August 14

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  Amazon Appstore for Android to Shut Down in August; Amazon Coins to Be Discontinued

  Amazon Appstore will be discontinued later this year, 14 years after it was launched for Android devices. Alongside this, Amazon will also wind down its Amazon Coins digital currency programme used for app purchases. While the app store won’t be available for download on Android devices, it will continue to function on Amazon's own devices, inclu...

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  Waqf Amendment Bill Cleared By Joint Parliamentary Committee, 14 Amendments Approved

  A joint parliamentary committee led by a BJP MP cleared the Waqf Amendment Bill Monday with 14 changes to the draft tabled in the House August last yea, but 44 other changes, proposed by opposition MPs, were rejected,

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  Microsoft Open Sources Phi-4 Small Language Model, Available For Download on Hugging Face

  Microsoft open-sourced its Phi-4 small language model on Wednesday. The latest artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Phi series was released last month, however, at the time it was only available via the company’s Azure AI Foundry. At the time, the Redmond-based tech giant said that it would soon make the source code of the AI model available...

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  Captain Shan Masood Leads Fight Back With Century As Pakistan Follow-On In 2nd Test vs South Africa

  Babar Azam, who has not scored an international century since August 2023, fell short again when he was caught in the gully off Marco Jansen 14 minutes before the close of play.

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  Microsoft Phi-4 Open-Source Small Language Model Introduced; Claimed to Outperform Gemini 1.5 Pro

  Microsoft released the Phi-4 artificial intelligence (AI) model on Friday. The small language model (SLM) joins the company’s open-source Phi family of foundational models. The next generation of the AI model comes eight months after the release of Phi-3 and four months after the introduction of the Phi-3.5 series of AI models.

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  Carrots Recalled From US-Based Stores Following Deadly E. Coli Outbreak

  Customers who bought organic whole carrots between August 14 and October 23, 2024, are advised not to eat them.

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  Realme 14 Series Rumoured to Include New Model With Smaller Screen, Bigger Battery

  Realme 13 5G series with the vanilla  Realme 13 5G and Realme 13+ 5G was launched in India in August. The Chinese smartphone brand now appears to be working on the successor, called Realme 14 series. A new leak coming out of China suggests that the mid-range lineup will include a new model with a smaller display than the predecessors. The compac...

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  Nepal Teen Becomes Youngest To Climb All 14 Of World's 8,000 m Mountains

  Nima Rinji Sherpa, who already holds multiple records from his ascents of dozens of peaks, started high-altitude climbing at the age of 16, by climbing Mount Manaslu in August 2022.

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  Motorola Edge 50 Neo With IP68 Rating, Moto AI Suite Launched in India: Price, Specifications

  Motorola Edge 50 Neo was launched in India on Monday. The smartphone made its global debut in August, boasting features such as a 50-megapixel Sony LYTIA-700C camera sensor with 3X telephoto lens, MIL-STD-810 Military Grade certification and Moto AI – the company suite of artificial intelligence (AI). It also gets IP68 certification against dust ...

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  iQOO Z9s 5G Goes on Sale in India for the First Time Today: Price, Specifications, Launch Offers

  iQOO Z9s 5G will go on sale in India for the first time today ()aUGUST 29 via the company's India e-store and Amazon. The new iQoo Z-series smartphone was launched in the country last week alongside iQOO Z9s Pro 5G. It runs on MediaTek Dimensity 7300 SoC with up to 12GB of RAM.

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  Delhi Records Highest Number Of Rainy Days In 14 Years This August

  With rainfall on 23 days, Delhi saw the highest number of rainy days in the last 14 years this August, officials said on Tuesday.

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  Infinix Note 40 Series Racing Edition With F1-Inspired Design Launched in India: Price, Specifications

  Infinix Note 40 Pro Racing Edition and Infinix Note 40 Pro+ Racing Edition have been launched in India and the company's newest handsets will go on sale in India on August 26. The smartphones sport an F1-inspired design that was designed in collaboration with BMW's Designworks. They bear the same specifications as the standard models Note 40 Pro an...

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  Motorola Edge 50 Neo With Dimensity 7300 SoC Shows Up on Geekbench; Could Be Rebranded as ThinkPhone 25

  Motorola seems to be gearing up to unveil the Motorola Edge 50 Neo on August 29. As we wait for the official launch, the upcoming Edge series phone has surfaced on the Geekbench benchmarking site. The Motorola Edge 50 Neo is shown to run on an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 7300 SoC, paired with 8GB RAM. A separate Geekbench listing of a ThinkPhone 2...

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  Human Ageing Accelerates Dramatically at Age 44 and 60, Claims Study

  Human ageing does not occur uniformly but instead accelerates significantly at around ages 44 and 60, claimed a new study. This research paper, published on August 14 in Nature Aging, highlights that physiological changes become more pronounced during these pivotal ages, which may be linked to increased risks of age-related diseases. The study focu...

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  Opinion | Is India Really At Risk Of A Monkeypox Outbreak?

  The WHO, on August 14, declared the current upsurge of Mpox or Monkeypox in Central Africa as a global emergency requiring urgent action. Though India has not reported any cases yet, the Central government is keeping a close eye on the situation.