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Algo Rhythm: Energy demand of AI data centres 'to double' by 2030

Electricity generation to run data centres in 2024 was estimated to be around 415 TWh, which amounted to about 1.5 per cent of global consumption

Powering India's technology growth: The continuous rise of Indian AI

As many as 70 per cent of companies spend more than 20 per cent of IT budgets on digital and emerging technologies

Decoded: What is Sam Altman's Worldcoin initiative and how does it work?

Worldcoin has encountered major regulatory issues due to concerns about its handling of user data, algorithm training, and preventing the capture of children's images

CCI to soon come out with changes to competition rules: Chairperson

Fair trade regulator CCI will shortly come out with changes to certain competition rules, including those related to green channel approvals for mergers and acquisitions. Speaking at a conference in the national capital, Competition Commission of India (CCI) Chairperson Ravneet Kaur on Friday said the regulator is focusing on advocacy efforts and capacity building. While mentioning about various activities being done by the CCI, she said, "We are going to shortly notify changes in competition rules". These include changes to rules pertaining to green channel approvals for mergers and acquisitions, and de minimas. De minimas relates to exemption thresholds for mergers and acquisitions that need clearance from the CCI. As part of boosting efforts to curb unfair business practices in the marketplace, amendments have also been made to the competition law. Kaur flagged dark patterns in the e-commerce space and algorithmic collusion. There are dark patterns and how they can influence

Soon, Instagram to recommend more original content from creators: Details

Instagram is set to roll out its new ranking system algorithms in the coming months to push original content and content from creators with small followers base on the recommendations feed

What algorithms can do

From automated trading to shopping, Marek Kowalkiewicz's book explores the far-reaching impacts of algorithms on industries, individuals, and innovation

The mind is mightier than the algorithm

Tenen leads by example, bringing his human intelligence to bear on artificial intelligence. By thinking through our collective habits of thought, he offers a meditation all his own

Google anti-trust trial spotlights internal dispute over algorithm vs data

And now it's a key feature in a landmark antitrust trial, where the US Justice Department claims Google spends billions of dollars to stifle competition and preserve its monopoly over online search

Social media may not be polarising society in ways public thinks: Study

Algorithms controlling a social media user's feed, while largely opaque, may not be polarising the society in the same ways as the public tends to think, social scientists say. They have published studies examining social media's impact on individuals' political attitudes and behaviours during the US presidential election in 2020 in the journals Nature and Science. "The notion that such algorithms create political 'filter bubbles', foster polarisation, exacerbate existing social inequalities, and enable the spread of disinformation has become rooted in the public consciousness," write Andrew M. Guess, lead author of one of these newly published studies, and colleagues about the opaque-to-users algorithms used by social media companies. The Nature study found that exposing a Facebook user to content from sources having the same political persuasions as them, or "like-minded" sources, did not measurably impact the user's political beliefs or attitudes during the 2020 US presidential .

Analysis of Meta's algorithms shows that misinformation has no easy fix

The powerful algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram to deliver content to users have increasingly been blamed for amplifying misinformation and political polarisation. But a series of groundbreaking studies published Thursday suggest addressing these challenges is not as simple as tweaking the platforms' software. The four research papers, published in Science and Nature, also reveal the extent of political echo chambers on Facebook, where conservatives and liberals rely on divergent sources of information, interact with opposing groups and consume distinctly different amounts of misinformation. Algorithms are the automated systems that social media platforms use to suggest content for users by making assumptions based on the groups, friends, topics and headlines a user has clicked on in the past. While they excel at keeping users engaged, algorithms have been criticised for amplifying misinformation and ideological content that has worsened the country's political ...

Here's how Instagram algorithm works for stories, feed, reels, explore

Instagram explained that each tool, including feed, stories, reels, search and others, has its own algorithm on the app that is tailored based on how people use it

Twitter to open source its algorithm next week, improve it rapidly: Musk

Last week, Musk had said that the micro-blogging platform will provide users the ability to adjust the algorithm to their "closer match", in the "coming months"

Twitter to soon let users adjust algorithm to their 'closer match': Musk

Musk tweeted: "If many people who you follow or like also follow me, it is highly probable that the algorithm will recommend my tweets. It's not super sophisticated"

Twitter's 'current top priority' is to fix recommendation algorithm: Musk

Twitter CEO on Sunday said that the engineers resolved two significant problems on the micro-blogging platform during a "long day at Twitter HQ" with him

TCS pushes the pedal to get self-driving cars on road with new algorithms

The algorithms are trained and tested using 300,000 kilometres of real time vehicle data

How immersive technology is transforming fashion and online shopping

From spray-painted dresses to feeling the texture of a fabric on screen, fashion and shopping are becoming tech-immersive

Using tech to crack down on insider trading: Sebi's Madhabi Puri Buch

Regulator will by next year have a system enabling data storage of trades between exchanges, ensuring work is not affected in a cyberattack

What is algorithmic trading?

SEBI recently issued guidelines for stock brokers who provide algorithmic trading services. What exactly is algo trading? Watch our next report to know more

LinkedIn ran social experiments on over 20 million users for 5 years

LinkedIn's algorithmic experiments may come as a surprise to millions of people because the company did not inform users that the tests were underway

Samsung sued for algo that predicts phone's remaining battery life: Report

South Korean tech giant Samsung has been reportedly sued by a patent troll over the use of an algorithm that predicts the remaining battery life on its Android smartphones