India gains 26 spots on 5G mobile download speeds globally: Report

by Hansraj Agrawal | Jan 27, 2023 | Technology

As India rolls out 5G slowly but steadily, the country went up 26 spots in rank globally for median mobile speeds, from 105th in November 2022 to 79th in the month that followed, a report showed on Friday.

Median mobile download speeds in India increased from 18.26 Mbps in November to 25.29 Mbps in December, according to network intelligence and connectivity insights provider Ookla.

However, India decreased one spot in rank globally for overall median fixed broadband speeds and is now at 81st position from 80th in November.

The country’s performance in fixed median download speeds witnessed a slight increase from 49.11 Mbps in November to 49.14 Mbps in December.

Qatar led the chart for global median mobile speeds, whereas Burkina Faso jumped 22 spots in rank globally. For fixed broadband download speeds, Singapore gained the top position, and Rwanda increased 47 spots in rank globally.

In October, India recorded a 13-month high in mobile and fixed broadband download speed.

Moreover, in November last year, the country had recorded the highest median mobile download speed (from 16.50 Mbps in October to 18.26 Mbps in November).

Meanwhile, Reliance Jio recently recorded almost 600 Mbps median download speed on its 5G network in Delhi while India’s overall 5G speed hit 500 Mbps as the country rolled out 5G services in October.

–IANS

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Apple temporarily halts development of its in-house Wi-Fi chip: Report

by Hansraj Agrawal | Jan 27, 2023 | Technology

Tech giant Apple has reportedly halted the development of its in-house Wi-Fi chip “for a while”.

Many investors are worried that the tech giant’s efforts to develop its own Wi-Fi chip might negatively impact Broadcom’s Wi-Fi chip business, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a blogpost on Thursday.

The iPhone maker’s previous development for Wi-Fi solution was the Wi-Fi-only chip and not the Wi-Fi+Bluetooth combo chip.

Making a Wi-Fi+Bluetooth combination chip is more difficult than making a Wi-Fi-only chip from a design perspective.

As a result, it would be difficult for the tech giant to replace Broadcom’s combo chips with its own because the majority of Apple’s products employ the combo chip.

“The slowdown of processor upgrades is unfavourable to the sales of end products (such as A16 and M2 series chips),” Kuo said.

According to Kuo, the company has focused the majority of its integrated circuit (IC) design resources on the development of processors to make sure that the world’s most advanced 3nm processors can enter mass production smoothly in 2023-2025 and that the performance upgrade and power consumption improvement can significantly improve against predecessors.

He also mentioned that in the next two-three years, “Wi-Fi chips will usher in critical Wi-Fi 6E/7 upgrades.”

Therefore, it is riskier for the iPhone maker to use its own Wi-Fi chips “when the industry standard markedly changes”.

Earlier this month, it was reported that the company was working on a replacement for the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip which it currently uses from Broadcom, and is planning to start integrating it into devices in 2025.

–IANS

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27 Jan2023:T+1 settlement will help investor

by Hansraj Agrawal | Jan 27, 2023 | Agrawal Samaj, Business, Capital Market, Clasiffied, Industry, Share Market, Technology, Trending News

Pre-qualification requirements laid down by PGCIL extremely restrictive

by Hansraj Agrawal | Jan 27, 2023 | Technology

The pre-qualification requirements laid down by the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) is extremely restrictive as it states that the bidder must have successfully completed drone patrolling using mounted camera for visual, thermovision of at least 100 route km or 300nos towers of 220kV or above Transmission Lines in last five year, as on the originally scheduled date of bid opening.

This relates to aerial patrolling (Drone Based) of Powergrid transmission lines for identification of defects and health assessment of Transmission lines.

Sources say the RFP is for the pilot phase to evaluate the efficacy for the use of Drone and Drone Derived intelligence to identify map and report defects in transmission lines. The proposed pilot phase encompasses nine regions of PGCIL.

The total value of the RFP is approximately Rs 2 crore.

Being highly restrictive at the Pilot stage itself will not allow participation of drones with capabilities. The capability of drones are best tested at the pilot stages and based on the experience of the pilot the main RFP can use restrictive clauses, sources said.

Using such a clause in the RFP for a pilot phase clearly indicates that the intention is to purchase drones from specific companies only. The pre-qualification requirements is so specific to the power sector that only a company that has worked with PGCIL before can qualify, sources said.

The deployment of Drones in India is a new phenomenon and the sector is still is in it nascent stage.

The Regulatory eco-system for Drone is still developing. The first major Regulations was issued only in mid 2021 and the amendment was issued in February, 2022.

Drones are being deployed in various sectors for the first time and very few companies can claim substantial experience in any one sector.

In order for the sector to grow and develop further, experience in one sector should be applicable to other sectors.

The Centre is actively encouraging deployment of Drones for various activities in various Ministries.

Having restrictive clauses will limit competition and increase the cost of deployment of drones unnecessarily.

In order for the Drone Industry to develop and prove its capabilities, RFPs must be inclusive and must provide an opportunity for technically capable manufacturers to participate.

The capabilities of Drones and a specific companies can be verified through various means including POCs, Pilots, Demos etc.

Restricting the participation of otherwise eligible Drone Manufacturers’ based merely on experience specific to a sector is counterproductive, sources said.

–IANS

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ChatGPT can’t be credited as an author on research papers: Springer Nature

by Hansraj Agrawal | Jan 27, 2023 | Technology

AI tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science, according to Springer Nature, the world’s largest academic publisher, which has laid down ground rules for its use, saying software like ChatGPT can’t be credited as an author in papers published in its journals.

First, no large language models (LLMs) tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper.

“That is because any attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, and AI tools cannot take such responsibility,” said Nature in an article.

Second, researchers using LLM tools or AI chatbots should document the use in the methods or acknowledgements sections.

“If a paper does not include these sections, the introduction or another appropriate section can be used to document the use of the LLM,” said the publisher.

The AI chatbot ChatGPT has brought the capabilities of such tools, known as LLMs, to a mass audience.

ChatGPT can write presentable student essays, summarize research papers, answer questions well enough to pass medical exams and generate helpful computer code.

It has produced research abstracts good enough that scientists found it hard to spot that a computer had written them.

“Worryingly for society, it could also make spam, ransomware and other malicious outputs easier to produce. Although OpenAI has tried to put guard rails on what the chatbot will do, users are already finding ways around them,” said the report.

That is why Nature is setting out these principles.

“Ultimately, research must have transparency in methods, and integrity and truth from authors. This is, after all, the foundation that science relies on to advance,” the report mentioned.

–IANS

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Music streaming platform Spotify’s website, app restored after brief outage

by Hansraj Agrawal | Jan 27, 2023 | Technology

Music streaming platform Spotify on Friday said that it has fixed the issue that affected its website and application.

Spotify tweeted: “Everything’s looking much better now! Get in touch with @SpotifyCares if you still need help.”

According to the platform’s community page, the outage took place on Thursday.

The platform also confirmed that the outage was not “limited to the Spotify website. The Spotify app on different platforms is also affected.”

Taking to Twitter, several users had reported the issue.

While one user asked, “Is it just me or is @Spotify down for everyone?”, another said, “me checking Twitter to see if anyone else’s @Spotify is down.”

According to online website outage tracker Downdetector, there were problems with Spotify’s application (65 per cent), server connection (26 per cent) and website (10 per cent).

Meanwhile, earlier this month, Spotify had suffered a brief outage in the US that left thousands of users without access to the platform.

Several Spotify users had reported that streams suddenly stopped, and some said that they have been logged out and cannot log in again.

–IANS

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