IIT Kanpur to launch haptic smartwatch for blind, visually impaired

New Delhi (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur on Friday announced to launch "haptic smartwatch for the blind and visually impaired" in association with Ambrane India Private Limited for mass manufacturing and sales of the smartwatch.

Microsoft Teams Premium gets new features powered by OpenAI's GPT-3.5

San Francisco (IANS) Tech giant Microsoft has introduced new features powered by OpenAI's GPT-3.5, to its Teams Premium, to make meeting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered.

The new features aim to make meetings more intelligent, personalised…

Twitter to stop offering free access to its API from Feb 9

New Delhi (IANS) Microblogging platform Twitter on Thursday said that it will stop offering free access to its API (Application Programming Interface) starting February 9 and instead launch a paid version.

The Twitter Developer account announced…

Microsoft to remove several games from Xbox 360 store on Feb 7

New Delhi (IANS) Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it will remove a bunch of beloved games from the Xbox 360 Marketplace on February 7.

"A number of game titles and associated add-ons will be removed from the Xbox 360 Marketplace in a…

US commits to early review of GE's move to co-produce jet engines in India

Washington (IANS) A proposal to jointly produce jet engines in India was among many new discussed and announced at the inaugural meeting of the India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) here on Tuesday by the two sides led respectively…

US to train Indian astronauts, cooperate on planetary defence

New York (IANS) The US will provide advanced training for an Indian astronaut and the two countries will cooperate on planetary defence against dangerous asteroids and comets, according to the White House.

Strengthening cooperation in human…

Google testing ChatGPT-like products, including chatbot 'Apprentice Bard'

San Francisco (IANS) Google is testing ChatGPT-like products, which use its LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) technology, media reports said.

Under new AI-powered chat products, the tech giant is testing a chatbot called "Apprentice…

WhatsApp rolling out longer group subjects, descriptions on Android beta

San Francisco (IANS) Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out longer group subjects and descriptions on Android beta.

These changes will help users to better describe groups, reports WABetainfo.

The characters…

WhatsApp faces privacy setting issue globally on iOS

San Francisco (IANS) Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is facing a server-side issue, making it impossible to update the privacy setting "who can see when I'm online," globally on iOS.

This outage is not because of a broken update,…

Google Pixel Tablet may come with 2 dock options

San Francisco (IANS) Google's upcoming 'Pixel Tablet' will reportedly come with two different dock options.

According to tipster Kuba Wojciechowski, the tablet will come with two dock options-- korlan/K6 and yuzu/Y4-- which are…