IIT Jodhpur will organise its sixth convocation on December 6 virtually, using Artificial Intelligence, an official statement said. A total of 232 students, including 117 in B.Tech, 51 M.Sc, 33 M.Tech and 31 Ph.D, will be awarded their degrees by the institute. Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of “Deep […]
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Mulan review: A massive misfire, the worst of Disney’s live-action remakes
Mulan finds a way to offend just about everyone. Are you a feminist? Prepare to be disappointed by the film’s simplistic idea of empowerment. Do you consider yourself to be a champion of human rights? Then you will no doubt be incensed at Disney’s wilful ignorance of mass atrocities. Or […]
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Google rolls out 6 new features for Android smartphones
Google has announced six new features for Android smartphones. These features include a new update for Emoji Kitchen on Gboard, auto-generated narrators for books, labels for Android apps, and more. Not all of these Android features are rolling out to all users as some are in beta, and some limited to select […]
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First look of MH-60 Romeo chopper for Indian Navy
American defence manufacturer Lockheed Martin on Friday shared the photo of MH-60 Romeo chopper in Indian colours. The chopper will be inducted in the Indian Navy. “This #NavyDay, we are proud to share the first look of the #IndianNavy’s #MH60R in all its glory. #RomeoForIndia,” Lockheed Martin posted on Twitter. […]
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SP wrests teachers’ seat from BJP in legislative council poll in Varanasi
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered a setback in its stronghold Varanasi on Friday as the Samajwadi Party wrested the teachers’ constituency seat from it in the election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. Varanasi is also the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Samajwadi Party candidate Lal […]
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Top AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru says Google fired her; company denies it
A top Google scientist on ethical artificial intelligence says she was fired after criticising the company’s diversity efforts, a claim Google disputed on Thursday, in the latest brush-up between the internet giant and worker activists. Timnit Gebru, who is Black, said on Twitter she was fired on Wednesday after sending […]
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Liliput: There are bigger, better and equal opportunities for all on web
While he has done a number of plays, TV shows and films, and has earned praises,Liliput’s latest performance as Dadda Tyagi in the latest season of the web series Mirzapur has surprised many. Content with the response, the actor shares that web has given a new lease of life to […]
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Amarinder Singh behaving like BJP CM, says Manish Sisodia
Hitting out at Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh for speaking on the lines of Bharatiya Janata Party over the ongoing farmers’ protest, AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Friday alleged that the former is behaving like a BJP Chief Minister. Sisodia’s response comes a day after Singh met Union Home […]
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England announces quarantine exemptions for business travellers
England announced new quarantine exemptions for “high-value” business travellers, performing arts professionals, journalists and certain others, meaning they do not have to self-isolate on arrival in the country. As things stand, all passengers arriving in England from abroad are required to self-isolate for 14 days, unless they are coming from […]
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Woman and her 2 children vanish from a train in West Bengal, probe begins
A 24-year-old woman, Puja Jha, a resident of Samastipur, has gone missing along with her three-year-old daughter and two-year-old son from the Tata Nagar bound Chhapra-Tata Festival Express, when the train was passing through West Bengal on Thursday. She was travelling on the train with her husband in a sleeper […]
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Centre has no vaccine roadmap for poor, says Congress after all-party meet
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s vaccination programme against Covid-19 would begin as soon as scientists engaged in developing vaccines give a go-ahead. However, the Congress alleged that the government has no roadmap for the poor population of the country, or people who are not frontline workers. Congress leader Adhir Ranjan […]
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In seismic shift, Warner Bros. to stream all 2021 films
In the most seismic shift by a Hollywood studio yet during the pandemic, Warner Bros. Pictures on Thursday announced that all of its 2021 film slate — including a new “Matrix” movie, “Godzilla vs. Kong” and the Lin-Manuel Miranda adaptation “In the Heights” — will stream on HBO Max at the same […]
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Boeing’s breakthrough max deal signals hope for travel rebound
This year’s biggest jetliner deal signals there’s a growing sense of optimism that travel demand will come roaring back from a historic collapse once coronavirus vaccines are widely available. Betting that a recovery is on the way, Ryanair Holdings Plc ordered 75 high-density versions of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max in a transaction […]
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Google News is offering free access to paywalled content, but you can get it yet
Google has a sweet surprise for Google News users. It is letting users paywalled content via its platform for free. Google launched the Google News Showcase back in October this year. As a part of this initiative, the company is making an investment of $1 billion in news, which also includes the […]
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IISc scientists find more efficient, inexpensive way to measure evaporation
A team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has developed a new device that it said could measure the rate of evaporation of a local area within a couple of minutes. “The device is a more efficient and inexpensive way to measure evaporation when compared with existing […]