Author: Punit Panchal

New Delhi: Recently, YouTube has officially announced that from August 24, 2026, it will going to count the public views as soon as a video starts playing from its first time frame. This will going to change the applies through across YouTube’s major video formats, by including long-form videos, Shorts, and livestreams. Earlier, standard YouTube videos were generally understood to require a longer viewing period before a view was registered. This latest approach is much closer to the way platforms such as Instagram and TikTok count video views. The company said creators have been asking for a more consistent way…

New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has been downgrading the number of experts who will be part of their examination team, a move in a bid to enhance the quality, security and reliability of their exams, according to a major effort. The decision follows frustrations to some extent recently identified in some crucial examinations in which question papers and the examination process in general have been found to be faulty. The National Testing Agency (NTA) organizes various major examinations such as JEE-Main, NEET-UG, CUET and UGC-NET. These exams are conducted by lakhs of students; if there are any mistake…

New Delhi: Google is reportedly about to terminate the manufacturing of its Pixel smartphones, Pixel Watch models, Pixel Buds in China by 2027. The company has announced to suppliers that it has decided to shift all Pixel hardware production out of China, according to a report by Nikkei Asia. Google itself hasn’t come out with an official statement yet on the reported plan. Why is Google leaving China? The primary motive seems to be increasing supply-chain risk due to the escalating tensions between the US and China. Google is an American firm, and tensions between Washington and Beijing have begun…

New Delhi: India is mulling on introducing duty-free importation of sugar to help ease record high sugar price in the local market. The decision follows a surge in the prices of sugar, which is expected to more closely watch on inflation and the cost of food products for the consumers. The government and industry sources indicate that in one of the important sugar trading cities of India, wholesale prices of sugar have risen by almost 20% since August 1. Notwithstanding the availability of sufficient sugar stocks in the country, the prices have reached an all-time high of about ₹5,350 per…

New Delhi: Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is adamant that it is being misled when its platforms are accused of creating addictions in kids and young people for profit. The company is under a huge test following suit of a group of 29 U.S. states that is suing the firm, charging it with altering how its social media operations work. The states allege that Meta has inserted features to make it easier for young people to spend more time on Facebook and Instagram, including features like “infinite scrolling” and their notifications and recommendation systems. They also argue…

New Delhi: Nvidia’s high-performance, H200 AI chips have reportedly been shipped to mainland China in small quantities, adding a new milestone to the tech warfare between the U.S. and China. Sources reported on the shipments and Reuters quoted them. The report says that Chinese tech firms ByteDance and Tencent have received about 10,000 H200 processors in the past few weeks. The deliveries follow the United States’ decision to permit some Chinese firms to buy up the chips under tight restrictions. Designed to deliver high performance for tasks like training and running AI models, the H200 is one of Nvidia’s most…

New Delhi: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has given a glimpse into what could be the next big step for ChatGPT. Within 6 months, ChatGPT will be better able to understand the user’s computer screen, conversations, meetings or emails, he said, and will be increasingly conscious of what they are doing. The purpose is to move beyond ChatGPT being a chatbot that listens for a user’s questions and direct them to the right answers to an AI assistant that will grasp what the user is doing and assist them without having to provide all the details. Why does Sam Altman want…

New Delhi: The term “Dimagi Naxal” has suddenly become a political buzz word in India. The phrase is being employed on multiple platforms including television debates, social media postings and political statements. However, what exactly has all this noise caused by a phrase that’s just two words long? It gained popularity with the enactment of the term by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15, 2026, in his Independence Day Speech from the Red Fort. While ‘armed Naxalism has been shot down,’ there are people with ‘Naxal thinking’ still alive, Modi said in the speech, adding that they could ‘take…

New Delhi: Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, was in an unusual position on Tuesday, August 18, when the Annual General Meeting (AGM) was been called off due to lack of a quorum. This is the very first time in the history of Tata Sons (Tata Group) that their Annual General Meeting was adjourned without a quorum. What is the issue? The basic definition of quorum is the amount of members that have to be present for a company meeting to be considered legal. Tata Sons’ Articles of Association require at least five members to be personally…

New Delhi: Diageo has accepted a tweak in the formulas of some of its popular whisky and rum brands in India after the country’s Food Safety Commissioner raised concerns over the addition of flavouring substances in the drinks. The move follows the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) banning the sale of some of its products in some States. The impacted products are Antiquity Blue and Royal Challenge whisky from Madhya Pradesh and McDowell’s No. 1 Celebration Matured XXX Rum from Maharashtra. In a reformulation process, Diageo has agreed to strip whisky of whisky and rum of rum…