IANS- Microsoft stock hit $1-trillion mark after the company announced impressive third-quarter results, riding on the success of its Azure Cloud as big enterprises moved to Azure infrastructure. The company posted revenue of $30.6 billion (an increase of 14 per cent from the year-ago quarter) and net income of $8.8 billion (an increase of 19 […]
IANS- While the usage of facial recognition technology is growing across the world, the absence of any data protection and data privacy law in India makes the country ill-prepared to deal with the misuse of the technology, experts said on Friday. “There is no legal mechanism to stop misuse of facial recognition technology in […]
IANS – Joining Microsoft’s call to tame the misuse of facial recognition technology, retail giant Amazon’s Cloud arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has asked lawmakers to formulate some rules around the use of the technology. The announcement came amid increasing scrutiny on the use of facial recognition by researchers, lawmakers and civil liberties groups. […]
IANS – Microsoft President Brad Smith has shot down calls to stop selling facial recognition tech to governments, saying the move would be “cruel” as it could hamper good work such as diagnosing rare diseases. According to a report in Business Insider late Sunday, Smith said the move would be “cruel in the humanitarian […]
A tech entrepreneur who set up a restaurant brings a unique set of Indian flavors to the Bay Area Ritu Jha Anirban Datta of Curry on Wheels is not a chef by profession. But that may be difficult to explain to the Bengalis who were there for his bijoya buffet (served on the […]
Anecdotes, tech pitches and fan fervor mark Hotstar CricFest Ritu Jha The first CricFest hosted by Hotstar failed to draw a large number of San Francisco Bay Area cricket fans, but two former Indian players, Anil Kumble and Virender Sehwag, delighted the attendees when they shared anecdotes, including the highs and lows that […]
Nidhi Modh In late September 2018, Microsoft, Adobe and SAP announced a partnership to remove data silos and give a unified customer experience. This alliance, which is a clear attack against Salesforce, aims to create a single data model for consumer data that is then portable between platforms. This Open Data Initiative(ODI) is very […]
