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Washington: One or two of Uranus' 27 moons -- Ariel and/or Miranda -- likely have oceans beneath their icy surfaces and are actively spewing material into the space environment, according to a study by NASA. Previously, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune were found as hosts to...

Joondalup(Australia): Google and Microsoft are on a mission to remove the drudgery from computing, by bringing next-generation AI tools as add-ons to existing services. On March 16, Microsoft announced an AI-powered system called Copilot will soon be introduced to its 365 suite apps including Word,...

New Delhi: As Amazon deepened the tech gloom with firing another 9,000 employees (it previously sacked 18,000), over 500 companies have laid off nearly 1.5 lakh workers to date this year. According to latest data from layoff.fyi, a website that is tracking tech sector job...

Rayagada: Reliance Jio Tuesday launched its 5G services in Byasanagar and Rayagada towns in Odisha. Including these two towns, Reliance Jio expanded its 5G services to 41 towns across 16 states/ union territories in this phase. The locations include Adoni, Badvel, Chilakaluripet, Gudivada, Kadiri, Narsapur,...

New Delhi: As key social media websites suffer outages every now and then, it was the turn of AI conversational service ChatGPT to go down for most of the users, including paid subscribers, and their chat history also went unavailable for several hours. ChatGPT, a...

New Delhi: Global professional services company Accenture Tuesday said it is acquiring industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company Flutura for an undisclosed sum. Bengaluru-headquartered Flutura will strengthen Accenture's industrial AI services to increase the performance of plants, refineries, and supply chains while also enabling clients to...

San Francisco: Tech giant Google is giving some Pixel Superfans the chance to try out its OpenAI's ChatGPT competitor "Bard". The Bard is not publicly available yet, but the tech giant is allowing a "small, randomly selected group of Pixel Superfans" to get access first,...

New Delhi: There are 45,000 Artificial Intelligence (AI) job openings in India, with data scientists and Machine Learning (ML) engineers being among the most sought-after careers, according to a report on Monday. The report by TeamLease Digital, a tech staffing firm, is based on a...

Waterloo (Canada): The recent frenzy over language processing tools such as ChatGPT has sent organisations scrambling to provide guidelines for responsible usage. The online publishing platform Medium, for example, has released a statement on AI-generated writing that promotes “transparency” and “disclosure.” My own institution has...

New Delhi: The fresh spike in Covid cases is not an indication of a new wave, and there is no need to panic, health experts said Monday. India on Monday recorded a single-day rise of 918 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours pushing...