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The price of Bitcoin stood at $22,155 (roughly Rs. 18.2 lakh) on Wednesday on both national as well as international exchanges. The oldest cryptocurrency has been trading around $22,000 (roughly Rs. 18 lakh) for a few days. On Wednesday, Bitcoin recorded an 0.88 percent drop in its value. In terms of numbers, the price of the oldest and most widely used cryptocurrency fell by $301 (roughly Rs. 24,738) over the last 24 hours. BTC's market movement often sets the course for the performance of other cryptocurrencies. Ether , for instance, joined BTC as its value fell by 0.43 percent on Wednesday. ETH is trading at $1,560 (roughly Rs. 1.28 lakh), according to Gadgets 360's crypto price tracker . A group of popular cryptocurrencies has been seeing more losses than gains in recent days. These include Cardano , Polygon , Solana , Polkadot , and Litecoin . Both memecoins Dogecoin and Shiba Inu saw their values fall further on Wednesday, alongside Avalanche , Chainlink , and Cosmo...

Women in India are entering the technology sector in large numbers, while female-led startups from Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai have collectively raised $20.5 billion (roughly Rs. 1,63,645 crore) in industrial funding. On the other hand, women leading India's up-and-coming Web3 industry are celebrating a huge influx of female talent in the sector, in time for the 48th International Women's Day that is celebrated on March 8. There has been a strong sense of community and peer encouragement in modern India, that has added to the growth of women-led initiatives in Web3, as well as India's overall tech industry. While well-established technology sectors like gadgets and gaming in India have often been called out to resolve glaring gender gaps, the advent of Web3 offered a clean slate for the crypto sector. “Newer tech branches like Web3 have opened the door to learning and transitioning to technical and software roles. Non technical fields have been a key catalyst in incre...

Salesforce said on Tuesday it was working with ChatGPT creator OpenAI to add the chatbot sensation to its collaboration software Slack, as well as bring generative artificial intelligence to its business software generally. The San Francisco-based company said technology it is calling EinsteinGPT would combine its proprietary AI with that of outside partners, including OpenAI , to help businesses generate email drafts, customer-account information and computer code. ChatGPT also would integrate with Slack to help users summarise conversation threads and handle other queries. The move reflects a race among technology companies to outfit their tools with generative AI, which can create new text, imagery and other content based on inputs from past data. Microsoft , for instance, has announced that technology from OpenAI — a company in which it is investing — can generate meeting notes in its product Teams , as well as suggest email replies to vendors through its Viva Sales s...

What are the biggest web series and TV shows in March 2023? Naseeruddin Shah-led Taj: Divided by Blood leads the pack of new releases this month, alongside Rana Naidu, an Indian adaptation of the popular US drama Ray Donovan. The former is essentially a succession story set in the Mughal Dynasty, which sees King Akbar on a quest to hand over his legacy to one of his three sons. Taj: Divided by Blood is now available to stream on Zee5. Familial relationships appear to be a strong theme this month, as Rana Naidu's (Rana Daggubati) seemingly ideal routine is shaken up when his estranged father is released from prison. The series streams March 10 on Netflix. From the galaxy far, far away , we've got The Mandalorian season 3, where Pedro Pascal continues the theme of accompanying and protecting a child — Grogu/ Baby Yoda — and sets forth on a mission to the planet Mandalore in the hope of restoring his lost honour. Episode 1 is out now for streaming on Disney+ Hotstar , with new e...

Nubia Z50 Ultra was launched by the company on Tuesday. The ZTE sub-brand launched its Z50 smartphone back in December. The Nubia Z50 Ultra is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. The newly launched smartphone's unique hardware characteristics are its notch-free AMOLED display with ultra-slim bezels and an under-display camera (UDC) for selfies and video calls. The phone is also equipped with a 64-megapixel triple rear camera setup. It packs a 5,000mAh battery with 80W fast charging support. Nubia Z50 Ultra price, availability The standard Nubia Z50 Ultra is available in Black and Grey colour options. The phone is priced at CNY 3,999 (roughly Rs. 47,200) for the 8 GB + 256 GB variant, CNY 4,299 (roughly Rs. 50,600) for the 12 GB + 256 GB variant, and CNY 4,699 (roughly Rs. 55,500) for the 12 GB + 512 GB model. For the high-end 16 GB + 1 TB model, the Nubia Z50 Ultra is priced at CNY 5,999 (roughly Rs. 70,800). Meanwhile, the Nubia Z50 Ultra Starry Night Collector's Edit...

TwelveFold, the latest NFT collection from Yuga Labs, has garnered millions in sales soon after its launch earlier this week. Out of the 300 NFTs that were part of this series, 288 were purchased for $16.50 million (roughly Rs. 135 crore). Yuga Labs conducted a 24-hour auction to sell TwelveFold NFT pieces that wrapped up on March 6 and witnessed a total of 3,246 bids. The remaining twelve NFTs are to be delegated to contributors and will be used for Yuga Labs' philanthropic initiatives. Previously, all of Yuga Labs' collections, including the expensive Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs — were built on the Ethereum blockchain. The NFT pieces from this particular Yuga Labs' series however, are special because they are inscribed on Satoshis — the smallest units of the Bitcoin blockchain. Such NFTs are classified as Ordinals. This new technology of inscribing NFTs on Satoshis is relatively new, and there is no NFT marketplace that sells Ordinals . Despite earning a handso...

Meta will cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week in a fresh round of layoffs, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, only a few months after the Facebook-parent reduced more than 11,000 people from its workforce. The new round of job cuts is being driven by financial targets and is separate from the "flattening," the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. Meta declined to comment on the Bloomberg report when contacted by Reuters. Last month, the Washington Post newspaper had reported that Meta was planning to cut jobs in a reorganization and downsizing effort. According to the report Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors in February that last year's layoffs were "the beginning of our focus on efficiency and not the end." He said he would work on "flattening our org structure and removing some layers of middle management." Meta, at that time, declined to comment, but spokesperson Andy Stone in a series of tweets cited several prev...