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New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Google Lens has rolled out the highly-requested feature to save your Visual Search History, so you can revisit any image you have analysed in the future. Currently, when you take a photo using the shutter button in the Google Lens app, the picture is sent to Google for analysis and then disappears. This means that you cannot save the image on your device. Users had to click a photo using the camera app and send it to the app for analysis. The tech giant has now added a new feature that allows you to automatically…

Los Angeles, May 10 (IANS) It’s going to be a clean sweep at the Oscars for ‘Oppenheimer’, and the biopic’s director, Christopher Nolan, may finally get his much-overdue Best Director trophy. These are the predictions of ‘The Hollywood Reporter’ awards expert Scott Feinberg and chief film critic David Rooney. With the 96th Academy Awards, which is the official name of the Oscars, slated to open at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night (U.S. Pacific Time), all the world’s eyes will be on ‘Oppenheimer’, which has become this year’s awards season favourite at the expense of Greta Gerwig’s…

Los Angeles, March 10 (IANS) Hollywood star Cate Blanchett said that society “needs” to have “tough conversations,” even if people are scared to share their views. “Culturally, we are terrified of tough conversations. Boss to employee. Employee to boss. Friend to friend. But we need them,” said Blanchett. “We talk about radical candour, but when there’s a trigger warning in front of something, you are implying that there is a lack of mutual respect or that the subject hasn’t been properly interrogated,” she told Sunday Times Culture magazine. The actress found it “thrilling” when her movie ‘Tar’ was tagged offensive…

New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The growth of mobile phone production in India over a decade is being described as an unmatched success story in the manufacturing sector. While 78 percent of all the mobile phones sold in the country in 2014 were imported, about 97 percent of the mobile phones are now manufactured in India. According to the industry body, India Cellular & Electronics Association (ICEA), mobile phone production, in value terms, surged from Rs 18,900 crore in 2014-15 to an estimated Rs 4.10 lakh crore in FY24, registering over 20 fold increase. Cumulatively, over 245 crore mobile phone…

New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) India and the four-nation EFTA bloc of European nations signed an economic agreement on Sunday India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), comprising Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, signed an economic agreement on Sunday which will step up trade and foreign investment, capping nearly 16 years of negotiations, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said after the signing ceremony. The Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) is a binding agreement for the EFTA nations to invest $100 billion over 15 years in India, the world’s fastest growing economy, Goyal said. Switzerland’s Economic Affairs Minister,…

New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Government’s ‘Sangam: Digital Twin’ initiative, which was unveiled last month by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), is a technology that offers a solution by creating virtual replicas of physical assets, allowing for real-time monitoring, simulation and analysis for experimental iterations and feedback loop to adapt to the changes for achieving the best outcomes Department of Telecommunications (DoT), is a technology that offers a solution by creating virtual replicas of physical assets, allowing for real-time monitoring, simulation and analysis for experimental iterations and feedback loop to adapt to the changes for achieving the best outcomes. This…

Mumbai, March 7 (IANS) In an industry where films have traditionally been scripted around men, and woman-centric films have been the exceptions rather than the rule, a new generation of directors and screenwriters have overturned the gender imbalance, and delivered successful films centred around female protagonists. On the eve of International Women’s Day, here’s a selection of seven Bollywood films that celebrate woman power. ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’, Alia Bhatt (2022): The Sanjay Leela Bhansali film, a biopic based on the life of ‘mafia queen’ Gangubai Kothewali, is centred around Alia Bhatt’s character, who was cheated and sold to a brothel in…

New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) The GDP forecast upgrade by Moody’s and India’s inclusion in the Bloomberg bond index have added to India’s growing importance in the global economy. Earlier this week, global ratings agency Moody’s raised India’s GDP growth projection for CY24 to 6.8 per cent, as against the 6.1 per cent projected earlier. Bloomberg on Tuesday announced the inclusion of India FAR bonds in the Bloomberg Emerging Market (EM) Local Currency Government Index. “This is an important marker in the development of India’s financial markets and a reflection of India’s growing importance in the global economy,” said Michael…

New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Global technology company HCLTech and digital workflow company ServiceNow on Thursday announced a partnership to deliver new generative artificial intelligence (genAI)-led solutions to enterprises. According to the company, the new offering will help enable enterprises to adopt ServiceNow’s genAI capabilities across the business quickly and efficiently. “HCLTech’s differentiated portfolio and engineering heritage positions it to deliver practical and customised genAI use cases to clients as they move forward with their digital transformation agendas,” C Vijayakumar, CEO & Managing Director, HCLTech, said in a statement. Under this partnership, HCLTech will offer consulting, design, implementation, and managed…

New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) India is now home to more than 8,000 startups that have women founders with a cumulative funding of nearly $23 billion till now, a report showed on Thursday. Women entrepreneurs’ share of startups in the Indian tech industry exceeds 18 per cent, and among funded companies, the share is more than 14 per cent, according to the report by Tracxn, a leading market intelligence platform. Women-led startups represent a significant 14.8 per cent share of the overall Indian tech funding pie at nearly $155 billion. The Delhi-NCR region takes the lead in terms of the…