Category: Internet

ChatGPT will soon hit the road. Mercedes-Benz on Thursday said US drivers could power some of their luxury vehicles with ChatGPT in a test program starting June 16. Compatible with some 900,000 vehicles that have the automaker’s “MBUX” systems, ChatGPT will download over the air after drivers opt in via a Mercedes app or by […]

Samsung Big TV Days 2023 sale has kicked off with discounts and bundled offers on a large selection of TVs. Samsung is offering deals on Neo QLED 8K, OLED, QLED, The Frame, and Crystal 4K UHD TV series models in India. The Big TV Days sale will run from June 15 to July 25, 2023. […]

The government’s relationship with any social media platform is simply through the prism of compliance of law and rules, and therefore there is nothing personal or adversarial against one platform or the other, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said. The platforms have to respect the Indian laws, the Minister of State for IT and Electronics […]

Alphabet is cautioning employees about how they use chatbots, including its own Bard, at the same time as it markets the program around the world, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Google parent has advised employees not to enter its confidential materials into AI chatbots, the people said and the company confirmed, citing […]

In its effort to expand beyond the streaming and mobile gaming industry, Netflix is now opening a pop-up restaurant. The eatery is called Netflix Bites and promises ‘an elevated dining experience’ featuring dishes from their own original shows such as Chef’s Table, Is It Cake?, and Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend. The restaurant […]

Sony has announced that it has begun testing cloud streaming for ‘supported PS5 games’. The feature will be available for PS Plus Premium/ Deluxe members only and will allow players to stream select PS5 games directly — including the ones in the Game Catalog and Game Trials — without having to download them. The plan […]

Google Lens — the company’s image recognition app for iOS and Android smartphones — has been updated with a new feature that could help you identify certain medical conditions. Pointing your phone’s camera at your skin with a rash or some sort of irritation will now let Google Lens attempt to identify a specific condition […]

Truecaller is reintroducing support for call recording on its popular caller identification app for smartphones. The feature was previously available on Android smartphones, but was discontinued after Google cracked down on apps using an API designed for accessibility features to record calls. Now users on either an iPhone or an Android smartphone can record calls, […]

Alien conspiracies, Oscar winners, and hardly a superhero in sight: Marvel is taking its record-breaking franchise in a new direction with Secret Invasion, a spy thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson, Olivia Colman, and Emilia Clarke. The series, out next Wednesday on Disney+, marks Jackson’s 14th Marvel film or television series, but the first time his […]

Warner Bros. is trying to bring back Christopher Nolan, following their split in 2021. Speaking to Variety, Warner Bros. Pictures co-CEO Michael De Luca said enthusiastically, “We’re hoping to get Nolan back. I think there’s a world.” Nolan’s last film with WB was the time-bending espionage Tenet, which got a theatrical release right after the […]

Amazon Prime Lite was launched in India on Thursday, as a more affordable alternative to the company’s annual Prime subscription. The e-commerce giant began testing the plan with a few users earlier this year, and has now rolled out access to all customers. The cheaper plan offers access to two-day deliveries at no additional cost, […]

A group of 17 music publishers sued Twitter in Nashville, Tennessee, federal court on Wednesday, accusing the company of enabling thousands of copyright violations by allowing users to post music without a license. Twitter drives user engagement with “countless infringing copies of musical compositions,” the lawsuit said. Members of the National Music Publishers’ Association, including […]

Google is bringing generative AI technology to shopping, aiming to get a jump on e-commerce sites like Amazon.com. The Alphabet-owned company announced features Wednesday aimed at helping people understand how apparel will fit on them, no matter their body size, and added capabilities for finding products using its search and image-recognition technology. Additionally, Google introduced new […]

Walmart‘s Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe payments business in India could be $100 billion (Rs. 8,19,750 crore) businesses buoyed by strong growth, the retailer’s chief financial officer said on Wednesday at an investor conference. Walmart does not break out sales of Flipkart and PhonePe but over the past few months, executives have singled out the two […]

The number of people globally who initially access news through a website or app has dropped by 10 points since 2018, and younger groups prefer to access news through social media, search or mobile aggregators, according to a report released on Tuesday. Audiences pay more attention to celebrities, influencers, and social media personalities than journalists […]

Thousands of popular Reddit communities dedicated to topics ranging from Apple to gaming and music locked out their users on Monday in protest against the company’s plan to charge for access to its data. Starting next month, third-party app developers using Reddit’s vast troves of data will have to pay a price and the changes […]

The government has taken a serious note of ‘dark patterns’ and asked e-commerce firms to create a self-regulatory framework to stop such practices, Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Singh on Tuesday said. The e-commerce sector has the largest contribution to dark patterns, and the framework will be created in the next two months, Singh told reporters […]

EU lawmakers agreed on Wednesday to changes in draft artificial intelligence rules proposed by the European Commission in a bid to set a global standard for a technology used in everything from automated factories to bots such as ChatGPT. The lawmakers will now have to thrash out details with European Union countries before the draft […]

Alphabet’s Google was charged by EU antitrust regulators with anti-competitive practices in its digital advertising business on Wednesday and may have to sell part of this business to address their concerns. The European Commission set out its charges in a statement of objections, two years after it opened an investigation into the case. “The Commission […]

Actor Prateik Babbar is all set to star in Aditi Rao Hydari and Paige Sandhu starrer Indo-UK co-production Lioness. The actor will essay the role of a Sikh character for the first time. Prateik visited the Golden Temple today to seek blessings as he will play a British-Sikh character on screen for the first time. […]

French videogame titan Ubisoft is eyeing artificial intelligence and virtual reality as the next big things in gaming, its chief executive said, especially ahead of the release of Apple’s new mixed reality headset. Ubisoft has long been known to take chances on new gaming innovations — the company launched an early partnership with Nintendo on […]

WhatsApp has begun testing a new video messages feature on the latest beta versions of the popular chat messaging app for iOS and Android. Like voice messages, the feature is designed to allow you to quickly record and send a video to other users that can be viewed in the chat. These messages aren’t ephemeral, […]

Yet again, Disney is shaking up its release calendar, delaying a slew of upcoming Marvel, Star Wars, and Avatar movies. As per Deadline, the shift is mainly attributed to the ongoing writers’ strike in Hollywood, causing screenplays to not be ready, in addition to pausing production. Let’s start with the three upcoming Avatar movies, which […]

The chief scientist for Facebook-owner Meta on Tuesday said that generative AI, the technology behind ChatGPT, was already at a dead end, instead promising new artificial intelligence resembling human rationality. “Today AI and machine learning really sucks. Humans have common sense, machines don’t,” Yann LeCun told reporters at a Meta launch event in Paris. LeCun […]

A “final Beatles record”, created with the help of artificial intelligence, will be released later this year, Paul McCartney told the BBC in an interview broadcast Tuesday. “It was a demo that John (Lennon) had, and that we worked on, and we just finished it up,” said McCartney, who turns 81 next week. The Beatles […]

Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices, though it has not made a final decision, an AWS executive told Reuters. The remarks came during an AMD event where the chip company outlined its strategy for the AI market, which is dominated by […]

Cards on the table: I’ve never played a plays a central figure in Diablo IV’s story. I couldn’t help but get all fanboy-ish as soon as I heard him — jittery on my chair with a stupid grin spread across my face, as I listened to his calming baritone. He’s also probably the only character […]

Telecom regulator TRAI has directed all telcos to deploy Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning based systems to detect, identify, and act against senders of commercial communication who are not registered in accordance with regulations. All the access providers have been asked to comply with the directions and report an updated status on actions taken, within […]

Streaming platform Apple TV+ is coming up with Care?me, a French drama series featuring the thrilling story of the world’s first celebrity chef Antonin Care?me, who rose from humble beginnings in Paris to the height of culinary stardom in Napoleon’s Europe. Consisting of eight episodes, the series stars César Award winner Benjamin Voisin — known […]

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday is expected to reveal new details about an AI “super chip” that analysts believe will be a strong challenger to Nvidia, whose chips dominate the fast-growing artificial intelligence market. AMD Chief Executive Lisa Su will give a keynote address at an event in San Francisco on the company’s strategy in […]