Technology

Meta is cutting roughly 600 jobs in its Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) division after it spent billions recruiting top researchers from other AI labs and companies. The layoffs are expected to impact only the MSL division, which is the umbrella entity focused on the social media giant’s AI efforts and reportedly comprises around 3,000 employees. … Read more

Every time you wait for a lift or in a queue, the first impulse is to whip out your phone and scroll, swipe, or stream. Why do we do it every time? What does it take to simply do nothing? Just in time, when this peculiar behaviour has been normalised globally, Harvard professor Arthur C … Read more

Driving in India is challenging on its own, but a much bigger struggle for most people is navigating through the jam-packed streets and narrow lanes. Google Maps, the go-to app for millions of people, has dominated the Indian digital navigation market for years now, but amid growing privacy concerns, some users are looking for alternatives. … Read more

At a time when AI is reshaping the global jobs market, a new survey has found that top tech employers like Apple and Nvidia are increasingly hiring graduates from India’s lesser-known educational institutions. An average of 34 per cent (roughly one-third) of employees at Zoho, Apple, and Nvidia said that they had graduated from Tier-3 … Read more

ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are among the widely used chatbots in the world today. If you have been a regular user of one of these AI chatbots, you may have, at times, noticed that they tend to forget things you have said earlier in a chat, or they start giving confusing, repeated answers after you … Read more

Generative AI has progressed quite rapidly, finding use in various fields like computing, education, finance, medical and others. Although AI still suffers from hallucinations, companies like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic are investing billions of dollars into the technology. Large language models – which are the backbones of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini are … Read more

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has raised concerns about how much control or ‘influence’ he will ultimately have over the humanoid robots that the electric automaker is developing. In an earnings call on Wednesday, October 22, Musk said that he felt uneasy about building a robot army without knowing if he could exert influence over them. … Read more

Meta is rolling out new anti-scam features for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp with a focus on protecting unsuspecting senior citizens from digital fraud and helping them secure their accounts. As part of its ongoing anti-scam awareness campaign, the tech giant also shared tips on how senior citizens can avoid getting scammed and stay safe … Read more

Scientists in China have made a surprising discovery in the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side, or ‘dark side’,  of the Moon. The Chang’e-6 mission, which brought lunar soil back to Earth in June last year, revealed fragments of a rare meteorite. The big surprise was that these fragments are likely from a … Read more

Over the past two decades, no company has done more to shape the American workplace than Amazon. In its ascent to become the nation’s second-largest employer, it has hired hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers, built an army of contract drivers and pioneered using technology to hire, monitor and manage employees. Now, interviews and a … Read more