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02 Dec

How China Plans To Criminalise The Deepfake Menace

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Deepfakes rose to prominence in 2019 and for all the wrong reasons. With very little productive usage, Deepfakes have impacted the social and political scenario abruptly. China on November 29 announced that it has to regulate its online content rules, so now, its banning Deepfakes. While China has banned other platforms, this doesn’t seem so…

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02 Dec

How The Trend Of Passenger-Aware Cars Is Overtaking Self-Driving Vehicles

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When someone mentions Artificial Intelligence and cars together, the first thing that pops in mind is self-driving cars. With giants like Google, Uber and now Apple, showing their interest in self-driving cars and letting the public know that these ‘cars of the future’ are coming has everyone eagerly waiting for them.  Well, they are here…

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29 Nov

Why India Needed A 100PF Supercomputer To Help With Weather Forecasting 

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India has been dealing with the changing climatic conditions and needs reliable forecasts for extreme weather conditions like droughts, floods, cyclones, lightning and air quality, among others. On November 28, India announced that over the next 2 years it plans to augment the existing Supercomputer to 100PetaFlops for accurate weather forecasting. This announcement made at…

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27 Nov

Why Are These Russian Cows Wearing VR Headsets? 

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“Russian milk producers are ready to offer the market new and unexpected solutions.” This bold proclamation can be seen in the press release from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region about their experiment on cows wearing a VR Headsets. New? Not so much. Unexpected? Definitely. We mean, in India we have…

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27 Nov

Can Deepfakes Be Used For The Good Of Humanity?

Deepfakes, an unknown word in the traditional dictionary, has found a morbid meaning in today’s world of technology and media. Everyone in today’s era of AI revolution has heard of deepfakes and has heard about the worst of it. Be it Obama’s public service announcement deepfake or Zuckerberg’s ‘truth’ about privacy on Facebook video, deepfake…

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27 Nov

How To Optimise Your LinkedIn Profile As A Data Scientist

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As of 21 November 2019, there are more than 800,000 data science LinkedIn profiles registered worldwide. Despite this number of data scientists available, it’s no secret there is still a significant talent shortage. Your LinkedIn profile can have a substantial impact on your career while you look for the ideal data scientist job. Here are…

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26 Nov

How These 5 Startups Are Contributing To India’s Clean Energy Goal 2022

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‘We Care For The Planet’ is what the Indian Government’s first slide in their presentation regarding the initiatives they started on clean energy mentioned. Adhering to what the Government stated, India stands at #4 globally in wind power installed, #6 globally in solar power installed, and #5 globally in total renewable power installed. But, India,…

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21 Nov

Are 5G Tyres A New Frontier In Autonomous Driving?

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Last year, India’s transport minister Nitin Gatakeri said that all new cars and heavy vehicles in India sold by the year 2022 will have ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System). This move was seen as the first step towards using autonomous vehicles in India. These autonomous vehicles come equip features like ADAS, automatic braking, collision avoidance,…

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20 Nov

Man’s Race To Quantum Supremacy: The Complete Timeline

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(A still from Google video about Quantum Supremacy) For more than 30 years, the world has been talking about the power of Quantum Computers and asking if it is something worth investing in. Finally, three decades later, they may have a convincing answer on the way.  Google recently announced that its machine achieved a benchmark…

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19 Nov

Why DeepMind Beating 99.8% Of Humans In StarCraft 2 Is Actually Great News For Us

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Back in 2016, when Google’s DeepMind and Blizzard announced their partnership to push the limits of AI through StarCraft 2, the idea of an artificial intelligence beating the top players in the world seemed absurd. But this year in January when DeepMind streamed the matches between elite human players and AlphaStar, it became one of…

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