Programming Cloud

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  NASA and ISRO Prepare to Launch NISAR Earth-Mapping Satellite

  NASA and India’s ISRO are set to launch NISAR, a first-of-its-kind Earth-observing satellite equipped with advanced dual-band radar. Scheduled to lift off no earlier than late July 2025 from Sriharikota, India, NISAR will map nearly all of Earth’s land and ice every 12 days, capturing surface changes with centimeter-level precision. Its L-band ...

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  Watch: Missing Half Of Universe's Visible Matter Found Hiding In Intergalactic Space

  Scientists have located the missing half of the Universe's visible matter as vast clouds of ionized hydrogen in intergalactic space, confirming it through novel techniques and survey programs showing the material is further from galactic cores than p

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  Anthropic Introduces a Citations Feature to Make Claude’s Responses More Reliable

  Anthropic introduced a new application programming interface (API) feature on Thursday to let developers ground the responses generated by artificial intelligence (AI) models. Dubbed Citations, the feature allows developers to restrict the output generation of the Claude family of AI models to source documents. This is aimed at improving the reliab...

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  Google, Volkswagen Partner on Smartphone AI Assistant

  Google is providing key capabilities for an AI assistant for Volkswagen drivers in a smartphone app. The AI assistant draws on Google's Gemini large language models, programs that can understand and generate predictive responses to human language, and cloud computing capacity.

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  Indian Techie Couple Reveal Secret To ₹1.2 Crore Salary In Canada, Video Goes Viral

  When asked about the secret to their financial success, the husband emphasised the importance of upskilling through technical certifications.

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  Opera One Browser Gets Gemini's AI Capabilities Thanks to Google Cloud Partnership

  Opera announced a partnership with Google Cloud to integrate AI-powered features into its Aria browser AI on Tuesday. As part of the collaboration, the AI chatbot integrated into the Opera One browser will now be powered by Gemini, Google Large Language Model, and will have image generation capabilities and text-to-audio functionality.

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  Mumbai Civic Body Plans Cloud Seeding To Curb Air Pollution, Invites Bids

  The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday invited Global Expression of Interest (GEOI) for initiating a cloud seeding program for artificial rain to combat air pollution in Mumbai.

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  Amazon Bedrock Drew Customers to Try Out AI Service Competing With Microsoft and Google

  Amazon.com’s cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft and Google in a key area of artificial intelligence, an executive told Reuters. The company also announced new AI tools on Wednesday, including a program for building more conversational customer-service agents, technology access from the star...

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  Microsoft Expands ChatGPT Access to Azure Cloud Customers Amid Rumours of Planned Investment

  Microsoft said on Monday that it was expanding access to OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT, allowing its cloud customers to access the futuristic chatbot. The firm had previewed the service its cloud-computing customers in a program it called the Azure OpenAI Service, said that the startup's technology was now generally available to customers.

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  Google Sued for Nixing Free Workspace Software to Early Adopters

  Alphabet's Google was sued by an early adopter of its Workplace cloud productivity software who claims the company reneged on a promise to provide it with free access to the program for life. Google Workplace, formerly known as Google Apps and G Suite, provides a host of services including Gmail, Calendar, Drive for storage and Google Docs for cont...

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  Amazon Lawsuit Alleges Trump Abused Power in Huge Pentagon Cloud Contract

  Amazon says President Donald Trump's “improper pressure" and behind-the-scenes attacks harmed its chances of winning a $10 billion Pentagon contract.

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  Apple Says Some App Store, Apple Music, iTunes Users Are Facing Issues [Update: Fixed]

  Some users of the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Store, iTunes U, Mac App Store, and Volume Purchase Program services are experiencing "intermittent issues".

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  Google Announces 'Solve for India' to Inspire Entrepreneurs and Developers in Tier-2 Cities

  The programme is targeting emerging cities like Pune, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Kochi, Indore, Nagpur, Nashik, Madurai, Kanpur, as well as Kolkata and Chennai.

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  WeChat Mini Program Launched, Featuring Cloud-Based Apps You Can Use Without Downloading

  Mini Program lets WeChat users use apps without downloading them.

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  Google to Buy Cloud Software Company Apigee for $625 Million

  Apigee specialises in managing so-called application programming interfaces, or APIs.