Technology
Google’s new AI can generate music from text

Washington [US], January 28 (ANI): Researchers from American tech giant Google have created an AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments, similar to how systems like DALL-E generate images from written prompts, reported The Verge, an American technology news website, […]

Updated: Jan 28, 2023
PM Modi suggests ‘technology-fasting’ at regular intervals, says increasing average screen time a worrying trend

New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday interacted with students, teachers and parents at Talkatora Stadium here during Pariksha Pe Charcha 2023 giving them valuable tips and advice which included ‘technology fasting’ at regular intervals and choosing “dialogue and rapport” for discipline. The Prime Minister said told students that the […]

Updated: Jan 27, 2023
Rising open source star VictoriaMetrics announces 252% growth in 2022

Startup sees exponential growth, helping increasing numbers of businesses tame data chaos Our growth this year is testament to the growing demand for time series database monitoring solutions. VictoriaMetrics’ scalability fills a gap in the market that other solutions overlooked” — Roman Khavronenko, CEO SAN FRANCISCO, USA, January 26, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — VictoriaMetrics, the leading […]

Updated: Jan 26, 2023
China science, technology news summary — Jan. 25

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) — The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. ASTEROID OBSERVATION China plans to use its new China Compound Eye facility in Chongqing to observe asteroids and Earth-like planets hundreds of millions of kilometers away as part of its planetary defense work. The Chongqing Innovation Center […]

Updated: Jan 25, 2023
Chatbots can help us rediscover the rich history of dialogue

It is time to take human-AI dialogue seriously again. With the release of sophisticated chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, effective human-AI dialogue has become interesting and accessible to everyone. Even to students writing essays, which has led to some academic concerns. How will we know if what we read was written by an AI and why […]

Updated: Jan 24, 2023
Australian government slams Optus for cybersecurity breach

MELBOURNE, Oct 2 (Reuters) – The Australian government on Sunday levelled its harshest criticism yet against Optus, the second-biggest telecoms company, for a cybersecurity breach that affected the equivalent of 40% of the country’s population. The government blamed Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications (STEL.SI), for the breach, which affected 10 million accounts, urging the company […]

Updated: Jan 23, 2023
The Davos establishment reveals whom it truly fears

This year’s World Economic Forum featured calls to “master the future” and blamed right-wing populists for the rising distrust in global elites The World Economic Forum at Davos used to be THE place to see and be seen, but the idea of the richest and most influential people in the world hobnobbing around a common […]

Updated: Jan 22, 2023
UAB cybersecurity program ranked No. 1

Fortune ranked the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s in-person master’s degree in cybersecurity as the No. 1 program in the country. According to Fortune, there are nearly 770,000 cybersecurity job openings in the United States. “We are proud to be recognized for academic excellence by Fortune and named the nation’s leading institution for graduate studies in cybersecurity,” […]

Updated: Jan 21, 2023
Google’s parent company announces massive job cuts

Alphabet becomes the latest tech giant to substantially slash its workforce Google’s parent company Alphabet announced on Friday it would eliminate 12,000 jobs worldwide, more than 6% of its workforce, after years of robust growth and hiring. Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai explained the decision, saying that the company had rapidly expanded headcount in recent years […]

Updated: Jan 20, 2023
Air pollution kills 20,800 in Iran yearly: official

TEHRAN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) — An Iranian health official said on Thursday that 20,800 people in Iran die of air pollution-caused diseases per year, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The figure was estimated according to the results of research and studies conducted in 27 Iranian cities with a total population of 35 million, Abbas […]

Updated: Jan 19, 2023