Category: Technology
digital technology.: Parliamentary panel calls for body to regulate digital markets
[ad_1] Rajya Sabha’s standing committee on commerce, in a recent report on regulation of e-commerce, has recommended a “Digital Market Division” within the Competition Commission of India (CCI) be created as an expert division, specifically tasked with regulation of digital markets. In its report, which was recently presented in Parliament, the panel has also urged ...
Twitter Blue: Several celebrities refuse to pay Elon Musk $8 for Twitter Blue
[ad_1] Twitter launched its verification system in 2009 to protect celebrities from impersonation but now, Elon Musk wants everyone to pay for the Blue badge, and the move has not gone well with several celebrities on the platform. Musk now wants everyone to pay $8 a month (Rs 900 in India a month) for verified ...
ChatGPT ban: Italian minister says country’s ban on ChatGPT is excessive
[ad_1] Italy‘s deputy prime minister on Sunday criticised a decision by the government’s Data Protection Authority to temporarily ban chatbot ChatGPT, saying the block over privacy concerns seemed excessive. Microsoft-backed OpenAI took ChatGPT offline in Italy on Friday after the national data agency raised concerns over possible privacy violations and for failing to verify that ...
fake chatgpt domains: Fake ChatGPT domains and extensions steal personal information: study
[ad_1] A new study has warned against the proliferation of fake ChatGPT domains and extensions, which, it said, are being used to either steal personal information or compromise user devices. Technisant, a digital enterprise risk management firm, said malicious actors are using social engineering tactics to trick users into downloading and installing fake ChatGPT applications, ...
Barcodes QR codes: Barcode turns 50 but its days might be numbered
[ad_1] The patch of irregular vertical lines that revolutionised checking out at the supermarket and facilitated the globalisation of retail is turning 50. But as the barcode celebrates its birthday on Monday, its days might be numbered as it faces competition from the younger QR code, the information-filled squares used in smartphones. The trademark beep ...
whatsapp: WhatsApp bans record 45 lakh accounts in India in February
[ad_1] Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a record over 45 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of February, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021, the company informed on Saturday. Between February 1 and February 28, “4,597,400 WhatsApp accounts were banned and 1,298,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users”, ...
musk: Elon Musk seeks to end $258 billion Dogecoin lawsuit
[ad_1] Elon Musk asked a U.S. judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. In an evening filing in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for Musk and his electric car company Tesla Inc called the lawsuit by Dogecoin investors a “fanciful ...
electric vehicles: ‘War of the states’: EV, chip makers lavished with subsidies
[ad_1] States are doling out more cash than ever to lure multibillion-dollar microchip, electric vehicle and battery factories, inspiring ever-more competition as they dig deeper into their pockets to attract big employers and capitalize on a wave of huge new projects. Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas have made billion-dollar pledges ...
bitcoin: Has bitcoin benefited from the banking crisis? Not in the way its fans hoped
[ad_1] Shortly after Silicon Valley Bank failed this month, the price of bitcoin soared above $25,000, reaching a threshold the digital currency hadn’t touched since June. This week, bitcoin reached nearly $30,000, up 70% for the year. Bitcoin proponents seized on the price rise to argue that the banking crisis was prompting investors to convert ...
google: Google CEO Sundar Pichai promises more capable Bard AI chatbot soon
[ad_1] After facing criticism about his ChatGPT rival called Bard, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said that the company will soon release more capable AI models. Bard was released for the public on March 21 but failed to garner the attention won by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft‘s Bing chatbot. “We clearly have more ...