EU antitrust regulators are asking industry participants if Google’s multi-year generative artificial intelligence (AI) deal with Samsung hinders rival chatbots on Samsung smartphones, according to an EU document seen by Reuters. The European Commission last month said it would send requests for information to better understand the effects of the deal which would see Samsung embed Google’s Gemini Nano in Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series smartphones. The move could help the EU antitrust enforcer build a case against the companies if it sees any anti-competitive practices.The questionnaire asked whether the pre-installation…
Month: July 2024
Trump supporter Sikh woman lawyer faces right-wingers’ online onslaught for reciting ‘ardas’ at RNC | Chandigarh News
Republican Party member and Sikh woman lawyer Harmeet Kaur Dhillon has been facing criticism from right-wingers online for reciting ‘ardas’ (Sikh prayer) on the stage on the closing of the first night of the four-day Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the US, Monday. An elected member of the Republican Party and a staunch vocal supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Dhillon posted a video of a content creator, Melonie Mac, who has more than 2 lakh followers on X, in which Mac could be heard making hateful…
Secret Service chief to testify to US Congressional panel on Trump’s assassination bid | World News
The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee will record the statements of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle as she has agreed to testify before the house panel for a hearing related to former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt. This development remains significant since a security nightmare happened in Pennsylvania last week when a shooter was able to access a rooftop with a direct line of sight of Republican nominee Donald Trump, who survived the shootout. The FBI is investigating the incident as an assassination attempt. The shooting has raised several…
17-yr-old boy ‘shoots dead uncle & aunt’ | Lucknow News
THE LUCKNOW police have detained a 17-year-old youth for allegedly shooting to death his maternal uncle and aunt and injuring their son amid a “family dispute” on Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday. Police said the incident occurred when his maternal uncle, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, entered into an argument with his mother. The maternal uncle and aunt had been putting pressure on him and his mother to leave the house for the past few years, an officer said. “We have detained the boy and are interrogating him.…
Last week, SC declared Rahim Ali a citizen; what nobody knew: he died over two years ago branded ‘foreigner’ | Long Reads News
Only, The Indian Express has found that Ali died over two-and-a-half years before the verdict, carrying the heavy tag of a “foreigner” and “illegal immigrant from Bangladesh” to his grave. Ali, a resident of Kashimpur village in Assam’s Nalbari district, died in his village on December 28, 2021 at the age of 58, even as the apex court continued to hear his case. This was after the Tribunal had delivered an ex-parte order in 2012 declaring him a foreigner since he had not appeared before it, stating that he “had…
Emmy Nominations 2024: ‘Shogun’ and ‘The Bear’ receive over 20 nominations | Hollywood News
In the latest Emmy awards nominations, the “The Bear” has set a record for a comedy-series with 23 nominations, while in another category, “Shogun” proved to be the mettle with 25 under its name. “The Bear” is listed for nominations for its second season which deals with the rag-tag group of sandwich makers who try to build an elite restaurant. Some of the significant nominations include Best Comedy Series, Best Actor in a Comedy Series for Jeremy Allen, Best Actress for Ayo Edebiri. A plenty of guest acting nominations boosted…
Gujarat confidential: Fight For Claim | Ahmedabad News
A day after the partial roll back of fee hike for MBBS courses in all the 13 colleges under the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society (GMERS), the students’ organisations — National Student Union of India (NSUI) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) — claimed it happened due to their efforts. While Samarth Bhatt, state secretary at ABVP, claimed that the Gujarat government withdrew the fee hike following the organisation’s strong protests, Narendra Solanki, state president at NSUI, gave the credit to its agitating members as well as other students…
Biden says he’d consider dropping out if ‘medical condition’ emerges: Report | World News
Democrats presumed nominee President Joe Biden stated that he would drop out of the presidential run for reelection if some medical condition emerged, the New York Times reported, citing an excerpt released from Biden’s interview with Ed Gordon of BET News. As per the report, Biden was asked if there was any reason that would make him reconsider staying in the presidential race. In response, Biden said, “If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that…
Paris Olympics: Inside the gruelling, lonely grind of trailblazing hurdler Jyothi Yarraji | Sport-others News
A stop clock controls Jyothi Yarraji’s destiny. Its ticking – on an excruciatingly hot April morning in a quiet corner of Navi Mumbai – is the only constant soundtrack that plays on loop. There are no competitors here – just Jyothi versus the clock. The first Indian hurdler to qualify for the Olympics in 100m hurdles and her coach James Hillier are driven by a solitary pursuit: shredding microseconds. Or, 0.28 seconds, to be precise. “Her personal best is 12.78 seconds. I want to get her to 12.5,” Hillier says.…
Online racial abuser given 8-month prison sentence for insulting Real Madrid’s Vinicius Junior and Antonio Rudige | Football News
Real Madrid said Wednesday that a Spanish court has given a suspended eight-month prison sentence to a person who racially abused Vinícius Júnior and Antonio Rudiger in the comments section of Marca, a sPanish sports news website. The club said that the offender was found guilty of harming the moral integrity of the players, both of whom are Black. The person also reportedly used hateful language to denigrate Rudiger’s Islamic faith. “The accused was found guilty of two offences against moral integrity committed against Vinicius Junior and Antonio Rüdiger, both…