TECHNOLOGY

SpaceX's Starship 'ready for launch', says Musk
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However, the first flight depends on licence approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Starship is ready for launch. Awaiting regulatory approval," he tweeted. The FAA has reportedly listed the rocket's orbital test flight on April 17. Starship is the world's most powerful rocket and will be used to send.
Substack links were never blocked: Elon Musk
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Independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi, famous for releasing Twitter Files and belonging to the Musk camp, blamed Twitter for blocking sharing links to his articles on Substack. "I was given the option of posting articles on Twitter instead. I'm obviously staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next.
OpenAI's ChatGPT is a product, not AI research: Meta chief AI scientist
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According to him, OpenAI has not made any actual scientific breakthroughs and ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'. "When we're talking about GPT-4, or whatever OpenAI puts out at the moment, we're not talking about research and development, we're talking about product development," LeCun said during a live webcast on YouTube.
India surpasses Rs 85,000 cr worth mobile phone exports in FY23
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Buoyed by attractive government incentives towards local manufacturing, India surpassed a remarkable $10 billion worth smartphone exports in the fiscal year 2022-2023, according to the data provided by the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) to IANS.
Twitter stops writers from retweeting, liking or replying to Substack links
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Twitter has restricted promotion and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts -- a move that has not gone well with people. "We're disappointed that Twitter has chosen to restrict writers' ability to share their work. Writers deserve the freedom to share links to Substack or anywhere else," said Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie and Jairaj Seth, the founders of Substack.
Microsoft to pay $3 mn fine for selling software to sanctioned Russian firms
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The majority of the apparent violations involved blocked Russian entities or persons located in the Crimea region of Ukraine, and occurred as a result of the Microsoft Entities' failure to identify and prevent the use of its products by prohibited parties, according to the US Department of the Treasury.
WhatsApp's new feature to allow users share status updates to Facebook Stories
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Earlier, users could share status updates to Facebook stories, but they had to go through the extra step of manually sharing the update each time they posted something new, according to WABetaInfo. But now, due to this new feature, the process may be automatic for certain status updates users choose, when the option is enabled.
ChatGPT like an 'alien intelligence' but lacks human-like reasoning: Rosedale
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In spite of the amazing potential, he pointed out that current AI models are limited by their ability to read and write to memory at the same time, resulting in "zombie AIs" that can't listen or reason like humans. Moreover, he noted that AI's ability to write software code is "shockingly good," saving programmers time, the report said.
Government's Blockchain project to explore potential of Web3
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According to official sources, the project titled "Design and Development of a Unified Blockchain Framework for offering National Blockchain Service and Creation of Blockchain Ecosystem", will also enable Open Application Programming Interfaces (Open APIs) for seamless integration and offering blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) over distributed infrastructure.
Microsoft rolls out Edge's AI image generator to everyone on desktop
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The company introduced the feature to the new Bing and Edge preview last month. Image Creator allows users to create an image simply by using their own words to describe the picture they want to see. This feature will help you create images that don't yet exist, right from the Microsoft Edge sidebar.
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