Elon Musk’s X routinely fails to takedown hate speech, fake news, finds new study
Although Elon Musk claims that X is actively taking down hate speech and fake news from the platform, a new study by Centre for Countering Digital Hate has revealed that the platform routinely fails to take them down, especially if they have a high engagement rate
Huawei, Xiaomi beat Apple by a huge margin in China as sales recover in October
Apple continues to struggle in China, even though the slump that smartphone makers were going through has ended and sales have recovered. In a surprising twist for everyone, Huawei and Xiaomi are doing really well
Is Elon Musk anti-Jew? Tesla CEO backs antisemitic post on X
Elon Musk has found himself in the midst of yet another controversy that accuses him of being antisemitic and anti-Jew. Musk recently backed a seemingly anti-Jew post on X for its comments on white people
Japanese space startup that aims to colonise moon by 2040 to launch second mission soon
Japan's space startup Ispace, which plans to colonise Moon by 2040 is set to launch its second mission to the Moon, after the failure of its first mission back in April this year. The second mission is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2024 winter
‘Waste of time, resources’: China's Baidu's top boss disses AI, public craze for it
Chinese AI giant Baidu's top boss is not happy with the fascination that people have with generative AI and think that it is a bit premature. He also believes that tech companies ought to develop the next phase of AI and not just focus on the generative aspect of it
Meta takes on ‘Tyrant’ EU for crackdown on Big Tech, will fight 'gatekeeper' tag
Meta is taking on the European Union and the way it is cracking down on large tech companies. Meta's main contention is with how the EU is implementing the DMA or Digital Markets Act, and designating tech companies as 'gatekeepers'
India's space agency wants to take a peek inside kids' brains for...
ISRO is inviting students to share their ideas and designs for prospective rovers and robotics that can be used in space-based missions. For this, ISRO is organising a challenge, and will award Rs 10 lakhs to students who win
Google wants you to forget your local weatherman, trust its AI meteorologist for weather updates
Google's DeepMind AI researchers have introduced a new weather prediction programme called GraphCast. GraphCast uses machine learning that can predict the weather for up to 10 days, in under a minute
Novel solution to pollution: Swiss sportswear company makes clothes using carbon emissions, pollutants
A Swiss sportswear maker has a unique solution for Delhi's air pollution — use carbon emissions and air pollutants to make clothes. On, a Swiss sportswear brand, and LanzaTech, a biotech company transformed emissions and pollutants into chemicals to create a new fabric
YouTube mandates creators to tag AI-generated content, risk suspension if rule is violated
YouTube is now mandating creators to clearly mark their videos if it includes Ai-generated synthetic or realistic content. This is to ensure that people don't mistake such content as real or use it to spread fake news
Samsung takes on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, unveils its own generative AI bot called Gauss
Samsung has launched its own AI system called Gauss. The Samsung Gauss model consists of three integral components: Samsung Gauss Language, Samsung Gauss Code, and Samsung Gauss Image
Android users beware, new vulnerabilities has GoI worried, Cert-In issues critical warning
CERT-In has highlighted several critical vulnerabilities predominantly affect Android devices operating on older versions like 11, 12, 12L, and 13, and said that the devices are highly critical and susceptible to DoS attacks and getting hacked
Cleaning up Space: Airbus launches Detumbler to clean up space debris in Earth orbit
Airbus has launched a new spacecraft, which they hope will be instrumental in cleaning up space debris cluttering Earth's orbit. Called Detumbler, the spacecraft is a magnetic damping device designed to prevent defunct satellites from uncontrollably tumbling in space
China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, can transmit 150 4K movies a second
China is claiming that they now have the world's fastest internet. Their new network transmits 1.2 terabits per second. That's over 1200 gigabits, per second. At this speed, the network will be able to send 150 4K movies in less than a second. Furthermore, it can send all of Netflix's global content
Meta, Google, TikTok, Snap set to face lawsuit for making children addicted to social media
Meta, ByteDance, Snap, and Google tried to get several lawsuits against them dismissed that alleged they were deliberately making social media platforms addictive for children. However, a US federal judge has ruled that the lawsuits won't be dismissed, and the tech companies will stand trial
Apple supplier Foxconn takes stakeholders, investors by surprise, posts 11% profit in Q3
After predicting that their profit would dip through the quarter, because of slowing demand in consumer electronics, Apple supplier Foxconn surprised everyone, from their stakeholders to investors by posting a profit of 11%
Apple, Amazon, Google under legal cloud for 'evading' Rs 5,000 Cr income tax
India's Income tax officers are investigating Apple, Google, and Amazon for not paying taxes to the tune of Rs 5,000. Authorities are accusing the tech giants of transfer pricing, a practice that aims to ensure fair market value transactions within the company group to avoid tax dodging
Big Money for Big AI: ChatGPT’s OpenAI trying to lure Google employees, offering up to Rs 83 cr
AI engineers are in high demand, so much so, that OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT is trying to lure engineers from Google's AI teams and are offering some people as much as $10 million a year or about Rs 83 crore a year
NVIDIA brings massive updates to flagship AI chips, make it more efficient to handle larger systems
NVIDIA has updated its flagship AI chip, the H100 and unveiled the all new H200 AI chips. The new AI chips come with increased high-bandwidth memory among other enhancements, and will be launched in 2024
Dark Big Bang theory: Scientists suspect two major blasts, not one, second one caused dark matter
Scientists suspect that instead of one explosion, the Big Bang involved two major explosions. The first one shaped the universe as we know it today, whereas the second one is responsible for the pervasive presence of dark matter in the universe