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Google paid tribute to American scientist and women’s rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote on her 204th birth anniversary, through a coloured 11-slide Doodle. Newton Foote was one of the pioneers in the field of climate science. She was the first individual to discover the greenhouse effect and its role in global warming.

Google honors Asma Hamza, a prominent Sudanese composer and oud player, with today's Doodle. On this day in 1997, Hamza achieved a remarkable milestone by emerging as one of the winners in the prestigious Laylat AlQadr AlKubra music competition held in Sudan. According to Google, this pivotal victory served as a defining moment in her career, propelling her into the spotlight and garnering recognition in a traditionally male-dominated industry.

Emojipedia, to honor the significant impact of emojis. Emojis have become an integral part of our digital conversations. Whether we're texting, using social media, or sending emails, emojis help us express our emotions, convey messages, and add a touch of playfulness to our text-based interactions.

digital payment growth. It can stimulate competition, leading to innovation and improved services within the UPI ecosystem. Additionally, it may encourage other banks and financial institutions to follow suit, further expanding the reach of UPI-enabled services, said Anup Nayar, CEO- Domestic, In- solutions global ltd.

climate change today which involved placing various gases in cylinders and exposing them all to sunlight for observations.  After this, Foote observed that carbon dioxide has become hotter than the other gases. She then concluded that carbon dioxide has the potential to change Earth's temperature alone as it has the most heating effect on the Earth.

Meta (formerly Facebook) has introduced a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model — "CM3leon" (pronounced like chameleon), that does both text-to-image and image-to-text generation. «CM3leon is the first multimodal model trained with a recipe adapted from text-only language models, including a large-scale retrieval-augmented pre-training stage and a second multitask supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage,» Meta said in a blogpost on Friday.

Mukul Rohatgi who has said auctioning satellite spectrum isn’t the most appropriate and efficient method of resource allocation.Broadband India Forum (BIF) had sought Rohatgi’s views on whether the law requires that the only way to allocate satellite spectrum is auction. He replied, “No.” BIF also asked whether allocation of satellite spectrum for space-based communication services through a non-auction, administrative route, be permissible in law. Rohatgi said, “Yes.” ET has seen a copy of the 18-page legal opinion. BIF, which counts technology and satcom firms like Oneweb, Nelco, Amazon, Hughes, Inmarsat, Google, Netflix, and Meta as its members, is believed to have shared Rohatgi’s opinion with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), Department of Space and Prime Minister’s Office. Satcom companies and telcos Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi) are at loggerheads over the mode of allocation of satellite airwaves. Jio and Vi have been batting for an auction model, citing, among others, the 2012 Supreme Court judgement, which had backed bidding as the way to allocate scarce natural resources. Satcom companies want spectrum to be allotted without auctions. Commenting on the 2012 Supreme Court judgement and decision on the following presidential reference, Rohatgi said auction cannot be considered invariably a constitutional mandate as it would stand in complete contravention to the scheme of Article 14 of the Constitution. Further, he said allocation of natural resources to the highest bidder may not necessarily be the only way to subserve the common good and at times, may run counter to the public good.

Google Doodle in the US and other countries, Zarina Hashmi is known globally for her minimalist art. Recognised as one of the most significant artists associated with the minimalist movement, Zarina Hashmi, the late Indian American artist and printmaker, left an indelible mark on the art world. Through collaboration with guest artist Tara Anand from New York, the doodle artwork honouring Hashmi beautifully captures Hashmi's exploration of concepts such as home, displacement, borders, and memory, employing minimalist abstract and geometric shapes.

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Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) is around Rs 30,000 crore, which was bought by the group's FMCG arm in just Rs 100 crore in 1994, the company said in its latest annual report. Godrej Group had bought the Goodknight brand in just Rs 100 crore in 1994. A year later in 1995, it sold a 51 per cent stake in Goodknight to Sara Lee and started a joint venture with the US-based consumer goods company.

Diaspora politics is going to get a lot more complicated and recent turbulence is an indicator of the policy challenges ahead. Pro-Khalistan protests in the US, UK, Canada and Australia have descended into vandalism, arson, rioting, incitement to assassination and inter-group violence. Last year, there was Hindu-Muslim communal violence in Leicester.

Garena Free Fire Max was introduced in 2021 as an enhanced version of Garena Free Fire. It gained popularity after the previous version was banned by the Indian government. The game developers regularly update these codes on a daily basis.

Meta, the operator of social media platform Facebook, has admitted it used data from software marketed to users as a way to keep their personal data safe as a “business intelligence tool” for its own purposes.

Today, Google Doodle commemorates the birthday of Zarina Hashmi, an influential Indian American artist who would have turned 86 today. The doodle, designed by guest illustrator Tara Anand from New York, pays homage to Hashmi's artistic style by incorporating her signature geometric and minimalist abstract shapes. As per media reports, Hashmi was known for her remarkable sculptures, prints, and drawings.

Google has officially launched its new notebook web app, now named NotebookLM, which leverages generative AI to enhance the note-taking experience. The app was initially unveiled as Project Tailwind during the Google I/O event in May. NotebookLM utilizes powerful language models to automatically organize, summarize, and assist users in researching the topics they are writing about.

Lucy Spraggan, a former contestant on the popular talent show X Factor, has bravely come forward to reveal that she was sexually assaulted by a hotel porter during the production of the show in 2012. In her newly released memoir titled «Process: Finding My Way Through,» Spraggan sheds light on the devastating impact the assault had on her life over the past decade, expressing a sense of betrayal by ITV, the network behind the show. Spraggan recounts that the rape occurred after a night of celebrating fellow contestant Rylan Clark's birthday at the Mayfair nightclub Mahiki.

Play Games on your PC, it is essential to ensure that your computer meets specific requirements. Additionally, there are several other important factors to consider when downloading Play Games on your PC. To download Play Games on your PC, follow these steps: To ensure smooth gameplay of mobile games on your PC, you need to enable virtualization settings in Windows.

iPhone 15 could mark Apple's foray into the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). While the iPhone's hardware capabilities are impressive, software advancements have the potential to overcome certain physical limitations.  Ives has indicated that Apple intends to leverage AI within the Health app on the iPhone 15. By harnessing the vast amount of user-collected data, encompassing metrics such as heart rate, breathing patterns, mood, activity levels, and sleep patterns, AI could revolutionize the Health app.

Elon Musk on Friday said the purpose of his new artificial intelligence company, xAI, will be to «understand the universe.» In an often meandering 90-minute long Twitter Spaces audio chat, the billionaire discussed his vision for xAI for the first time while veering into topics such as the Earth's evolution and the fragility of civilization. In seeking to deepen the understanding of the universe, Musk joked that xAI's mission statement would be «what the hell is really going on?» Musk announced the formation of xAI on Wednesday after accusing companies like OpenAI and Google of developing the technology without considering risks to humans. OpenAI and Google did not respond to request for comment.

Garena Free Fire Max is a revamped version of Garena Free Fire. It debuted in 2021 and became popular after the ban of the former by the Indian government. Developers of the game keep updating these codes daily.

xAI, will be to "understand the universe." In an often meandering 90-minute long Twitter Spaces audio chat, the billionaire discussed his vision for xAI for the first time while veering into topics such as the Earth's evolution and the fragility of civilization. In seeking to deepen the understanding of the universe, Musk joked that xAI's mission statement would be "what the hell is really going on?" Musk announced the formation of xAI on Wednesday after accusing companies like OpenAI and Google of developing the technology without considering risks to humans. OpenAI and Google did not respond to request for comment.