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By Surbhi Sharma Meeting new people through Tinder is exciting but it could also be scary if you later realise that their Tinder profile was misleading. To make the platform 'more secure' Tinder announced on April 26 that it is strengthening its 'photo verification' process by asking members to take a selfie video. Another layer to the process, Tinder said that a selfie video is a better way for users to prove who they are. In case, one comes across a 'potential interest' who isn't photo verified on Tinder, they can also ask them to get verified before taking the conversation ahead. Prompting ...
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By The Conversation Jacob L. Nelson, University of UtahFor decades, Fox News thrived because the people behind it understood what their audience wanted and were more than willing to deliver: television news – or what Fox called news – from a populist perspective. Fox is consistently the most-watched cable news channel, far ahead of competitors like MSNBC and CNN. That’s in large part due to people like Tucker Carlson, whose show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” has been one of the highest-rated in cable news. But on April 24, Fox announced that Carlson is leaving the network, and while no explanation ...
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By The Conversation Christopher Tounsel, University of WashingtonDays of violence in Sudan have resulted in the deaths of at least 180 people, with many more left wounded. The fighting represents the latest crisis in the North African nation, which has contended with numerous coups and periods of civil strife since becoming independent in 1956. The Conversation asked Christopher Tounsel, a Sudan specialist and interim director of the University of Washington’s African Studies Program, to explain the reasons behind the violence and what it means for the chances of democracy being restored in Su...
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By Surbhi Sharma In September 2022, the Serum Institute of India made headlines when one of its directors, Satish Deshpande, was scammed of Rs 1.01 crore by someone pretending to be CEO Adar Poonawala. The news had brought to light that scammers were using the names and profiles of CEOs of companies and contacting company staff asking for monetary help or favours, with a promise of a reimbursement later. Months later in April 2023, the "CEO scam" found mention on Twitter again when Shikhar Saxena, an employee of Meesho, shared his experience. Saxena shared a screenshot of a WhatsApp message wh...
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By Surbhi Sharma If you're someone who is still swooning over ChatGPT's capabilities, then get ready to be even more surprised with its latest version, GPT-4. OpenAI released GPT-4 on March 14, which according to the company is more reliable, creative, and will be able to handle much more nuanced instructions than GPT-3.5 and its previous versions. According to OpenAI, "GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic...
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