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Google Introduces PaliGemma 2 Family of Open Source AI Vision-Language Models
Google introduced the successor to its PaliGemma artificial intelligence (AI) vision-language model on Thursday. Dubbed PaliGemma 2, the family of AI models improve upon the capabilities of the older generation. The Mountain View-based tech giant said the vision-language model can see, understand, and interact with visual input such as images and o...
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Astronomers Successfully Detect Brown Dwarfs in a Distant Star Cluster
For the first time, astronomers have detected brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way in the star cluster NGC 602, situated approximately 200,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Utilising the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team sought young brown dwarf candidates in an environment that resembles the early universe, with limited h...
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Apple Releases Depth Pro, an Open Source Monocular Depth Estimation AI Model
Apple has released several open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models this year. These are mostly small language models designed for a specific task. Adding to the list, the Cupertino-based tech giant has now released a new AI model dubbed Depth Pro. It is a vision model that can generate monocular depth maps of any image. This technology is u...
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Google Says It Will Stop Linking to New Zealand News if Proposed New Law Is Passed
Google said it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles if the government goes ahead with a law to force tech giants to pay a fair price for content that appears on their feeds.
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Meta Reportedly Partnering With Arm to Bring Advanced AI Capabilities to Smartphones
Meta Connect 2024, the company’s developer conference, took place on Wednesday. During the event, the social media giant unveiled several new artificial intelligence (AI) features and wearable devices. Apart from that Meta reportedly also announced a partnership with the tech giant Arm on building special small language models (SLMs). These AI mo...
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NASA James Webb Space Telescope Unearths Oversupply of UV Light from Early Stars and Black Holes
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed surprising new details about the universe's reionization process. The telescope has found an unexpected oversupply of ultraviolet (UV) light emitted by early stars and giant black holes, contradicting previous theories. This discovery suggests a more complex reionization process, potentially d...
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Apple OpenELM Open Source Small AI Models Released, Could Pave the Way for On-Device AI Features on iPhone
Apple has released its new family of artificial intelligence (AI) models dubbed OpenELM. Short for Open-source Efficient Language Models, there are a total of eight AI models with four pre-trained variants and four instruct variants. All of them are small language models (SLMs) that specialise in text-related tasks, highlighting an alignment with t...
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Mayank Yadav IPL Salary: How Much Did Lucknow Super Giants Pay For Young Pacer?
Mayank Yadav was bought for a small fee of INR 20 lakh in the IPL 2022 auction. He made his debut for LSG against PBKS in IPL 2024.
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Microsoft Copilot Pro Rolled Out Globally; Know Its Price in India, Features
Microsoft Copilot Pro, the premium tier of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform, is now available in 222 countries, including India. The tech giant announced on Thursday that the chatbot-based AI suite is available to individuals as well as small and medium-sized organisations. Copilot Pro was first introduced in January 2024 in se...
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Google Phone App May Soon Show WhatsApp Call History and Get Video Calling Shortcut
Google might be testing two new features for its Phone app. Reportedly, the Google Phone app now shows WhatsApp call history integrated with normal calls. Some users have also seen a new video call shortcut on the call screen, which redirects the call to Google Meet. These new features appear to have been rolled out to a small batch of users who ha...
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Amazon Introduces Generative AI Shopping Assistant Rufus, Available for Beta Testing
Amazon Rufus, a generative AI-powered shopping assistant, was unveiled last week. The tech giant has built its own large language model (LLM) to train the AI chatbot. Rufus can help users in answering queries, recommending what to buy, do product comparisons, and more. At present, Rufus is only available in beta to a small subset of Amazon mobile a...
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Disney, Dapper Labs Team Up to Launch Digital Collectibles App, but Avoid the Term ‘NFT’
Disney will soon let its fans collect digital versions of its popular pins based on Disney characters. To do so, the entertainment and media giant has partnered Flow blockchain and Dapper Labs. The initiative, however, has tried to keep away from the term ‘NFT’ — digital tokens infamous for their volatile nature in terms of value.
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Did You Know? This Is How Much The World's Heaviest Avocado Weighs
Guinness World Records shared a photo of the world's heaviest avocado which holds the world record since 2018.
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ONDC Framing Mechanism to Ensure Rule Compliance by Entities Involved
Government-promoted Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is framing a mechanism to ensure compliance with its rules by entities involved in online retail trading, a senior official said on Thursday. The ONDC aims to promote an open platform for all aspects of e-commerce retail. It would help small retailers expand their business through e-comme...
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ONDC, Amazon’s SmartCommerce Services to Empower India’s Small Retailers, Buyers
Amazon’s SmartCommerce services will soon be integrated with India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) organisation to digitise micro, small, and medium businesses in the country. The e-commerce giant will also provide its logistics service to small and medium business owners who aim to expand the sale of their products around the world.
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Google Introduces PaliGemma 2 Family of Open Source AI Vision-Language Models
Google introduced the successor to its PaliGemma artificial intelligence (AI) vision-language model on Thursday. Dubbed PaliGemma 2, the family of AI models improve upon the capabilities of the older generation. The Mountain View-based tech giant said the vision-language model can see, understand, and interact with visual input such as images and o...
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Astronomers Successfully Detect Brown Dwarfs in a Distant Star Cluster
For the first time, astronomers have detected brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way in the star cluster NGC 602, situated approximately 200,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Utilising the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team sought young brown dwarf candidates in an environment that resembles the early universe, with limited h...
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Apple Releases Depth Pro, an Open Source Monocular Depth Estimation AI Model
Apple has released several open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models this year. These are mostly small language models designed for a specific task. Adding to the list, the Cupertino-based tech giant has now released a new AI model dubbed Depth Pro. It is a vision model that can generate monocular depth maps of any image. This technology is u...
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Google Says It Will Stop Linking to New Zealand News if Proposed New Law Is Passed
Google said it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles if the government goes ahead with a law to force tech giants to pay a fair price for content that appears on their feeds.
-
Meta Reportedly Partnering With Arm to Bring Advanced AI Capabilities to Smartphones
Meta Connect 2024, the company’s developer conference, took place on Wednesday. During the event, the social media giant unveiled several new artificial intelligence (AI) features and wearable devices. Apart from that Meta reportedly also announced a partnership with the tech giant Arm on building special small language models (SLMs). These AI mo...
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NASA James Webb Space Telescope Unearths Oversupply of UV Light from Early Stars and Black Holes
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed surprising new details about the universe's reionization process. The telescope has found an unexpected oversupply of ultraviolet (UV) light emitted by early stars and giant black holes, contradicting previous theories. This discovery suggests a more complex reionization process, potentially d...
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Apple OpenELM Open Source Small AI Models Released, Could Pave the Way for On-Device AI Features on iPhone
Apple has released its new family of artificial intelligence (AI) models dubbed OpenELM. Short for Open-source Efficient Language Models, there are a total of eight AI models with four pre-trained variants and four instruct variants. All of them are small language models (SLMs) that specialise in text-related tasks, highlighting an alignment with t...
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Mayank Yadav IPL Salary: How Much Did Lucknow Super Giants Pay For Young Pacer?
Mayank Yadav was bought for a small fee of INR 20 lakh in the IPL 2022 auction. He made his debut for LSG against PBKS in IPL 2024.
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Microsoft Copilot Pro Rolled Out Globally; Know Its Price in India, Features
Microsoft Copilot Pro, the premium tier of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform, is now available in 222 countries, including India. The tech giant announced on Thursday that the chatbot-based AI suite is available to individuals as well as small and medium-sized organisations. Copilot Pro was first introduced in January 2024 in se...
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Google Phone App May Soon Show WhatsApp Call History and Get Video Calling Shortcut
Google might be testing two new features for its Phone app. Reportedly, the Google Phone app now shows WhatsApp call history integrated with normal calls. Some users have also seen a new video call shortcut on the call screen, which redirects the call to Google Meet. These new features appear to have been rolled out to a small batch of users who ha...
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Amazon Introduces Generative AI Shopping Assistant Rufus, Available for Beta Testing
Amazon Rufus, a generative AI-powered shopping assistant, was unveiled last week. The tech giant has built its own large language model (LLM) to train the AI chatbot. Rufus can help users in answering queries, recommending what to buy, do product comparisons, and more. At present, Rufus is only available in beta to a small subset of Amazon mobile a...
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Disney, Dapper Labs Team Up to Launch Digital Collectibles App, but Avoid the Term ‘NFT’
Disney will soon let its fans collect digital versions of its popular pins based on Disney characters. To do so, the entertainment and media giant has partnered Flow blockchain and Dapper Labs. The initiative, however, has tried to keep away from the term ‘NFT’ — digital tokens infamous for their volatile nature in terms of value.
-
Did You Know? This Is How Much The World's Heaviest Avocado Weighs
Guinness World Records shared a photo of the world's heaviest avocado which holds the world record since 2018.
-
ONDC Framing Mechanism to Ensure Rule Compliance by Entities Involved
Government-promoted Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is framing a mechanism to ensure compliance with its rules by entities involved in online retail trading, a senior official said on Thursday. The ONDC aims to promote an open platform for all aspects of e-commerce retail. It would help small retailers expand their business through e-comme...
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ONDC, Amazon’s SmartCommerce Services to Empower India’s Small Retailers, Buyers
Amazon’s SmartCommerce services will soon be integrated with India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) organisation to digitise micro, small, and medium businesses in the country. The e-commerce giant will also provide its logistics service to small and medium business owners who aim to expand the sale of their products around the world.
