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Friday, April 26, 2024
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Top 5 tech trends that alarmed us in 2023

As AI advanced to rival human intelligence, India had its own tech tango.

India’s geo-digital age is here – tech partnerships, data protection, semiconductors

There are many different moving parts with regard to India’s geo-digital age, and there is an urgent need for intra-ministerial coordination.

Forget problem-solving. In the age of AI, it’s problem-finding that counts

In the face of an increasingly complex and unpredictable world, organizations need to embrace the mantra that 'great minds think different — not alike.'

6 ways AI could disrupt Hollywood – digital avatars to synthetic voice

Despite dying in a car crash in 1955, actor James Dean is being brought back to life by technology to walk and talk alongside real-life actors in a new film.

IIT Madras develops open-source database of COVID antibodies to combat future variants

The one of a kind database called ‘Ab-CoV’ contains detailed information about all COVID-related antibodies identified so far, including the source of each.

ChatGPT could do more than just disrupt exams. It can help people with communication disabilities

AI like ChatGPT can help pull information together in a neat text, and it can turn written text into a summary for readers with low literacy.

China’s new rules to scrutinise ‘deepfakes’ to take effect from 10 Jan

The regulations provide for people to be protected from being impersonated without their consent that are virtually indistinguishable from the original, & easily used for misinformation.

Google pauses use of its internal billing system for app developers in India following CCI order

Last month, CCI had hit Google with two antitrust penalties ($113 mn & $162 mn) and said not to restrict app developers from using third-party billing or payment processing services.

English or Hindi medium? — Modi-Shah’s push for Hindi not sitting well with BJP CMs

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Samsung to invest $3.3 billion in Vietnam for semiconductor parts, amid US-China chip war

Samsung CEO Roh Tae-Moon revealed plans to set up trial production in the Vietnamese province of Thái Nguyên by July 2023.

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.