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Bharat Web3 Association Names Ex-FICCI Secretary-General Dilip Chenoy as Chairman

The Bharat Web3 Association (BWA), on Monday, March 9, announced the appointment of its first chairperson four months after its formation in November 2022. Dilip Chenoy will now spearhead the plans and initiatives that will be backed or opposed by India's crypto advocacy body. Prior to this appointment, Chenoy has been part of several national industry bodies and helped in shaping up their business policies. The announcement, unmissably, comes in the backdrop of India hosting the annual G20 meetings this year and addressing several topics around crypto. Chenoy, 64, as part of his new responsibilities, will be working with relevant authorities to foster the development of Web3 in India. Previously, he served as the Secretary-General for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), as well as the Deputy Director General of the Confederation of Indian Industr

Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Pro Will Reportedly Bring Back Physical Rotating Bezel: Details

Samsung launched the Galaxy Watch 5 series in August 2022 and now it is reportedly planning to bring the next generation of its smartwatch series later this year. While the company is yet to reveal any details on the Galaxy Watch 6 series, a tipster suggests that the upcoming Galaxy Watch 6 Pro would come with the physical rotating bezel that was missing on Galaxy Watch 5. However, the Galaxy Watch 6 standard model is said to continue using the current design with digital rotating bezels. According to Korean tipster and YouTuber Super Roader, Samsung will bring back the physical rotating bezels on its upcoming Galaxy Watch 6 Pro. The feature was available on the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic, however, the company ditched it with the launch of the Galaxy Watch 5 and introduced a digital bezel. Now, the company is said to be planning to bring it back, however, it will be limited to the purported Galaxy Watch 6 Pro only. The standard Galaxy Watch 6 will continue with the digital bezel. Not

Twitter Rival Koo Integrates ChatGPT to Help Users Draft Posts; Feature to Roll Out to Verified Accounts First

Koo, an India-based social media app that aims to rival Twitter, has integrated OpenAI's ChatGPT to help users more easily create posts, the company's co-founder told Reuters. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence bot that can create prose in response to prompts and has set off a tech industry craze over generative AI . Koo users will be able to use ChatGPT directly within the app to help them draft posts about current events, politics or pop culture, said Mayank Bidawatka, co-founder of Koo, in an interview. "This will help creators get inspiration on what to create," he said. "They could ask (ChatGPT) for the trending news in their region and then write their thoughts." Last month, tech giants Microsoft and Alphabet's Google each announced their own generative AI chatbots which can synthesize information across the web in response to searches. Snap Inc, which owns photo messaging app Snapchat, also introduced a chatbot that was trained to have

Samsung Faces New Controversy Around Moon Photos Captured With Space Zoom Feature: Details

Samsung has been accused of misleading users over the Space Zoom feature on recent Galaxy S series smartphones that supports capturing high resolution images of the Moon. The feature was first added to the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, and has featured on all of the company's subsequent 'Ultra' models. However, a user has claimed that the South Korean company has misrepresented the feature and how it works while marketing the smartphone's capabilities. In a post shared on Reddit on Saturday, user Doktor Bülder (Reddit, Instagram: ibreakphotos) refers to an MSPoweruser  article from 2021 that claims that Samsung was artificially enhancing images clicked using the 100x Space Zoom feature on the Galaxy S21 Ultra . The Reddit user claims to have tested the feature on a digital image of the Moon, indicating that Samsung's Space Zoom feature adds details to blurry images that were extremely blurred or not visible. The post currently has over 10,000 upvotes and has received

CJI Highlights Role of Technology, Smart Court Initiatives in Making Judicial System More Accessible

Eighteenth meeting of Chief Justices and Chairpersons of the Supreme Courts of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States was held here under the Presidency of Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud on 10 and 11 March. The aim was to foster effective judicial cooperation among the Member States. It was a two-day Joint interaction session wherein all SCO member states, two observer states (the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Belarus), the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure (RATS) and the SCO Secretariat had taken part physically except Pakistan who joined through video conference. On March 10, a Joint Interaction Session was held which included a brief description of the Judicial System followed in SCO Member and Observer states, as well as the challenges faced and measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. The speakers included CJI DY Chandrachud, Kazakhastan SC Chairman Aslambek Mergaliyev, Vice President of SC of China Jinghong Gao, Kyrgyz Republic