Author: Adarsh

With all kinds of online frauds on the rise these days, Adarsh gives you all the tips you need to know to keep your UPI secure…. The National Payments Cooperation of India (NPCI) created the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), an instant payment system, to simplify payments in India. And true to expectations, it has become immensely popular in our country as it has indeed simplified online payments. But the flip side is that it has also led to a lot of online scams and frauds with miscreants coming up with devious ways to steal your money. However, you can protect…

After a 2-month-long delay due to copyright issues, the highly anticipated feature is now live for select ChatGPT Plus users…. Remember the 2013-movie ‘Her’ starring Joaquin Phoenix? The story revolves around a lonely, introverted man going through a painful divorce. In a bid to fight loneliness, he purchases an advanced operating system that would evolve and adapt to the user’s needs. The OS – called Samantha with a voiceover by Scarlett Johansson – is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence. During his conversations, Phoenix’s character Theodore Twombly develops an emotional bond with Samantha and eventually falls in love with her. Image…

Adarsh tells you all about the most common online scams that are doing the rounds these days…. How about we start with some numbers to drive the message home? A whopping ₹1,750 crores was lost to cyber criminals in India in the first four months of 2024 alone. Over7,40,000 cyber crime complaints were reported on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal in the same period. According to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), 7,000 cybercrime complaints were registered per day in May 2024, a number that has jumped 113.7% between 2021-2023 and 60.9% from 2022-2023. 85% of these reported crimes…

In a world where misinformation and fake videos are rampant, Adarsh gives you tips on how to spot a deepfake…. These days, there seems to be a deepfake video of every single celebrity out there. Industrialist Narayana Murthy was forced to post on X recently that a widely circulating video was not actually his. Ratan Tata also fell prey to a similar video. Bollywood actors Alia Bhatt and Priyanka Chopra were also in the news recently after videos of ‘them’ started doing the rounds. Rashmika Mandhana also posted on X to clarify that a video believed to be hers was…

In the age of automation, Adarsh explores whether artificial intelligence is the cause of increased loneliness or whether it can be the solution to the problem…. These days people seem to be using AI for everything. From being someone’s financial advisor to a personal assistant to giving legal counsel as well as assisting with education, artificial intelligence has been lending a helping hand to humans in almost every avenue. And now, while this saves time and increases efficiency, it comes at a cost. This also means the lack of human interaction. While we turn to technology for all our needs,…

The new Solos AirGo Vision that lets you asks questions about people and places you’re looking at through the glasses. Remember how Tony Stark used to talk to Jarvis and identify things he was looking at through his visor? Well, going by the latest updates in eyewear technology, that future might not be too far away. Launched as a rival to Ray Ban’s Meta Glasses, Solos has unveiled their AirGo Visions 3 which comes integrated with OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model. Image Credit: Facebook / Solos Smartglasses How It Works The AirGo Vision comes integrated with ChatGPT so it can be…

In a world where WFH and hybrid models are preferred, Adarsh explores how corporates are trying to bring employees back to the office…. Teena wasn’t very excited when Covid-19 protocol meant she would have to work from home in 2020. But fast forward four years, she is settled into a life of working from the comforts of home. She dreads the day she will have to go back to office. Raghav and Ira struggled to find time for each other because of their contrasting work schedules. But ever since they switched to a hybrid mode of working, they balance life…

Active for almost 50 years since its launch in 1977, Voyager 1 – the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space – is not doing well. Adarsh explains what’s going on…. NASA launched Voyager 1 from the Kennedy Space Cater in Florida in 1977, along with its sister craft Voyager 2. These two are the longest-serving, nonpassive spacecrafts in existence. They are part of an elite fleet of five probes that are on trajectories that will take them out of the solar system, never to return. But since November of 2023, Voyager 1 has been sending incomprehensible messages back to…

Adarsh explains how artificial intelligence and other technological advancements are being used to translate scrolls that were previously considered impossible to read… Thanks to modern cutting-edge technology, we now know – more than 2000 years later – about the burial place of the Greek philosopher Plato. Thanks to hyperspectral imaging and machine learning, scholars have conclusive evidence that Plato was buried in a secret garden inside the Platonic Academy of Athens. These new methodologies have changed our understanding of ancient civilizations just like the original Renaissance did centuries ago. So much so that Dr Kilian Fleischer, a papyrologist who worked…

As iPhones and iPads launch the Claude iOS app, Adarsh takes you through all you need to know… It is a story fit to be a script for a Hollywood movie! And for all you know, in a few years’ time, it might just become one… A bunch of people working on ChatGPT felt that OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman was prioritising profits over safety and quit. One of them, Dario Amodei – their VP of Research for four years and the brains ChatGPT– didn’t just quit. He roped in the rest of the bunch and formed a company that…