Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
Google Just Stepped Up the Game for Text-to-Image AI
DreamBooth can understand the subject of the given image, separate it from the existing context in the image, and then synthesise it into a new desired context with high fidelity.
Mohit Pandey ·
3D Reconstruction Models Make Metaverse More Possible
RawNeRF’s noise reduction method when combined with the 3D scene gives a high-resolution output which is seamless when transitioning between angle and positions.
Mohit Pandey ·
Apple's Long Road to India
Apple to start making iPhone 14 series locally in India by Diwali.
tasmia.ansari ·
Another One Bites the Dust: Google Cloud to Shut Down Core IoT Service
If we were to consider the online trends, many users seem extremely frustrated at Google’s decision to shut its IoT Core business.
Shraddha Goled ·
Why China's Recent Crackdown on Tech Algorithms should bother us
Chinese IT giants have shared details of their 'prized algorithms' with the Cyberspace Administration of China.
tasmia.ansari ·
After Ruining Meta’s Business, Apple Now Wants to do More Ads
In 2021, Apple generated ad revenue of about $4 billion, up from an estimated $300 million in 2017.
Amit Naik ·
GPT can do Better Toxicity Detection; Atleast that’s what OpenAI Thinks
It will provide OpenAI API developers free access to GPT-based classifiers that can detect harmful content, OpenAI states in a blog post.
Sreejani Bhattacharyya ·
Techies are chilling, and bosses are not happy
"There are probably a bunch of people at the company who should not be working here," says Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg.
Amit Naik ·
NVIDIA Wants to Create a More Realistic Metaverse
The Metaverse without human-like representations or AI inside it will be a very dull and sad place
Pritam Bordoloi ·
Major announcements made at SIGGRAPH 2022
Various big tech companies announced new innovations, software developments and hardwares along with conferences and workshops for AI and Metaverse.
Mohit Pandey ·
Amazon will have the biggest personal data repository soon; and it’s not good news
Experts say that if governments seek access, having so much information about people in the hands of a single firm risks becoming a single point of failure for democracy
tausif.alam ·
Microsoft to Pump More Funds into OpenAI: What'll be the Implication?
OpenAI has had a close association with Microsoft in the past few years, one of the most significant ones being the latter’s investment of USD 1 billion in OpenAI
Shraddha Goled ·
Google Dons New Avatar in a Battle Against TikTok
TikTok’s seemingly sole Achilles heel is that it doesn’t really help its creators make money directly—unlike YouTube.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
ThoughtWorks Bats Thoughtfully, calls for Leveraging Tech Responsibly
Across the globe, there’s a lot of demand for data mesh, data platforms and modernising data ecosystems.
Zinnia Banerjee ·
What went wrong with Meta?
Many users have opted out of Facebook and other applications tracking their activities now that they must explicitly ask for permission.
Abhishree Choudhary ·
Finally something from Google in code completion
Google has described how the researchers have combined machine learning and semantic engines to develop a novel Transformer-based hybrid semantic ML code completion
Sreejani Bhattacharyya ·
NVIDIA wants to replicate CUDA success with Quantum Computing
Analogous to when CUDA opened up a new type of hardware and programming paradigm, we expect software builders to help develop an ecosystem of hybrid quantum applications running on top of QODA.
Amit Naik ·
Intel banks on chip making for a turnaround
Owing to Intel’s newfound ‘openness’, hyperscale cloud providers like AWS would be given access to their chip designs.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Highlights of Microsoft Inspire 2022
Microsoft to add 10 new data centres in 10 markets to deliver faster access to services and help address data residency needs.
tasmia.ansari ·
TikTok's Search Engine is becoming a threat for Google
TikTok’s ad revenue predicted to overtake YouTube by 2024.
Pritam Bordoloi ·