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10 lakh Indian digital content creators likely to earn Rs 40K a month each
The annualised growth rate for India is over 115 per cent for individual creators as compared to the global growth rate of 18 per cent, according to the report by creator economy startup Animeta on the 'International Creators Day'. In three years, 10 lakh creators in India would have at least 100,000 subscribers/followers, growing at 37 per cent at an annualised level, which will allow them to a steady digital income at par with a decent-paying full-time job.
Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, SRK, Virat Kohli lose Twitter Blue ticks
This comes months after Musk announced the date to press users to sign up for Twitter Blue, its paid subscription service. In India, one has to shell out Rs 900 a month (or Rs 9,400 a year) to get Blue Verified status.Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
Tim Cook left amazed at how iPhone, Mac helps Mumbai girl prepare macarons
After having vada pav with Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, Cook was invited to eat dessert by Pooja Dhingra, known as macron queen and pastry chef, to have dessert.
Cook said he ate the best macarons at Dhingra's Le15 patisserie. "It was a treat to spend time in Pooja's kitchen. Her passion for baking and the business she's created is a reminder of what's possible when you follow your dreams," Cook said in a tweet.
IT solutions provider CDW lays off hundreds amid 'intensifying economic uncertainty
According to a report in CRN, several CDW employees are reporting being laid off."The firm is offering a severance package, but laid off employees are signing non-disclosure agreements," the report mentioned, citing an employee. Several employees took to LinkedIn to disclose they have been sacked."Sad day! My employment at CDW has come to an end with today's announcements of economic layoffs at CDW! I will be looking for a new position within the Cloud/IT Management space!" a CDW employee posted.
Sundar Pichai creates 'Google DeepMind' to build robust AI systems
This group, called 'Google DeepMind', will bring together two leading research groups in the AI field: the Brain team from Google Research, and DeepMind. "Their collective accomplishments in AI over the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequence to sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX for expressing, training and deploying large scale ML models," Pichai explained in a blog post late on Thursday.
Elon Musk removes all legacy Blue ticks, allows some celebrities to retain
In India, one has to shell out Rs 900 a month (or Rs 9,400 a year) to get Blue Verified status. As more than 4 lakh legacy verified users bid goodbye to the Blue check marks, some celebrities have been offered a complimentary Twitter Blue subscription "on behalf of Musk". I am paying for a few personally," said Musk. "Just William Shatner.
WATCH | Ashwini Vaishnaw shows Tim Cook how rail travel is going through transformation
The minister showed Cook the image of a bridge, which is taller than Eiffel Tower, that connects to Kashmir. "This bridge is about 30 metres taller compared to the Eiffel Tower. By December, we will be running the train over the bridge," Ashwini Vaishnaw told Tim Cook.
ChatGPT-related scams on the rise, fraudulent AI chatbot apps surge
"They might collect and steal the input you provide. In other words, providing anything sensitive or confidential could put you in danger. The chatbot's responses could also be manipulated to give you incorrect answers or misleading information," according to researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42.
India's smartphone market nosedives 20% in Q1 as 2023 remains challenging
Overall, the India smartphone market saw 30.6 million unit shipments in Q1 2023, a massive drop from 38.2 million in Q1 2022. The market is still witnessing uneven demand woes and channels remain vulnerable to stock build-up, according to market research firm Canalys. Samsung remained in the top spot with a 21 per cent.
Google to let users turn off video feeds from other participants in Meet
"You can now turn off the video feed from other participants during a Google Meet call. This can be helpful in situations where you want to focus your meeting view to just the presenter or hide participants with distracting video feeds," Google said in a blogpost. This feature will only have an effect on users' experiences; other participants will not be notified, and their experiences will not alter.
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