
International Yoga Day 2020: Narendra Modi says ‘pranayama’ can boost immunity amid COVID-19 pandemic
Yoga has emerged as a force for unity and it does not discriminate as it goes beyond race, colour, gender, faith and nations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday. In his message on the sixth International Day of Yoga, he said due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world is feeling the need for Yoga more than ever.


International Yoga Day 2020: Here's how kundalini yoga and kirtan kriya can help reduce risk of dementia
Every year, 21 June is celebrated as International Yoga Day to highlight the many benefits of yoga

AI-generated 'Master' fingerprint can unlock most modern day smartphones
The artificially generated prints were accurate in replicating more than one in five real fingerprints.

MediaTek to bring AI capabilities in feature phones and entry-level smartphones
MediaTek 'Helio P22' chip is expected to bring high-end features to mid-tier smartphones in India.

Google Translate updated with improved AI-based offline translation that you can download
Users will begin to see the change in the next week with support for 50 languages.

Microsoft is also testing a bot that can make phone calls and chat with humans
The bot is currently being tested with over 500 million people in China.

Google testing a new video segmentation tool in YouTube Stories that lets creators change the background of a video
The lightweight video format by Google is rolling out to limited beta testers and will be helpful for the YouTube creators.

Twitter brings smart auto-cropping for your photo posts with the help of machine learning
Dubbed smart auto-cropping, this feature of Twitter can be helpful for those images where there may not be facial images.

Scientists develop new type of neural network chip to make teaching machines think more like humans
Reservoir computing systems have been created in the past with larger optical components.

Google and NASA announce the discovery of two new planets around distant stars using advanced computer analysis
The data came from the Kepler telescope which NASA had launched as part of a planet-finding mission that is expected to end next year.

Researchers have developed an innovative AI system to crack CAPTCHA security system
They used neural networks to learn what a CAPTCHA was and then to foil systems that used them.

Researchers develop AI system that can interpret what a person is seeing by analysing brain scans
The advance could aid efforts to improve artificial intelligence (AI) and lead to new insights into brain function.

China to invest heavily in artificial intelligence, to help predict social unrest and terrorism: Report
China has outlined plans to become a world-leader in artificial intelligence by 2025, laying down a challenge to US dominance in the sector amid heightened international tensions over military applications of the technology.

Country to lead the development of Artificial Intelligence will dominate the world, says Putin
Russia's Vladimir Putin said the development of Artificial Intelligence raises "colossal opportunities and threats that are difficult to predict now".

Researchers have developed an Alexa-like digital assistant for robots with the help of Artificial Intelligence
Alexa is Amazon's Artificial Intelligence assistant that powers Echo, provides capabilities or skills that enable customers to interact with devices.

Founders of AI and robotic companies urge UN to ban autonomous weapons
The open letter was released at an AI conference in Melbourne earlier in the day ahead of a UN meeting of government experts on autonomous weapons

Imaging app Prisma to focus on deep learning, to sell its technology to other tech firms
Through the use of tools like face mapping and segregation, Prisma was able to create a trend in the social media space. Artificial intelligence and neural network would be used to create simple picture into an art form.

Arnold Schwarzenegger must lend his voice to this Terminator-inspired, Alexa-powered smart speaker
Also, enabled with the Terminator T 800 speaker is Amazon's home assistant Alexa.

Caltech researchers train artificial intelligence to accurately model audience reactions to movies
The infrared cameras used in the setup can work in the dark, without interfering with the movie watching experience of the audience.

Researchers train neural network to generate realistic videos lip-synced to audio clips
In a video conference, the users can avoid interruptions from video feeds timing out because of connectivity problems.