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The Government of India has launched a crackdown on an increasingly popular artificial intelligence (AI) technology known as deepfake videos, according to Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar. This development comes a day after Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw held a meeting with top social media companies and announced that the government will soon come up with new regulations to tackle the issues surrounding deepfake videos. Govt crackdown on deepfake…

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Credit: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The UK's COVID inquiry is putting pandemic policymaking under the microscope. One of the key questions is who should make decisions in an emergency, and how. In a government committee hearing before the inquiry began, Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to Boris Johnson, suggested a "kind of…

Image Source : PIXABAY Twitter Recently, numerous individuals in India took to Twitter to express their concern after receiving a test "Emergency Alert - Severe" message from the government on their mobile phones. The message, which was intended as a trial, caused some people to panic initially as it was not accompanied by a prior warning. The notification, bearing the…

In a move to make travel easier for senior citizens, the Indian railway likely reserves at least one luggage compartment for old people in Mumbai. This comes after when a public litigation was filed in 2022 in the Bombay High Court, demanding a separate chamber for elderly people. It also has been reported that the railway’s authorities have also filed an affidavit in the court regarding the same.As per the PIL filed by 66-year-old petitioner named K P Purushothamam Nair, it said there are more than 50,000 senior citizens…

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday invited citizens to witness the launch of Chandrayaan-3 from the Launch View Gallery at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota, by registering at lvg.shar.gov.in/VSCREGISTRATIO. "Vehicle electrical tests completed. Citizens are invited to witness the launch from the Launch View Gallery at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota, by registering at https://lvg.shar.gov.in/VSCREGISTRATIO," tweeted ISRO.Earlier, the Director of the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO), S Somanath, announced…

So far, about 30,000 students a month are using the solution, which is designed to assist Taiwan in its goal to become bilingual in Chinese and English by 2030. “We want to help our students quickly enhance their English skills to compete with other countries,” says Howard Hao-Jan Chen, an English professor at National Taiwan Normal University. Early concerns about generative AI in education centered around fears students would cheat or miss out on key steps in their learning. However, Microsoft’s Bartley Johns cites the…

A new method has been developed by researchers to help communities prepare for extreme weather caused by climate change, such as flooding, heat stress, food shortages, and energy disruption. The researchers facilitate local community groups to understand and discuss potential climate change impacts and develop citizen-led climate adaptation initiatives.Scientists have developed a community-driven method to tackle climate change impacts. This initiative encourages local communities to create their own ‘personal adaptation…

A day after ChatGPT creator and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has vociferously called for government regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), met PM Narendra Modi in New Delhi, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has announced that AI regulations will be implemented in India. The reason for regulating AI, according to the minister, was to protect “digital citizens” from potential dangers that can come from AI. Chandrasekhar was speaking in a presentation on India's progress towards digitalisation over the past nine years…

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