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Viral Now: New York Restaurant Introduces “Gulab Jamun Latte,” Internet Curious
10Dec By adminNo Comments
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Viral Now: New York Restaurant Introduces “Gulab Jamun Latte,” Internet Curious

[ad_1] When it comes to culinary experiments, social media has introduced us to a never-ending list of unconventional food combinations. From Oreo fried rice and cheese Maggi appe to maaza pani puri and fruit chai, such experiments have often ended up being a nightmare for any foodie. However, some do manage to win over people. Recently, we came across an unusual food combination on the block and it revolves around our favourite gulab jamun. Wondering what it has been paired with? Coffee. Yes, you read that right.  A restaurant in New York has recently introduced a gulab jamun latte, which has left the internet intrigued.Also Read: Watch: Street Vendor Makes Bizarre Bread Rasgulla, Internet Says, "No Thanks"The official Instagram page of the restaurant has shared a video as well as photo...
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Watch: Indians Perform Garba At New York’s Times Square After It Gets UNESCO Tag
8Dec By adminNo Comments
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Watch: Indians Perform Garba At New York’s Times Square After It Gets UNESCO Tag

[ad_1] Some onlookers also joined the danceNew York: Times Square reverberated with the beats and music of 'Garba' as members of the Indian-American community performed the traditional Gujarati dance at the iconic New York City destination to celebrate its inclusion in UNESCO's cultural heritage list.Braving near-freezing temperatures late Thursday evening, members of the diaspora from around the New York tri-state area, including New Jersey, turned out in large numbers to perform Garba in the heart of Times Square.Earlier this week, UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed 'Garba of Gujarat' on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during its 18th session in Kasane, Botswana. The inclusion o...
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Microsoft’s Troubled Combat Goggles Get Redesign That Wins Over the US Army
6Oct By adminNo Comments
Technology

Microsoft’s Troubled Combat Goggles Get Redesign That Wins Over the US Army

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp. has “fundamentally altered” its combat goggles, changing them from a bulky helmet to a streamlined flip-up visor to improve the prospect that soldiers will embrace the $22 billion project, according to the Army's chief weapons buyer. “The technology might have worked perfectly, but I'd still had worries before about the ‘form-factor' and way soldiers wore them,” Assistant Army Secretary Doug Bush said in an interview.The new version of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System headset is designed to project battlefield information, including the location of friendly troops, on a new visor with a wider, improved field of view. A small computer that's part of the unit was moved from the side, where it was connected by a bulky cable, to the back of the headset. Deplo...
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Musk commits to attend President Erdogan’s technology festival
1Oct By adminNo Comments
Technology

Musk commits to attend President Erdogan’s technology festival

[ad_1] Billionaire Elon Musk in typical fashion took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to announce his intention to attend Teknofest in Turkey next year.Turkish President Erdogan welcomed Musk's commitment. The X conversation between the two was sparked by Musk extending his congratulations to the teams competing in Teknofest. The technology festival has evolved into a prominent platform for showcasing Turkey's aerospace and technology advancements. The online interaction transpired shortly after the two men met in New York to discuss potential collaborations in artificial intelligence and the potential establishment of a Tesla factory. Erdogan Meets Musk and Asks Him to Open Tesla Factory in TurkeyTeknofest, an annual Aerospace and Technology Festival since 2018, plays host to various t...
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Hollywood Screenwriters Reach Deal to End Five-Month Strike
25Sep By adminNo Comments
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Hollywood Screenwriters Reach Deal to End Five-Month Strike

[ad_1] Striking Hollywood screenwriters reached a tentative new labor agreement with studios including Walt Disney Co. and Netflix Inc., settling one of two walkouts that have shut down film and TV production.The Writers Guild of America, which represents more than 11,500 Hollywood scribes, said Sunday it reached the deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, the studios' bargaining group. The agreement, if approved by the guild members, will end a strike that began on May 2. The provisional three-year deal remains subject to the completion of contract language and recommendations from the union's council and board, which could come as soon as Tuesday. Members would vote after that, although the union leadership may give them permission to return to work before...
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Microsoft Is Rolling Out Generative AI in Windows and Office App
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft Is Rolling Out Generative AI in Windows and Office App

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp. said its AI assistant for Windows will start rolling out Sept. 26 and the Office AI app will be widely available Nov. 1 as the software giant continues to bake generative artificial intelligence into its products.Microsoft's Copilot-branded AI assistants will provide a unified experience across operating systems, applications and devices, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said Thursday at an event in New York. For example, Microsoft showed how a user can ask Copilot to find a flight booking from text messages. “We've seen that the most magical and empowering moments people have experienced with AI is when it's informed with the context that extends way beyond what's in front of them,” Nadella said. “This requires that what we think of today as separa...
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Cisco to Buy Splunk for $28 Billion in Giant AI-Powered Data Bet
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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Cisco to Buy Splunk for $28 Billion in Giant AI-Powered Data Bet

[ad_1] Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy Splunk Inc. in a deal valued at about $28 billion, representing its biggest acquisition yet and a massive push into software and artificial intelligence-powered data analysis.The networking giant will pay $157 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement Thursday, or a 31% premium to Splunk's closing price on Wednesday. The purchase represents roughly 10% of Cisco's market value. Under Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins, Cisco has been trying to lessen its dependence on one-time sales of expensive hardware and shift toward software and services. Splunk is its most expensive push yet into that area and will help Cisco reach a broader base of customers, who can use the new services to gain insight into their network and computing operations...
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‘Game of Thrones’ author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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‘Game of Thrones’ author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights

[ad_1] "Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating their copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The Authors Guild, an organization representing writers, and several novelists including Martin, John Grisham and Jodi Picoult, accused the California-based company of using their books "without permission" to train ChatGPT's "large language models," algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit. "And at the heart of these algorithms is systematic theft on a massive scale," said the complaint, filed Tuesday in a New York federal court. Numerous other lawsuits have been filed by artists, ...
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Why PayPal’s stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook’s Libra failed
21Aug By adminNo Comments
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Why PayPal’s stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook’s Libra failed

[ad_1] PayPal's stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook's failed, thanks to the payment giant's standing in Washington and policymakers' greater understanding of the issues in the last three years.PayPal this month said it was launching PayPal USD, a crypto token pegged to the U.S. dollar, making it the second major global company to launch a stablecoin after Facebook, now Meta Platforms, unveiled Libra in June 2019. The move, which comes as PayPal transitions to a new CEO announced last week, seems risky after Facebook's stablecoin was crushed by political opposition, and as regulators home in on the crypto sector following several meltdowns. But PayPal is in a stronger position than Facebook, said former officials, executives and analysts. Policymakers are more familiar with st...
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Facebook’s algorithm doesn’t alter people’s beliefs: research
28Jul By adminNo Comments
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Facebook’s algorithm doesn’t alter people’s beliefs: research

[ad_1] Do social media echo chambers deepen political polarization, or simply reflect existing social divisions?A landmark research project that investigated Facebook around the 2020 US presidential election published its first results Thursday, finding that, contrary to assumption, the platform's often criticized content-ranking algorithm doesn't shape users' beliefs. The work is the product of a collaboration between Meta -- the parent company of Facebook and Instagram -- and a group of academics from US universities who were given broad access to internal company data, and signed up tens of thousands of users for experiments. The academic team wrote four papers examining the role of the social media giant in American democracy, which were published in the scientific journals Science ...
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