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The AI-generated image of an explosion at Pentagon that appeared on several verified Twitter accounts has once again put Twitter's paid verification programme in question that allows anyone to pay $8 a month and get the verified Blue tick.   Several media outlets and millions of...

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A bug in Twitter is apparently restoring deleted tweets and retweets for hundreds of users who have no clue about it and the micro-blogging platform was yet to admit the issue and issue a fix, the media reported on Monday.   Users are reporting that tweets they mass-deleted are...

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When we use illustrations and pictures in our projects / presentations, we normally pick up royalty-free images from the Web. These images can just be re-sized and rotated before use. Blush goes the extra mile. You can easily create and customise stunning illustrations with collections made...

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We have all used Adobe Acrobat Reader which is the industry standard for reading PDF files. Often, it is slow to open and heavy to use.   SumatraPDFReader is extremely quick and opens instantly. It is small, fast, customisable and free. Apart from PDF, it also supports various other...

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Very often, viruses enter our system through attachments received in emails. Most of the time, if you have a strong, paid anti-virus tool installed, it will prevent the virus from opening and spreading. However, each anti-virus tool has its own limitations—what is caught by one anti-virus...

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US Vice President Kamala Harris has told top Big Tech CEOs, including Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (ChatGPT fame), that the private sector has an ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and...

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Whenever we are in the Windows file manager, we have an option to preview our files in the right pane. This is a very useful feature of Windows, but is extremely slow, at times. More so, if you are previewing multiple file formats in quick succession.   QuickLook is a simple app that...

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This is a simple app made for cooperative housing societies (CHS).   It has the provisions of law for CHS, listed serially. You will find the relevant provisions, circulars and case laws, in some cases. This could provide a quick reference point for looking up various provisions right...

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Grain is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered meeting recording for all teams. It automates note-taking, record-keeping and insight capture from every conversation online. It can connect to Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and virtually any other online platform.   Grain allows...

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The income-tax (I-T) department has launched a mobile app for taxpayers to view their individual annual information statement (AIS). As you may be aware, AIS presents to you TDS/TCS (tax deducted at source/tax collected at source) information, statement of financial transaction (SFT)...

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Many a time, we visit a web page which we would like to print and preserve for future reference. When we try to print any web page, you will notice that we get a lot of junk, advertisements and distortions. To avoid getting a jumbled page in print, just head to printfriendly.com  

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Miriam Fozia Rahman (The Leaflet) 28 March 2023
Results obtained from ChatGPT are often riddled with errors and sometimes outright falsehoods. Additionally, employees may share proprietary, confidential, or trade secret information when engaging in ‘conversations’ with it. —- Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential...

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Whenever we visit a new website, the website asks us whether we would like to allow cookies. Some websites will not even take No for an answer; they will insist that you allow cookies, before they allow you to enter. This repeated questioning can get irritating. Most of the time, we allow...

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If you are a regular shopper on Amazon, it may be a good idea to track price changes for any product you desire. Just install this extension on your Chrome browser and whenever you visit Amazon, select a product and scroll down a bit, you will be able to see the price history of that product....

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We have all got used to using WhatsApp Web on our computers – it is such a breeze to handle! WhatsApp Web Plus extension for Chrome enhances the utility of WhatsApp Web dramatically. Once installed and running, the WA Web Plus extension allows you to add more tools and options for WhatsApp...

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If you use Gmail and Google Calendar, you would be doing a lot of tab-jumping from Gmail to Google Calendar, especially when you are responding to emails. Even otherwise, when you are online and doing some intensive work, jumping to your calendar from time to time can be quite a...

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IANS 23 February 2023
A Mozilla study on Thursday claimed that in nearly 80 per cent of the apps reviewed on Google Play Store, it found the data privacy labels were false or misleading based on discrepancies between the apps' privacy policies and the information apps self-reported on Google's Data Safety...

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IANS 23 February 2023
US financial services major, JPMorgan Chase, has restricted employees from using ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, as the buzzy AI chatbot explodes in popularity.   The bank did not restrict the use of the popular artificial intelligence chatbot due to any specific incident. It was...

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IANS 20 February 2023
Inspired by Elon Musk-run Twitter, Meta on Sunday announced it is testing paid verification for Instagram and Facebook for $11.99 per month for the web and $14.99 per month for mobile.   Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that a "Meta Verified" account will grant users a...

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IANS 16 February 2023
Call it bizarre but the most expensive domain ever on Web, that was bought for $30 million, receives only 88,800 visitors per month while the third costliest Internet domain name has no registered monthly traffic, a report showed on Wednesday.   The voice.com website describes Voice...

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