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Airtel hopes to prioritise premium postpaid users when the network is stretched. (Reuters)
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Airtel’s Priority Postpaid 5G fast lane may reopen net neutrality fault lines

Bharti Airtel on Tuesday announced a significant change to the company’s telecom network infrastructure, implementing a new slicing technology that will prioritise the 5G experience…

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Seth Rogen
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Cornell professor talks AI chaos, and dismissing AI writers

Cognitive warmup. Actor, comedian and filmmaker Seth Rogen has some choice words for creatives using AI to ‘write’. During a promotion of his animated film…

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Spark is web based, for background task execution. (Official image)
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At Google I/O 2026, Sundar Pichai underlines focus on AI agents

In the first key developer conference keynote of this summer, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai laid out the tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) vision….

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The Asus Zenbook Duo sits comfortably neither as a laptop, as a convertible, as a tablet or as a desktop. (HT Photo/Vishal Mathur)
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Asus Zenbook Duo’s real Intel chip leap meets an overwhelming utility crisis

It is becoming increasingly difficult to get excited about laptops that try to be different, because more often than not, they are expensive without any…

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During the course of this trial, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup OpenAI distilled many other AI models. (File photo)
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Tech Tonic | Musk v. Altman, and a reality of bickering adults holding AI’s keys

Absolute shambles to close the Musk v. Altman trial, with the judge ruling that Elon Musk took far too long to sue OpenAI and CEO…

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Vehicles line up at a petrol pump amid heavy rush for fuel in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar. (PTI)
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OMCs still losing ₹750 crore a day: Govt

State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) are still losing ₹750 crore a day on the sale of auto fuels and cooking gas even after petrol and…

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff prepares to introduce OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ahead of a conversation held at Yerba Buena Theater during the first day of Dreamforce, the annual tech conference hosted by Salesforce, in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023 (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) (AP)
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Who is Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff who said he will not hire any more engineers?

Marc Benioff, the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Salesforce has drawn focus in the global technology industry after saying the company would…

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Marc Rowan, Apollo Global Management’s chief executive.
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Beware of bargains in private credit

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, investing in a business-development company can be like buying loans, wrapped in a fund, inside a stock. Marc Rowan, Apollo Global…

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A Limited-Edition JBL L100 Classic, and (right) Dave Rogers, President of the Lifestyle Division at Harman. (Official photo)
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JBL at 80: Dave Rogers talks audio revolutions, engineering, India and AI tuning

On October 1 in 1946, American audio engineer James Bullough Lansing founded Lansing Sound Incorporated, which was soon renamed James B. Lansing Sound. In short,…

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In India, the Pegasus 42 is priced at  ₹12,995. (Official photo)
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By modernising a classic, Nike evolves the Pegasus 42 to outclass competition

No matter how sneaker brands may portray it otherwise, genuine tech innovation has slowed down from the highs of the mid-2010s, when I spent much…

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