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LG has introduced its new OLED TV lineup for the coming year ahead of CES 2023 in Las Vegas. The new lineup includes the LG Z3, G3, and C3 OLED evo series of televisions, all of which are the next-generation iterations to products in the 2022 lineup. The new televisions are claimed to provide better brightness, colour accuracy, and detail, and will be available in various size options across all three models. LG is among the biggest global manufacturers of OLED televisions, considered by many to be the best among current-generation television display technologies. All three televisions introduced at CES 2023 are powered by the LG a9 AI processor Gen 6, which is said to utilise AI-assisted learning to improve picture and sound quality based on important aspects, along with surround sound virtualisation through the television's own speaker system. The televisions are also said to be brighter than the previous generation, with pixel-level brightness mapping ensuring that the TV'...

The larger part of the crypto price chart indicated greens next to majority cryptocurrencies on Tuesday, January 3. With a minor gain of 0.27 percent, Bitcoin opened trading at the price point of $16,668 (roughly Rs. 13.7 lakh). The oldest ever cryptocurrency maintained a similar momentum on international exchanges such as Coinbase, CoinMarketCap, and Binance as well. In the last 24 hours, BTC grew by $98 (roughly Rs. 8,105) from its price of $16,570 (roughly Rs. 13.7 lakh) that it opened with, yesterday. Ether bagged slightly bigger gains than Bitcoin. ETH price rose by 1.09 percent to trade at $1,213 (roughly Rs. 1 lakh), the crypto price tracker by Gadgets 360 showed. Stablecoins such as Tether , USD Coin , Ripple , and Binance USD — opened with small profits. They were further joined by other profit-minting altcoins including Binance Coin , Cardano , Polygon , Litecoin , Polkadot , Tron , Solana , Uniswap , and Avalanche . Dogecoin and Shiba Inu also outgrew their respecti...

Online food delivery platform Zomato said its co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Gunjan Patidar resigned from the post on Monday. Patidar was one of the first few employees of Zomato and built the core tech systems for the company, it said in a regulatory filing. "Over the last ten plus years, he also nurtured a stellar tech leadership team that is capable of taking on the mantle of leading the tech function going forward. His contribution to building Zomato has been invaluable," the company said. It, however, did not disclose reasons for his resignation. In November last year, another co-founder of the company, Mohit Gupta, had resigned . Gupta, who had joined Zomato four-and-half years back, was elevated to co-founder in 2020 from the position of CEO of its food delivery business. Zomato had witnessed some top level exits last year, including those of Rahul Ganjoo, who was head of new initiatives, and Siddharth Jhawar, the erstwhile vice-president and head of Int...

GitHub, a popular software development platform that hosts open-source projects is said to be blocked for some users in India. A domain used by the service to serve files and content from repositories to users all over the world, has seemingly been blocked in India. The block appears to be active for some users on ACT Fibernet broadband, while some Jio Fiber users are also facing issues with the URL as well. The block was spotted by users on Sunday, who tweeted about the website being inaccessible on the ACT Fibernet service. As a result of the blocked domain, affected users may have limited access to files used in open-source projects hosted on the platform for developers and GitHub users. Twitter user Arnav Gupta (Twitter: @championswimmer) first spotted the issue. In his tweet on Sunday, he enquired if http://raw.githubusercontent.com was blocked on ACT internet in Bangalore. Responses to his tweet indicate that the domain has been blocked on certain ISPs in the country. Gadgets...

The government has proposed a self-regulatory mechanism, mandatory verification of players and physical Indian address for online gaming companies, according to the draft online gaming rules published on Monday. Online gaming companies will be covered under the new IT rules that were issued in 2021 for social media platforms. The online gaming platforms are expected to comply with the laws of the land, including any such law that relates to gambling or betting or the age at which an individual is competent to enter into a contract. "The draft amendments are aimed at addressing the said need while enabling the growth of the online gaming industry in a responsible manner," the notice said. The draft amendments envisage that an online gaming intermediary will observe the due diligence required under the rules, "including reasonable efforts to cause its users not to host, display, upload, publish, transmit or share an online game not in conformity with Indian law, includ...

Troops battle through burning streets. Missiles take down fighter jets. Drones pulverize tanks. The dramatic visuals have the trappings of real-life combat, but they are clips from video games fuelling misinformation. Footage from the war-themed Arma 3 video game, often marked "live" or "breaking news" to make it appear genuine, has been used repeatedly in recent months in fake videos about the Russian offensive in Ukraine. The frequency and ease with which gaming footage is mistaken as real, even by some media broadcasters, and shared as authentic news on social media highlight what researchers call its serious potential to spread misinformation. "The fact that it keeps happening is a reminder of how easy it is to fool people," Claire Wardle, co-director of the Information Futures Lab at Brown University, told AFP. "As video game visuals get more sophisticated, CGI (computer-generated imagery) can, at a quick glance, look real. People need to k...