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San Francisco, Aug 23 (IANS) Microsoft is reportedly working to bring new artificial intelligence (AI) features to applications like Paint and Photos on Windows 11.For the Photos app, the tech giant is developing an AI feature that would let the app recognise individuals or objects in pictures and enable users to copy and paste those parts in other places, reports Windows Central.According to the sources, the company wants to integrate optical character recognition (OCR) technology in the Snipping Tool to enable Windows to identify text in screenshots for faster clipboard copying.Also, the company is expected to bring OCR to the…

New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) Hyperlocal e-commerce venture magicpin has pledged to change its 50-feet office sign if Chandrayaan-3 successfully touches down on the lunar surface.The company will replace its 50-foot “magicpin” sign with a “magicISRO” sign at its IFFCO Chowk location in Gurugram, if Chandrayaan 3 successfully make its mark on the moon today.”If Chandrayaan lands on the moon we’ll change our 50 FOOT Office Sign from magicpin to magicISRO @ IFFCO chowk Gurgaon. QT & tell us what you’ll do if Chandrayaan 3 lands on the moon and WIN Food & Fashion GOODIES AT 1/10th THE COST, just…

“Swift corrective action followed as the tower controller promptly directed the Delhi-Bagdogra flight to abort its take-off,” said an official.The incident occurred on Wednesday morning.The take-off was swiftly cancelled following directives from the Air Traffic Control (ATC), however, sources, who did not wish to be named, told IANS other story. The incident involved Flight UK725 en route from Delhi to Bagdogra, initiating take-off from a recently inaugurated runway, while a Vistara flight travelling from Ahmedabad to Delhi was concluding its landing on a parallel runway, moving towards the runway’s end. “It was around 8:30 a.m, when the incident was reported.…

Rauf’s haul of five for 18 which helped dismiss Afghanistan for just 59 in 19.2 overs in reply to Pakistan’s total of 201, has lifted him seven places and past his previous best 42nd position attained in May this year to a career-best 36th position.Rahman, who has enjoyed a career-best ranking of second in the past, has advanced three places to third position after returning figures of 3-33, while his teammate Mohammad Nabi is now at 11th place in the list where Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood is at pole position.Pakistan’s left-handed opener Imam-ul-Haq, who top-scored in the match with 61…

However, PM Modi avoided stepping on the national flag and picked it up and kept it in his pocket. Seeing him do so, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, who was accompanying him to the dias, picked up the South African flag and gave it to an aide.When the aide asked PM Modi to hand over the flag, the Prime Minister chose to keep it in his pocket.–IANSans/pgh

Both leaders reviewed the progress made in bilateral relations between the two countries and expressed satisfaction at the progress achieved in various fields including defence, agriculture, trade and investment, health, conservation and people to people ties, official sources said.They also exchanged views on continued coordination in multilateral bodies and regional and multilateral issues of mutual interest.President Ramaphosa expressed full support for India’s G20 presidency and appreciated India’s initiative for giving the African Union full membership of G20.He conveyed that he looked forward to visiting New Delhi for the G20 Summit.Modi congratulated Ramaphosa on the successful hosting of the BRICS summit.He…

Aditya Babbar, Senior Director, Mobile Business, Samsung India, told IANS that not just urban centres but the response for Galaxy Fold5 and Flip5 from tier 2, 3 and even tier 4 cities has been overwhelming this year, signalling that the Galaxy premium devices are becoming mainstream in the country.“Numbers speak the truth. The response from ‘Bharat’ for our ultra-premium devices, thanks to the 24-month EMI scheme, has been amazing. We are growing faster pan-India in the premium and ultra-premium segment than ever before,” Babbar emphasised.Faster availability in tier 2, 3 and even 4 cities, the unique 24-month EMI scheme and…

Advocating the creation of a common currency for cross-border trade between BRICS nations without affecting national currencies, Lula da Silva said at the BRICS Business Forum Leaders’ Dialogue that an alternative to the US dollar needs to be found in the international market, Xinhua news agency reported.The common currency would be used to facilitate trade between the emerging nations, he said on Tuesday.”We want BRICS to be a multilateral institution, not an exclusive club,” Lula da Silva said. “We just want to organise ourselves.”In April, he proposed possibly creating a common regional currency or similar mechanism to reduce reliance on…

Volumes on the NSE was higher than the previous two days. The broad market indices rose more than the Nifty even as the advance decline ratio remained firm at 1.47:1, said Deepak Jasani, Head of Retail Research at HDFC Securities.The Indian market recovered after long consolidation, as mostly the push came from the banking sector, Choice Broking said in a note.Bank Nifty advanced 1.10 per cent to settle at 44,479.05. NSE mid-cap and small-cap convincingly moved on the higher side as well. While maximum sectors ended in green, Nifty Energy and FMCG ended by half of per cent.Vinod Nair, Head…

From Congress, senior leaders like Gurdeep Singh Sappal, Syed Naseer Hussain arrived in Mumbai to hold a meeting with the party leaders to discuss the preparations of the INDIA alliance’s third meeting.The party sources said that the meeting is to take stock of the preparation for the meeting.The third meeting of the bloc is being hosted jointly by the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the NCP’s Sharad Pawar faction, with support from the Congress — the three constituents of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance. The MVA constituents had been holding parleys to schedule the meeting.The third meeting is said to be…