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  COP29 Drafts New New Climate Finance Goal: Here's What You Need to Know

  At COP29, the NCQG contact group co-chairs published a draft text on the climate finance goal, marking a significant step in the conference’s main priority. Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev, also called for stronger support for small island nations and emphasised climate finance. The conference also saw discussions on the integration of hea...

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  Google Chrome for iOS Receives Shopping Insights, Other New Features

  Google Chrome for iOS has rolled out several new features that aim to make finding information and completing tasks easier. The web browser now lets iPhone users add text queries to visual searches via Google Lens for more helpful and relevant results. It also introduces new ways to save space on iPhone, find better deals while shopping online, and...

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  Telecom Body Cracks Down, Disconnects Personal Numbers Used For Spam

  Any telemarketer that makes spam calls or sends spam text from personal numbers will find the numbers disconnected. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has launched a major crackdown against those engaged in spam calls and text.

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  Redditor Seeks Online Help To Decode Mysterious Devanagari Text He Found At German Flea Market

  A man recently took to Reddit, seeking help identifying an unknown Devanagari text he found at a flea market in Germany.

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  Racist Texts Referencing Slavery Sent To Black People Across US, FBI Starts Probe

  These offensive messages have been reported in more than a dozen states, including California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, and Alabama.

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  "Unknown To Any Civilised System": Supreme Court On 'Bulldozer Justice'

  The full text of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud's recent judgment on illegal demolitions in Uttar Pradesh mentions "justice through bulldozers is unknown to any civilised system of jurisprudence."

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  Full Text: Ratan Tata Empowered A Generation Of Dreamers, Writes PM Modi

  Ratan Tata represented the finest traditions of Indian enterprise and despite taking Tata Group to new heights, he wore his achievements lightly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote in his blog to pay tribute to the national icon.

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  Authorities Probing Bigoted Text Messages That Spread Alarm Across US

  Federal and state authorities are investigating a wave of bigoted text messages sent anonymously that have spread alarm among Black Americans across the country this week, officials and recipients told Reuters.

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  MS Paint Gets AI-Powered Generative Fill Feature in Preview to Windows 11 Insiders

  MS Paint in Windows 11 is getting a couple of new artificial intelligence (AI) features. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new preview features for Windows Insiders including the major AI upgrade to the Paint app. It is getting a new Generative Fill feature that uses AI to generate objects based on text prompt. Apart from that, the company is also ...

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  Google Vids AI-Powered Video Creation Tool Rolling Out to Select Workspace Users

  Google Vids, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) video creation tool, is now rolling out to select Google Workspace users. Announced on Thursday, the tool can assist users across multiple steps in the video and presentation-making workflow. Interestingly, Google Vids is not an AI video generation tool like Runway or Pika, which can generat...

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  Microsoft Introduces AI-Powered Notepad With Text Rewrite Feature in Preview

  Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature to its Windows 11 operating system on Wednesday. Currently available in preview, the tech giant has added an AI-powered Rewrite feature to Notepad. With this capability, the note-taking app can edit text and offer three versions of modified content based on the user’s preference. Cur...

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  Samsung's Next-Generation Bixby Assistant With AI Capabilities Introduced in China

  Samsung has quietly introduced the next-generation of its native virtual assistant Bixby in China. The upgraded virtual assistant now comes with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and can understand complex commands made in natural language. The new Bixby AI assistant was recently added to the Samsung Galaxy W25 series which was launched in ...

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  iOS 18.2 Developer Beta 2 With Image Creation in Notes App and More Features Rolls Out: What’s New

  Apple has rolled out the iOS 18.2 Developer Beta 2 for iPhone, nearly a week after the stable release of the iOS 18.1 update. It adds new features such as image creation capabilities based on text in the Notes app, the ability to share the location of a lost item being tracked by Find My with trusted people and ChatGPT limit visibility.

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  ElevenLabs Releases AI-Powered Voice Design API and X to Voice Features

  ElevenLabs, a New York-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released an application programming interface (API) for its Voice Design feature that recently made its debut. The announcement came last week, and alongside, the company also introduced an open-source project dubbed X to Voice, which can generate a unique voice for an X (formerly know...

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  Anthropic Introduces PDF Image Understanding With Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI Model

  Anthropic released another new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its chatbot Claude on Friday. The feature, dubbed PDF image understanding, now allows Claude to see and process images embedded within PDF files including charts and graphics. This capability has been added to the recently released Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model. The company claims...