creeping out in recent years to touch adjacent industries, as companies find how much […]
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MIA In Rae Bareli: BJP`s Manoj Pandey, Aditi Singh - Even After Amit Shah`s Home Visit
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Thursday, 16 May 2024
X pushes more users to Communities
The broader goal is to connect more of X's user base with with other people, where they can post about a particular topic and comment on posts from others.
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Jammu & Kashmir: NIA Attaches Multiple Properties Of JeM Terrorists In Pulwama
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Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover: midlife crisis or carefully crafted rebrand?
For Mark Zuckerberg’s fortieth birthday, his wife got him a photoshoot. Zuckerberg gives the camera a sly smile as he sits amid a carefully crafted recreation of his childhood bedroom. It’s appropriately childish – a lava lamp, a participation trophy, a white stuffed dog – yet the surroundings foreshadow the culture-shifting, technological force Zuckerberg would […]
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Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator
Back in February, Google paused its AI-powered chatbot Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after users complained of historical inaccuracies. Told to depict “a Roman legion,” for example, Gemini would show an anachronistically diverse group of soldiers, while rendering “Zulu warriors” as uniformly Black. Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized, and Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of Google’s […]
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`Election Fears Behind Delhi IT Office Fire...`: Farooq Abdullah Accuses Modi Govt Of Cover Up
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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Google mentioned ‘AI’ 120+ times during its I/O keynote
It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during its I/O 2024 by its own count. CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating that the company was doing the ‘hard work’ of counting for us. No surprise, of course, that the topic took […]
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`Bade Bade Vaade...`: Priyanka Gandhi Slams PM Modi Over Poll Promises
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Monday, 13 May 2024
DNA Exclusive: From Violence In Bengal To Record Voting In Srinagar, Analysing Phase 4 Of 2024 Polls
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Apple and Google agree on standard to alert people when unknown Bluetooth devices may be tracking them
Apple and Google announced on Monday that iPhone and Android users will start seeing alerts when it’s possible that an unknown Bluetooth device is being used to track them. The two companies have developed an industry standard called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers.” Starting Monday, Apple is introducing the capability in iOS 17.5 and Google is […]
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Former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi Passes Away After Battle with Cancer
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Sunday, 12 May 2024
Canada`s Biggest Gold, Cash Heist: Third Indian-Origin Man Arrested In CAD 22 Million Theft Case
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Lok Sabha Elections Phase 4 Commences: Full Schedule, Weather And Key Candidates To Look Out For
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Lok Sabha Polls 2024: 96 Seats Going To Polls Tomorrow, 1717 Candidates In Fray For Phase 4 Battle
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Saturday, 11 May 2024
U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety
The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.’s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” by making it easier for industry, research organizations and academia to develop AI evaluations. Called Inspect, the toolset — which is available under an open source license, specifically an MIT License — aims to assess certain […]
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Telangana Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Voting Timings, Key Candidates And Phase 4 Polling Constituencies
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DNA Exclusive: Decoding Arvind Kejriwal`s `Mind-Game` Amid Lok Sabha Polls
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Friday, 10 May 2024
The buzziest EV IPO of the year is a Chinese automaker
Zeekr's market hype is noteworthy and may indicate that investors see value in the high-quality, low-price offerings of Chinese automakers.
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`Congress Wants To Make Hindus Second-Class Citizens...`: PM Modi In Telangana
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Thursday, 9 May 2024
Google built some of the first social apps for Android, including Twitter and others
The Twitter for Android client was "a demo app that Google had created and gave to us," says Particle co-founder and ex-Twitter employee Sara Beykpour.
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DNA Exclusive: Shifting Of Electoral Focus From Development To Hindu-Muslim Politics
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Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist
As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and Proton, which helped the authorities identify a pseudonymous activist, according to court documents obtained by TechCrunch. Earlier this year, the Spanish police Guardia Civil sent legal requests through Swiss police […]
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Gratitude Plus makes social networking positive, private and personal
Private social networking is making a comeback. Gratitude Plus, a startup that aims to shift social media in a more positive direction, is expanding its wellness-focused, personal reflections journal to include support for families who want to stay in touch even when physically distant. The startup, whose name reflects its core offering of a gratitude […]
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Tuesday, 7 May 2024
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized […]
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DNA Exclusive: Analysing Political Slugfest Over Muslim Reservation
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Monday, 6 May 2024
Apple iPad event: What to expect
So far, the biggest surprise about May 7’s “Let Loose” event is that it’s happening at all. We’re just over a month out from Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, and yet the company determined there was enough news to warrant a stand-alone event, which kicks off tomorrow at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET. iPads (including […]
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Days Of Stone Peltinge Gone, Kashmir Now Witnesses Change Amid Elections
from Zee News :India National
`Refuse to Accept Didi Giri`: Bengal`s Governor CV Ananda Bose Called Out Mamata Banerjee
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Sunday, 5 May 2024
Meet Vaitheeswaran: Inspiring Disabled Academic Turned Swiggy Sensation
from Zee News :India National
23-Year-Old Influencer Shot Dead In Public After She Shares Her Location With Insta Post
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`Not Terrorist, But RSS Liked-Cop Killed Hemant Karkare`: Congress Leader Says Claim Based On Ex-Maharashtra IG`s Book
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Hyundai antes up $1B for AV startup Motional and Elon unplugs the Tesla Supercharger team
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Before I jump into the all the news — and boy there was a lot! — I have an important update for all of you lovely readers. TechCrunch Mobility is moving to Thursdays! It will be the same […]
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Saturday, 4 May 2024
Human composting and timber marketplaces: talking “industrial” VC with investor Dayna Grayson
While the venture world is abuzz over generative AI, Dayna Grayson, a longtime venture capitalist who five years ago co-founded her own firm, Construct Capital, has been focused on comparatively boring software that can transform industrial sectors. Her mission doesn’t exclude AI, but it also doesn’t depend on it. Construct recently led a seed-stage round, […]
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DNA Exclusive: Analysis Of Canada PM Justin Trudeau`s Accusations Against India In Nijjar Death Case
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Paytm Announces Leadership Change To Double Down On Financial Services
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Friday, 3 May 2024
Instagram now lets you post a secret Story that viewers can uncover with a DM
Instagram is adding a handful of new features for Stories to give users more creative ways to share content and engage with each other, the company announced on Friday. Most notably, the social network is introducing a new “Reveal” feature that lets you post a hidden Story for your followers to uncover by sending you […]
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Thursday, 2 May 2024
Bengal Governor Refutes Molestation Charge, Calls It `Engineered Narratives` Amid Elections
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Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterprise AI tool
Microsoft has changed its policy to ban U.S. police departments from using generative AI through the Azure OpenAI Service, the company’s fully managed, enterprise-focused wrapper around OpenAI technologies. Language added Wednesday to the terms of service for Azure OpenAI Service prohibits integrations with Azure OpenAI Service from being used “by or for” police departments in […]
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Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Snapchat’s ‘My AI’ chatbot can now set in-app reminders and countdowns
Snapchat is launching the ability for users to set in-app reminders with the help of its My AI chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. The social network is also rolling out editable chats, AI-powered custom Bitmoji looks, map reactions, emoji reactions, and more. With the new AI reminders feature, Snapchat is hoping users will use […]
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DNA Exclusive: Amethi, Rae Bareli Candidates Announcement Delay A Confusion Or Strategy Of Congress?
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