TECHNOLOGY
Beijing's number of major AI firms exceeds 1,000
The report, released by the municipal bureau of economy and information, noted that Beijing boasts the top industrial agglomeration capacity in China and that it has a well-developed AI industry chain, Xinhua news agency reported. The city has more than 40,000 professionals in core AI technologies and has produced the most published papers on AI in the country, the report said.
Ambrane launches new smartwatch 'Wise Eon Max' with big screen
"Wise Eon Max promises max display, max entertainment and max usage, all while maintaining supreme aesthetics and functionality. The smartwatch has everything this generation needs for an active lifestyle," Ashok Rajpal, Director & Founder, Ambrane India, said in a statement.
Samsung to use 100% recycled plastics in all its mobile phones by 2050
The world's largest smartphone maker said it plans to use recycled plastic materials in all its new flagship Galaxy smartphones and stop using plastics in packaging by 2025, reports Yonhap news agency. It also aims to use 100 per cent recycled plastic parts in all of its smartphone products by 2050.
Fire-Boltt introduces new smartwatch with 1.28-inch display
The new "Quantum" smartwatch will be available for purchase on Amazon and Fireboltt.com from February 14 onwards at an introductory price of Rs 2,999, the company said in a statement. It will come in four colour variants-- Black, Black Red, Green and Blue. The smartwatch comes equipped with features like IP67 water resistance, voice assistant.
AirTag helps track stolen car in US
Police were able to track down the stolen car because of the owner's AirTag inside, but the thieves then crashed it during the high-speed chase, reports AppleInsider. Antar Muhammad's Toyota Camry was stolen by three thieves, which was later discovered by the neighbour's doorbell camera's footage. "We woke up, and I looked outside and I asked my wife, 'Hey, do you know.
Android 14 may feature new settings for region-specific preferences
A hidden system settings page was found in the Android 14 DP1 named "Regional Preferences," reports Android Police. It is expected to allow users to set up system-wide preferences for temperature units, calendar format, the first day of the week and number system. With the new settings enabled, applications won't have to ask for or make assumptions about users' preferences.
India's PokerBaazi suffers security lapse, users' data exposed: Researcher
Security researcher Anurag Sen told portal XposedOrNot that this exposure was "due to a misconfiguration in the system and could be easily accessed by anyone with knowledge of the database's IP address". The size of the exposed data was more than 6GB in size, and growing. Sen also tweeted that India's PokerBaazi site suffered a major security lapse.
Apple declines allegation for evading users' privacy controls
Earlier this month, a report had mentioned that Apple Maps contained a security flaw that might have enabled an app to circumvent a user's privacy settings, reports AppleInsider. However, now, the iPhone maker has claimed no apps took advantage of the flaw. Last week, we issued an advisory for a privacy vulnerability that could only be exploited from unsandboxed apps on macOS.
Twitter improves retweet reach, removes filter causing false negatives: Musk
Musk tweeted: "More work team completed over night." "Removed height penalty affecting tweets with pics/video, increased # of recommended tweets, better tracking of dropped tweets, removed filter causing false negatives, removed penalty if user follows author, improved reach of retweet," he added.
Over 17,400 tech employees got fired in Feb globally to date
In 2023 so far, around 340 companies have laid off more than 1.10 lakh employees worldwide, and there appears to be no respite from job cuts. Major companies which commenced layoffs this month include Yahoo, BYJU's, GoDaddy, GitHub, eBay, Autodesk, OLX Group and others. In January, close to 1 lakh of them lost jobs in the month of January globally, dominated by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and others, according to layoff.fyi, a website that tracks job cuts globally.
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