Engineers at Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab have developed Emo, a robot capable of mimicking human facial expressions. While robots have made strides in verbal communication through advancements like ChatGPT, their ability to express facial cues has lagged. The researchers believe Emo is a significant advance in non-verbal communication between humans and robots. Emo, described […]Read More
Spirit, a robot, is being trained to walk on the moon. Scientists are testing it in the rugged terrain of Oregon’s Mount Hood, in preparation for future missions in space. The research is part of the LASSIE Project, which stands for Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments. “Moving forward to missions that are going […]Read More
The standoff is getting worse. On one side is billionaire Elon Musk, now the world’s fourth richest person. On the other is Alexandre de Moraes, a judge at Brazil’s supreme court. At the heart of the conflict is restrictions over so-called free speech. The judge has now opened a probe against Musk, who owns the […]Read More
At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly half of the U.S. online photo market. Today only 2 million people still use Photobucket, according to analytics tracker Similarweb. But the […]Read More
It’s an academic centre par excellence, rated the No. 1 institution in India for the last eight years in the engineering category. It has the country’s first university-based research park where the industry and academia collaborate to create an innovation ecosystem. Welcome to IIT Madras, which is also the testbed for research and development in some […]Read More
AT&T said a dataset containing sensitive information for approximately 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former customers was leaked onto the dark web, Read More
Zhiwei Allen Liao, a Chinese resident of the US, ran a complex operation involving fake iPhones and iPads imported from China. They would affix genuine Apple serial numbers onto the counterfeit devices to fool Apple's warranty system.Read More
Asian benchmarks were mostly higher on Thursday after U.S. stocks rallied to records following the Federal Reserve’s indication that it expects to deliver interest rate cuts later this year. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.6% to 40,676.77 after the government reported exports grew nearly 8% in February from a year earlier, in the third straight month of […]Read More
AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. Deceptive pictures, videos and audio are proliferating as a result of the rise and misuse of generative artificial intelligence tools. With AI deepfakes cropping up almost every day, depicting everyone from Taylor Swift to Donald Trump, it’s getting harder to tell what’s […]Read More
France’s competition watchdog hit Google on Wednesday with another big fine tied to a long-running dispute over payments to French publishers for their news. The French Competition Authority said it issued the 250 million euro ($272 million) penalty because of Google’s failure to comply with some commitments it made in a negotiating framework. The dispute […]Read More
Here’s a word of advice from Ambassador Mohan Kumar, who was India’s lead negotiator at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or GATT, the forerunner of the WTO (World Trade Organisation): “Forty per cent of your GDP is trade. So if you have to become a $5 trillion, $7 trillion, $10 trillion economy and […]Read More
In a bid to make India a global hub for semiconductor manufacturing, design and technology, PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for three key projects – two in Gujarat and one in Assam. India currently employs 2 million people in the electronics manufacturing sector. That’s a number the government wants to push up to […]Read More
You may have heard of India’s Quantum Mission but what about the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)? Also, the Hydrogen Valley Innovation Cluster? These are some of the deep tech areas that are the subject of the government’s focus, the idea being to develop expertise, knowledge and skills for the future, a future that may […]Read More
It’s been over a week since the conclusion of the ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Abu Dhabi. The meeting underscored the divisions worldwide over trade issues, from agricultural subsidies to fisheries and even investment facilitation, says Mohan Kumar, former Indian ambassador to France and lead negotiator at GATT, the forerunner of the […]Read More
It could be the most ambitious effort by India to leapfrog generations by investing in a range of high technology areas. These sectors span everything from Quantum Computing to Green Hydrogen, Dr Abhay Karandikar, Secretary Department of Science and Technology told StratNews Global on The Gist. The effort that requires major focus is the Anusandhan […]Read More
Microsoft said that it was still trying to remove Russian hackers from its systems but had not yet succeeded so far. The tech giant said that Russian government hackers had broken into the email accounts of senior Microsoft executives since last November and have since been trying to get access to its customer data. The […]Read More
India and the 4-nation European Free Trade Association (EFTA) that groups Iceland, Norway, Lichtenstein and Switzerland, are expected to sign an agreement very soon that could see $100 billion invested in India over 15 years, say reports in the pink papers. The deal could also open up the export of pharmaceutical goods to these countries, […]Read More
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Bank of Indonesia signed an MoU to establish a framework to promote the use of local currencies said an RBI statement on Thursday. The MoU was signed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das and the Governor of Bank of Indonesia, Perry Warjiyo will, according to the statement, will […]Read More
A first-of-its-kind multinational agreement involving the US, Japan, and Indo-Pacific countries took place on Saturday, February 24 according to the Kyodo News. It will focus on countries helping each other with critical items during natural disasters and through other international crises such as the pandemic. The deal includes countries such as Fiji, India, and Singapore […]Read More
Cellular modules are crucial to a modern economy. They are used in a vast array of industrial applications including energy, logistics, manufacturing, transport, health, security, and payment processing. At home, they feature in cars, smart meters, computers, electric vehicle chargers, and white goods. They monitor and control complex systems remotely. To ensure that such systems […]Read More
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