The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers or…
The Karnataka government has approved the deployment of an Artificial Intelligence-driven system to monitor social media and digital platforms in real time, aiming to combat fake news, misinformation and emerging online threats. The state Cabinet has given the green signal to the Social Media Analytics Solution (SMAS), an AI-based tool with an estimated cost of…
The European Union (EU) is set to examine the open source space in its latest bid to take on U.S. tech dominance. A call for evidence looks to obtain insights into open-source software and how nurturing European open source developers could help reduce the EU’s dependencies on American technology firms. “The EU faces a significant…
