Tata unveiled Tata Neu, a super app that will compete with Amazon, Paytm, and others. Both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store have the app available for download. Despite the fact that the new super app offers a wide range of services, including travel booking, UPI payments, and more, it didn’t get off to a great start. Tata was probably not expecting such a positive response. As a result, people rushed to try out the Neu app as soon as it was released, however many ran into…
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India to focus on homegrown games, technologies and characters to promote Indian culture in a new initiative
The global gaming industry has experienced unparalleled growth. The Indian government has recognised this and now considers it a potential industry in which the country may establish a dominance. In order to accomplish this, India will shortly establish a digital gaming research effort aimed at generating new homegrown gaming technologies. According to SERB Secretary Sandeep Verma, the project would be spearheaded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). The initiative’s main goal will be to establish excellent gaming research and development. SERB intends to accomplish this by bridging the…
Read MoreBeyondIRR raises seed funding from Zerodha’s Rainmatter
BeyondIRR, a B2B wealth-tech platform, announced on Friday that it has received seed funding from Rainmatter, a subsidiary of Zerodha, and Sujeet Kumar, co-founder of Udaan. BeyondIRR is a B2B wealth-tech company formed by Parag Kasliwal, Deepesh Bhargava, Anupreet Choudhary, and Hemant Jain to help wealth rms, wealth managers, independent financial advisers (IFAs), RIAs, and MFDs provide a better advice experience to their wealth clients. BeyondIRR wants to use the capital to grow its team and develop a robust digital platform, according to the company. Parag Kasliwal, Co-founder and CEO…
Read MoreActor Rana Daggubati ventures into Metaverse with his startup Ikonz
Rana Daggubati, a Telugu actor, has entered the Metaverse with Iknoz, a firm he co-founded with Indian American entrepreneur Abinav Varma. Ikonz seeks to use NFTs to introduce culture’s most iconic figures and IP into the Metaverse. Ikonz wants to increase IP aggression by bringing together half of India’s top entertainment IPs under one roof. This entails pursuing not only actors, athletes, and other public figures, but also social media celebrities, content providers, and even media companies that specialise in rights ownership. Rana Daggubati had earlier said, “As an IP…
Read MoreUC-Berkeley born data science startup looks at product by early next year
Ponder.io, a data science startup founded by University of California, Berkeley researchers, is working with early adopters to turn its open source project—a tool to help data science teams work with large data sets—into a product by early next year, according to Aditya Parameswaran, the company’s president. Downloads of Ponder’s open source projects Modin and Lux, a data visualization tool that can help with insight discovery, anomaly detection and more, have reached close to three million, said Parameswaran. “The early customers are helping us figure the features to be needed for…
Read MoreAfter Google, now Oppo is reportedly working on its own chipset to reduce dependence on Qualcomm and MediaTek
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo is said to be working on its own chipset, which it plans to unveil in 2023. Google, Apple, and Samsung are among the companies who have released their own mobile chipsets. During Oppo’s Inno Day 2022 annual event, the firm unveiled a neural processing unit (NPU) dubbed MariSilicon X. The chipset is designed to boost the device’s photography capabilities while also giving AI power. Oppo’s integrated circuit (IC) design subsidiary Shanghai Zheku is working on an application processor (AP) chipset, according to a report by IT…
Read MorePhysiological signals could be the key to ’emotionally intelligent’ AI, scientists say
The gold standard for an AI conversation system with sentiment detection is “multimodal sentiment analysis,” which is a collection of algorithms. These methods are critical for human-centered AI systems because they can automatically analyse a person’s psychological condition based on their speech, voice colour, facial expression, and posture. The method could lead to the creation of an emotionally intelligent AI with human-like characteristics that recognises the user’s feelings and responds appropriately. Current emotion estimation methods, on the other hand, only consider observable data and ignore information contained in non-observable signals…
Read MoreJapanese robot can peel bananas cleanly, most of the time
Robots in Japan are found on factory floors carrying out simple tasks or delivering food to restaurant patrons but researchers have now unveiled a robot capable of executing the delicate task of peeling a banana without squashing the fruit inside. While the dual armed machine only succeeds 57% of the time, banana peeling foreshadows a future in which machines do more complex tasks than moving metal components or delivering coffee. In a video released by University of Tokyo researchers, the robot was seen picking up and peeling a banana with…
Read MoreGoogle adding ‘Privacy Guide’ to Chrome browser, will roll this out soon
Google’s Chrome browser will now include a “Privacy Guide.” The tutorial will begin rolling out to M100 Chrome desktop users in the coming weeks, with the goal of providing a better grasp of the browser’s privacy settings. Google says in a blog post that the guide was created by the Google Safety Engineering Center (GSEC) and that it offers a step-by-step tour of some of Chrome’s existing privacy and security safeguards. This is designed to allow Chrome users to make and maintain their privacy settings all in one place. Users…
Read MoreChina wants to dominate AI & Disney+ Hotstar is helping
Dominance in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is a priority for the Chinese government over traditional western competitors such as the United States. Surprisingly, one of the large companies lining up to benefit from this effort is India’s Disney+ Hotstar, which is rapidly recruiting new AI talent from a Beijing headquarters. “At present, our team has nearly 50 members, almost all of whom graduated from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University and other top universities in China,” a recruitment post in Mandarin distributed to students of Peking University said. The…
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