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Explained: What is D2M technology that will allow mobile users to watch videos without an internet connection

The central government recently announced that the trials of the home-grown Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) technology, developed by Saankhya Labs and IITs Kanpur, will soon be held in 19 cities. This tech will enable mobile users to stream videos on their smartphones without an active internet connection.
In June last year, IIT-Kanpur released a white paper on D2M Broadcasting in collaboration with Prasar Bharti and Telecommunications Development Societyexplaining about the technology. In a letter in August 2023, the ministry of communications listed its use cases, which may include content delivery, education and disseminating information in crisis/emergency situations.
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Top Tech News Today: Microsoft Made Pitch To Apple For Selling Bing, HP Partners Google To Make Chromebooks In India, More

Microsoft Made A Pitch To Apple For Selling Bing

Microsoft reportedly discussed a possible sale of Bing search engine to Apple in a meeting in 2020, says a new report by news agency Bloomberg. The agreement would have made Bing the default search engine on Apple iPhone models, therefore, replacing Google, the report added, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple’s top brass did not go ahead with a deal because of the money that it earns from Google. It was also concerned that Microsoft Bing may not be able to compete with Google in terms of “quality and capabilities”,

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EPI Foundation Brings India’s First AI Education Tab, Itel P55 Series Goes On Sale In India, More

EPI Foundation Brings India’s First AI Education Tab

Non-profit EPIC Foundation has fashioned a novel innovation in the form of India’s first indigenously designed and manufactured AI-powered education tablet. This landmark development promises to revolutionize learning across the country, particularly for students facing the digital divide. VVDN Technologies, MediaTek India, and CoRover.ai collaborated to create the tablet’s hardware and software. The tablet leverages Artificial Intelligence to personalize learning experiences, making education more engaging and effective. The tablet incorporates BharatGPT, an AI-powered virtual assistant, and multilingual translation capabilities, ensuring inclusivity for diverse language speakers and differently-abled individuals.

Itel P55 Series Goes

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Here’s how many billions the 2-hour-long outage of Facebook and Instagram cost Mark Zuckerberg |

Social media platforms owned by Metanamely Facebook and Instagram, experienced a significant outage recently. This outage affected numerous users worldwide and lasted for nearly two hours. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Indexthis latest disruption has resulted in a decrease of approximately 2.2% in the net worth of the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerbergamounting to nearly $3 billion.
Following the outage, the index showed that the 39-year-old tech mogul was worth $176 billion. However, Zuckerberg was able to retain his position as the world’s fourth richest person after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Louis Vuitton chief Bernard Arnault and
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CES 2024: AI, TVs, smart home gadgets, and more to expect at the biggest tech show of the year

CES 2024, Consumer Electronics Show, begins coming Tuesday, January 9, in Las Vegas and will run until Friday, January 12. The annual tech trade show is where tech companies – big or small – all around the world showcase their latest products and innovations. Even though the event kicks off next week, some companies – LG, Samsungand others – have already started announcing their products in the past week, and many will try to beat the conference by announcing their products before the show floor opens up.And spoiler alert, there will be a whole lot of A.I
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CES 2024: Tech companies transforming kitchens with AI, robots

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chef-like robots, AI-powered appliances and other high-tech kitchen gadgets are holding out the promise that humans don’t need to cook — or mix drinks — for themselves anymore.

There was plenty new in the food and beverage world at CES 2024, the multi-day trading events put on by the Consumer Technology Association. Displays included cocktail-mixing and ice cream-making machines akin to a Keurig, and a robot barista whose movements are meant to mimic a human making a vanilla latte.

Here’s some of the newest technology that’s transforming the way meals are prepared, cooked and delivered:

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Tech Companies Job Cuts in 2024 | Latest News |

The 2023 job cuts ‘trend’ has been carried over in 2024. Several major tech companiesincluding Google and Amazonhave announced job cuts in the first two weeks of the year with as many as 7,500 people having been given pink slips.
According to the layoff-tracking website Layoffs.fyi, 48 tech companies have asked 7,528 employees, who survived the job cuts in 2023, to leave.This suggests that the industry may see more layoffs by tech companies in 2024. In 2023, more than 1,150 tech companies fired a total of over 260,000 people.
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Microsoft is investing in more powerful AI tech to save company cash, here’s how |

Microsoft is going all in on AI. Last year, the company unveiled a custom AI chips to boost the performance of its infrastructure to train large language models (LLMs) cost-effectively. In what can be called another step towards bringing costs down and avoiding costly reliance on third-party chipmakers, Microsoft is said to be working on A.I server tech to run its programs.
According to a report by The Information, Microsoft is developing server network cards to replace the ones offered by Nvidia, which will help the company save some cash. Server cards move data quickly between servers, the report said,
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