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Hurrah, its World Gin Day!
Falling on the 12th of June, World Gin Day, gives you a reason to stay at home and make some delicious cocktails for a hot summer afternoon. IANSlife spoke to experts at Pernod Ricard for the best gin based cocktail recipes, so go ahead and…
Facebook makes its best tool available for better translation
In a bid to help build better translation systems, Facebook has open-sourced FLORES-101, a first-of-its-kind, many-to-many evaluation data set covering 101 languages from all over the world. For the first time, researchers will be able to…
Dorsey’s firm Square to invest $5M for solar-powered Bitcoin mining
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey-run financial services company Square is investing $5 million to build an open-source, solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility with blockchain technology provider Blockstream Mining. The facility will be a…
Govt’s ‘last’ notice to Twitter, warns of penal action
The Union Ministry of Electronics and IT has sent its final notice to Twitter over non-compliance of the new IT rules and has again warned of penal action in case the US-headquartered social media platform fails to comply to the norms. The…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey now plans a Bitcoin wallet
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced to consider making a hardware wallet for Bitcoin for the customers of its digital payments services company Square. The hardware wallet will be build entirely in the open, from software to hardware…
Twitter restores verified blue tick of Vice Prez’s personal handle
Microblogging social media site Twitter on Saturday removed the blue verified tick badge from the personal handle of India's Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu for a few hours. The blue tick badge was later restored after a few hours.…
Google to disable Advertising IDs for users who opt out of tracking
Google has announced to disable 'Advertising IDs' for users who opt out of tracking by Android apps, and will show developers a 'string of zeros' in its place, as the tech giant plans to give users more control over who can use and share…
Twitter reopens blue badge verification after a brief pause
Twitter on Wednesday reopened its blue badge verification programme after a brief pause, as it has been inundated with verification requests.Twitter on May 29 hit the pause button on its blue badge verification programme within a week of…
Google to use ‘patient data’ to develop healthcare algorithms
Google has collaborated with the US hospital chain HCA Healthcare to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records, the media reported.According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google will have access to patient records from HCA,…
Twitter Spaces now available on desktop, mobile web browsers
Twitter on Thursday announced its live audio conversation app Spaces is now available from desktop and mobile web browsers.Previously, the Clubhouse-like audio meet app, Spaces was only available via iOS and Android apps."Spaces are making…