Science-Tech

Twitter to introduce new navigation tool in New Year

World: Elon Musk announced that a new navigation tool will arrive on Twitter in the New Year, as he aims to rejig the whole experience to make the platform faster. “Twitter navigation coming in January that allows swiping to the side to switch between recommended & followed tweets, trends, topics, etc,” he said in a […]

Researchers bounce radio waves off an asteroid that just passed Earth

Washington: A group of researchers has sent radio signals into space with the purpose of bouncing them off a 500-feet asteroid to learn about its interior. The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme (HAARP), a powerful transmitter in remote Alaska, aimed its antennas at asteroid 2010 XC15, a space rock categorised as a near-Earth potentially […]

Four disruptive technology predictions to shape 2023 and beyond

Dubai: In 2021, AI/Machine Learning was rated by Statista as the most impactful disruptive technology. Here, Salesforce executives share four disruptive technology predictions from 2022 that will shape the future in 2023. 1. Generative AI will empower mass customizations of experiences “Generative AI uses machine learning algorithms that enable computers to use existing content like text, […]

You’re using your iPhone calculator all wrong

The calculator application has been one of the most used apps on the iPhone, but it turns out that many of us aren’t using it properly. In fact, there are several features in the calculator that you probably never knew about. Did you know that if you make one tiny mistake you don’t need to hit C […]

You will soon be able to read clearly a doctor’s written prescription thanks to Google AI

New Delhi: Google announced an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) model that can identify and highlight medicines within difficult-to-read handwritten prescriptions. This will act as an assistive technology for digitising handwritten medical documents by augmenting the humans in the loop such as pharmacists, however, no decision will be made solely based on the output […]

Uber Eats will roll out sidewalk robots for food deliveries

San Francisco: Uber has partnered with the US-based robotics company, Cartken, which will provide sidewalk robots to its subsidiary, Uber Eats, to deliver food. The company will be getting six-wheeled delivery robots, developed by a team of former Google engineers, mostly known for deploying their vehicles on college campuses. Uber claims that its partnership with […]

Elon Musk launches poll on whether he should quit Twitter

World: Twitter CEO Elon Musk launched a poll on the social media platform asking whether he should step down as head of the company, adding that he would abide by the poll results. The poll is scheduled to close around later tonight although the billionaire did not give details on when he would step down […]

Cristiano Ronaldo beats Lionel Messi in the digital media battle

World: The AI-based media intelligence solution Smelter.ai analyzed Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s media presence for World Cup 2022 to identify who has more public affection, media coverage, and online presence. It turned out that for the period from November 20 to December 12, 2022, Cristiano Ronaldo has been mentioned in the world media 268118 times, whereas Lionel […]

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