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Selena Gomez has made her return to social media following a recent break. The 31-year-old artist, who had stepped away from social platforms, shared new snapshots on her Instagram Story, providing a glimpse into her life. In the latest IG story, the «Single So on» singer, shared photos from the heart of Moo's Craft Barbecue, a Texas-inspired eatery located in Los Angeles.

On October 25, Taiwanese legislators tabled the Virtual Asset Management Bill before the single-chamber parliament, the Legislative Yuan. This initiative seeks to bolster consumer protection and furnish better oversight over the burgeoning digital asset sector.

Hamas fighters from Palestine's Gaza has been going on for over a month wherein over 10,000 Palestinians have lost their lives to Israeli bombardment and ground incursion. The war that escalated since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, has the world seeking ceasefire from Netanyahu's army, as Palestinians struggle to survive.

NEW DELHI : With AI tools becoming more accessible, deepfakes are a rising threat in audio, video and photo formats. But, catching the actual perpetrators is next to impossible, thanks to how cyber tools allow people to obfuscate the traces of origin. Mint explains why: A deepfake is more sophisticated than basic morphed content.

Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie," set to stream on Peacock from December 8, 2023. The film, focusing on Adrian Monk, played by Tony Shalhoub, will unravel a personal case involving his stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding.

Broadband India Forum (BIF), a lobby for tech companies, has slammed the telcos’ stand against the use of OTT platforms such as WhatsApp, for enterprise communications, saying operators are only trying to thrust a technologically inferior and user-unfriendly product like SMS through regulatory/administrative intervention. The Broadband India Forum (BIF) said the SMS route is often unreliable due to lapses in network coverage, which is why telco customers prefer app-based messaging platforms like WhatsApp over SMS. “The telcos’ action is analogous to insisting on transportation by bullock cart when modern and more affordable automotive transportation is available and permitted,” T V Ramachandran, president, BIF, told ET. The tech forum counts Amazon, Meta (which owns WhatsApp), Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, and Google among its key members. The BIF president added that WhatsApp and Telegram are perfectly legal and permissible products and it’s absurd to allege that some corporates are circumventing and bypassing the legal telecom route by using apps. The popularity of OTT communication platforms among users, he said, is the result of better experience.

deepfake incident — reading the takedown rulebook to social media platforms and reminding them of the legal provisions against digital impersonation — must be backed up by vigorous prosecution against the perpetrators. Fakery, deep or shallow, is detectable, and policing it is a matter for enforcers of the law. Deepfakes require considerable computing capacity and a large digital footprint of their targets, making it easier to narrow down the search for their origin.

If you follow crypto happenings, you’ve probably seen the blockchain buzz around Shiba Inu. But what is it, and how do you buy Shiba Inu coin? Like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu (SHIB) is a dog-themed meme coin with an army of loyal investors. But SHIB is different, creating its own blockchain (Shibarium), a metaverse project, and much more.

Professionals navigating the tech industry have seen more than their share of ups and downs recently. The employment environment has swung from talent shortages, with companies of all sizes scrambling to land and keep tech talent, to rounds of layoffs at industry giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Forward-looking developers may well decide it’s time to stop focusing on Web2 companies and products and start learning the ins and outs of the burgeoning Web3 world.

Gold holds a special significance as an auspicious metal that can double up as a prudent investment is second to none. Buying gold on the occasion of Dhanteras is considered auspicious but with changing times, the methods of investment have also changed. Now it is not just physical gold that is attracting buyers, there is a growing trend of investing in Digital Gold, ETFs and SGBs, especially during Dhanteras and Diwali. So, you can think about these five methods for investment in Gold this Dhanteras:

Purchasing gold on Dhanteras has evolved into a cherished tradition. For investors seeking to participate in this practice, the government’s Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGB) scheme, introduced in 2015, offers a more contemporary and convenient alternative to acquiring physical gold.

According to an official release, Mudrex, a global crypto investment platform, announces Muhurat Offer this Diwali to invest and trade in over 350+ cryptocurrencies and 20+ Crypto Indexes called CoinSets. During this Diwali, the platform is expected to execute trades and investments at zero fee

SINGAPORE—The list of business executives and political figures who have gone missing in China keeps growing. Top executives at a video-streaming platform and a pharmaceutical company were the latest to disappear, as an intensifying clampdown by Beijing on alleged corruption and malfeasance shakes business confidence in China, among local and foreign firms alike. Chen Shaojie, chief executive of livestreaming firm DouYu, has been unreachable since October, a person familiar with the matter said.

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WhatsApp has added a new 'Protect IP Address in Calls' option that helps hide your location from other parties on the call. The new option hides your IP address from the other party by relaying calls through WhatsApp Servers, ensuring that other parties in the call cannot see your IP and subsequently deduce your general geographical location.

TBO Tek, a leading travel distribution platform, has filed a draft offer document with market regulator Sebi to raise funds through an IPO. The issue includes fresh equity of Rs 400 crore and an offer for sale of up to 1.56 crore shares. Under the OFS, promoters Gaurav Bhatnagar, Manish Dhingra, LAP Travel and other selling shareholders TBO Korea, Augusta TBO will offload the shares. TBO simplifies the business of travel for suppliers such as hotels, airlines and retail buyers such as travel agencies and enterprise buyers that include tour operators, and travel management companies through the two-sided technology platform that enables suppliers and buyers to transact seamlessly with each other. The platform connects over 1,47,000 buyers across more than 100 countries with over one million suppliers, as of June 2023.

offshore platforms after the government levied 1% tax deducted at source (TDS) on trading of virtual digital assets (VDAs) with effect from July 2022. The study, by Delhi-based think-tank Esya Centre, found that over Rs 3,50,000 crore was traded by Indians on offshore platforms between July 2022 and July 2023, which is over 90% of total VDAs traded by Indians. This has deprived the exchequer of Rs 3,493 crore of revenue, as against the collected revenue of Rs 258 crore, because of offshore trades that are not TDS compliant. This also means that billions of dollars of capital gains tax will not be collected on these trades conducted offshore.

Protect IP Address in Calls.' With this setting in place, individual calls no longer rely on P2P connections but are rather routed through a server, effectively concealing your IP address from the view of other participants. It is worth noting that group calls have always used this server-based relay, and now, individual calls do too. According to the Meta owned instant messaging platform, they have introduced a novel feature designed to safeguard your IP address while making calls.

₹ 400 crore through an initial public offering (IPO). The company's IPO comprises a fresh issue of up to ₹400 crore.

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd is expected to continue benefiting from the rising occupancy levels, improving average revenues per operating bed (APROB) as higher non covid revenues are also adding to profitability. Analysts expect revenue to grow, marking a recovery, post the muted trend in occupancy seen in Q1FY24 seen in Q1 for industry as a whole.

In Heather Reisman’s first quarterly conference call with analysts since her return to Indigo Books & Music Inc. in September, she introduced herself as both the company’s CEO and “chief book lover.”