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Political socialisation in the age of cynicism
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (468+ words) Good journalism will thrive when good people pay for it, people like you. Please pay for the journalism you like and value. Emerging political formations are often judged less by what they can become and more by what they currently…...
Humans everywhere follow this pattern when walking'they turn left
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (480+ words) Bengaluru: Scientists have discovered a pattern in the way we walk but they can't explain it. People have a consistent tendency to turn left and walk in an anticlockwise direction'in crowds and when alone. "The discovery was a serendipitous one,…...
Messi partners with Chat GPT for the World Cup. The Argentina team picks Google's Gemini
6+ hour, 39+ min ago (437+ words) Messi in the Chat GPT ad. | Instagram Bengaluru: As the FIFA World Cup kicks off today, Lionel Messi debuted a new AI-generated look. The Argentine captain shared an ad of him turning his hair blue and white, the team's colours,…...
With AI scrutiny growing in debt collection, DROS. ai launches voice agents with compliance guardrails
8+ hour, 29+ min ago (563+ words) The platform today launched much-awaited AI voice agents for debt collection and recovery. Through this new feature, DROS allows every call to start with full account history, compliance rules, and next-step logic already loaded " AI voice agents for collections built…...
Type like a toddler on Blinkit and it shows you chocolate. Is it a dark pattern?
4+ hour, 59+ min ago (388+ words) The post has over 6 lakh views on X. | X Bengaluru: Blinkit is earning equal parts praise and backlash after an X user accidentally discovered a "dark pattern. In an attempt to trick his toddler into believing that chocolates were out of…...
Nisarga Adhikary, ethical hacker who hacked CBSE, hired by IIT Kanpur
10+ hour, 13+ min ago (433+ words) New Delhi: Nisarga Adhikary, the 19-year-old ethical hacker who exposed vulnerabilities in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)s On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, has been hired by IIT Kanpur as the Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and threat intelligence engineer at…...
Opendoor shut its India offices. Is AI finally coming for outsourcing?
9+ hour, 1+ min ago (435+ words) Bengaluru: American real estate tech company Opendoor announced Wednesday that it was shutting down its operations in India, less than two years after it expanded in the country. It's one of the first major casualties caused by AI-driven layoffs in…...
Anthropic's most powerful AI model can win a Pok'mon game using just screenshots. Meet Claude Fable 5
1+ day, 50+ min ago (1287+ words) New Delhi: US artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday released its most capable publicly available AI model to date, Claude Fable 5, with safeguards to limit its use in risky areas such as cybersecurity." A preview version was not released publicly…...
India's AI report card: Global media lays out pitfalls of no sovereign model, but also some pros
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (940+ words) New Delhi: In February, India hosted the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. While the summit was graced by leading AI giants, India's own AI development, and whether it would be able to join the AI race, remains debatable. Veena…...
Karnataka to deploy AI-ready indigenously developed PCs across state
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (364+ words) Bengaluru, Jun 10 (PTI) Karnataka is set to deploy the first batch of 2, 000 AI-ready KEO PCs across the state. KEO is the indigenously developed AI-ready personal computers and is priced at Rs 18, 999, an official statement said on Wednesday. "The rollout marks…...