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facial recognition tech in india

Facial recognition tech is double-edged, needs to be handled carefully in India.

As the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) under Home Ministry aims to install Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) to track and nab criminals, the debate on the misuse of the face recognition technology has sparked fresh debate in India.

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Social Media and Networking outages a common norm in 2019

This year has seen several incidences where everyday apps faced major outages running into several hours in India. To the respite of users, they had Twitter to fall back upon as it was the only app functioning most of the time. “Outages make us realize how much do we actually depend on the Internet and apps. People even have apps that remind them it is time to drink water. And if these apps stop working, one can imagine the plight. Social media outages make me uncomfortable and restless,” says Deepansh Jain, a 21-year-old college student from Mumbai.

firefox ad-free news subscription

Mozilla would charge $5 for ad-free news subscription in Firefox

Mozilla, the maker of Open Source browser Firefox, is teasing an ad-free news subscription service for $5 per month, offering ad-free browsing, audio readouts and cross-platform syncing of news articles from multiple websites.

stranger things on windows 1.0

Microsoft has teased Windows 1.0 from 1985 for Netflix show ‘Stranger Things’

As part of a mystery tie-in with a Netflix show “Stranger Things”, software giant Microsoft has been teasing a nostalgic throwback to 1985, 33 years ago when Windows 1.0 debuted.

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Apple ‘Memoji’ ads used to promote ‘Mimoji’ made by Xiaomi

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi uploaded an Apple ad to its own website to promote its new feature ‘Mimoji’, which is similar to Apple’s ‘Memoji’.

Russia's Soyuz satellite carrying rocket

A Soyuz carrier Rocket launched by Russia that is carrying 33 satellites

Russia successfully launched its Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket on Friday with a hydrometeorological satellite and 32 small satellites, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said.

AI identifying galaxy clusters

Artificial Intelligence is helping in Identifying Galaxy Clusters Quickly

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tool that has been trained to “look” at colour images and identify galaxy clusters quickly.