technology
By Hera Rizwan As per a recent study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group, 31% of the waking hours for Indians are dedicated to smartphones, with 84% of users checking their devices within the first 15 minutes of waking up. The report highlights the notable change in human behaviour brought about by the significant increase in smartphone usage over the last 13 years in India. As per the report, individuals now pick up their smartphones without a specific purpose almost half of the time, signifying a substantial shift in daily routines. The study analysed smartphone usage data from over 1,1...
BOOM Live
By Ritika Jain India is grappling with a deepfake problem. Deepfakes are essentially morphed videos (and or photos, audio) made from artificial intelligence tools and readily available material. With the evolution in technology, even technologically challenged people can now easily create deepfakes. Social media platform X is full of deepfake videos as Decode found. But is this a crime? It can be harmless if one is using it for entertainment purposes – like how AI helped Val Kilmer get his voice back in Top Gun 2; or reimagining Sly Stallone as The Terminator. However, it becomes a crime when ...
BOOM Live
By The Conversation Andrea Stanton, University of DenverThe hajj – the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which Muslims are expected to make once in their lives if they are able – is expected to begin June 26 and last for five days. In 2023, approximately 2 million pilgrims will participate, close to the annual numbers of pilgrims in years before the COVID-19 pandemic. Their visits, like those in generations past, will be enhanced, and even made possible, by modern technology. In recent years, the Saudi government has developed smartphone apps aimed at organizations of pilgrim g...
BOOM Live
By The Conversation Peter Bloom, University of Essex and Pasi Ahonen, University of EssexNearly half of white-collar professionals have tried using ChatGPT to help with their work, according to a recent survey of more than 10,000 people at blue chips such as Google, JP Morgan and McKinsey. That’s staggering, considering the AI chatbot was only released to the public in November. It’s potentially very exciting for the future of work, but it also brings serious risks. ChatGPT and other imminent rivals are part of a long history of technologies geared to reducing the labour of writing. These rang...
BOOM Live
By Mahera Dutta A little pop-up in the corner of a website offering customer support with navigation so clunky that there's no doubt that it is a chatbot. But imagine an artificially intelligent tool armed with the capability of being specific to answer questions as experts would. One doesn't need to imagine much because that’s what OpenAI’s ChatGPT is all about. Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, netizens seem to be spellbound by things the bot has been doing. ChatGPT is being used by singles to find matches, ace difficult tests, code computers, write heartfelt poetry, and giv...
BOOM Live
By Kaisar Andrabi The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), under the finance ministry, on August 8 notified the 'Passenger Name Record Information Regulations, 2022', directing all international airlines to mandatorily share PNR (passenger name record) details of all passengers with the National Customs Targeting Centre-Passenger (NCTC -P), 24 hours prior to departure of flights. The regulations are aimed at "risk analysis" of passengers to prevent economic and other offenders from fleeing the country, as well as check any illicit trade, such as smuggling. However, tech experts ...
BOOM Live
By Alisha Dutta Every day after lunch, 84-year-old Lila Handa tucks herself into her bed and reaches for her android phone. Lila, who has had a penchant for writing for years now, then finds herself logging into Facebook to start her daily ritual of writing a poem and sharing it on the platform. Lila shared a poem she had written the day before, the day this correspondent reached out to her for an interview. "Saheliyaan uljhaye, gussa dilate Chahe bujhaye paheliyaan Mushkil mein hoti sahara Ji aisi hoti hai saheliyaan" (Female friendships may complicate, they might irritate And at times they m...
BOOM Live
By Saqib Mugloo For the last month, Bilal Ahmed, a mathematics teacher from Srinagar, has been so busy that he hasn't had the time to even eat his meals on time. His phone keeps on ringing as journalists line up outside his residence to get a glimpse of his innovation that has earned him the title of "Elon Musk of Kashmir". Ahmed became an overnight sensation in Kashmir after he built a car that runs on solar energy. The mathematics teacher, who teaches at a coaching centre in Srinagar, built the car over a period of 11 years learning the process by watching YouTube videos. While his day job i...
BOOM Live
By The Conversation Machine-learning systems are increasingly worming their way through our everyday lives, challenging our moral and social values and the rules that govern them. These days, virtual assistants threaten the privacy of the home; news recommenders shape the way we understand the world; risk-prediction systems tip social workers on which children to protect from abuse; while data-driven hiring tools also rank your chances of landing a job. However, the ethics of machine learning remains blurry for many. Searching for articles on the subject for the young engineers attending the E...
BOOM Live
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら