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Samsung to launch Galaxy A55, Galaxy A35 on March 11: Expected price, specs

The Galaxy A55 and Galaxy A35 were briefly available for purchase in Germany ahead of the launch, and the listing page had details about the two upcoming smartphones. Below are the details:

CMF Buds by Nothing goes on sale in India with introductory offers: Details

The CMF Buds are an affordable pair of wireless earphones with active noise cancellation feature. These were launched recently alongside Neckband Pro earphones and Phone 2 smartphone

Large representation of Indian data differentiates us: Krutrim's Ravi Jain

Krutrim's head of strategy Ravi Jain said what differentiates the AI platform from others is that it uses Indian data including different languages to train its models

Cabinet approves AI Mission at an outlay of Rs 10,372 crore for 5 years

The Cabinet approves India AI mission with an outlay of Rs 10,372 crore for five years, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday. The approved corpus will be used to to create a large computing infrastructure. The minister, briefing reporters after the Cabinet meeting, said supercomputing capacity, comprising over 10,000 GPU, will be made available to various stakeholders for creating an AI ecosystem. Startups, academia, researchers and industry will be given access to the AI supercomputing infrastructure established under the India AI Mission, Goyal said. A National Data Management Officer will be set up under the mission that will coordinate with various government departments and ministries to improve the quality of data and make them available for AI development and deployment.

Vivo V30 series smartphones with Zeiss optics launched in India: Details

The Vivo V30 series encompasses a vanilla model and the V30 Pro, both now available for pre-orders on Vivo India e-store, Flipkart, and select retail stores. Open sale begins from March 14

Xiaomi 14's India launch today at 6 pm: Where to watch live, what to expect

Unveiled at the MWC in February, the Xiaomi 14 boasts imaging system co-engineered with Leica, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, and 120Hz AMOLED display with support for Dolby Vision

Vivo V30 series India launch at 12pm: Watch livestream, know expected specs

The Vivo V30 series will debut the camera system co-engineered in collaboration with German optics expert Zeiss

Towards the age of Meta Reason

The Last Dance of Rationality contemplates the rise and fall of rationality, and lays down the contours of a successor regime anchored in consciousness, intuition, awareness and human feeling

OpenAI claims Elon Musk agreed maker of ChatGPT should become for profit

OpenAI shot back at accusations from Elon Musk that the ChatGPT maker betrayed its founding goals of benefiting humanity and chose to pursue profits, vowing to get his lawsuit thrown out. The first comments from OpenAI since the Tesla CEO sued last week have escalated the feud between the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company and the billionaire that bankrolled its creation years ago. The mission of OpenAI is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, which means both building safe and beneficial AGI and helping create broadly distributed benefits, OpenAI said in a blog post late Thursday from five company leaders, including CEO Sam Altman. We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon's claims." AGI refers to artificial general intelligence, which are general purpose AI systems that can perform just as well as or even better than humans in a wide variety of tasks. Musk's lawsuit said that when he funded OpenAI as it was launching, he secured an agreement that the company .

AIM, Meta partner to establish Frontier Technology Labs in schools

NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and Meta on Wednesday announced their collaboration to set up Frontier Technology Labs (FTLs) in schools of strategic importance with an aim to democratize future technologies. According to an official statement, FTL is an advanced version of Atal Tinkering Lab equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure, including all components of the Tinkering Lab to empower students to innovate using technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Robotics, 3D Printing, and Internet of Things. AIM Director Chintan Vaishnav said these labs will serve as hubs for innovation, providing students with the necessary tools to explore and contribute to the cutting-edge fields that will shape the future. FTLs are a part of Meta's Education to Entrepreneurship initiative, launched in September 2023, to seamlessly connect students, youth, workforce, and micro-entrepreneurs with futuristic technologies, taking .

With Microsoft ending support, Android apps will not work on Windows 11 PCs

Windows 11 users can no longer download and install Android apps on PCs through Windows Subsystem for Android service, but can access already installed apps until March 2025

Mark Zuckerberg's net worth drops $2.7 bn after Facebook, Instagram outages

Mark Zuckerberg's net worth took a hit of 2.2 per cent to stand at $176 billion. However, the 39-year-old tech mogul remained the world's fourth richest person on the Bloomberg's list

Google rolls out changes for users, developers as EU digital rules loom

Changes to search results mean large intermediaries and aggregators will get more traffic while hotels, airlines, merchants and restaurants will get less, Google said in a blogpost

China to work on quantum computing, AI in tech self-sufficiency drive

"We will fully leverage the strengths of the new system for mobilizing resources nationwide to raise China's capacity for innovation across the board." it said

Apple on track to collide with EU as new Digital Markets Act kicks in

The world's most ambitious digital regulation is being closely watched by other nations, including Japan, South Korea, Turkey and the UK, which are contemplating their own versions

Instagram introduces edit message feature, pin groups and chats, and more

The new messaging features are now rolling out to both Instagram for Android and iOS apps and will be available for everyone in the coming days

2024 a pivotal yr for trust in AI's positive potential: IBM's Rishi Aurora

AURORA talks about the growth drivers, the relevance of partnerships, and the potential of artificial intelligence

Govt to redesign Sugamya Bharat App to incorporate AI features: Official

The government will redesign the Sugamya Bharat App to incorporate artificial intelligence features to make it a one-stop point for people with disability, said Disability Affairs Secretary Rajesh Aggarwal on Monday. The app -- a crowdsourcing mobile application -- is a means to sensitise and enhance accessibility in the built environment, transportation sector and ICT ecosystem in India. "In AI, the features we aim to add are information from annual reports, various schemes, recent district-wise data and important judgements of the Supreme Court and High Courts," Rajesh Aggarwal, Secretary in the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, told PTI. For this, an agreement has been signed between the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities under the chairmanship of Aggarwal with NGOs Mission Accessibility and National Association For The Blind (NAB Delhi) and research institute I-STEM. "The objective of this MoU is to deliver a fully accessible, multiling

Use tech to plug loopholes, improve taxpayer services: FM to GST officials

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday asked GST officers to leverage technology to plug loopholes and provide better taxpayer services. Inaugurating the first-ever National Conference of Enforcement Chiefs of the State and Central GST Formations, Sitharaman advocated for sharing of the emerging best practices, emphasising the need for seamless coordination across states in the larger national interest. "The Union Finance Minister urged all the GST formations to leverage technology to plug the loopholes as well provide better taxpayer services," an official statement issued after the meeting said. She also stressed that clarity on the classification of related issues should be looked into at the earliest through appropriate channels. Sitharaman also exhorted the GST officials to engage with stakeholders to understand their concerns, enhance compliance, streamline processes, and work collaboratively towards making the tax system more transparent and efficient. In her address