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How Indian tech savvy consumers are creating superstars in the consumer tech market

21Mar

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How Indian tech savvy consumers are creating superstars in the consumer tech market

[ad_1] If you are a modern Indian consumer, chances are, you're reading this article on your mobile phone as you relax in the back of an Ola, or on a laptop, while you catch a break from work. Today's Indian consumer demands much more than his/ her needs met. He/ she wants luxury, entertainment, and quality experiences while shopping or making payments.That's why in the vast landscape of consumer technology, emerging markets like India stand out as a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity, with a plethora of startups disrupting traditional industries and attracting significant funding. Also Read: What we know so far about the rumoured Apple smart ring and is wearable tech worth it? The combination of a higher disposable income and digital adoption are the driving force for India's consumer ...

Insect compasses, fire-fighting vines to scaly robots, here are 2023’s nature-inspired tech

24Dec

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Insect compasses, fire-fighting vines to scaly robots, here are 2023’s nature-inspired tech

[ad_1] Even as human-caused climate change threatens the environment, nature continues to inspire our technological advancement. "The solutions that are provided by nature have evolved for billions of years and tested repeatedly every day since the beginning of time," said Evripidis Gkanias, a University of Edinburgh researcher.Gkanias has a special interest in how nature can educate artificial intelligence. "Human creativity might be fascinating, but it cannot reach nature's robustness -- and engineers know that," he told AFP. From compasses mimicking insect eyes to forest fire-fighting robots that behave like vines, here's a selection of this year's nature-based technology.- Insect compass -Some insects -- such as ants and bees -- navigate visually based on the intensity and polarisat...

Spotify to use Google’s AI to tailor podcasts, audiobooks recommendations

16Nov

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Spotify to use Google’s AI to tailor podcasts, audiobooks recommendations

[ad_1] Spotify, on Thursday, expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to use large language models (LLMs) to help identify a user's listening patterns across podcasts and audiobooks in order to suggest tailor-made recommendations.Artificial intelligence-powered LLMs such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard, are trained on a massive amount of data to generate text and other content. Google Cloud, owned by Alphabet, has several LLMs such as PaLM 2, Codey, Imagen and Chirp that are trained on text, codes, images, audio and video. Spotify has been an early adopter of AI, which it used for music recommendation algorithms a decade earlier. The Swedish company is now aiming to use LLMs to replicate that across its non-music content such as podcasts and audiobooks.The music streaming giant ha...

5 things about AI you may have missed today: From AI hub, Gemini AI to crime in era of AI and much more

3Jul

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: From AI hub, Gemini AI to crime in era of AI and much more

[ad_1] The artificial intelligence race has just got more intense. Google has introduced Gemini, a project by DeepMind, aiming to surpass AI models like ChatGPT; the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) has declared Hyderabad as India's AI capital; this AI system, equipped with advanced image recognition, scrutinises waste processing and recycling facilities and AI-Generated images of Zomato's delivery agents go viral on social media - this and more in our daily AI roundup. Let us take a look.1. Google's New AI Venture, Gemini: A ChatGPT competitorGoogle introduces Gemini, a project by DeepMind, aiming to surpass AI models like ChatGPT. Gemini's versatility enables it to handle any data or task without specialised models, promising unique content beyond its training da...

How Tyrants Use Tech to Spy on All of Us

5Feb

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How Tyrants Use Tech to Spy on All of Us

[ad_1] This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Parmy Olson: You're the co-authors of a new book, “Pegasus: How a Spy In Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy,” which tells the story of Pegasus, a powerful spyware developed by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group. In recent years, a range of governments around the world purchased this technology, allowing them to gain remote-control access to people's mobile phones without their knowledge. In 2020, a secret source leaked a list to your team of investigative journalists in Paris that contained 50,000 phone numbers that NSO Group's clients wanted to spy on. Among the names on the list were French president Emmanuel Macron, the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi and a raft of journalists, in...

Money, Tech, Recession: The World According to a Goldman Intern

13Oct

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Money, Tech, Recession: The World According to a Goldman Intern

[ad_1] Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s interns overwhelmingly expect the US economy to fall into recession. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s interns overwhelmingly expect the US economy to fall into recession, and see climate change as among the most pressing issues of the coming decade, a survey shows. Of the 2,470 summer interns who completed the annual survey, 86% expect a recession, the Wall Street giant said Wednesday on its website. Those surveyed identified climate change, artificial intelligence and geopolitical tensions as the most urgent issues to be faced over the next 10 years. Amid a surge in digital banking and currencies, 47% of surveyed interns reported using phone-based payments, while only 2% reported using cash. Despite the popularity of digital assets and services, 99% o...