With the SC strongly advocating transparency in judiciary, the Karnataka High Court streamed the...
Category - Civic Tech
Google made location data settings difficult to find: Report
Google pressured smartphone manufacturers" into keeping privacy settings hidden, says the report.
Now an online portal to track children of Covid affected families
Bal Swaraj-COVID-Care portal is aimed at tracking the children affected by COVID-19.
Facebook blocked 150 covert influence operations in 4 years
It focused on a wide range of topics: from politics in the Gulf region to the 2022 FIFA World Cup...
Time to leverage AI in Indian context: Nilekani
Huge data now across systems has been generated and that the time is right to apply AI across the...
Facebook acts on posts from users who share misinfo
The new rule applies on false or misleading content about Covid-19, vaccines, climate change...
WhatsApp sues India over new IT rules, says user privacy supreme
WhatsApp said that new rules infringe on users’ privacy.
Esri India’s new GIS Map to provide insights on cyclones
The map is consolidating the information from various authoritative feeds and sources.
e-Courts Services Mobile app manual released in 14 languages
Virtual courts and electronic case management have become integral to how the legal profession is...
Facebook purges over 18M pieces of fake, harmful Covid content
The social network removed these many pieces of content from the the start of the pandemic to April...
Businesses have a moral duty to explain their algorithms
In most cases, companies do not offer any explanation about how they gain access to users' profiles.
Indian Railway commissions Wi-Fi at 6,000th railway station
Provision of Wi-Fi facilities at Railway stations is on a self sustainable basis with no cost to...
Telangana to enable conducive atmosphere for social innovation
The state plans to create a robust, world-class 'Social Innovation' (SI) ecosystem in the state.
Facebook to ask users to read articles before sharing
However, Facebook users can also choose to share it without reading if they want.
Global Teacher Prize winner Ranjitsinh joins as jury of prize
The Global Student Prize has been created as a new platform to highlight the efforts of...
IIT-Madras to develop voice-based solution for digital...
These voice-based solutions would be in vernacular languages, for digital money transactions.
IIT develops algorithm for detecting drowsy drivers
It is an industrial and academic challenge to develop drowsiness detection technologies.
This AI system can detect sarcasm in social media posts
The team taught the computer model to find patterns that often indicate sarcasm.
Telecom industry cautions against rumours of 5G causing Covid
Even the World Health Organisation has clarified that there is no correlation between 5G technology...
Govt approves experimental drone flights for vaccine delivery
Government of Telangana was granted conditional exemption for conducting experimental delivery of...
CoWIN platform has new security features now
The government is introducing a new feature of four digit security code in the CoWIN application