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Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella on Thursday said the company seeks to build better tools for developers so they can build more technology and highlighted some of the ways in which Indian innovation is transforming the lives of people locally and globally. Addressing a gathering of developers, startups and technology leaders at the Microsoft Future Ready Technology summit in Bengaluru, Nadella highlighted the crucial role of the developer community in building innovative products and solutions that transform organisations across industries. He further reinforced the digital imperative for every organisation and how Microsoft Cloud creates opportunity for every developer with its rich set of technologies and platforms, empowering them to solve for India and make for the world, a release said. Nadella also called out the 100,000 Cloud skills and certifications earned by the community in the month of December 2022 on Microsoft Cloud. "Ultimately, for...

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research lab behind chatbot ChatGPT, is in talks to sell existing shares in a tender offer that would value the company at about $29 billion (roughly Rs. 2,39,700 crore), the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The report added that the deal is structured in a way in which venture capital firms Thrive Capital and Founders Fund will buy shares from existing shareholders such as employees. The deal would attract investment of at least $300 million (roughly Rs. 2,480 crore) in share sales, it added. Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk founded the research organisation with investor Sam Altman. Microsoft which invested $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,260 crore) in OpenAI in 2019, was working to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the AI behind the now viral ChatGPT , the Information reported on Tuesday. OpenAI's chatbot is a software application designed to mimic human-like conversation ...

The crypto price chart showed losses next to most cryptocurrencies on Friday, January 6. With a minor loss of 0.22 percent, Bitcoin opened trading at $16,848 (roughly Rs. 13.8 lakh). The asset traced a similar pricing trajectory on Binance and Coinbase among other international exchanges. In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin recorded a minor price hike of $32 (roughly Rs. 2,640). Out of BTC's pre-decided supply limit of 21 million tokens, 92 percent, making up for over 19 million tokens are already in circulation. Ether registered a loss of 0.41 percent. As per the crypto price tracker of Gadgets 360, ETH opened trading at the price point of $1,250 (roughly Rs. 1.03 lakh). Among other loss-making altcoins, Polygon , Litecoin , Solana , Tron , Uniswap , and Avalanche , marked their names. Stablecoins pegged against the US dollar like Tether , USD Coin , and Binance USD failed to grab any profits. After days of continuously seeing small gains, memecoins Shiba Inu and Dogecoin are s...

Sennheiser announced the Conversation Clear Plus earbuds on Thursday. These are not hearing aids, but wearable devices that assist people in understanding the conversations around them. The Conversation Clear Plus look and feels like true wireless earbuds, with advanced speech enhancement technology that Sennheiser claims sets a "new standard for speech-enhanced consumer wearables" in a busy restaurant or on a busy street. Though Sennheiser isn't technically at CES, it is releasing products in conjunction with the consumer electronics trade show, the most recent of which is a true wireless headset that helps improve the clarity of one's conversations. Sennheiser Conversation Clear Plus price One of the big promises with over-the-counter hearing aids was a substantial cost reduction. Typically, a set with an audiologist fitting would cost several thousand dollars. The Sennheiser Conversation Clear Plus costs $849.99 (roughly Rs. 70,100), and pre-orders begin on Janua...

Gigabyte Aorus 17X and Aorus 15X upgraded models were announced during Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2023) as the company's latest gaming laptops. They feature up to 240Hz refresh rate display and offer up to 64GB DDR5 memory. They come equipped with up to 13th Gen Intel i9 HX-series processors and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs. Gigabyte's updated laptops use the company's in-house Windforce cooling technology for thermal management. The Gigabyte Aorus 17X runs on Windows 11, while the Aorus 15X runs on Windows 11 Home/Pro. The laptops sport the latest connectivity options including Wi-Fi 6E and Thunderbolt 4. Details about pricing and availability of Gigabyte Aorus 17X and Aorus 15X are yet to be announced. Gigabyte Aorus 17X specifications As the name suggests, the Gigabyte Aorus 17X features a 17.3-inch display with QHD (1,440x2,560 pixels) resolution and up to 240Hz refresh rate. The display has TUV Rheinland certification for low blue light emission and i...

Cryptosat, a team of Stanford University's alumni and PhDs, have launched its second satellite in the Earth's orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk's SpaceX was used to complete the release of the ‘Crypto2' satellite. What makes this launch a significant development is because these satellites are aimed at powering cryptographic, blockchain and ledger applications. These satellites will provide blockchain nodes in space for scientists to communicate with. Cryptosat's first satellite was launched in May last year. SpaceX launched the Crypto2 satellite from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station located in Florida on January 3 as part of its Transporter 6 mission. “The launch of Crypto2 gives us more availability and more powerful spec to support the growing portfolio of use cases in our development pipeline,” Yonatan Winetraub, the co-founder of Cryptosat wrote in an official post. Pictures and video footages of the satellite launch has surfaced on Twitter. ...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Microsoft on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to fuel the growth of space technology start-ups in India. The MoU seeks to empower space tech start-ups across the country with technology tools and platforms, go-to-market support and mentoring to help them scale and become enterprise-ready. This collaboration has come at a time when Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella is in the city to take part in Microsoft Future Ready Technology Summit . The collaboration seeks to strengthen ISRO's vision of harnessing the market potential of the most promising space tech innovators and entrepreneurs in India, Microsoft said in a release. Through this tie-up, the space tech start-ups identified by ISRO will be onboarded onto the 'Microsoft for Start-ups Founders Hub platform', that supports start-ups at every stage of their journey from idea to unicorn, it said. Noting that through the hub, space-tech start-up foun...