TECHNOLOGY
Ashwini Vaishnaw launches portal to track, recover lost mobile phones
In his remarks at the launch, Vaishnaw said that the three reforms -- CEIR (Central Equipment Identity Register), know your mobile connections and ASTR (Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition powered Solution for Telecom SIM Subscriber Verification) have been introduced.
Google Bard's new update improves summaries, sourcing
"We've updated Bard with better summarisation capabilities by incorporating advances we've developed in our large language models," Google said. With the new update, users will be able to ask Bard to summarise a specific article or story, or to provide a quick explanation of a topic without going into too much detail.
Google's pre-written texts to tackle suicide, aid people to ask for help
Google developed the pre-written prompts in partnership with the International Association for Suicide Prevention to reduce the stigma of reaching out to ask for help, which is shown to help people get support in moments of crisis. The new feature will be first rolled out in the US, and will appear below the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Apple App Store up after brief outage globally
Along with the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, iTunes Store and Mac App Store were also part of the outage, which are now resolved. According to Downdetector, more than 2,400 problems were reported by the users. Around 91 per cent of people had reported problems with the server connection, 7 per cent while using the website, and 2 per cent while login.
Elon Musk finds butter chicken with naan 'insanely good
A Musk subscriber/follower by the name Daniel tweeted that "I love basic b**** Indian food, it's so insanely good", while posting a picture of mouth-watering butter chicken with naan and rice. The Tesla CEO replied: "True."
Lava launches new smartphone 'Agni 2' with AMOLED display
The phone is priced at Rs 21,999 and will be available to buy on online stores from May 24, with a flat discount of Rs 2,000 on all major credit and debit cards making the effective starting price only Rs 19,999, according to the company.
Qualcomm bets big on Hybrid AI in ChatGPT era
In a white paper, the company said that hybrid processing is more important than ever. "A hybrid AI architecture distributes and coordinates AI workloads among cloud and edge devices, rather than processing in the cloud alone," said the chip maker.
Microsoft's Phone Link for iOS now available to all Windows 11 users
"We are pleased to announce that Phone Link for iOS is now available to all Windows 11 customers," Microsoft said in a blogpost. Phone Link for iOS on Windows 11 was released last month in 39 languages and 85 markets globally, with the company noting that it would take a few weeks to reach all customers.
Mark Zuckerberg announces Chat Lock on WhatsApp
The feature will let users protect their most intimate conversations with a password and secures them in a separate folder. "New locked chats in WhatsApp make your conversations more private. They're hidden in a password protected folder and notifications won't show sender or message content," said Zuckerberg.
AWS, Microsoft, Google capture 64% Cloud services market share globally
Microsoft Azure remained the second largest cloud service provider, with a 23 per cent market share after it grew by 27 per cent year-on-year. Google Cloud grew 30 per cent in the March quarter and accounted for 9 per cent market share. Worldwide cloud infrastructure services spending increased 19 per cent to $66.4 billion in Q1 2023.
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