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OnePlus 12, Nord CE 4 and More OnePlus Phones Available at Lowered Prices During Amazon Great Summer Sale 2024 Amazon Great Summer Sale 2024 will kick off in India on May 2 from 12pm IST. Amazon Prime members in the country will be able to access the sale offers early from 12am IST on the same day. Customers will also be able to avail of additional bank offers, coupons, exchange deals, etc. over the lowered sale prices. Here we talk about some of the most popular OnePlus smart...

Google Pixel 8, Nothing Phone 2, Pixel 7a Discounted Prices Revealed Ahead of Flipkart Big Saving Days Sale Flipkart has started disclosing some of the major smartphone offers via a dedicated microsite. Google's Pixel 8, Pixel 7 and Nothing Phone 2 5G are confirmed to see price cuts during the upcoming Big Saving Days Sale. Besides the general discounts, Flipkart is providing cashback for purchases made through select bank cards. There will be additional no-cost EMI options...

Poco X6 Series and More Poco Phones Discounted Ahead of Amazon, Flipkart Sale in India: See Offers Poco has announced discounts on several of its models in India ahead of Amazon and Flipkart sales. The discounts will be valid from May 1 to May 10 this year, the company has confirmed. This will encompass the e-commerce sales scheduled to go live in the country. The Amazon Great Summer Sale will start on May 2, as will Flipkart's Big Saving Days. 

OpenAI Signs Deal With Financial Times to Use Its Content for Training AI Models The Financial Times has signed a deal with OpenAI to license its content for the development of AI models and allow ChatGPT to answer queries with summaries attributable to the newspaper, the latest media tie-up for the Microsoft-backed startup.

iPhone 14, iPhone 12 Price in India Discounted on Flipkart Ahead of Big Saving Days Sale Flipkart's Big Saving Days Sale will begin on May 3. Just days ahead of the annual sale event, the e-commerce website has listed iPhone 14 and iPhone 12 with discounted rates. Flipkart is offering additional discounts for purchases made through select bank cards and EMI transactions. There are exchange offers as well. The iPhone 14 runs on Apple's A15 Bionic SoC.

iPad Brought Under EU's Digital Markets Act, Apple Must Comply With New Rules in 6 Months Apple’s iPad has been added to a list of Big Tech products and services hit by strict new European Union rules aimed at stopping potential competition abuses before they take hold.

Amazon Great Summer Sale to Start on May 2; Discounts, Bank Offers Teased Amazon Great Summer Sale dates are now official. The online sale will begin in India on May 2 with hundreds of deals across various product categories. Like previous Amazon discount sales, the offer sale will start for Prime members early. Products such as mobile phones, accessories, beauty and fashion items, laptops, tablets, smartwatches, earbuds, and smart TVs are ...

Google Parent Alphabet Joins $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength Google closed above the $2 trillion mark on Friday in a first for the company as the company's latest results showed investors that Google would be a major player in the artificial intelligence (AI) arena. Alphabet's stock rose 10 percent on Friday, adding almost $200 billion to the company’s market capitalization in its biggest one-day jump since July 2015.

Apple ID Account Bug Locks Some Users Out of Accounts, Forces Password Reset Apple ID password reset prompts are being presented to several users online, according to various reports by customers on social media platforms. The issue appears to be affecting users randomly, including one Gadgets 360 staff member. Apple's system status webpage does not currently indicate that there are any issues affecting any of its services.

Dil Dosti Dilemma Review: Prime Video's Latest Series Is So Sugary That It Might Give You Diabetes Anushka Sen, popular for her role in kids' television show Balveer, plays the protagonist in this teenage drama.

Spotify Says Apple Has Rejected Its App Update With Price Information for EU Users Apple has rejected Spotify's new version of its iOS app with in-app pricing information for users in the European Union, the audio streaming firm said on Thursday.

TikTok Ban Looms as President Biden Signs Law With 270-Day Sale Deadline For TikTok, the clock has started running in its existential fight to avoid a US ban. Legislation requiring the social media app’s Chinese owners to divest sailed through Congress, capped by Senate passage late Tuesday as part of a larger foreign-aid package. President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday, beginning a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition ...

WhatsApp Now Supports Face Unlock for App Lock on Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro WhatsApp has rolled out support for the face unlock feature in the Pixel 8 series. This update provides a convenient way to unlock your WhatsApp and keep chats secure from prying eyes. Once users have set up facial recognition on the instant messaging app, they can simply look at it to unlock the app. This facility eliminates the need for biometric authentication.

Apple iPhone 15 Price in India Temporarily Cut on Flipkart: Here's How Much It Costs Now Apple iPhone 15 discount on Flipkart has currently lowered the price of the handset in India. The smartphone is available at a much lower price on Flipkart, compared to retail stores and other online e-commerce platforms, including Amazon. The iPhone 15 price in India at launch was Rs. 79,990 and the handset is currently available in India at a discounted price that d...

JioCinema Premium Plans With Ad-Free 4K Video Streaming Starting at Rs. 29 Announced JioCinema Premium plans are now available in the form of cheap monthly subscriptions that are lower than its closest competitors Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, and Amazon Prime Video. The streaming service will let users stream movies and TV series — including content from HBO, Paramount, Peacock, and Warner Bros. — without advertisements, at up to 4K resolution, alo...

OpenAI Announces New Assistants API Features and Tools for Enterprise Users OpenAI announced new tools, and features for its enterprise-grade Assistants API on Tuesday. The AI firm has made its API suite available to large businesses which require customised solutions for its workloads. Highlighting some of its major clients such as Klarna, Morgan Stanley, Oscar, Salesforce, and Wix, the company that it rolled out the new features to better s...

Tesla Could Start Selling Optimus Robots by the End of Next Year, Elon Musk Says Tesla's humanoid robot is still in the lab, but it may be ready to sell as soon as the end of next year, chief executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday.

Paytm Payments Bank Board Is Independent, Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma Says The board of India's Paytm Payments Bank is independent and capable of addressing regulatory concerns, the chief executive officer of digital payments firm Paytm, formally known as One97 Communications Ltd, (OCL) said on Monday.

Apple Close to Finalizing Deal With FIFA Over TV Rights For New Club World Cup Tournament: Report Soccer's global governing body FIFA is close to an agreement with Apple to give the tech company worldwide television rights for a new, month-long club tournament, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Amazon Upcoming Sale 2024: Check out Next Sale Date, Best Offers, Deals, and More Here are some of the best upcoming Amazon sales that you can look forward to.

Apple Offer to Open Up NFC-Based Tap-and-Go Technology Said to Be on Track for EU Approval by May Apple's offer to open up its NFC-based tap-and-go functionality will be considered by EU regulators in May. The European Commission two years ago accused Apple of thwarting competition for its Apple Pay mobile wallet by preventing rival mobile wallets app developers from accessing its tap-and-go technology. Apple has also offered to provide additional functionality in...

Meta AI Gets Upgraded With Llama 3 to Add New Features, Better Integration Meta AI is getting a massive upgrade. On Thursday, the social media giant announced two new Llama 3 artificial intelligence (AI) models, the Llama 3 8B and 70B, which are said to offer improved capabilities compared to the predecessor. Alongside, the company also upgraded its native AI assistant with Llama 3 models. Meta AI can now respond more efficiently, generate i...

Meta, Others Online Platforms Should Give Users Free Option Without Targeted Ads, Says EU Privacy Watchdog Meta Platforms and other large online platforms should offer users the option to use their services for free without targeted advertising, the EU privacy watchdog said on Wednesday, responding to the company's paid ad-free service that has triggered criticism.

Flipkart Upcoming Sale 2024: Check out Next Sale Date, Best Offers, Deals, and More Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming Flipkart sales in 2024.

Stable Diffusion 3, Turbo Models Are Now Available via Stability AI Developer Platform API Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Diffusion 3 Turbo models were unveiled in preview in February. Now, Stability AI is finally making the artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-image models available for some users. The company will let developers access the AI model through the Stability AI Developer Platform API. It has partnered with the API platform Fireworks AI to bring...

Threads Testing Real-Time Search Results for Some Users, Instagram Head Adam Mosseri Confirms Threads is testing a feature allowing users to see real-time search results on their feeds. Ever since the launch, it has been dubbed as a competitor to X (formerly Twitter), since they share several functional similarities. A chronological feed like X though, is not available on Threads. But this will likely be available soon.

World’s First AI Influencer Pageant 'Miss AI' Announced; Judging Criteria and Prizes Revealed Miss AI, the world’s first beauty pageant contest to judge the best artificial intelligence (AI) models and influencers, has been announced. The competition is being held by the World AI Creator Awards (WAIC) and aims to recognise the achievements of AI creators around the world. As per the website listing, the pageant will give out prizes totalling $20,000 (Roughly...

WhatsApp Adds Chat Filters to Catch Up on Unread Messages Quickly WhatsApp is rolling out new Chat Filters to keep messages organised. With the new update, users can quickly find the most important conversations without needing to scroll through the entire chat list. WhatsApp's Chat Filters feature works like Google's Gmail and offers three filter options to navigate through messages more efficiently.

YouTube Confirms “Appropriate Action” on Third-Party Ad-Blocking Apps in Renewed Crackdown YouTube is strengthening its efforts against third-party apps that block in-video apps on the platform. In a new announcement on April 15, the company highlighted that it will begin taking “appropriate action” against apps that let viewers watch videos without ads by violating its API services terms of service. The video streaming giant also urged viewers to shift...

Instagram Said to Be Testing AI-Powered Chatbots for Influencers That Can Interact With Followers Instagram is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered initiative that will allow the influencers — users with large followings — on the platform to automate direct engagement with their followers. As per the report, the programme is dubbed Creator AI and currently, it is under testing. The feature is said to offer AI chatbots to influencers...

Adobe Explores OpenAI Partnership as It Adds Firefly AI to Premiere Pro Video Tools Adobe is exploring the possibility of allowing third party generative AI (GenAI) services like OpenAI's Sora for AI video generation in Premiere Pro. The company said on Monday that it is developing a way to let users tap third-party tools from OpenAI, Runway and Pika Labs to generate and use video in Premiere Pro.

Adobe Unveils Acrobat AI Assistant for PDFs; Can Generate Summaries, Answer Questions Adobe has finally launched generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for its Acrobat and Reader platforms. Dubbed Acrobat AI Assistant, the company first unveiled the AI features in February 2024 in beta. After spending almost two months in testing, it is now available to users globally. The AI assistant is available on both desktop and web clients. Add...

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WhatsApp Web Users Could Soon Get the New Revamped Sidebar Interface: Report WhatsApp was reported to be working on a new interface for its web client with a sidebar and a dark mode last year. Now, according to a new report, the revamped design has started to roll out to some users. The new WhatsApp Web feature is said to be available to some of the users who have signed up for the web client’s beta programme. This also hints that a public r...

Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok 1.5 Vision AI Model in Preview, To Compete With GPT-4 Vision and Gemini Pro 1.5 Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) firm xAI unveiled a new AI model dubbed Grok 1.5 Vision. This large language model (LLM) is an enhanced version of the recently released Grok 1.5 model. With this upgrade, the AI model is now equipped with computer vision, making it capable of accepting visual media as input. It can process images and answer questions about i...

Beatoven.ai, an Indian AI Music Generation Platform, Is Making Music Creation Accessible Beatoven.ai is a generative AI-powered music generation tool for content creators. Once users have signed up, they can write a text prompt to generate original background music. Alternatively, the platform allows users to pick a tempo, duration, genre, and mood to create music. Once the user has added the input, the AI takes over and generates four separate tracks.

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OpenAI Brings GPT-4 Turbo to Paid ChatGPT Accounts, Claims ‘Improved Capabilities in Writing’ OpenAI upgraded its artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4 Turbo with new capabilities on Friday, especially in the areas of mathematics, reasoning, and writing abilities. The upgraded version of GPT-4 Turbo is now being rolled out to the paid users of ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and the API. The new AI model also comes with an updated data library and now touts...

Amazon Mega Electronics Days Sale Brings Discounts on Laptops, Headphones, Smartwatches and More Amazon Mega Electronics Days Sale is live with discounts on laptops, headphones, tablets, smartwatches, cameras, and other products that can be bought at lowered prices until the sale ends on April 18. Customers can also avail of discounts using SBI, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and J&K Bank cards during the ongoing Amazon Mega Electronics Days Sale.

Fortnite Maker Epic Games Moots Google Play Store Reforms After Antitrust Win Epic Games, the company behind the popular battle royale game Fortnite has asked a federal judge in the US to force Google to open up the Play Store to competitors, months after it won an antitrust case against the search giant. The publisher said in a statement on Friday it should be allowed to bring its Epic Games Store to Android "without delays and barriers."

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iOS 18 Tipped to Introduce AI Features Including Safari Browsing Assistant, Encrypted Visual Search iOS 18 AI features have leaked online, months before Apple rolls out its next iPhone software update. Analysis of backend code on Apple's servers has revealed that the company could be working on two new AI features, one for Safari and the other for an "encrypted visual search" functionality that could arrive with iOS 18.

Meta Showcases Next-Generation AI Chipset to Build Large-Scale AI Infrastructure Meta, on Wednesday, unveiled its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA), its family of custom-made chipsets for AI workloads. The upgrade to its AI chipset comes almost a year after the company introduced the first AI chips. These Inference Accelerators will power the tech giant’s existing and future products, services, and the AI that lies w...

Mistral Launches 8X22B Mixture of Experts AI Model in Open Source, Benchmarks Reveal Big Upgrades Mistral released its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, 8X22B, on Wednesday. The AI model follows the 8X7B model released in December 2023 and offers a larger parameter size. The company known for its fully open-source AI models released the latest model unconventionally, without any announcement posts or blog posts accompanying it.

Instagram to Test Features That Blur Messages Containing Nudity in Move to Boost Teen Safety Instagram will test features that blur messages containing nudity to safeguard teens and prevent potential scammers from reaching them, its parent Meta said on Thursday as it tries to allay concerns over harmful content on its apps.

OpenAI Unveils GPT-4 Turbo With Vision Capabilities in API and ChatGPT OpenAI announced a major improvement to its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4 Turbo on Tuesday. The AI model now comes with computer vision capabilities, allowing it to process and analyse multimedia inputs. It can answer questions about an image, video, and more. The company also highlighted several AI tools which are powered by GPT-4 Turbo with Vision ...

Messenger Now Lets You Send HD Photos, Create Shared Albums, Send Files Up to 100MB Meta is finally bringing the ability to share high-quality photos to Messenger, a feature that many of its users have longed for. Additionally, the social media giant is allowing users to create shared albums in chats. It is also rolling out the ability to send larger files up to 100MB in size.

Truecaller Web Interface With Unknown Number Lookup, SMS Messaging Support Launched Truecaller for Web has been launched with support for looking up unknown numbers and sending SMS messages and Truecaller chats from supported browsers. The messaging app's web interface can only be paired with users with Android smartphones, according to the Swedish company.

Intel Unveils New AI Chip, Gaudi 3, in Bid to Challenge Nvidia Intel is rolling out a new version of its artificial intelligence chip, aiming to challenge Nvidia Corp. in one of the fastest-growing parts of the semiconductor industry. The updated processor, called Gaudi 3, will be widely available in the third quarter, Intel said at a company event Tuesday.

Google’s Imagen 2 AI Model Gets Upgraded With Video Generation Capabilities Google has upgraded its native artificial intelligence (AI)-powered image generation model Imagen 2 with two new capabilities. These capabilities were announced at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas. The AI tool is an enterprise-focused product available within the Vertex AI developer platform and can help create logo elements and other visual resources for...

Paytm Payments Bank CEO Surinder Chawla Resigns Beleaguered Paytm Payments Bank's managing director and CEO Surinder Chawla has resigned from the company, a regulatory filing said on Tuesday. Chawla's resignation comes amidst Paytm Payments Bank facing prohibitory action from banking regulator RBI.

Ola to Shutdown Operations in UK, Australia, New Zealand; to Focus on India Business Ride-hailing services provider Ola has decided to shut down operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and will continue to focus on India business, its promoter ANI Technologies said on Tuesday.

Meta Could Unveil the First Llama 3 AI Models Next Week: Report Meta is gearing up to launch the next generation of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, Llama 3, in the summer and it is said to bring new capabilities to its chatbots. Now, a new report suggests that the tech giant could launch two of its smaller AI models as soon as next week, much earlier than the previously reported schedule.

Boat Investigating Data Breach That Reportedly Leaked Personal Information of 7.5 Million Customers Boat has started an investigation into an alleged data breach that leaked the personal information of millions of customers, the company has confirmed. According to a recent report, the personal data of over 7.5 million users was posted online by a hacker, exposing their personal information including names, phone numbers, addresses, email IDs, and customer IDs.

OpenAI Reportedly Used Data From YouTube Videos to Train GPT-4 AI Model OpenAI might have used more than a million hours of transcribed data from YouTube videos to train its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4, claims a report. It further states that the ChatGPT maker was forced to procure data through YouTube as it had exhausted its entire supply of text-word resources to train its AI models.

Apple to Let Music Streaming Apps in Europe Link to Own Websites for Purchases to Comply With EU Rules Apple announced measures on Friday to make it easier for music streaming apps on its App Store in the European Economic Area to inform users of other ways to purchase digital services, as it looks to comply with a European Union mandate.

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Xiaomi Fan Festival 2024 Begins With Deals on Smartphones, Smart TVs and AIoT Devices Xiaomi Fan Festival 2024 has begun and the company's annual sale brings new deals, discounts, and offers on Redmi and Xiaomi products. Discounted products include the Xiaomi 14, Redmi Note 13 Pro+, Redmi 12, Redmi Note 13 5G, Redmi Smart Fire TV 4K 43, and Xiaomi Pad 6. Customers can also avail of combo offers with two or more products that lower the prices of product...

Reliance Digital Announces Digital Discount Days Sale: Check Dates, Prices and Offers Reliance Digital's Digital Discount Days Sale will start in India from April 6 to April 15, the company has announced. During this sale, a wide range of electronic items will be offered at lowered prices. Alongside discounts, customers will also be eligible to access additional exchange and bank offers. Products like smartphones, smart TVs, laptops, tablets, soundbar...

WhatsApp Testing Link Privacy Feature; Working on Picture-in-Picture Support on iOS: Reports WhatsApp has reportedly started rolling out a new privacy feature. This helps users choose the privacy level of the links that are shared in their chats. The feature has not yet been publicly announced but it has been spotted on some beta testing accounts. WhatsApp is also said to be developing a new video-viewing feature withing the app.

PlayStation 5 Slim Goes on Sale in India With 10-Minute Delivery in Select Cities PlayStation 5 Slim (PS 5 Slim) is now available for purchase in India and customers can now purchase the gaming console online or via retail stores. Sony has also partnered with hyperlocal delivery platform Blinkit to deliver the new PlayStation 5 Slim or the PlayStation 5 Slim Digital Edition within minutes in select cities.

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India to Legislate AI Regulations Soon, Says Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw: Report India could start the process of legislating artificial intelligence (AI) regulations right after the conclusion of the general elections, the Union Minister of Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said, as per a report. India has been planning to create some sort of regulatory framework to tackle various issues that have surfaced with the rise of tec...

Google’s AI-Powered Search Generative Experience Could Be Available Behind a Paywall: Report Google is planning to introduce its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search engine features, dubbed Search Generative Experience (SGE) behind a paywall, as per a report. Google added an AI chatbot to Search to create Snapshots — a brief explanation of the searched query, along with helpful links that might offer more information.

OpenAI Will Now Let Users Edit AI-Generated DALL-E Images Within ChatGPT OpenAI has added a couple of new features to its artificial intelligence (AI) image generator DALL-E, particularly to its ChatGPT interface. The two new features, announced on Wednesday, will allow users to edit images created by DALL-E within ChatGPT and let users see style prompts to get inspiration for their creations.

Yahoo Acquires Instagram Co-Founders' AI News Platform Artifact Yahoo said on Tuesday it had acquired Instagram co-founders' AI-driven news platform, Artifact, and will incorporate its technology across the US web services provider's news and other sites.

US and UK Announce Partnership on AI Safety and Testing The United States and Britain on Monday announced a new partnership on the science of artificial intelligence safety, amid growing concerns about upcoming next-generation versions.

Perplexity, the AI-Powered Search Engine, Could Soon Incorporate Ads: Report Perplexity AI, the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search engine, is reportedly planning to sell ads for its platform. The advertisers will be given space in the related questions part of the user flow, where the ads will be incorporated based on the relevance of the user query, as per the report. The company is said to show ads by the next financial quarter, whi...

AltStore to Add Support for Sideloading Patreon-Backed iPhone Apps in the EU AltStore App Marketplace will soon be available in the EU, allowing users in the region to install application outside the App Store as part of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) tha recently went into force in the region. In order to allow developers to pay Apple's Core Technology Fee, the AltStore will allow publishers to provide Patreon-backed applications, according to...

OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Instantly Available, Can Be Accessed Without Signing Up OpenAI has made its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot ChatGPT accessible to everyone, even those who do not have an OpenAI account. The AI firm made the announcement on Monday and added that the transition was being deployed gradually. Even when not logged in, users can choose whether to let the company record the conversations to train the AI or not.

Vivo X Fold 3 Series, Vivo X100 Series Confirmed to Support 5.5G Networks Vivo is gearing up to roll out 5.5G (5G-Advanced or 5GA) upgrades via OTA (Over-the-Air) updates to its flagship smartphones soon. The newly launched Vivo X Fold 3, Vivo X Fold 3 Pro and the Vivo X100 series are confirmed to receive 5.5G connectivity initially alongside a few iQoo smartphones. The announcement comes soon after China Mobile announced the commercial lau...

WhatsApp's Chat Lock Feature Might Soon Extend to Linked Devices WhatsApp is reportedly looking to extend the Chat Lock functionality to linked devices. A future update of WhatsApp is said to bring the feature for linked devices. This update has been spotted in WhatsApp for Android beta version 2.24.8.4.

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