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The inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee said that in the future, people will have their own personal AI assistant, similar to ChatGPT
Several big tech companies had expressed reservations over the GACs, which can overturn the decisions taken by grievance officers of social media companies
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said the latest amendment of intermediary guidelines is focused on protection of online users. The comment came as the government notified new rules under which it will set up appellate panels to settle grievances that users may have against decisions of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook on hosting contentious content. The three-member Grievance Appellate Committee(s) will be set in three months, according to the gazette notification issued on Friday. Soon after the tweaks in IT rules were notified, Vaishnaw said, The focus of the amendment of intermediary guidelines is on the protection of online users. The law of the land is supreme. Intermediary to ensure accessibility of its services to all users and respect their rights under the Constitution of India," he noted. According to the latest amendments, the appellate committees will be able to review content moderation and other decisions of social media companies such as Meta
Functionality will be available for general users of company's app store and browser later this year
Tech giant was yesterday ordered to pay Rs 937 cr as penalty for abusing dominant position of its app store
Microsoft-owned GitHub has an annual recurring revenue of $1 billion with over 90 million active users, said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft
Hit hard by 2 back-to-back fines by Competition Commission of India, Google on Wednesday said that it is committed to its users and developers and reviewing the decision to evaluate the next steps
Global consumer spending on in-app purchases, premium apps, and subscriptions on Apple App Store, Google Play declined by 4.8% (year-over-year) to $31.6 billion in Q3, a new report showed on Friday.
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The code was sold by Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist credited with writing the source code that forms the basis of the World Wide Web
The code was written by the British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee between 1990 and 1991, will be tied to an NFT, a smart contract that proves the code's authenticity, right of ownership
Berners-Lee cautioned it was important to strike a balance between oversight and freedom but difficult to agree what it should be