Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
Facebook Prophet falls out of favour
Forecasting is a game of relatives, not absolutes.
Pritam Bordoloi ·
Will Google drop TensorFlow?
Meta AI released PyTorch, an open-source machine learning platform, in 2016.
Zinnia Banerjee ·
MS Word is playing catch up with Google Docs
Microsoft launched MS Word Online in 2020.
Pritam Bordoloi ·
Amazon Prime video: The little search engine that couldn't
In 2019, Amazon Prime had 65,504 distinct titles on its platform, compared to Netflix’s 7,177.
Pritam Bordoloi ·
Apple finally embraces open source
Apple introduced its first Neural Engine in September 2017.
Pritam Bordoloi ·
The real implications of Amazon stock split
Amazon has undergone four stock splits since the company was founded on July 5, 1994.
kartik.wali ·
ChatGPT: Why Stack Overflow Banned the Celebrated OpenAI Chatbot
Ever since ChatGPT entered the scene, the site has seen an influx of ‘correct-looking’ answers which are not actually correct
Anirudh VK ·
Why big tech firms are making a beeline for Hyderabad?
Telangana government announced an MoU with Microsoft to develop the local ecosystem through startup programmes and skilling initiatives.
Avi Gopani ·
Meta gives away its language model for free
Access to the model will be granted to academic researchers; those affiliated with organisations in the government, civil society, and academia; along with industry research laboratories around the world.
Sreejani Bhattacharyya ·
GitHub takes India very seriously
10 million developers from India will join GitHub by 2023.
Sreejani Bhattacharyya ·
Microsoft never doubled salaries but employees are happy
Is Microsoft’s news of increasing budget generosity or an attempt to retain talent?
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Google’s new attempt to address bias complaints
Monk, an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard, said that the number of colours on the scale had been devised by him after a decade of research with skin tones.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Did Google just demo a successor to Google Glass?
Sundar Pichai talked about how Google is heavily invested in AR and hinted that Google is working on something which looked very similar in intention to Google Glass.
Sreejani Bhattacharyya ·
This step by Google just made its tensor chip so ‘important’
Google said that the tensor’s CPU performance was 80 per cent faster than the Snapdragon 765G from Pixel 5, while the GPU performance was faster by 370 per cent.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Google I/O: What’s new for developers?
The SDKs provide native APIs for all of the essential AR features like motion tracking, environmental understanding, and light estimation.
kartik.wali ·
Intel reveals Gaudi 2 AI training engine to challenge NVIDIA
The new Gaudi2 and Greco processors are purpose-built for AI deep learning applications, implemented in 7-nanometer technology and manufactured on Habana's high-efficiency architecture.
Sreejani Bhattacharyya ·
Protected Computing, password-free future, virtual credit cards and other privacy announcements at Google I/O
Protected Computing will allow users to remove personally identifiable information from Google Search results.
Avi Gopani ·
Another Product Joins the Google Graveyard
More apps have joined the Google Graveyard, what’s the reason?
Anirudh VK ·
2021 was a lie; the Metaverse doesn't exist yet
For now, the Metaverse's offerings are as good as a mere rebranding of popular platforms.
Avi Gopani ·
Google Lens’ AI Factor
“All of Google was built because we started understanding text and web pages. So the fact that computers can understand images and videos has profound implications for our core mission”.
Shraddha Goled ·