Author: Adarsh

As Meta AI collaborated with UP police to prevent yet another attempted suicide, Adarsh takes you through all the details… Since January 2023, Meta – the parent company of Instagram and Facebook – has been using its AI feature and working with Uttar Pradesh police in a bid to prevent suicides. In the latest such episode, Meta’s AI teamed up with UP police to prevent the suicide of a 21-year-old woman in Lucknow. How her Life was Saved It all started when the woman – a resident from a small village on Sultanpur Road in Lucknow – posted a video…

As Meta introduces its artificial intelligence feature on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook in India, Adarsh gives you the download…. As far as Mark Zuckerberg and Meta were concerned, they wanted users to stop switching to ChatGPT or Gemini whenever they were on WhatsApp or Instagram. So, they came up with a solution. They decided to introduce artificial intelligence directly on their apps. At the Meta Connect in 2023, they launched Meta AI on all three apps: WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. Built on their Llama 3 technology, it has been expanding globally since April 2024 and at long last has been…

With all kinds of online frauds on the rise these days, Adarsh gives you all the tips you need to know to keep your UPI secure…. The National Payments Cooperation of India (NPCI) created the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), an instant payment system, to simplify payments in India. And true to expectations, it has become immensely popular in our country as it has indeed simplified online payments. But the flip side is that it has also led to a lot of online scams and frauds with miscreants coming up with devious ways to steal your money. However, you can protect…

After a 2-month-long delay due to copyright issues, the highly anticipated feature is now live for select ChatGPT Plus users…. Remember the 2013-movie ‘Her’ starring Joaquin Phoenix? The story revolves around a lonely, introverted man going through a painful divorce. In a bid to fight loneliness, he purchases an advanced operating system that would evolve and adapt to the user’s needs. The OS – called Samantha with a voiceover by Scarlett Johansson – is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence. During his conversations, Phoenix’s character Theodore Twombly develops an emotional bond with Samantha and eventually falls in love with her. Image…

Adarsh tells you all about the most common online scams that are doing the rounds these days…. How about we start with some numbers to drive the message home? A whopping ₹1,750 crores was lost to cyber criminals in India in the first four months of 2024 alone. Over7,40,000 cyber crime complaints were reported on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal in the same period. According to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), 7,000 cybercrime complaints were registered per day in May 2024, a number that has jumped 113.7% between 2021-2023 and 60.9% from 2022-2023. 85% of these reported crimes…

In a world where misinformation and fake videos are rampant, Adarsh gives you tips on how to spot a deepfake…. These days, there seems to be a deepfake video of every single celebrity out there. Industrialist Narayana Murthy was forced to post on X recently that a widely circulating video was not actually his. Ratan Tata also fell prey to a similar video. Bollywood actors Alia Bhatt and Priyanka Chopra were also in the news recently after videos of ‘them’ started doing the rounds. Rashmika Mandhana also posted on X to clarify that a video believed to be hers was…

In the age of automation, Adarsh explores whether artificial intelligence is the cause of increased loneliness or whether it can be the solution to the problem…. These days people seem to be using AI for everything. From being someone’s financial advisor to a personal assistant to giving legal counsel as well as assisting with education, artificial intelligence has been lending a helping hand to humans in almost every avenue. And now, while this saves time and increases efficiency, it comes at a cost. This also means the lack of human interaction. While we turn to technology for all our needs,…

The new Solos AirGo Vision that lets you asks questions about people and places you’re looking at through the glasses. Remember how Tony Stark used to talk to Jarvis and identify things he was looking at through his visor? Well, going by the latest updates in eyewear technology, that future might not be too far away. Launched as a rival to Ray Ban’s Meta Glasses, Solos has unveiled their AirGo Visions 3 which comes integrated with OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model. Image Credit: Facebook / Solos Smartglasses How It Works The AirGo Vision comes integrated with ChatGPT so it can be…

In a world where WFH and hybrid models are preferred, Adarsh explores how corporates are trying to bring employees back to the office…. Teena wasn’t very excited when Covid-19 protocol meant she would have to work from home in 2020. But fast forward four years, she is settled into a life of working from the comforts of home. She dreads the day she will have to go back to office. Raghav and Ira struggled to find time for each other because of their contrasting work schedules. But ever since they switched to a hybrid mode of working, they balance life…

Active for almost 50 years since its launch in 1977, Voyager 1 – the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space – is not doing well. Adarsh explains what’s going on…. NASA launched Voyager 1 from the Kennedy Space Cater in Florida in 1977, along with its sister craft Voyager 2. These two are the longest-serving, nonpassive spacecrafts in existence. They are part of an elite fleet of five probes that are on trajectories that will take them out of the solar system, never to return. But since November of 2023, Voyager 1 has been sending incomprehensible messages back to…