Mehul Reuben Das
Major win for Right to Repair? Tech makers to offer repairs for up to 10 years in proposed EU law
The EU is considering a law that would force tech manufacturers to provide repairs for devices for at least 10 years after its initial launch. Right To Repair activists however, believe that the bill in its current form is watered down and needs to be reworked.
Employer contacts man 4 years after firing him, demands he shares old passwords or they’ll sue him
What would you do if an old employer, calls you after firing you four years ago and demands you share a password you used ages ago? A Reddit user in a similar situation shared how he was threatened with a lawsuit when he couldn't remember the password.
ChatGPT powers up: OpenAI finally lets the GPT-4 chatbot to browse the internet for answers
ChatGPT's GPT-4 version now finally has the ability to connect to look for information and other data sets on the internet. A chatbot with open access to the internet can be dangerous, a fact that OpenAI is aware of.
When legacy dies: Twitter will start removing original or ‘legacy’ blue checkmarks from April 1
Elon Musk-led Twitter has announced that starting April 1, the platform will start removing legacy blue ticks from originally verified accounts. Musk plans to amp up Twitter Blue and paid verification programmes, and may increase the price in the future.
TikTok US Ban likely, CEO Chew fails to convince Congress that the app is not a ‘weapon’ for China
TikTok in all likelihood is going to get banned following the US Congressional hearing. CEO Shou Zi Chew, as prepared as he was had a rough hearing, during which, he dodged a number of important questions on US user's data and Chinese spying.
Questions like 'Does TikTok use WiFi' shows that US Congress isn’t equipped to legislate tech
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the US House Energy and Commerce Committee. While there were some pointed questions aimed at TikTok and him, some of the questions exposed Congress' inadequacy to legislate tech.
Tesla wreaks havoc in China’s EV market with new price war, gives 50% discount on all cars
Tesla is majorly disrupting the EV market in China and is giving 50% discounts on its cars. This has led to a major price war in the Chinese market, and caused other EV makers to change their strategies.
AI platform Midjourney bans journalist who created Trump's fake images of getting arrested
AI-generated images of Donald Trump getting arrested went viral on Twitter. The AI platform that created the images, Midjourney, has banned the journalist who created the image, and has stopped taking cues with the word "Trump" in it.
Despite getting banned in 2020, TikTok still has access to data of Indian users
Almost anyone with basic access to business tools in ByteDance can retrieve and analyse data about previous TikTok users in India. That means people in TikTok, ByteDance and China's CCP can easily access the data of over 150 million Indian accounts and users.
Bing win for Musk: Saudi, UAE investors plan to invest in SpaceX, may also invest in Twitter
Elon Musk's SpaceX will see a fresh round of private investment, with several Saudi and UAE-based investors gearing up to fund Musk's space company. With this investment, SpaceX will become the most valuable privately held business in the United States
Influencers, Assemble: TikTok flies influencers to Washington DC from all over US to lobby US Congress
Several TikTok creators took to the streets and gathered outside the US Capitol, opposing the possible ban that US lawmakers would impose on the platform. TikTok actually flew several influencers to Washington DC from all over US to get them to lobby US Congress
TikTok CEO appeals to 150 million US users for support ahead of Congressional hearing
TikTok's CEO Chew Shou Zi took to Instagram and appealed to all 150 million TikTok users in the US to voice their support for the video-sharing app and urged them to tell House Representatives why banning TikTok isn't a good idea.
When Planets Parade: 5 planets to align in ‘Starwalk Phenomenon’ next week, here’s how to watch
Next week we will get to see one of the rarest cosmic events to ever happen, a rare planetary alignment Five planets, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars are set to perfectly align at the same time with the moon in an event called a planetary parade.
Gandhi and Bose in the time of AI: Artist imagines world leaders from the past taking selfies
A digital artist on Instagram harnessed the power of Midjourney AI and Photoshop, and reimagined a world where world leaders from the distant past, would have smartphones, and would post selfies on social media.
AI-generated pictures of former President Trump getting arrested send Twitter into a frenzy
AI-Generated images of former US President Donald Trump created a massive frenzy on Twitter, as people assumed the images to be real. Created using Stable Diffusion, the images were shared by a "verified" account on Twitter.
TikTok keen on getting out of trouble, updates content rulebook, asserts never shared data with CCP
TikTok is trying to charm US legislators by changing its content rulebook and asserting that they have never shared data with China, and that they have enough safeguards in place to stop ByteDance China from accessing American user's data.
ChatGPT takes to the skies: Air India joins growing club of companies to use ChatGPT in operations
Air India joins a growing club of companies that will use OpenAI's ChatGPT to streamline and enhance day-to-day operations. Other companies include the likes of Stripe, General Motors, and Morgan Stanley.
AI War: Google launches Bard AI, not as potent as GPT-4 powered bots like Bing AI and ChatGPT
Google launched its Bard AI chatbot to take on ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing AI. However, the LaMDA based AI chatbot is not nearly as potent as the GPT-4 based ChatGPT 2.0 or Bing AI. The access to Bard AI is currently limited to users in the USA and UK
Americans love TikTok: Despite security concerns, Chinese video app grew exponentially in the US
While the US government is trying to ban TikTok across the country on a federal level, the citizens of the US seem to love the Chinese video-sharing app. TikTok now has over 150 million monthly active users, which is about half of the US population.
ChatGPT, but for making videos? Text-to-video generators come close to being a reality
Text generators like ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion and Dall-E2 are all the rage. However, AI video generators are the next frontier for generative AI. Runway AI, revealed their Gen-2 AI bot that can generate video clips, based on text