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Microsoft partners EnAble India to empower persons with disabilities
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Microsoft partners EnAble India to empower persons with disabilities

New Delhi, Aug 23: Microsoft on Tuesday collaborated with non-profit organisation EnAble India to empower persons with disabilities (PwDs) by engaging more than 100 organisations. The initiative, called 'Inclusion to Action', aims to bring together more than 100 organisations across financial...
New Virtual Realty jobs die down at Meta, Google amid hiring freeze: Report
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New Virtual Realty jobs die down at Meta, Google amid hiring freeze: Report

New Delhi, Aug 22: The virtual reality (VR) job postings at Meta have shockingly died down, as its Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg places a $10 billion bet on building his metaverse dream, a new report has shown. The VR job postings have also slowed down at other Big Tech companies like Apple and...
73% of Indians don
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73% of Indians don't want non-personal data to be part of new PDP Bill

New Delhi, Aug 22: As the government withdrew the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 73 per cent of Indians don't want non-personal data to come under the purview of the new bill, a new report showed on Monday. While 45 per cent of Indians think that data localisation should be flexible, 55 per...
NASA spots 13 regions on Moon for astronaut landing in 2024
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NASA spots 13 regions on Moon for astronaut landing in 2024

Washington, Aug 20: The US space agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024. Each region contains multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III, which will be the first of the...
NASA spots 13 regions on Moon for astronaut landing in 2024
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NASA spots 13 regions on Moon for astronaut landing in 2024

Washington, Aug 20: The US space agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024. Each region contains multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III, which will be the first of the...
How various iPhone camera modes light up World Photography Day
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How various iPhone camera modes light up World Photography Day

New Delhi, Aug 19: Smartphones with next-gen sensor technology threaten the existence of entry-level cameras and even DSLRs and top Indian lensmen said on the occasion of World Photography Day on Friday that an amateur person can achieve great images on iPhones with some training and perspective. ...
Google to reduce low-quality, unoriginal content in search results
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Google to reduce 'low-quality, unoriginal' content in search results

New Delhi, Aug 19: Google is rolling out new updates to cut low-quality and unoriginal content in Search results, making it easier for people to find helpful content. A search ranking update called the "Helpful Content Update" will start rolling out globally to English language users on August...
NASA, Microchip to develop next-gen spaceflight computing processor
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NASA, Microchip to develop next-gen spaceflight computing processor

Washington, Aug 19: NASA has selected US-based Microchip Technology to develop a high-performance space flight computing (HPSC) processor that will provide at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers. The next-generation processor would advance all types of future...
Centre to form panel to seek views on universal charger model
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Centre to form panel to seek views on universal charger model

New Delhi, Aug 18: The Central government is looking at the possibility of adopting a universal charger model for all electronic devices like mobile phones, laptops, electric watches, and will set up a panel seeking views on the proposal, informed sources said. The sources said the Centre will...
Getting married in the Metaverse
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Getting married in the Metaverse

New Delhi, Aug 15: In 1992, when science fiction author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse in his book 'Snow Crash', little did he know that the idea would revolutionize the lives of people three decades later. From 'Zoom weddings' in the post-pandemic era, to a U.S. couple conducting the first...
NASAs InSight mission finds Martian equator is dry
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NASA's InSight mission finds Martian equator is dry

New York, Aug 12: Martian equator contains little or no ice, according to a new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission. The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, describes the dry conditions in the top 300 metres of the subsurface beneath the landing...
Google expands AI-based content advisories to more searches
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Google expands AI-based content advisories to more searches

New Delhi, Aug 12: Google has announced to expand content advisories to searches where its AI systems don't have high confidence in the overall quality of the results available for the search. Pandu Nayak, Google Fellow and Vice President, Search, said that this doesn't mean that no helpful...
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