Education on technology

Social media company Twitter on Wednesday informed the High Court of Karnataka that its petition challenging the various takedown orders of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) was maintainable, as the concept of reasonableness in Article 19 of the Constitution of India pertaining to Freedom of Speech was applicable to it. Advocate Manu Kulkarni, appearing for Twitter, submitted to the single-judge bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit that the Supreme Court in the 'Shreya Singhal case' had interpreted that Section 69A of the Information Technology Act incorporated Article 19 of the Constitution. I have my office in Bengaluru and services are provided in India, so I am carrying on business in India," he argued. The high court on Monday asked the Central government and Twitter to clarify the issue of how Indian entities would be treated in the US and foreign jurisdictions on such issues. On Wednesday Twitter informed the high court that under Arti...

Truecaller today launched a new service for iPhone users in India called live caller ID. This function, as the name implies, reveals to the user, the identity of the caller on the screen. The Stockholm-based firm has around 38 million users. On Android phones, if users receive an unknown call from someone, Truecaller displays the caller's identity on the calling screen immediately. Things function differently on the iPhone. When getting a call from an unknown number on an iOS device, users must activate Siri to learn the caller ID. They must say, ‘Hey Siri, Search Truecaller,' and Siri will display the user's live caller ID. The Live Caller ID is a premium feature on the Truecaller app and iPhone users will need to buy a premium subscription to use this feature. In India, TrueCaller offers two subscription tiers — Premium and Gold Premium. An individual member's premium subscription costs Rs. 529 per year or Rs. 179 for three months, whilst a Gold plan costs Rs. 5,000...

Artificial Intelligence is becoming more prevalent in our daily lives. While these technologies primarily assist us, they may sometimes be utilised in negative ways, such as in fraudulent or scam calls, thus we must be able to recognise them. According to a recent Baycrest study, older persons tend to be less capable than their younger counterparts to distinguish between computer-generated (AI) speech and human speech. "Findings from this study on computer-generated AI speech suggest that older adults may be at a higher risk of being taken advantage of," says Dr. Bjorn Herrmann, Baycrest's Canada Research Chair in Auditory Aging, Scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and lead author of this study. "While this area of research is still in its infancy, further findings could lead to the development of training programs for older adults to help them navigate these challenges." In this study, which was the first to examine AI speech recognition i...

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has scheduled a trip to open the iPhone maker's first stores in India next week, underscoring the company's ambitions for the country as a growth market and manufacturing base. Cook is likely to preside over the opening of the twin outlets in India's financial and political capital, people familiar with the matter said, asking to remain anonymous discussing private plans. Apple said Tuesday it'll open a store in Mumbai on April 18 and another in New Delhi on April 20. The trip comes seven years after the CEO's maiden visit in 2016 and coincides with the world's most valuable company hitting important markers: India sales of iPhones reaching all-time high and annual iPhone export from the country reaching billions of dollars. Apple is betting on India to diversify its assembly operations beyond China amid strained Beijing-Washington relations. Cook is set to open Apple's first India store inside an upscale mall in M...

A US appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit alleging HP Inc defrauded shareholders by secretly using unprofitable tactics to boost sales of its printing supplies in 2015 and 2016. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a judge's ruling dismissing the lawsuit as filed too late. Investors say they did not discover the alleged fraud until the US Securities and Exchange Commission fined HP $6 million (roughly Rs. 49 crores) over its sales practice disclosures in September 2020. Darren Robbins, an attorney for the pension fund leading the case, said the opinion will help investors. "By their very nature, misrepresentations inhibit investors from discovering corporate misconduct," he said. A spokesperson for HP did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The SEC said in 2020 that some HP regional managers used incentives to accelerate sales they expected to materialize in later quarters. It also said sales managers sold steeply discounted supplies to dis...

South Korea's antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet's Google KRW 42.1 billion ($31.88 million, roughly Rs. 262 crore) for blocking the release of mobile video games on a competitor's platform. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Tuesday that Google bolstered its market dominance, and hurt the local app market One Store's revenue and value as a platform, by requiring video game makers to exclusively release their titles on Google Play in exchange for providing in-app exposure between June 2016 and April 2018.  Google said it will review the final decision by the KFTC to evaluate the next course of action. "Google makes substantial investments in the success of developers, and we respectfully disagree with the KFTC's conclusions", a spokesperson said. The KFTC said the move against the US technology giant is part of efforts by the government to ensure fair markets. Game makers affected by Google's action include Netmarble, Nexon, and ...