Google Restricts AI Use for India Election

Google is also working with the Election Commission of India to enable people to easily discover critical voting information on its search platform -- like, how to register and how to vote -- in......

Deepfakes And The Threat To 2024 Elections

If left unchecked, the 2024 elections may be infamously remembered as the election of deepfakes. The ECI has a tough task ahead, but, more importantly, it has an opportunity to become a global......

Why Deepfakes Are A MENACE

'With free software on the Internet and apps, creating a deepfake video can take 3 to 5 minutes. Anyone can make these videos.' IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for......

Deepfakes a threat to democracy, will clamp down, says govt

The government is planning new regulations that may impose penalties on both the creator and the platform hosting deepfakes, as it looks to clamp down on what IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini......

Is the NFT phenomenon a bubble? Or a new beginning?

Non-Fungible Tokens are unique crypto codes driving collectors of art and music. Devangshu Datta traces the history of NFTs. IMAGE: Non-fungible token is a new type of digital asset that has......

Apple's business in India still quite low relative to size of opportunity: Tim Cook

Apple CEO Tim Cook has said the company's share in India “is quite low relative to the size of the opportunity” and setting up retail stores in the future in the country will be a great......

How can Modi rescue the economy?

The government may have to resort, eventually and however unwillingly, to printing money, abandoned as policy and practice in the 1990, predicts T N Ninan. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The......

Plan to open a bank account? V-KYC will make it lot easy

Physical KYC takes anywhere between two to five working days to get done, V-KYC, only a few minutes. Soon, you may be able to open a bank account within minutes. With the Reserve Bank of India......

Despite leak, Udta Punjab makes Rs 10 crore on opening day

The film marks the second-most successful opening for leading man Shahid Kapoor after Shaandaar.Urvi Malvania reports. Controversy over its certification and leaked online prints failed to ground......

Udta Punjab, worst casting decisions, and naheeee...!

Sukanya Verma shares her exciting filmi week with us. It's like Audrey Hepburn said, 'Everything I learned, I learned from the movies.' I wouldn't go that far but every film, good or ghastly,......

Justin Bieber to play new Robin in Batman vs Superman?

Justin Bieber, by posting a script of Batman vs Superman, has sparked rumours that he may be joining the cast of the upcoming Man of Steel sequel. The script’s image has the iconic......

Sukanya Verma reviews Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara

Milan Luthria's Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara is a complete drag, unintentionally comical and painfully verbose unlike the prequel which hit quite a few right notes, notes Sukanya Verma Post......

Wimbledon: Serena looks to build momentum; Djokovic eases into third round

IMAGE: Serena Williams reacts during her match against Giulia Gatto-Monticone. Photograph: Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports /Reuters Seven-time champion Serena Williams endured an unlikely scrap in......

Soccer PIX: Madrid held; title homecoming awaits Barcelona

IMAGE:  Real Madrid's Karim Benzema shoots at goal. Photograph: Sergio Perez/Reuters Real Madrid dropped points for the third time in seven games since Zinedine Zidane's return as they were......

Kohli named ICC Cricketer of the Year

The India captain was also named the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year and captain of the ICC Test and ODI teams of the year. India captain Virat Kohli received the Sir Garfield Trophy for......

Jayawardene to follow Sangakkara out of SL T20 team after World C'ships

Sri Lankan batting great Mahela Jayawardene will retire from Twenty20 Internationals after the end of the ongoing T20 World Cup in Bangladesh. - Sangakkara to retire from T20s after World......

2006 a mixed bag for Indian sports

Below-par shows in most of the crowd-puller team games notwithstanding, a slew of heroic individual performances and fairy tale successes of the shooters made 2006 a year to cherish in Indian......