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Deepfake video meeting with fake CFO costs company $25.6 mn
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Deepfake video meeting with fake CFO costs company $25.6 mn

Hong Kong, Feb 5: A deepfake video conference call where a digitally recreated avatar of the chief financial officer (CFO) ordered money transfers has cost a multinational company $25.6 million in a first-such scam. Employees at the company’s Hong Kong office were fooled by scammers who created...
Tesla worker arrested for threatening to kill Musk, Biden
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Tesla worker arrested for threatening to kill Musk, Biden

San Francisco, Feb 4:A Tesla employee, who threatened to kill US President Joe Biden and tech billionaire Elon Musk, was arrested in Texas, the media reported. As per court documents, 31-year-old Justin McCauley was charged on Tuesday with felony terroristic threats after tweeting, "@JoeBiden @X...
Spacetech startup raises $15.5 mn to harvest natural resources from Moon
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Spacetech startup raises $15.5 mn to harvest natural resources from Moon

San Francisco, Feb 4:Interlune, a spacetech startup led by former Blue Origin leaders, has quietly raised $15.5 million in new funding and aims to close another $2 million, according to its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Interlune is led by Rob Meyerson, an aerospace...
People wear Apple Vision Pro on streets, inside trains & more
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People wear Apple Vision Pro on streets, inside trains & more

San Francisco, Feb 4: From people wearing it on the streets, during the flight, inside the trains, at the gym and even while having lunch together, Apple’s mixed reality (MR) headset Vision Pro has taken the internet by storm. YouTuber Casey Neistat’s Apple Vision Pro video was a wild ride where...
Facebook turns 20, Instagram tells Zuckerberg
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Facebook turns 20, Instagram tells Zuckerberg 'love you dad'

New Delhi, Feb 5: Facebook has turned 20, after Mark Zuckerberg launched the site in 2004 which rapidly became the most loved social networking platform in the years to come. On Instagram, Zuckerberg shared snippets of his early days at Facebook. "Twenty years ago, I launched a thing. Along...
Most Indian employees optimistic about AI boosting productivity: Report
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Most Indian employees optimistic about AI boosting productivity: Report

New Delhi, Feb 2: Most employees in India believe artificial intelligence (AI) will open new opportunities to enjoy work and make their jobs easier and more interesting, a new report said on Friday. According to the HP Work Relationship Index report 'Growing and Mature Economies (GME)', in India,...
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Google's Gemini Pro in Bard now available in nine Indian languages

New Delhi, Feb 2: Google, which brought Gemini Pro into its AI chatbot Bard in English last December, has now made it available in more than 230 countries and territories in over 40 languages, including nine Indian languages. The nine Indian languages include -- Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali,...
WhatsApp bans record over 69L bad accounts in India in Dec 2023
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WhatsApp bans record over 69L bad accounts in India in Dec 2023

New Delhi, Feb 2: Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a record over 69 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of December 2023, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021, the company said on Monday. Between December 1-31, the company banned "6,934,000 accounts". About 1,658,000 of these accounts were...
Time to transform cybersecurity as good vs bad GenAI debate rages
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Time to transform cybersecurity as good vs bad GenAI debate rages

Bangkok, Feb 3: As industries, governments and law enforcement agencies all over the world struggle to keep up with the vast and ever-evolving cybercrime ecosystem, specialist cyber defenders building and upgrading firewalls, say that sensitisation and prevention are always better than cure. And it...
SpaceX invites research proposals for Dragon human spaceflight missions
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SpaceX invites research proposals for Dragon human spaceflight missions

San Francisco, Feb 3: Elon Musk-run SpaceX has quietly invited proposals for exceptional science and research ideas that will enable life in space and on other planets, to be executed on orbit using its Dragon spacecraft capsule. Research proposals submitted to SpaceX will be reviewed and...
BharatPe appoints Rohan Khara as new Chief Product Officer
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BharatPe appoints Rohan Khara as new Chief Product Officer

New Delhi, Feb 1: Fintech major BharatPe on Thursday announced the appointment of Rohan Khara as the new Chief Product Officer (CPO). Khara will be leading product development and innovation, designing of merchants and consumer products, and user research teams across the BharatPe Group of...
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'Rs 1 lakh crore fund should finance only India-registered parent companies in...

Chennai, Feb 1: Welcoming Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's announcement on creation of a Rs 1 lakh crore corpus to fund technology companies, space sector officials are of the view the funding should be for deep tech companies. They also said the funding should be only to India-registered...
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