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Photo: GaudiLab (Shutterstock)Ever since a chatbot called ChatGPT launched last November, artificial intelligence has become the most powerful force in the tech industry.ChatGPT wasn’t just any old chatbot but a hefty, data-trained program, able to engage with users conversationally and spit out immense amounts of knowledge at the drop of a hat. Its creator, the artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, heralded the new technology as a transformative tool that could spur society-wide changes. Now, big companies—from Google to…

PYTHON PROGRAMMINGLearn the rules of using assertions in Python — and those of not using themA false assertion should stop you: something is wrong! Photo by Jose Aragones on UnsplashAn assertion is a statement you can use to test an assumption about your program. This short definition is, on the one hand, clear. On the other hand, it’s far from explaining when you should use assertions.The assert statement, which is the main assertion tool in Python, is strictly related to the built-in __debug__ object. At some point of…

Indian car culture is growing and over the last few decades, we have seen a rise in number of people buying expensive and exotic cars. The number of young entrepreneurs and millionaires have also gone up in the country. All this means, we get to see exotic cars on the road more often than before. If you are living in metro cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, spotting a sports car or a supercar is not a big deal. Here we have a video that shows how security guards at a 5 star hotel reacted to the owner of a Ferrari 458…

Who knew such an innocent-looking balloon could be a spy.Photo: Larry Mayer (AP)It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… Chinese spy balloon? According to China, the answer could be “maybe.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry addressed the balloon incident in a daily briefing on Friday and stated it was “verifying” the situation, according to Reuters. Reports of a giant white spy balloon in Montana, which houses one of the nation’s nuclear launch facilities, captivated the internet on Thursday, capturing the attention of U.S.…

We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement — not yet, and possibly not ever. Still, there are plenty of social apps that might be worth substituting into your obsessive timeline-checking routines if you’re done with Twitter for whatever reason (we can think of plenty). Twitter’s current situation — advertisers leaving, Nazis logging back on, little things breaking here and there every day — presents an opportunity to check in with ourselves about what we really want out of a social network. We…

Police in our country manages to stay in the news almost every day. We have come across both positive and negative news reports about the police in our country. Mostly, the reports that we see in the news are negative things. Recently we have come across a video from Hyderabad where a cop is seen taking the service gun out to make a Mercedes-Benz driver stop for checking. The video has been uploaded by Sach News on their YouTube channel. In this video from Hyderabad, the police were doing regular vehicle checking in a…

Mehul Reuben DasDec 14, 2022 17:06:06 ISTA vast chunk of Twitter employees found that they were unable to log in to their work systems on Monday. The reason behind this, those employees say, was that they did not check their work emails over the weekend. Elon Musk sent an after-hours work email to his staff on Friday evening, asking them to sign it by Saturday. Twitter employees who did not see that email during the weekend, were locked out of their systems. Image Credit: AFP Elon Musk sent out an email on Friday evening,…

A slice of what’s in store for Steam Valve is hosting the October Steam Next Fest right now, full of demos, livestreams, and more about games coming to the Steam platform. There are actually hundreds of free, playable game demos on the platform right now from October 3 through 10. It’s a great time for developers to show off what they’ve been working on, put more eyes on their Steam store pages, and accrue some coveted Wishlist additions. With so many demos available, though, it can be a bit daunting to find exactly what…

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Juno, which works with US payroll services to offer checking accounts that give users their paychecks in digital tokens, raised an $18M Series A — Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens … Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Juno, which works with US payroll services to offer checking accounts that give users their paychecks in digital tokens, raised an…

Thirteen films into his career, Kevin Smith still finds himself delivering a film as lazy and amateur as Clerks III. Once upon a time, Kevin Smith was an exciting indie voice who had something to say in his own unique scatterbrain f-bomb dropping way. From Clerks to Chasing Amy to Dogma, topics such as love and faith sat comfortably beside diatribes about Star Wars and oral sex. Somewhere, there was a regression. Smith found his niche as a fanboy populist in the geek worlds of superheroes and science fiction. Gone was…