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Apple explores push into smart glasses with internal study of products

For years, Apple had sought to make a lighter-weight augmented reality version of the device- something that could be worn all day and potentially replace the iPhone

Contentstack Announces Retire the Legacy Offer for Customers Held Back by Decades-Old CMS Technology

Legacy Adobe, Sitecore, and Oracle customers can move to Contentstack at 50% of their currently contracted license fees.

IPU assembly to be held in Geneva from today; to address AI, tech ethics

The Assembly's central theme focuses on parliamentary action to maximise the advantages of emerging technologies

Data centre emissions witness growth: Is AI or climate change to blame?

Three of the biggest tech companies, Microsoft, Google and Meta, have reported ballooning greenhouse gas emissions since 2020

PM Modi calls upon top tech CEOs to be part of India's growth story

Urges them to co-develop, co-design and co-produce in India for the world

Perfect alignment between PM Modi's and tech CEOs' vision: MIT academician

There is a perfect alignment between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and global technology CEOs' vision for India in areas like semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence and biotechnology, an eminent academician in the US has said. Modi interacted with global technology CEOs at a roundtable here on Saturday. The roundtable was anchored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), School of Engineering. Professor Anantha Chandrakasan, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer at the Institute and Dean of the MIT School of Engineering, chaired the roundtable. It is my deep honour to convene and host this roundtable with Prime Minister Modi and the CEOs of some of the most impactful tech companies in the United States and globally, Chandrakasan told PTI in an exclusive interview here on Sunday after the tech roundtable. He said the roundtable focussed on a "broad-based set of topics, including biotechnology, pharma, Artificial Intelligence, quantum computing and semiconductor ...

Intel shares climb on report that Qualcomm made takeover approach

The shares rose 3.4 per cent to $21.87 in New York trading Friday, rebounding from a decline earlier in the day

How Google allegedly monopolised ad technology market: All you need to know

Antitrust enforcers alleged that Google gave special access and privileges to its own ad products

Google antitrust trial: Documents say one thing, witnesses something else

The judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over technology that matches buyers and sellers of online advertising must choose whether to believe what Google executives wrote or what they have said on the witness stand. The Justice Department is wrapping up its antitrust case against Google this week at a federal courtroom in Virginia. The federal government and a coalition of states contend Google has built and maintained a monopoly on the technology used to buy and sell the ads that appear to consumers when they browse the web. Google counters that the government is improperly focused on a very narrow slice of advertising essentially the rectangular banner ads that appear on the top and along the right side of a publisher's web page and that within the broader online advertising market, Google is beset on all sides from competition that includes social media companies and streaming TV services. Many of the government's key witnesses have been Google managers and ...

China invests $6.1 billion in computing data center project, says official

China's massive investment in computing comes as it faces increasing restrictions from the United States

Nations building their own AI models add to Nvidia's rising chip demand

Countries adopting their own AI applications and models will contribute about low double-digit billions to Nvidia's revenue

CrowdStrike cuts profit forecasts as Windows outage weighs on new deals

Analysts expected the reputational hit could hurt CrowdStrike's dominant position

Cheap AI bots rapidly expand across India, transforming tech landscape

Startups may turn India into a proving ground for what could be the next frontier of generative AI products

Zoom raises revenue forecast on growing demand for AI tools in hybrid work

The company expects fiscal 2025 revenue to be between $4.63 billion and $4.64 billion

Group of about 1,200 tech workers signs letter backing Kamala Harris

The letter called Harris an 'archetypical innovator' and 'champion of technology'

Prez Xi urges hi-tech smart system usage to boost China's border defence

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for greater use of technology and the deployment of a smart system for border defence to meet new opportunities and challenges, amidst Beijing's unresolved land and maritime territorial disputes with its neighbours. The instructions were made during a group study session on Tuesday attended by the Communist Party's 24-member Politburo, its top policymaking body. Xi highlighted the need to strengthen technological empowerment in border defence, enhance the development of new methods and conditions for border, maritime, and air defence, and build a comprehensive and smart management and control system," Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported on Thursday. This aligns with Xi's repeated calls to improve the use of advanced technology in the armed forces to meet modernisation goals by 2027 and achieve the goal of building a world-class military by 2050. Tuesday's meeting lacked details about what the smart systems would entail, the Post

Google unveils latest AI technologies to support Indian developers

At the Google I/O Connect Bengaluru 2024 event, the tech giant said that it is committed to empowering Indian innovators to harness AI's full potential, creating solutions that not only address India'

Google working with govt to support 10,000 startups in GenAI solutions

Company says its Build with AI event has helped 25,000 developers in 43 cities across India

OpenAI working on new reasoning tech under project code name 'Strawberry'

The project, details of which have not been previously reported, comes as the Microsoft-backed startup races to show that the types of models it offers are capable of delivering

WhatsApp launches community-exclusive events feature for group chats

The update introduces a new "Event" icon accessible through the paperclip menu within group chats, allowing users to seamlessly create and manage events