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How IBM and NASA are linking up to combat climate change with AI

NASA and IBM have collaborated to develop an unique use of AI technology on Earth observation data from NASA satellites. The two organisations have stated their plan to develop several programmes to harvest Earth observation data for information about climate change. One project, for example, will use NASA’s Harmonized Landsat …

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WhatsApp enables Avatar feature for iOS

The wide roll out is available on Apple App Store for iOS.WhatsApp, in its latest blogpost on Wabetainfo, announced starting widely roll out stable update of the Avatar feature for iOS. As seen in the screenshot, WhatsApp is now making it possible to create personalised avatars and use them as …

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says its ChatGPT rival coming soon as a ‘companion’ to search

Users will soon be able to use language models “as a companion to search,” Pichai said on a conference call following the internet search giant’s fourth-quarter earnings report on Thursday. Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said Google will make artificial intelligence-based large language models like LaMDA available “in …

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Indian urban air mobility startups taking to the skies

From flying taxis whizzing passengers across cities and towns to autonomous drones delivering medical supplies to patients, the urban air mobility (UAM) sector in India is full of promise. Yesterday’s dreams of electric powered taxis and flying cars/ personal air vehicles (PAVs) are turning into reality with UAM projects. Hundreds …

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