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Some applicants including Vedanta Foxconn JV are expected to re-apply for government incentives under the modified semiconductor scheme opening from June 1, according to sources.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/QulAgwd

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Japan’s ANA airlines has launched its own online marketplace for the trade, sale, and purchase of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The first collection went live on ANA GranWhale on May 30. It showcases the works of Luke Ozawa, an aerial photographer, in the form of digital collectibles, also called NFTs. The second collection on this platform will go live on June 7.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/2AEzF61

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Apple supplier Foxconn said on Wednesday artificial intelligence applications would strongly drive demand for its server business this year but reiterated 2023 overall would be a flat one for the company on global economic woes.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/jVP2iqZ

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The valuation of the overall crypto sector dropped by 1.32 percent in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin and Ether recorded losses. Polkadot, Polygon, and Chainlink recorded losses alongside BTC and ETH. Stablecoins like Tether, USD Coin, and Ripple did manage to mint small profits. The fluctuations in US’ financial market amid the debt ceiling decision are expected to keep...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/ajd9YcZ

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Delhi Metro commuters will now be able to travel on the Airport Line using a WhatsApp-based ticketing service launched on Tuesday. The system allows commuters to receive a QR code-based ticket directly on WhatsApp, officials said.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/DCEVMiS

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Earlier this month, the US’ Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) floated a proposal to have Bitcoin miners pay a tax equal to 30 percent of the total energy cost that they consumed in the crypto mining process. The proposal has been scrapped by the US. The decision to pull the plug on this proposal could be part of a bunch of tax-related rebates introduced by the US a...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/XFcHugD

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India will start a pilot project this week to establish itself as an electronics repair hub by relaxing cumbersome import-export rules, a move that could draw tech majors such as Flex to expand such operations in the country.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/IwOJEUp

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Acer has launched Predator Triton 16 at this year’s Computex expo. The new gaming-focused laptop can be equipped with up to a 13th Gen Intel Core i9 CPU and up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPU. It has Windows 11 pre-installed.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/KD5plXL

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Vivo V29 Pro is expected to launch in June alongside the rest of the Vivo V29 series. The lineup is also expected to be released in Indian markets. The company recently confirmed some key specifications of the Vivo V29 Pro on its official website, including camera and battery details.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/lnIQRz4

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Artificial intelligence means everyone can now be a computer programmer as all they need to do is speak to the computer, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday, hailing the end of the "digital divide".via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/gXfqucw

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The overall valuation of the crypto market rose by 2.24 percent in the last 24 hours. BTC and ETH registered significant growths over the weekend, elevating several other cryptocurrencies in terms of their pricings. Solana, Litecoin, and Tron also grew alongside BTC and ETH after the White House confirmed having raised the debt ceiling of the US for the next two years...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/5fYzH8x

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Redmi Note 12T Pro is confirmed to launch in China soon. Ahead of the handset's debut, the company has shared the design, colour options as well as key specifications of the smartphone via Weibo. The handset will pack up to 12GB RAM and 512GB storage. It is confirmed to sport an LCD display.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/zLDIxvF

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Boat Rockerz 255 Touch Neckband has been unveiled in India for under Rs. 1,500. The neckband comes in three colour variants — Pitch Black, Deep Blue, and Teal Green. It features full-touch swipe controls, support for spatial audio, ENx algorithm for call clarity, and claims to offer up to 30 hours of playback time.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/w3WjAu7

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The Witcher series is getting a fifth season at Netflix, casting director Sophie Holland confirmed during an interview. Season 5 will be filmed back-to-back with the fourths season after a ‘short gap', and will see Liam Hemsworth continuing the role of Geralt of Rivia. The Hunger Games actor was brought on board following Henry Cavill’s exit last year, after the s...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/bmC1R6V

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John Wick 5 is in early development, as per a Lionsgate Q3 2023 earnings call. Longtime John Wick director Chad Stahelski had previously confirmed that he was open to working on a fifth film, though it’s unclear if Keanu Reeves will be replaced. Motion Picture Group chairman Joe Drake also confirmed a AAA John Wick video game to be in consideration, alongside remind...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/crZ6qDj

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China will send its first civilian astronaut into space as part of a crewed mission to the Tiangong space station on Tuesday, its Manned Space Agency announced, as Beijing pushes ahead with its extra-terrestrial ambitions.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/kn2bd4g

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Motorola Razr 40 specifications have purportedly appeared on benchmarking platform Geekbench and the China Compulsory Certification (3C) website ahead of the official launch. The listing on the Geekbench site suggests 12GB of RAM on the upcoming Motorola phone. Meanwhile, a listing on the 3C site indicates 33W fast charging support.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/xbSDQFH

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Twitter has exited the European Union's disinformation code, a voluntary pact involving three dozen signatories including Facebook parent Meta, Google, Microsoft, and TikTok. While the Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform has quit the pact, its obligations to the bloc still remain, according to Thierry Breton, the EU Industry commissioner.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/KVeNlPZ

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Xiaomi is reportedly working on the Redmi K60 Ultra. In a new development, schematics of the purported smartphone have surfaced online, suggesting the design. The leaked images suggest a triple rear camera unit and hole-punch display design. via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/CHGRLzZ

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Google has removed a Portuguese-language game that allowed players to trade and torture Black virtual "slaves" while strategising to block the abolition of slavery. The move came after a racism outcry in the country, and the prosecutor's office has opened a "hate speech" probe into the game downloaded by hundreds of people.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/F0XVWRf

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Microsoft has filed an appeal against the UK's decision to veto its takeover of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard. Setting out five grounds for the appeal, Microsoft says the UK's CMA made "fundamental errors" when it assessed the firm's cloud gaming services.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/k3mapvR

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Apple's $50 million "butterfly" keyboard class-action lawsuit settlement was approved by a US judge on Thursday. The court spurned challenges to the deal which was announced a year ago, stating that the settlement was "fair, adequate and reasonable."via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/1bRXLtd

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KuCoin surveyed 1,125 crypto users from different parts of the world to understand how the Web3 community perceives AI. Over 64 percent of the younger respondents confirmed that they were somewhat familiar with the uses of AI in crypto and blockchain. On the contrary, members of the GenX generation are lesser aware about AI utilisation in crypto as well as in other in...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/79UAnyl

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OpenAI, the startup behind the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, said Thursday it will award 10 equal grants from a fund of $1 million (roughly Rs. 8.2 crore) for experiments in democratic processes to determine how AI software should be governed to address bias and other factors.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/lgTmdDH

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Nothing Co-Founder Carl Pei has now revealed in a media interview that Nothing Phone 2 is set to hit the market in July. The Nothing Phone 1 successor is confirmed to come with a larger battery as well. Earlier, it was also revealed that the phone will be equipped with the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/C0lEzyI

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Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given the green light to its first-in-human clinical trial, a critical milestone after earlier struggles to gain approval.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/kD35gbK

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Alone in the Dark, a re-imagining of the original 1992 survival horror game, just got a Spotlight event revealing the release date, story details, and gameplay. The game brings back the original characters Detective Edward Carnby and Emily Hartwood, who are now played by David Harbour (Stranger Things) and Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) respectively. Players pick between e...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/Y3qmEL7

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State-sponsored Chinese hackers have infiltrated critical US infrastructure networks, the United States, its Western allies and Microsoft said Wednesday while warning that similar espionage attacks could be occurring globally.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/19pf4gu

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Rosamund Pike-led The Wheel of Time season 2 is set to release on September 1 on Amazon Prime Video. The studio has also dropped some first-look photos from the sophomore chapter, which finished filming in the spring of 2022. A third season has already been greenlit, with showrunner Rafe Judkins confirming that it would be based on ‘The Shadow Rising’ — the four...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/vncHPpG

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Indians are flocking towards the Web3 sector via NFTs and blockchain gaming at a time when the government remains sceptical about the crypto sector. Indian players are obtaining in-game items and characters as NFTs, which possess utility and value within the gaming universe, Parth Chadha, the CEO of Indian Web3 firm STAN told Gadgets 360.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/M6nqh7x

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Sony announced Project Q, its handheld game streaming device, at the PlayStation Showcase event. The device lets you stream games from your PS5 console via Remote Play or Wi-Fi, rather than running games natively. Project Q comes with an 8-inch 1080p screen in the centre, supported on either side by the button layouts of a PS5 DualSense controller. The company also an...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/JprfNnU

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Meta Platforms started carrying out the last batch of a three-part round of layoffs on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, as part of a plan announced in March to eliminate 10,000 roles.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/kKX0c3D

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India plans to overhaul rules governing use of the internet, potentially altering business practices for Silicon Valley giants operating in the world’s biggest market.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/PUg3ZA0

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Sony confirmed Wednesday that the success of hit HBO drama The Last Of Us is boosting sales of the game series upon which it is based, in a stand-out case of the group repurposing its popular franchises. ‘We could see very, very clearly that every time an episode of that show dropped, that sales of the game increased very dramatically,’ Sony Interactive Entertainm...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/MbseP2w

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Microsoft on Tuesday started making available to users a host of AI upgrades, including to ChatGPT, its search engine Bing as well as to cloud services - an expansive launch that seeks to narrow the gap with Alphabet's Google.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/asrgTkF

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WWDC 2023 will begin on June 5 at 10am PDT (10:30pm IST) with a keynote event, Apple confirmed on Tuesday. The company has also invited several virtual reality (VR) experts to WWDC 2023.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/5PjQA4o

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Shutterstock said on Tuesday it would buy animated-images platform Giphy from Meta Platforms for $53 million (roughly Rs. 438 crore) in cash, months after the Facebook owner had agreed to divest the company on competition concerns.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/igjnkTP

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TikTok on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the state of Montana's new ban on use of the Chinese-owned app, the first state to bar the popular short-video sharing service.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/lKs6WcN

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Vivo Y02T has been unveiled in India on Tuesday. The phone is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio P35 chipset and is backed by a 5,000mAh battery unit with 10W wired charging support. The rear camera includes a single 8-megapixel camera sensor and the front camera houses a 5-megapixel sensor.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/UtITAzK

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A fake image of an explosion at the Pentagon briefly went viral and caused a ten-minute-long dip on the markets on Monday, stoking further talk that generative AI could cause problems to society.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/SwVbTyo

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Motorola Edge 40 launched in India on Tuesday and was unveiled in select global markets earlier this month. The phone is backed by a MediaTek Dimensity 8020 SoC and packs a 4,400mAh battery with 68W TurboPower wired charging and 15W wireless charging support.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/41phO53

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In a decision on Monday, US District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said plaintiff William Heresniak lacked standing to sue because he challenged "wrongs associated with" Musk's buyout, not the fairness of the buyout itself.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/m64DATo

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud and the launch of its new offering — TCS Generative AI which leverages Google Cloud's generative AI services, to design and deploy custom-tailored business solutions. Building on its domain knowledge across multiple verticals and investments, TCS has developed a large port...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/ptGdWj4

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WhatsApp is working on a new sticker maker tool for iOS and Android phones, that is expected to allow users to create stickers just like WhatsApp Web. The feature, which is in development, could soon render third-party sticker tools obsolete.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/kDf2pyC

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Decacorn fintech firm PhonePe on Monday said it has secured an additional $100 million investment from General Atlantic.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/LoyzdYr

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The launch of the Pepe Coin breathed life back into the memecoin category of cryptocurrencies, that had remained flat with Dogecoin and Shiba Inu consistently trading lowly. The newly launched token, inspired by meme-popular ‘Pepe-the-Frog' character, registered a 7,000 percent hike in the first seventeen days of its launch. The discreet birth of this memecoin by an...via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/Z87mr4y

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Google unveiled a series of accessibility products and feature updates on Thursday to commemorate Global Accessibility Awareness Day. The day is marked to highlight the importance of digital accessibility. The company claimed that the products and features introduced are built by and for people with disabilities.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/Z1XFvwV

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"Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Instagram. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted," a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/qGWUwXu

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Oppo Reno 10 series is all set to make its debut in China on May 24. The company has confirmed the launch via its official China website. The company has also revealed some of the design and specifications of the high-end variant Oppo Reno 10 Pro+ on its landing page. Meanwhile, a tipster has also shared some design renders of the upcoming smartphone.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/lmUILRH

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Samsung Galaxy A14 4G could be launched soon in India. A recent report has tipped the launch timeline in India as well as the phone’s price and storage options. The handset was already unveiled in Malaysia in March 2023. There, it sports a 6.6-inch (1,080x2,408 pixel) PLS LCD display with a 90Hz refresh rate.via Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/q2IUoeF