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San Francisco, Aug 1 (IANS) Google is working on ‘supercharged’ Assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, similar to those that power ChatGPT and Bard.”Since we launched Assistant seven years ago, we’ve built great experiences for the hundreds of millions of people who use it every month. And we’ve heard people’s strong desire for assistive, conversational technology that can improve their lives,” the tech giant said in an internal email sent to employees on Monday, seen by Axios.”We’ve also seen the profound potential of generative AI to transform people’s lives and see a huge opportunity to explore what a…

San Francisco, Aug 1 (IANS) The big X logo on the Elon Musk-run company’s San Francisco headquarters has been taken down due to multiple complaints.Last week, the company had put a huge X logo on its headquarters in the city which emitted strong lights throughout the night.On Monday, CNBC saw workers dismantling the glowing X, removing its lights and an arm of the letter, after receiving complaints from nearby residents and city officials.The sign was taken down from the roof by 1:00 p.m.According to a spokesman, San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspections received 24 complaints.The complaints stated that the sign…

Sources told IANS that fishermen had informed the Tamil Nadu coastal police about the presence of refugees near the shores of Dhanushkodi. Police arrived and said the couple, along with their two children, had reached the Indian coast to escape from the crisis in Lanka.After the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, the number of refugees who have reached Tamil Nadu has touched 270.The family was taken to the refugee camp near Dhanushkodi. It is to be noted that Sri Lanka is reeling under an economic crisis and the present government led by Ranil Wickramasinghe has been taking measures, including availing…

According to the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the 45-year-old accused, who was arrested in August 2022, carried out the crimes at 10 childcare centres in Queensland, and one each in New South Wales and an unnamed overseas country, the BBC reported.The AFP said that the man targeted young girls over a 15-year period.He is facing 246 counts of rape and 673 counts of indecent assault against children — many of them in aggravated circumstances.The charges carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.He also faces hundreds of charges for filming and distributing child abuse material.Police have found 4,000 images and videos…

The deceased have been identified as Ganesh (32) and Vinod (36).Police said that Vinod has at least 50 criminal cases, including 10 murder cases against him. His accomplice, Ramesh had 20 criminal cases and seven murder charges against him.Sources in Guduvanchery police in Chennai told IANS that a police team, which was on a patrol, intercepted a car at early morning hours at Guduvanchery. Police said that there were four people in the car and during checking, they opened fire against the police.Police team retorted, killing Ganesh and Vinod instantly.It may be noted that after the DMK government came to…

Heart and his three crypto securities — Hex, PulseChain, and PulseX — have been charged with conducting unregistered offerings of crypto asset securities that raised more than $1 billion in crypto assets from investors.“Heart called on investors to buy crypto asset securities in offerings that he failed to register. He then defrauded those investors by spending some of their crypto assets on exorbitant luxury goods,” Eric Werner, Director of the Fort Worth Regional Office said in a statement.“This action seeks to protect the investing public and hold Heart accountable for his actions,” he added.According to the SEC’s complaint, Heart began…

The weatherman has predicted a generally cloudy sky with the maximum temperature expected to hover around 36 degrees. The relative humidity at 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday morning was recorded at 79 per cent. Meanwhile, the IMD has predicted that heavy to very heavy rainfall activity is likely to continue over east and east central India during next three days, while an increase in rainfall activity is expected over northwest India during Wednesday and Thursday. Uttarakhand and East Uttar Pradesh are expected to experience light to moderate scattered to fairly widespread rainfall for coming four days. Haryana and West Uttar Pradesh…

In an official communication, Congress General Secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal said: “Congress President (Mallikarjun Kharge) has approved the proposal for the constitution of the campaign committee for ensuing Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh with immediate effect.”The other members of the committee are Govind Singh, Suresh Pachauri, Arun Yadav, Ajay Singh Rahul, Vivek Tankha, Rajmani Patel, Nakul Nath, Sajjan Singh Verma, N.P. Prajapati, K.P. Singh Kakkajoo, Lakshman Singh, Bala Bacchan, Tarun Bhanot, Omkar Singh Markam, Vijaylaxmi Sadho, Rajendra Singh, Hina Kaware, Lakhan Singh Yadav, Sukhdeo Panse, Jitu Patwari, Kamleshwar Patel, Surendra Singh Honey Baghel, Ramniwas Rawat, Surendra Chaudhary, Arif Masood, Mahendra…

Curchorem fire station personnel, told IANS, said that search for the car’s driver, who went missing after the incident took place on Monday evening, has begun again this morning.“Last night we tried to search for the third person who was driving the car. But could not trace him. Now since early morning we have started a search operation and are trying to trace him,” he said.“We could trace the body of the mother and her two-year-old son soon after the incident,” he added. Their bodies were found in the car after it was retrieved from the river bed with the…

Officials said since this year’s Amarnath Yatra which started on July 1, so far over 3.97 lakh have had ‘darshan’ inside the holy cave.Thirty six pilgrims have died during the Yatra so far.“A batch of 1,006 Yatris, including 749 male, 215 female, two children, 37 Sadhus and three Sadhvis left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu in an escorted convoy for the Valley today morning,” officials said.Pilgrims approach the Himalayan cave shrine either from the traditional south Kashmir Pahalgam route, which involves an uphill trek of 43 kilometres from Pahalgam base camp or from the north Kashmir Baltal base camp,…