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Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings donates $1.1 bn shares to charity
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Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings donates $1.1 bn shares to charity

San Francisco, Jan 30:Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has donated $1.1 billion of his company shares to charity. Hastings donated two million shares to the charity known as the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, reports The Wall Street Journal. The charity is popular with tech...
Sunil Wadhwani gifts Rs 110 cr to IIT Madras for data science & AI school
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Sunil Wadhwani gifts Rs 110 cr to IIT Madras for data science & AI school

Chennai, Jan 30: Entrepreneur and philanthropist Sunil Wadhwani, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, on Tuesday made an endowment of Rs 110 crore towards setting up the Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the institution. With a vision to be...
5K parents in US sue TikTok claiming app
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5K parents in US sue TikTok claiming app's 'destroying youth'

San Francisco, Jan 30: Chinese short-video making platform TikTok has been sued by at least 5,000 parents in the US, claiming that the app is "destroying America's youth". Thousands of parents are seeking accountability from the company through a lawsuit spearheaded by ClaimsHero.io, UNILAD...
PayPal laying off about 2,500 employees to
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PayPal laying off about 2,500 employees to 'right-size' the company

New Delhi, Jan 31: Online payment gateway PayPal has kicked off layoffs that will affect at least 9 per cent of its workforce -- about 2,500 employees. According to verified PayPal professionals on anonymous online discussion forum Blind, the job cuts have begun, and by the end of the week, will...
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Students' innovative construction waste solution wins ‘Smart India Hackathon...

New Delhi, Jan 31: An innovative solution by students, that aims to address pollution caused by construction and demolition waste generated in the construction industry, has won the top award in the Ministry of Education’s ‘Smart India Hackathon 2023’ national competition. The civil engineering...
1st human gets brain implant from Neuralink, recovering well: Musk
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1st human gets brain implant from Neuralink, recovering well: Musk

New Delhi, Jan 30:Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced that his brain-computer interface company Neuralink has successfully achieved its first human implant, and the test subject is recovering well. Musk said that the company's first product, called Telepathy, would bring control of a...
Microsoft introduces more protections to AI tool that created Taylor Swift deepfakes
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Microsoft introduces more protections to AI tool that created Taylor Swift...

San Francisco, Jan 30: Microsoft has introduced more protections to its AI text-to-image generation tool Designer that users were utilising to create nonconsensual sexual images of celebrities. The changes come after AI-generated nude images of American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift that went...
iPhones grow 28% to grab over 6% market share in India in 2023
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iPhones grow 28% to grab over 6% market share in India in 2023

New Delhi, Jan 29: Riding on the premiumisation trend in India, iPhones grew 28 per cent from 4 per cent market share in 2022 to more than 6 per cent in 2023, according to latest industry data. In the fourth quarter of 2023 alone, iPhone shipments saw seven per cent growth in India, according to...
DefSat conference to be held in Delhi on Feb 7
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DefSat conference to be held in Delhi on Feb 7

Chennai, Jan 29: DefSat Conference will be held at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi from February 7 to 9 while key industry stakeholders, policy makers, officials from the armed forces, diplomats, technology innovators and others are expected to attend the event. Space Industry Association-India...
Moderna leads development of mRNA vax in infectious diseases: Report
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Moderna leads development of mRNA vax in infectious diseases: Report

New Delhi, Jan 30: While several pharmaceutical companies have mRNA vaccines in late-stage development for other infectious diseases, Moderna is dominating in terms of research and development (R&D) investment in mRNA vaccines, according to a report on Tuesday. The global messenger...
Oreo-sized device on Vikram enables NASA to precisely locate target on Moon
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Oreo-sized device on Vikram enables NASA to precisely locate target on Moon

Chennai, Jan 28: With Vikram landing safely on the moon last year, one of its instruments is now serving as a location marker on the moon near its South Pole. According to ISRO, the scientific instruments/payloads on Vikram and the moon rover Pragyan have performed well. The Laser...
Why space agencies from 3 countries have launched 6 moon missions
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Why space agencies from 3 countries have launched 6 moon missions

New Delhi, Jan 28: It was in December 1972, that man last stepped on the Moon. Now more than 50 years later space agencies across the globe, including India, have renewed their interest to return to the lunar surface. Water, and increased availability of elements such as oxygen, iron, silicon,...
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