Samsung announces global availability of Galaxy S23 smartphones

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 17, 2023 | Technology

Samsung Electronics on Friday announced the global availability of its industry-leading Galaxy S23 Series smartphones following impressive pre-order results.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 will be widely available through carriers and retailers and on Samsung’s official website in four nature-inspired matte hues — Phantom Black, Cream, Green, and Lavender.

Moreover, the company said that this year, the pre-order results were even higher than those of the Galaxy S22 series, with 60 per cent of consumers opting for the most premium Galaxy S23 Ultra.

“This year’s pre-order numbers echo our customers’ strong trust in our brand and demonstrate how our commitment to ground-breaking innovation and sustainability continues to resonate with consumers,” TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile eXperience Business at Samsung Electronics, was quoted as saying.

The Galaxy S23 series features epic cameras that give users more freedom to explore their creativity, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy, and a striking design that advances the company’s sustainability commitments with more components made using recycled materials, the company mentioned.

Further, the tech giant stated that the Samsung Galaxy S23 series also unlocks the next level of mobile security with Samsung Message Guard.

This powerful sandboxing tool preemptively protects against zero-click exploit attacks.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

Source link

Indian IT firms start training employees in ChatGPT, other AI-related tech

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 17, 2023 | Technology

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys, India’s top two IT firms by valuation, are introducing training and skilling for employees on ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Global IT companies such as Accenture have also included such modules on ChatGPT and similar AI technologies for their employees, the Economic Times reported (ET).

.

The news comes at a time when AI models are expected to disrupt Indian IT firms and their access to talent, the report said.

.

ET’s report quoted TCS as saying that the company will add generative-AI themed courses, not only to help employees become aware of the themes but also skill them to handle operations where such technology is used.

.

Infosys, which has made a donation to ChatGPT’s developer, Open AI, conducted a workshop on AI recently. The participants will receive a certificate of completion for the workshop, the report added.

.

“We believe that in several possible business operations where we need to aggregate information and content from multiple sources to address a specific question contextually – ChatGPT would be a good fit. While we have worked with the precursor of ChatGPT (GPT3) in the past, the current version is apparently more capable, and we are in early stages of the exploration,” Abhijit Mazumder, chief information officer at TCS, told ET in the report.

.

Accenture’s ‘Advanced NLP: Introduction to GPT’ digital course on its learning platform is picking up renewed employee interest, according to the report.

.

With the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, questions have arisen as to what jobs will be affected by the technology. AI has the potential to streamline and make many jobs more efficient, but some improvements might make certain roles redundant.

.

Source link

Here is all you need to know about YouTube’s new CEO, Neal Mohan

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 17, 2023 | Technology

Neal Mohan, YouTube’s Chief Product Officer and Senior Vice President, is set to take over as YouTube’s CEO. He will replace Susan Wojcicki, who announced she was stepping down from the role after nine years.

Mohan will join an expanding club of prominent Indian-American executives who are running the show for some of the biggest tech giants in the world.

He will join the likes of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.

As Susan Wojcicki announced her stepping down from the position, Neal Mohan tweeted, “Thank you, @SusanWojcicki. It’s been amazing to work with you over the years. You’ve built YouTube into an extraordinary home for creators and viewers. I’m excited to continue this awesome and important mission. Looking forward to what lies ahead…”

The news of his taking over as YouTube CEO resulted in a jump in Google searches for his name. With more than 20,000 searches for his name, Neal Mohan ranked third in Google Trending Searches on Friday morning.

Mohan studied electrical engineering at Stanford University. Later, he completed his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2005. He worked with DoubleClick Inc., which Google later acquired for $3.1 billion. He also worked for Microsoft for a brief period. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is on the Board of Directors at Stitch Fix and 23andMe.

Who is Neal Mohan?

He graduated from Stanford University after studying electrical engineering.

He completed his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2005.

He worked at DoubleClick Inc. from 1997 to 2003.

In his short stint at Microsoft, he worked as Manager, Corporate Strategy, from June 2004 to September 2004.

He returned to DoubleClick as Senior Vice President, Strategy, and Product Management.

He joined Google in 2008.

From March 2008 to November 2015, he was Google’s SVP of Display and Video Ads.

According to Business Insider, Mohan became such a prominent figure in Google’s business operations that when Twitter attempted to hire him as chief product officer (because David Rosenblatt was on Twitter’s board), Google paid Mohan US$ 100 million in bonuses to keep him.

Mohan is married to Hema Sareen Mohan, who has worked in the non-profit and public welfare sectors for two decades. He married her while in New York during his time working for DoubleClick.

Source link

Apple releases iOS 16.4 developer beta with new emoji, and much more

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 17, 2023 | Technology

Tech giant Apple has released its new developer beta, iOS 16.4, which includes expanded emoji support, keyboard updates for certain languages, and much more.

“Beginning with iOS & iPadOS 16.4 beta, members of the Apple Developer Program will see a new option to enable developer betas directly from Software Update in Settings,” the tech giant said in the release notes.

The beta version includes an update for Matter which supports “both manual and automatic Software Update” for Matter accessories.

It also brings updates to keyboards including, “support for new Unicode 15.0 Emoji” and “autocorrect for the Korean keyboard is enabled by default for testing and feedback.”

Moreover, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu keyboards add support for transliteration layouts.

With the new developer beta, Apple Pencil hover now provides “Tilt and Azimuth” support.

“New StoreKit 2 APIs are available for promoted in-app purchases. Apps can receive promoted product purchase data from the App Store with PurchaseIntent.intentsand can manage promoted order and visibility with Product.PromotionInfo,” the company said.

“AutoFill, including AutoFill for passkeys and passwords, now works with input elements contained in a Shadow DOM in web content,” it added.

–IANS

aj/dpb

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

Source link

IAF develops ‘Vayulink’ platform for steady jammer-proof communication

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 17, 2023 | Technology

The Indian Air Force has come out with an innovative solution that would help pilots to deal with bad weather and also provide them jammer-proof uninterrupted communication with the base station.

Known as ‘Vayulink’, the data link communication uses the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) that is also known as NAVIC, to send radio communication to the base station when the signals are low, an IAF officer involved in the project said.

The important aspect of the technological solution is that it prevents fratricide or friendly fire, he added.

The IAF has put up a gallery on Vayulink to provide information about its platform at the India Pavilion in the ongoing Aero India 2023 here.

“Vayulink is an ad-hoc data link communication system, which when installed in an aircraft, gives position of other aircrafts close by, encrypted traffic data over secured channel,” Wing Commander Vishal Mishra told PTI.

When the planes are flying close to any friendly forces on grounds during a combat situation, the aircraft display gives the position of such forces on the ground including tanks and troops beneath, the IAF officer said.

“The advantage of the system is when you are going into combat, it prevents fratricide. It means, you are able to know where our ground forces are present,” he claimed.

The Vayulink system also prevents aircraft collision, provides better combat teaming and helps plan real-time basis where multiple teams can get together and go towards the target coming from different areas, Wing Commander Mishra pointed out.

The system can also give the pilots data on the weather, he added. “When you are flying above the hills where there is no radio communication, the system can give you radio communication also,” Wing Commander Mishra said.

According to him, Vayulink is helpful for the Air Force, Army and Navy, while it can be given to government services as well since the technology has been made by the Indian Air Force.

He claimed Vayulink has been developed by the IAF only and it is a very secure system.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

Source link

Meta introduces new broadcast channels on Instagram only for creators

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 17, 2023 | Technology

Meta has introduced new broadcast channels on Instagram, which is a one-to-many messaging tool that will allow creators to engage directly with their followers at scale.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on the social networking platform with his own “Meta Channel.”

“Creators can also use voice notes to share their latest updates and behind-the-scenes moments, and even create polls to crowdsource fan feedback,” the company said in a blogpost on Thursday.

However, only creators can send messages in the broadcast channels and followers can react to content and vote in polls.

The company further mentioned that more features will be added to these channels in the coming months, such as the ability to bring another creator into the channel to discuss upcoming collaborations, crowdsource questions for an “ask me anything” and much more.

Once a creator gets access to broadcast channels and sends the first message from their Instagram inbox, their followers will receive a one-time notification to join the channel,” it added.

Moreover, followers can leave or mute these channels at any time and can also control their notifications from creators.

Creators can also encourage their followers to join by using the “join channel” sticker in Stories.

“We’re currently testing broadcast channels with a handful of creators in the US and plan to expand in the coming months,” Meta said.

“We’ll be testing broadcast channels in Messenger and on Facebook in the coming months,” it added.

–IANS

aj/shb/

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

Source link

Times Top News

Times Top News