Search Results for “Oppo” – Techlusive https://www.techlusive.in Technology and Gadgets - News, Reviews, Comparisons | Gadgets, Gizmos & Mobiles | Video & Photo Reviews at Techlusive India Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:04:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 Oppo A38 launched in India with 50MP camera, MediaTek Helio G85 chip: Check price, specs https://www.techlusive.in/mobile-phones/oppo-a38-launched-in-india-with-50mp-camera-mediatek-helio-g85-chip-check-price-specs-1406938/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:04:22 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/?p=1406938 Oppo A38 India launch: Oppo today launched a new budget smartphone in India. The company today quietly launched the Oppo A38 smartphone. This newly launched smartphone comes with a 50MP camera and a 90Hz display. Additionally, it comes with a dated MediaTek Helio G85 system-on-chip (SoC) that lacks 5G connectivity, something that we have seen in […]

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Oppo A38 India launch: Oppo today launched a new budget smartphone in India. The company today quietly launched the Oppo A38 smartphone. This newly launched smartphone comes with a 50MP camera and a 90Hz display. Additionally, it comes with a dated MediaTek Helio G85 system-on-chip (SoC) that lacks 5G connectivity, something that we have seen in phones like the Realme Narzo 60X 5G that comes at a similar price point.

Oppo A38 India price and availability

As far as pricing is concerned, the Oppo A38 comes in a single storage variant consisting of 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage space in India. It is priced at Rs 12,999 and it will be available in the country in Glowing Black and Glowing Gold colour variants. The Oppo A38 smartphone is available for pre-orders in India via the official Oppo website. As a part of the pre-orders, Oppo is offering a discount of 10 percent of up to Rs 1,300 on the purchases made via Federal Bank, ICICI Bank, Bank of Baroda, HDFC Bank, OneCard, State Bank of India, Axis Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank cards. The phone will be available for purchase via the Oppo website and Flipkart starting September 13.

Oppo A38 India specifications and features

The Oppo A38 sports the Oppo Glow design. It comes with a 6.56-inch HD+ LCD display with a resolution of 1612 x 720 pixels,), a screen refresh rate of 90Hz and a peak brightness of 720 nits. It is powered by MediaTek Helio G85 chipset that is coupled with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage space. It runs Android 13-based ColorOS 13.1.

Coming to the cameras, the Oppo A38 sports a dual camera at the back, which includes a 50MP primary sensor and a 2MP depth sensor. On the front, the oppo A38 sports a 5MP sensor. On the battery front, the Oppo A38 is backed by a 5,000mAh battery with 33W wired SuperVOOC fast charging technology. In addition to this, the Oppo A38 comes with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. In terms of connectivity, the Oppo A38 has WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.3, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a USB Type-C port for connectivity.

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G20 Summit: Generative AI-based chatbot ‘Ask GITA’ to answer guests’ questions on life https://www.techlusive.in/news/g20-summit-generative-ai-based-chatbot-ask-gita-to-answer-guests-questions-on-life-1406893/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:54:32 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/?p=1406893 G20 Summit update: India is all set to hold the G20 Summit starting tomorrow for the next two days. The government has taken this as an opportunity to showcase the country’s advancement in technology and is not leaving any stone unturned to provide a seamless experience for the visiting delegates. The government is showcasing a […]

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G20 Summit update: India is all set to hold the G20 Summit starting tomorrow for the next two days. The government has taken this as an opportunity to showcase the country’s advancement in technology and is not leaving any stone unturned to provide a seamless experience for the visiting delegates. The government is showcasing a generative AI model called Ask GITA, which stands for Guidance, Inspiration, Transformation, and Action. Ask Gita is a chatbot based on the GPT-4 model and will answer questions related to life, based on the feed from the Shrimad Bhagwad Gita. The chatbot, accessible to all visitors including the delegates, is installed in the Digital India experience zones in Halls 4 and 14 of Bharat Mandapam, which is also the main venue of the G20 summit.

“ASK G.I.T.A Exhibit at the Digital India Experience Zone is a remarkable and innovative platform which offers tailored solutions as said in the revered holy book Bhagavad Gita,” PIB India wrote in an X post.

Users can choose from a host of pre-loaded questions such as “Why is it important for humans to perform duties?” or can also ask their own questions and the chatbot, Ask Gita, provides answers to their questions in both English and Hindi. 

Digital India Experience Zone will take the visiting delegates and attendees of the summit on Digital India’s journey and highlight the country’s accomplishment in digital governance and infrastructure since 2014 using virtual reality. The experience zone will be led by the Union Ministry of Electronics and IT.

As the government is exhibiting Ask GITA generative AI tool at the summit, a report by Financial Express quoting a government source said that the government is planning to fast-track work on its own generative AI model, which is equivalent to ChatGPT and will be based on large-language models using Bhashini, which is the digital repository of content in 22 Indian languages and some international languages. The government has also planned to make this available to other countries just like its other digital public infrastructure such as Aadhaar, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Digilocker and more. 

Meanwhile, the government has also deployed an AI-based tool to welcome guests at the ‘Mother of Democracy’ exhibition, which will be held at Bharat Mandapam.

 

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OPPO लाया तगड़ा स्मार्टफोन, मिलेगा 50MP का कैमरा https://www.techlusive.in/hi/webstories/gadget/oppo-a38-launch-in-india-with-50mp-camera-know-price-features-and-specifications-1406879/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:29:54 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/hi/webstories//%postname%-1406879/ Oppo A38 ने भारतीय बाजार में दस्तक दे दी है। इस स्मार्टफोन को मिड रेंज में पेश किया गया है।

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G20 Summit: AI-generated avatar to welcome delegates at Mother of Democracy exhibition https://www.techlusive.in/news/g20-summit-ai-generated-avatar-to-welcome-delegates-at-mother-of-democracy-exhibition-1406863/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:48:50 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/?p=1406863 G20 Summit update: India is all set to hold the G20 Summit on September 9 and September 10 in New Delhi. The government of India has taken this opportunity to showcase different facets of India to the visiting world leaders and delegates. It will showcase the advancements made in areas such as Digital Public Infrastructure […]

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G20 Summit update: India is all set to hold the G20 Summit on September 9 and September 10 in New Delhi. The government of India has taken this opportunity to showcase different facets of India to the visiting world leaders and delegates. It will showcase the advancements made in areas such as Digital Public Infrastructure and Unified Payment Interface, and some aspects of ancient Indian art and culture. To make this experience seamless for the vising delegates, the government is also using artificial intelligence. An AI-generated avatar will welcome G20 Summit delegates at the ‘Mother of Democracy’ exhibition, which will be held at Bharat Mandapam.

The ‘Mother of Democracy’ exhibition will showcase India’s democratic tradition from the Vedic period to the modern area and the AI-avatar will provide a brief overview of the exhibition to the visiting delegates. The exhibition will have textual content along with audio, which will be presented in 16 global languages, which includes English, French Mandarin, Italian, Korean and Japanese.

In the ‘Mother of Democracy’ exhibition, the history of the democratic ethos of India will be summed up and retold through 26 interactive screens arranged in multiple kiosks. The exhibition will also showcase the first general elections that were held in 1951-52 after independence down to the last held 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

In addition to this, the exhibition will also feature a replica sculpture of the Harappan girl. This replica of the ancient sculpture will be placed on a rotating elevated podium and will be placed in the centre of the exhibition hall.

The replica sculpture is five feet in height and 120kg in weight and is made up of Bronze whereas the original sculpture is said to be around 10.5cm in height.

Meanwhile, the government has also launched the G20 India mobile app, which is available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The app will provide an intuitive and easy-to-use interface that will enable users to get all the information and details about the G20 Summit including its events, press releases, documents, speeches, images and videos, social media updates, previous summit details, workstreams related information and more. In addition to that, the app will also enable people to register for the event.

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Moto G84 5G की पहली सेल, Flipkart पर मिल रहे धांसू ऑफर्स https://www.techlusive.in/hi/best-deals/moto-g84-5g-first-sale-in-india-on-flipkart-check-price-and-offers-1406799/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:08:36 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/hi/ Moto G84 5G की पहली सेल आज दिन के 12 बजे फ्लिपकार्ट पर आयोजित की जाएगी। इस स्मार्टफोन को पिछले सप्ताह भारत में लॉन्च किया गया है। फोन में 12GB RAM, 256GB स्टोरेज समेत अच्छे फीचर्स दिए गए हैं।

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Moto G84 5G स्मार्टफोन की पहली सेल आज यानी 8 सितंबर को दिन के 12 बजे ई-कॉमर्स वेबसाइट Flipkart पर आयोजित की जाएगी। मोटोराला के इस बजट 5G स्मार्टफोन को पिछले सप्ताह भारत में लॉन्च किया गया था। यह फोन OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite, Realme 11 Pro, Redmi Note 12 Pro जैसे स्मार्टफोन को टक्कर देती है। फोन में 12GB RAM और 256GB तक इंटरनल स्टोरेज का सपोर्ट मिलता है। मोटोरोला ने इस स्मार्टफोन के कुछ दिन बाद Moto G54 5G को भी लॉन्च किया है, जिसकी सेल 13 सितंबर को फ्लिपकार्ट पर आयोजित की जाएगी। आइए, जानते हैं मोटोरोला के इस बजट स्मार्टफोन की कीमत और सेल में मिलने वाले ऑफर्स के बारे में…

Moto G84 5G First Sale offers

मोटोरोला का यह स्मार्टफोन एक ही स्टोरेज वेरिएंट 12GB RAM + 256GB में आता है। इस स्मार्टफोन की कीमत 19,999 रुपये है। इसे तीन कलर ऑप्शन- Viva Magenta, Midnight Black और Marshmallow Blue में खरीदा जा सकता है। इस फोन पर मिलने वाले ऑफर्स की बात करें तो इसकी खरीद पर 1000 रुपये का फ्लैट डिस्काउंट ICICI Bank के कार्ड पर मिलेगा। इसके अलावा 2,000 रुपये का डिस्काउंट Bank of Baroda कार्ड पर दिया जाएगा।

Moto G84 5G के फीचर्स

मोटोरोला के इस स्मार्टफोन में 6.55 इंच का pOLED डिस्प्ले मिलता है। फोन का डिस्प्ले 120Hz रिफ्रेश रेट को सपोर्ट करता है। यह स्मार्टफोन Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 5G प्रोसेसर परक काम करता है। इसमें 12GB RAM और 256GB इंटरनल स्टोरेज का सपोर्ट मिलता है। फोन में Dolby Atmos और स्टीरियो स्पीकर्स मिलते हैं। साथ ही, यह IP52 वाटर रेसिस्टेंट फीचर को सपोर्ट करते हैं। यह फोन 5000mAh की बैटरी और 30W टर्बो फास्ट चार्जिंग के साथ आता है। यह Android 13 ऑपरेटिंग सिस्टम पर काम करता है।

Moto G84 5G के बैक में ट्रिपल कैमरा सेटअप मिलता है। इसमें 50MP का OIS यानी ऑप्टिकल इमेज स्टेब्लाइजेशन फीचर मिलता है। इसके अलावा फोन में 8MP का अल्ट्रा वाइड और 8MP का मैक्रो विजन कैमरा मिलता है। सेल्फी और वीडियो कॉलिंग के लिए मोटोरोला के इस स्मार्टफोन में 16MP का कैमरा मिलता है। बेहतर 5G कनेक्टिविटी के लिए इसमें 14 स्पेक्ट्रम बैंड का सपोर्ट मिलता है। मोटोरोला का यह बजट फोन Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 प्रोसेसर के साथ आने वाले OnePlus, Realme, Oppo, Xiaomi जैसे ब्रांड्स के फोन को कड़ी टक्कर दे सकता है।

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UPI ATM explained: What is the new UPI service that Anand Mahindra is talking about https://www.techlusive.in/features/upi-atm-explained-what-is-the-new-upi-service-that-anand-mahindra-is-talking-about-1406608/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:48:48 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/?p=1406608 UPI ATM Explained: NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) is hosting the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) in Mumbai wherein it has launched a bunch of UPI-based features to make digital transactions faster and easier. The organisation has already launched UPI Lite X functionality that enables UPI payments in offline mode, and Hello UPI that uses […]

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UPI ATM Explained: NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) is hosting the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) in Mumbai wherein it has launched a bunch of UPI-based features to make digital transactions faster and easier. The organisation has already launched UPI Lite X functionality that enables UPI payments in offline mode, and Hello UPI that uses voice commands for making UPI payments. In addition to that, NPCI has also introduced what is being dubbed as India’s first UPI ATM.

This initiative also got a shout out from Anand Mahindra who lauded NPCI for its consumer-centric approach. “The speed at which India is digitising financial services & making them consumer-centric as opposed to corporate-centric (Alarm bell for credit card companies?) is simply dazzling,” he wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

So, what is a UPI ATM?

UPI ATM is an ATM that enables UPI users to withdraw cash using the supported UPI apps instead of a conventional debit card or a credit card. It is a White Lable ATM, which is essentially an ATM owned and operated by a company other than a bank. In this case, NPCI has partnered with Hitachi Payments Services to introduce a UPI ATM in India.

How is the UPI ATM different from a conventional ATM?

There are several differences between a conventional ATM and a UPI ATM. First of all, a conventional ATM is owned by a bank, and it requires the users to insert a debit card or a credit card to withdraw the requested amount. On the other hand, a UPI ATM is owned by a company that does operate in the banking sector and it doesn’t require the user to insert any card in the machine for withdrawing cash. Instead, it uses QR codes for enabling transactions.

But what about cardless cash withdrawals?

Some banks in India, such as SBI and HDFC Bank, offer cardless cash withdrawal services to their customers. However, this feature comes with some limitations. First of all, users need to raise a request in the bank’s apps to enable the transaction. In addition to this, users need to visit their specific bank’s ATMs to complete the transaction. Or in other words, an HDFC Bank customer can withdraw cash only at an SBI Bank ATM and not at an ATM by any other bank. However, a UPI ATM can be used to withdraw cash from any supported UPI app.

Is a UPI ATM safe?

Withdrawing money from a UPI ATM is as secure as making payments using UPI as it uses QR codes and one-time permissions within the UPI to make a transaction.

How to use a UPI ATM to withdraw money?

Here is a step-by-step guide for you:

Step 1: Tap the UPI Cardless Cash option on the screen of the UPI ATM.
Step 2: Select the amount that you want to withdraw.
Step 3: Now a QR code will be displayed on the ATM’s screen. Open your UPI app and scan the QR code.
Step 4: Select the bank account from which you want to withdraw money and then tap the Confirm option.
Step 5: Now you will see a pop-up that will show you all the details regarding the transaction. Tap the Proceed button.
Step 6: Add your PIN code and then tap OK.

Once you do this, you will get a successful transaction message in your UPI app and the ATM will disburse the request amount.

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Duolingo announces new music and math learning courses https://www.techlusive.in/apps/duolingo-announces-new-music-learning-course-1406504/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:58:21 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/?p=1406504 Duolingo is enhancing the language learning experience for its users starting next month. Ahead of Duocon, its annual free online education event, the company has revealed a new learning course dubbed Duolingo Music. Tune in to Duocon on Oct 11 to get a special first look 👀 https://t.co/yvaVIPn6lU pic.twitter.com/j26TFUbxVq — Duolingo (@duolingo) September 6, 2023 […]

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Duolingo is enhancing the language learning experience for its users starting next month. Ahead of Duocon, its annual free online education event, the company has revealed a new learning course dubbed Duolingo Music.

The new course will allow users to learn music with bite-sized lessons. Users will be able to learn notes and tunes from the library of over 200+ songs.

“We know math and music, much like language, transcend cultures and connect people,“ said Severin Hacker, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Duolingo. “Soon you will be able to learn math and music in the same Duolingo app – all with the same fun, engaging, and effective experience you know from learning languages with us.”

Duolingo says that more than 3.6 million students in the U.S. don’t have access to music education and private instruction can cost up to $400 per lesson. With this course, users are expected to get music lessons at an affordable price. However, the pricing details will be revealed only next month upon its public arrival.

Additionally, Duolingo will also announce a multi subject experience, which will offer different products in one place. It will gather music, language, and math courses together.

In other news about the app, Duolingo released a new feature for its Indian audience. The app now allows users to learn English from Telugu.  It is worth noting that the app already lets users learn languages with the help of local languages.

“Given the success of our courses for Hindi and Bengali speakers, we aspire to empower Telugu speakers with our new course, enabling effective communication and fostering opportunities that open doors to a world of possibilities,” Karandeep Singh Kapany, Country Marketing Manager, Duolingo India, said in a statement.

Other than this, Duolingo also hopped on the AI bandwagon back in March. Duolingo released the Duolingo Max paid subscription tier that offers AI features built on OpenAI’s GPT 4 model.

Duolingo Max offers two new AI features, namely, ‘Explain my Answer’ and ‘Roleplay’. The former offers feedback on your answers to help users know why and where they made a mistake. It ‘offers context-specific explanations across most exercises in the regular Duolingo app’, and the responses are generated by AI in chatbot format.

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Xiaomi ला रहा तीन कैमरे वाला MIX Flip स्मार्टफोन, लिस्टिंग में लीक हुई डिटेल https://www.techlusive.in/hi/mobile/xiaomi-mix-flip-smartphone-listed-on-imei-come-with-triple-rear-camera-smartphone-1406045/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 07:24:02 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/hi/ Xiaomi MIX Flip स्मार्टफोन को हाल में लिस्टिंग में स्पॉट किया गया है। फोन के रेंडर भी सामने आ गए हैं। इससे स्मार्टफोन के डिजाइन का खुलासा भी हो गया है। डिटेल के लिए आगे पढ़ें।

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Xiaomi MIX Flip स्मार्टफोन की लॉन्चिंग को लेकर खबरें आने लगी हैं। हाल में चीन में शाओनी का एक लॉन्च इवेंट हुआ है। इसमें कंपनी ने कई स्मार्टफोन पेश किए हैं। लिस्ट में Xiaomi MIX Fold 3, Redmi K60 Ultra और Xiaomi Pad 6 Max और बहुत कुछ शामिल है। कंपनी ने यह कन्फर्म कर दिया है Xiaomi MIX FOLD को ग्लोबल मार्केट में लॉन्च नहीं किया जाएगा। अब लोकप्रिय Tipster Digital Chat Station ने इस ओर इशारा किया है कि कंपनी नए फोल्डेबल फोन Xiaomi MIX Flip पर काम कर रहा है। अधिक जानकारी के लिए नीचे पढ़ें।

Xiaomi MIX Flip

Digital Chat Station के अनुसार, कंपनी नए कोडनेम N17 के साथ स्मार्टफोन की नई सीरीज पर काम कर रही है। टिप्स्टर ने Xiaomi के अपकमिंग फोन MIX Flip को IMEI लिस्टिंग में स्पॉट किया है। इसके साथ टिप्स्टर ने Oppo Find N2 भी लिस्टिंग में देखा है। स्मार्टफोन की IMEI लिस्टिंग में अपकमिंग स्मार्टफोन का नाम कन्फर्म हो गया है। लिस्टिंग में फोन का कोड नेम 2311BPN23C दिया गया है।

लिस्टिंग में Xiaomi MIX Flip के स्पेसिफिकेशन सामने नहीं आए हैं। इस फोन में Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5, Motorola Razr 40 और अन्य clamshell स्मार्टफोन जैसी कई समानताएं देखने को मिलेंगी। टिप्स्टर की मानें तो Xiaomi MIX Flip और Xiaomi MIX Fold 4 को साल 2024 में लॉन्च किया जाएगा।

फोन के फीचर्स

टिप्स्टर ने कन्फर्म कर दिया है कि स्मार्टफोन में Qualcomm Snapdragon सीरीज का चिपसेट मिलेगा। GSMChina ने फोन के रेंडर भी शेयर किए हैं। रिपोर्ट्स में दावा किया गया है कि फोन को ट्रिपल रियर कैमरा सेटअप के साथ लाया जाएगा। फोन 3x ऑप्टिकल जूम के साथ टेलीफोटो सेंसर से भी लैस हो सकता है।

Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 के फीचर्स

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Google turns 25: CEO Sundar Pichai reflects on 25 years of the company from Search to AI https://www.techlusive.in/news/google-turns-25-ceo-sundar-pichai-reflects-on-25-years-of-the-company-from-search-to-ai-1405986/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:48:03 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/?p=1405986 Google turns 25: Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on September 4, 1998. As the company turned 25 this year, Google CEO and Alphabet Inc CEO Sundar Pichai shared a message reflecting on the journey of the company so far. In his message, Pichai said that Google Search has been the company’s […]

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Google turns 25: Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on September 4, 1998. As the company turned 25 this year, Google CEO and Alphabet Inc CEO Sundar Pichai shared a message reflecting on the journey of the company so far. In his message, Pichai said that Google Search has been the company’s biggest moonshot so far. “Search is still at the core of our mission, and it’s still our biggest moonshot with so much more to do,” he wrote in the note.

In his note, he also touched on the subject of AI (artificial intelligence), its risks and its benefits. He said that Google was developing AI while addressing all the risks and complexities. “As excited as we are about the potential of AI to benefit people and society, we understand that AI, like any early technology, poses complexities and risks. Our development and use of AI must address these risks, and help to develop the technology responsibly,” he added.

Talking about the future, Pichai said that the goal for the coming 10 years is to make AI more helpful for everyone, and deploy it responsibly.

Read Sundar Pichai’s detailed note as Google turns 25

To everyone around the world who uses our products, our employees, and our partners:

This month, Google will celebrate our 25th birthday. It’s a huge privilege to reach this milestone, made possible by the people who use our products and challenge us to keep innovating, the hundreds of thousands of Googlers past and present who have given their talents to building those products, and our partners who believe in our mission as much as we do.

It’s a time for some gratitude, and a moment to reflect.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how far technology has come over the last 25 years and how people adapt to it. Years ago, when I was studying in the U.S., my dad — who was back in India — got his first email address. I was really excited to have a faster (and cheaper) way to communicate with him, so I sent a message.

And then I waited…and waited. It was two full days before I got this reply:

“Dear Mr. Pichai, email received. All is well.”

Perplexed by the delay and the formality, I called him up to see what happened. He told me that someone at his work had to bring up the email on their office computer, print it out, and then deliver it to him. My dad dictated a response, which the guy wrote down and eventually typed up to send back to me.

Fast forward to a few months ago: I was with my teenage son. He saw something interesting, took some quick pictures and shared them with his friends. Then they exchanged a few messages, and it all seemed faster than the time it would take me just to pull out my phone.

How I communicated with my dad all those years ago compared with how my son communicates today shows just how much change can happen across generations. Technology that takes us years to adapt to is second nature for our kids. Ideas my dad marveled at as science fiction — taking a call from your watch, or telling your car to play your favorite song — make my children shrug.

Those shrugs give me great hope for the future. They set a high bar for what the next generation will build and invent…and I can’t wait to see what will make their children shrug, too.

An essential truth of innovation is that the moment you push the boundary of a technology, it soon goes from extraordinary to ordinary. That’s why Google has never taken our success for granted.

It all started with a search

Larry and Sergey first wrote down our mission 25 years ago: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. They had an ambitious vision for a new kind of search engine to help people make sense of the waves of information moving online. The product they built, Google Search, went on to help billions of people around the world get answers to their questions.

For a few years, I was one of those people experiencing Google like any other user of the web. I remember feeling blown away by Google’s ability to find the best answer for the most esoteric questions, from a tiny detail buried in a store’s customer service page to an obscure football rule.

The questions I’ve asked Google have evolved over time: “How do you fix a dripping faucet?” “Fastest route to Stanford Hospital?” “Ways to calm a crying baby?” And right around spring of 2003, perhaps: “How to ace a Google interview?” And over time, Google got much better at answering them.

It’s been inspiring to see what people have done with the answers to their questions, be it to find health care or comfort in difficult times, learn new skills, pursue new career paths, or start new businesses. The idea that a student in rural Indonesia could access the same information as a professor at Stanford was revolutionary, and has changed lives and our world for the better. It’s opened up access to education and entrepreneurship like nothing else before it, or since.

Search also laid the foundations for Google to make an economic impact beyond our own walls. Our advertising platforms and tools started out with a premise as simple as Search itself: to help businesses reach customers who were already looking for the kinds of products and services they offer. It was a platform that appealed to small businesses in particular, like the mail-order business selling lobsters that was the first to sign up. And also like Search itself, the ability for any business to advertise online has had a truly transformational impact, helping millions of businesses become part of the digital economy.

A quarter century of questions

Search is still at the core of our mission, and it’s still our biggest moonshot with so much more to do.

Of course, Google today is more than a search box. We have 15 Google products that each serve more than half a billion people and businesses, and six that serve more than 2 billion users each.

Like most Google searches, all those products started with a question, too. With Gmail it was Could we offer 1 GB of storage to every person? In 2004, when Gmail launched, that volume of storage was over 100X what most other free webmail services were offering!

Then a few years later, we saw an opportunity to dramatically improve web browsers — and in turn the web — for people everywhere. So with Chrome we asked: Could we build a browser that made the web better, with simplicity, speed, and security at its core? Right before launch, I had my own question: Will people use this?

YouTube dared to ask: What if we gave everyone a way to share what they know with the world? And today, it’s become a powerful platform for learning and knowledge.

The questions have kept coming, and we’ve kept improving and expanding our products with new answers: What if Google Maps enabled people to see every street in the world in detail? What if we built a translation tool that allowed people to access information, and communicate in multiple languages? What if you could search and find all your old photos by simply describing what you wanted to see?

We’ve also asked ourselves how we could best share our tools, breakthroughs, and infrastructure with others. Google was built in the cloud from the start, even though we only launched our Cloud business in 2008. Today, Google Cloud has become one of the top enterprise companies in the world. Partners across industries are using Google technology to improve customer support and supply chain efficiency, reduce their carbon footprint, build new applications, and get more done with AI. Like our advertising clients before them, Cloud’s partners are operating better, growing faster and creating jobs, with our help.

Of course, not every question we asked ended up as a success. In any 25-year journey, you take a few lumps, learn the lessons and work to do better. Remember Google Wave?

We’ve also faced hard questions about our future as a company. In the 2000s it was how long can the web really last? In the 2010s, people asked if we could adapt to the era of mobile computing, and whether search was “over?” Each time, we’ve answered by coming back even stronger. We’ve done this guided by a singular focus on our mission, our belief in applying deep computer science to make people’s lives better, and a healthy disregard for the impossible.

A healthy disregard for the impossible

That healthy disregard is why we’ve been able to take on problems others couldn’t — or wouldn’t. There was, for example, this impossible idea of putting a powerful computer in everyone’s pocket, no matter their income or internet connectivity. Today, Android runs on 3 billion devices all over the world, from the latest foldables to entry-level phones. It’s been at the core of our efforts to make the internet more accessible for everyone, and inspired other, transformative products. Likewise, Chromebooks made computing available to schools all over the world. And Google Pixel puts the best of our latest technology — machine learning-powered cameras, speech recognition, transcription capabilities, tensor chips and more — directly into people’s hands.

Which brings us to AI. Google has been investing in AI since almost the beginning. We were one of the first to use machine learning in our products, starting in the early 2000s, for spelling corrections, improving the quality of ads, and showing suggestions and recommendations.

Then, in the early 2010s, there was real excitement around deep neural networks. In 2012, a few of us went along to a demo in a meeting room near Charlie’s, our main campus cafe. I remember watching in awe as the Research team showed us the progress they’d made with image recognition, driven by breakthroughs in neural networks. It was the first moment I thought to myself: this is really going to change everything!

I had a similar feeling when I saw the groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research happening at DeepMind, focused on understanding the nature of intelligence. This progress deeply influenced my thinking, when I became CEO in 2015, that Google should pivot to be an AI-first company.

More questions followed. How to power this new generation of computing? So we invented Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs — which provided dramatic performance improvements of 30X to 80X for machine learning over other hardware at the time, and powered the AlphaGo computer that beat the Go world champion Lee Sedol in 2016. Around the same time, we released our landmark Transformer paper in 2017, which created the neural network architecture that’s the foundation for most of the generative AI and large language models today.

Many of these technology breakthroughs have led to some of our most incredible product innovations. Search results for complex queries got much more helpful because of large language models like MUM and BERT. We’ve created entirely new ways for people to express what they’re looking for through voice, images, and even asking questions about what they see with multisearch. Now, generative AI is helping us reimagine our core products in exciting ways — from our new Search Generative Experience (SGE), to “Help Me Write” in Gmail. And earlier this year, we launched Bard, an early experiment that lets people collaborate with generative AI.

My favorite moments are seeing how our products can make a difference in people’s lives: Whether it’s a busy parent taking a photo of their craft drawer and using Bard to inspire a rainy day project for their kids; a traveler using Lens to translate a train schedule in a foreign country; or, more profoundly, a family able to hear the voice of a man with ALS, thanks to our research on speech recognition and synthesis.

Designing products that help people at scale is both a privilege and a responsibility. People have their own questions: Can we trust these new technologies? We think deeply about how to build responsible technology from the start, whether it’s making sure everyone’s information is protected and secure, or keeping people safe from bad actors online.

This also includes engaging in the important debates about how those technologies will shape our society, and then finding the answers together. AI is a key part of this. As excited as we are about the potential of AI to benefit people and society, we understand that AI, like any early technology, poses complexities and risks. Our development and use of AI must address these risks, and help to develop the technology responsibly. The AI principles we launched in 2018 are an important part of how we do this. These principles prompt questions like: Will it be helpful to people and benefit society, or could it lead to harm in any way? They also shape our product development and AI applications, and guide us in finding solutions to emerging issues. For example, just last week we introduced SynthID, a tool for watermarking and identifying AI-generated images, which will help address an important issue around transparency. We’ll continue to engage with experts and the community to keep learning and improving.

Looking ahead

As we look ahead, I’ve been reflecting on the commitment from our original founder’s letter in 2004: “to develop services that improve the lives of as many people as possible — to do things that matter.”

With AI, we have the opportunity to do things that matter on an even larger scale.

We’re just beginning to see what the next wave of technology is capable of and how quickly it can improve. One million people are already using generative AI in Google Workspace to write and create. Flood forecasting now covers places where 460+ million people live. A million researchers have used the AlphaFold database which covers 200 million predictions of protein structures, helping with advances to cut plastic pollution, tackle antibiotic resistance, fight malaria, and more. And we’ve demonstrated how AI can help the airline industry to decrease contrails from planes, an important tool for fighting climate change.

Still, there is so much more ahead. Over time, AI will be the biggest technological shift we see in our lifetimes. It’s bigger than the shift from desktop computing to mobile, and it may be bigger than the internet itself. It’s a fundamental rewiring of technology and an incredible accelerant of human ingenuity.

Making AI more helpful for everyone, and deploying it responsibly, is the most important way we’ll deliver on our mission for the next 10 years and beyond.

And now AI will allow us, and others, to ask questions like:

How could every student have access to a personal tutor, in any language, and on any topic?
How could we enable entrepreneurs to develop new forms of clean energy?
What tools could we invent to help people design and create new products and grow new businesses?
How can fields like transportation, or agriculture, be reimagined?
How could we help communities predict and prepare for natural disasters?

As these new frontiers come into view, we have a renewed invitation to act boldly and responsibly to improve as many lives as possible, and to keep asking those big questions.

Our search for answers will drive extraordinary technology progress over the next 25 years.

And in 2048, if, somewhere in the world, a teenager looks at all we’ve built with AI and shrugs, we’ll know we succeeded. And then we’ll get back to work.

Thanks for an amazing 25,

Sundar Pichai

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G20 Summit: MeitY showcases Aadhaar, DigiLocker at Digital Experience Zones in Delhi https://www.techlusive.in/news/g20-summit-meity-showcases-aadhaar-digilocker-at-digital-experience-zones-in-delhi-1405823/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:50:13 +0000 https://www.techlusive.in/?p=1405823 G20 Summit:  The Indian government is set to host Heads of State and other government officials at the G20 Summit in New Delhi between September 9 and September 10. Ahead of the event, which will be held at Pragati Maidan, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced that it will be showcasing […]

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G20 Summit:  The Indian government is set to host Heads of State and other government officials at the G20 Summit in New Delhi between September 9 and September 10. Ahead of the event, which will be held at Pragati Maidan, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced that it will be showcasing key pillars of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure or DPI at the event venue.

MeitY today said that it is setting up two state-of-the-art Digital India Experience Zones in Hall 4 and Hall 14 at Pragati Maidan as a key attraction during the 18th G20 Summit in New Delhi. These Digital Experience Zones will provide hands-on experience to the G20 delegates on Digital Public Infrastructure, which includes platforms and services such as Aadhaar, UPI or United Payments Interface and DigiLocker, to name a few. MeitY has said that that it has selected seven key initiatives to showcase at the Digital India Experience Zones. These initiatives are: Aadhaar, DigiLocker, UPI, eSanjeevani, DIKSHA, Bhashini and ONDC.

“Through LIVE demonstrations of Aadhaar Face Authentication Software, attendees have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and interact with cutting-edge technology, while the UPI exhibit will enable visitors to explore and discover the various applications of UPI worldwide. What’s more, visitors can scan the QR codes to buy goodies and initiate seamless transactions with a nominal payment,” MeitY wrote in a press release.

In addition to that, guests and delegates will also be able to learn about the utility and role of DigiLocker in streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency across sectors such as education, finance and banking, travel, transport, real estate, legal and judiciary. “At the eSanjeevani exhibit is that doctors from various domains – Cardiology, Mental Health, Ophthalmologist, and General Medicine will be present to provide online consultation and give visitors real-time health analysis and advice along with an e-prescription,” MeitY added.

Similarly, the DIKSHA exhibit will enable visitors to explore the wealth of educational resources available on DIKSHA, while the Bhashini exhibit will offer real-time speech-to-speech translation in all Indian languages as well as six UN languages. Guests will also be able to interact to see how Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) collaborates with sellers, customers and network providers on a large scale.

In addition to that, Digital India Experience Zones will also showcase a grand display of Digital India’s iconic journey will take visitors through the major milestones of Digital India since 2014, bringing to life the advancements that have been made in the digital space through simulated virtual reality.

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