Tag: Technology

Bengaluru: Emerging e-commerce startup GS Farm Taaza Produce Ltd said on Friday it had raised $8 million (Rs 52 crore) in the first round of funding to invest in scaling its technology platform. “We have raised $8 million from multiple investors, including Hong Kong-based Epsilon Venture Partners to scale our business by using the fund […]

New Delhi:  Actress Sunny Leone, who will be attending the fourth season of Big Boys Toys Expo, says she has always loved gadgets and is fascinated with the way technology is having an impact on automobile, gadgets and electronic sector. “I love fast cars and sportsbikes and gadgets and I hear its all going to […]

San Francisco: Facebook will host a summit in June that is dedicated to health and aims to sell ads to the pharmaceutical industry, a media report said. According to a report in CNBC on Friday, the invitation-only summit is part of an initiative for advertisers called “Facebook Health”, run by a small team reporting into […]

London: Responding to the criticism that Facebook has been facing over dissemination of fake news on the platform, the social media giant’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) has said that the company is not an “arbiter of truth”. Speaking at BBC Newsnight, Sheryl Sandberg said: “We are really a platform and we take our responsibilities on […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Steel Secretary Aruna Sharma today batted for adoption of new technology to reduce the use of coking coal in the production of steel. “We have to adopt a new technology to reduce use of coking coal in steel making as India and most of Asian countries minus China do not have much coking […]

Hyderabad: The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) today launched a programme on artificial intelligence and machine learning for technology professionals. The ‘Foundations for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning’ would be executed in association with TalentSprint, a technology-driven organisation involved in skill development. “Every corporate, every company is investing very heavily into artificial intelligence […]

Kolkata: Researchers at IIT Kharagpur have developed a new technology which will change the way bio-fuel is manufactured by making the process cheaper, quicker and pollution-free. The ‘soil-to-soil’ manufacturing technology developed at the P K Sinha Centre for bio-energy at IIT-KGP is in the process of being patented, an IIT-KGP spokesperson said today. “2g bioethanol […]

New Delhi: Xerox India launched its marquee digital press – Colour Press 1000i at the seventh edition of Print Exposition held in Chennai, an official said yesterday. The Colour 1000i will offer metallic gold or silver specialty dry inks. “Xerox is the first in the industry to offer Metallic Gold or silver dry ink at […]

New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi today lauded the efforts of Indian scientists and political leadership for the success of Pokhran nuclear tests on May 11, 1998, a day that is also observed as Technology Day. In a message on Twitter, Modi said: “We salute efforts of our scientists and political leadership behind the success […]

San Francisco: Microsoft President Brad Smith has shot down calls to stop selling facial recognition software to government agencies, saying the move would be “cruel” as it could hamper good work such as diagnosing rare diseases. According to a report in the Business Insider on Sunday, Smith said the move would be “cruel in the […]

New Delhi: Around 33 per cent of young professionals in India feel technology is a major hindrance to work and family commitments, said a Monster.com survey, here on Wednesday. Other hindrances were meetings, calls and trainings after office hours (18 per cent) and and negative attitude of supervisors towards work-life balance (11 per cent), the […]

New York: Cyber criminals now have access to the most-secured data files used to facilitate confidential communication between organisations’ servers and clients’ computers on the Dark Web, say researchers. According to the team from Georgia State University and the University of Surrey, a thriving marketplace for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) […]

San Francisco: To deal with the problem of non-consensual intimate images, often referred to as revenge porn, on its platform, Facebook on Friday announced new detection technology and an online support hub to help people respond when this abuse occurs. Called “Not Without My Consent,” the resource hub will help victims find organisations and resources […]

New Delhi: From recommending what you need to buy on a shopping site to who you should be friends with on a social network, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has established itself as a guiding force in our lives. The growing importance of this technology, however, has also made people aware of the biases that have become […]

Mumbai: By 2020, 100 million people would shop in-store and online using Augmented Reality (AR), enabling people to visualise products in different settings, market research firm Gartner said on Monday. Once technologies like AR and Virtual Reality (VR) get powered by 5G capabilities, it would lead to multiple uses like real-time rendering for immersive videos, […]