In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google pulled an ad it showed during the Olympics that touted its AI chatbot Gemini writing a fan letter to an athlete. Google has pulled an Olympics ad for its chatbot Gemini from airwaves following backlash for the way it depicts a little girl using
Month: August 2024
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action, said entrepreneur and businessman Adam Braun. While he was talking about momentum in business, the statement also holds true for other things. For example, when a company is trying to gain movement, it needs to start small. Sennheiser is trying to start
Samsung Electronics announced the visit of a company official to its Noida factory on Tuesday, praising its India-based research and development (R&D) teams. Notably, this facility, located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, manufactures consumer electronic devices including smartphones, tablets, and refrigerators. As per the company, this is the official’s second trip to India in 2024, signalling
Aug 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Data Protection The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for “flagrantly violating” children’s privacy laws in the country. The agencies claimed the company knowingly permitted children to create TikTok accounts and to view and share short-form
Apple Intelligence features have started to roll out in preview with the iOS 18.1 developer beta update. As per the Cupertino-based tech giant, these features are first rolling out in the US in English and will be expanded to other regions later. However, the European Union (EU) and China will be two regions where these
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Founders of one of the hottest artificial intelligence startups Character.AI are rejoining Google along with other team members. Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, in addition to certain members of Character.AI’s research team, are joining Google’s AI unit
Realme Watch S2 was unveiled in India on Tuesday alongside the Realme 13 Pro 5G series of smartphones. The smartwatch comes with a circular 1.43-inch dial with interchangeable straps and is claimed to offer up to 20 days of battery life. It is also equipped with several health and fitness trackers with support for over
Google Search updated its removal processes and ranking systems on Wednesday to combat non-consensual fake explicit imagery, also known as deepfakes. The tech giant’s new strategy involves quickly removing explicit deepfakes and demoting websites that host such content so that this type of content does not appear high up in Search results. The company claimed
Aug 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananDDoS Attack / Server Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack. Mineping is a DDoS package designed for Minecraft
Honor Magic 6 Pro 5G has been launched in India on Friday (August 2). The flagship phone runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC and boasts a 6.8-inch LTPO display. It features a triple rear camera setup comprising a 180-megapixel periscope sensor. The handset has a 50-megapixel front camera and is backed by a 5,600mAh
Signage outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on March 23, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images With second-quarter earnings from tech’s mega-cap companies largely in the rearview mirror, one thing is clear: Wall Street is nervous. The Nasdaq slumped 3.4% this week, bringing its three-week slide to 8.8%. It’s the worst performance
August is shaping up to be a busy month for video game releases, with games — big and small — from different genres making their debut in the coming weeks. The month will see the launch of two of the most anticipated games of the year: Game Science’s action-RPG Black Myth: Wukong and Ubisoft’s action-adventure
Vivo TWS 3e will launch in India soon alongside the Vivo V40 series. The company has confirmed the launch date of the true wireless stereo (TWS) earphones. Vivo has also revealed the design and key features of the earphones. It appears with an in-ear design and is teased in two colourways. The earphones, which will
Amazon has revealed the dates for the much-anticipated Great Freedom Festival 2024. The yearly discount sale will take place next week and will be open to all shoppers in India. As always, Prime subscribers will get early access to the sale. Different gadgets and electronics with impressive specifications will be listed with discounted price tags
Aug 02, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute that specializes in computing and associated technologies was breached by nation-state threat actors with ties to China, according to new findings from Cisco Talos. The unnamed organization was targeted as early as mid-July 2023 to deliver a variety of backdoors and post-compromise tools
Apple predicted that its new artificial intelligence features will spur iPhone upgrades in coming months, helping the company reemerge from a sales slowdown that has hit its China business especially hard. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, speaking on a conference call Thursday to discuss third-quarter results, said that upcoming Apple Intelligence features will provide a