TECHNOLOGY

Tesla Cybertruck spotted with Ford F-150 wrap: Report
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Some people believe that the auto-maker is wrapping the Cybertruck prototypes to hide the final production design, while others speculate that the company is testing wraps since it is going to be the only way to make the vehicle look different
US woman gets over 100 Amazon packages she never ordered
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Cindy Smith of Virginia state in the US said she never ordered those from Amazon. The Amazon boxes contained about 1,000 headlamps, 800 glue guns, and dozens of binoculars for children, reports Insider quoting CBS affiliate station WUSA
7 Indian startups approved for chip designing: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
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In his address on the second day of 'Semicon India 2023', the minister said the future is bright for India in the global semiconductor ecosystem. The government has launched a Digital India RISC-V programme (DIR-V) and a large number of startups and incubation centres built around academic institutions are focusing on the future of RISC-V and on the devices it operates on, Chandrasekhar said.
Apple tightens App Store rules on APIs to safeguard users' data
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A small set of APIs can be misused to collect data about users' devices through fingerprinting, which is prohibited by Apple Developer Programme License Agreement.
You need 15 million impressions, 500 followers to earn money on Musk’s X
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For eligible creators who set up their payout details, you will receive a payment the week of July 31 if you meet the criteria and your payout amount exceeds the minimum threshold of $50, the company said in an update
Intel plans to integrate AI across all platforms it builds
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Intel will launch Meteor Lake later this year, its first consumer chip with a built-in neural processor for machine learning tasks, according to The Verge. At Microsoft’s Build 2023 conference, the company announced the collaboration with Microsoft to drive the development of AI on personal computing, and previewed AI-enabled capabilities of its Meteor Lake client PC processors.
LinkedIn working on AI assistant 'Coach': Report
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The information came from the app researcher Nima Owji. Owji tweeted on Thursday, "#Linkedin is working on LinkedIn Coach!" "It's an AI ASSISTANT that helps you apply for JOBS, learn new SKILLS, and find more ways to CONNECT with your network!" He also shared a picture highlighting the feature.
SpaceX's back-to-back rocket launch aimed to break 56-yr record, but failed
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“SLD 45 has the opportunity to make history tonight, as we support two launches between 02:04 UTC and 04:44 UTC. This could represent the shortest time between launches from the ER on record. The previous was 1 hour 37 minutes on Sept. 12, 1966 when Gemini 11 & Titan-11 launched,” Space Launch Delta 45 wrote on Twitter.
Sony sold over 40 mn PS5 consoles since launch
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"We launched PlayStation 5 in November 2020 and the world was in a strange and different place than when we announced the console in 2019," Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said in a blogpost on Thursday. "Despite the unprecedented challenges of Covid, our teams and our partners worked diligently to deliver PS5 on time."
Call of Duty players being infected with self-spreading malware
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On June 26, a player of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 warned other players on a Steam forum that hackers "attack using hacked lobbies," and advised using an antivirus, reports TechCrunch. It looks like the malware mentioned in the thread is on the malware online repository VirusTotal.
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