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Hong Kong’s securities watchdog announced new plans to allow retail investor access to virtual assets platform. Read Full Article

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that now is a good time to start thinking about the governance of superintelligence — future AI systems dramatically more capable than even artificial generative intelligence (AGI). Altman stressed that the world must mitigate the risks of today’s AI technology too, “but superintelligence will require special treatment and coordination”. “Given the picture as we see it now, it’s conceivable that within the next 10 years, AI systems will exceed expert skill level in most domains, and carry out as much productive activity as one of today’s largest corporations,” he said in…

Shares of state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) continued trading higher on the bourses, gaining up to 3 per cent on the BSE in Tuesday’s intra-day trade, on improved operational performance in the January-March quarter (Q4FY23) on sequential basis. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) (Rs 263.35), Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) (Rs 89.92) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) (Rs 371.95) rose 3 per cent each in the intra-day trade today. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 0.41 per cent at 61,216 at 12:57 PM. In the past six months, IOCL, which hit a fresh 52-week high today, has rallied 28…

Uber’s head of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Bo Young Lee Uber Technologies, the technology platform for transport, has placed its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) chief Bo Young Lee on leave following complaints from employees that her employee event, “Don’t Call Me Karen,” was offensive to persons of colour, according to The New York Times. Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s CEO, and Nikki Krishnamurthy, chief people officer, last week asked Bo Young Lee, head of diversity, “to step back and take a leave of absence while we determine next steps,” according to an email from Mr Krishnamurthy to some employees that was…

Waste plastic is used to build the structure. Multiple urban and rural sources of pollution, with plastic trash making up the majority of them, are putting the marine biodiversity of the seas under threat. Ocean plastic pollution is a persistent problem around the globe; animals may become entangled in larger pieces of plastic like fishing nets or ingest microplastics that eventually enter the food chain to be consumed by humans. Research published in March this year found that there are an estimated 170 trillion pieces of plastic, mainly microplastics, on the surface of the world’s oceans today, much of it…

With the flick of a lever, the rover’s iconic six-wheel suspension spins a set of ball-tipped gears — to turn four of its wheels inward so you can spin the entire craft 360-degrees. You can switch back and forth between that 360-degree mode and a normal driving mode, much like you can see in the NASA JPL video here:There’s also pair of additional dials on the back to move the sample arm up, down, left and right for play. It’s a fairly large set, at 9 inches high, 9 inches wide, and 12.5 inches long.And, there’s an AR app if…

In a recent interview, Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier confirmed that the government could access clients’ private keys through the Ledger Recover feature in case of a subpoena. Ledger Recover Even though he clarified that “subpoenas are not for everyone,” his comments confirmed what the crypto community believed about Ledger devices. Typically, subpoenas are issued in extreme cases. For example, they can target individuals suspected of engaging in terrorist activities and breaking existing anti-terrorist financing rules. Ledger is a hardware wallet manufacturer, and through their devices, users can store the private keys of several cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other tokens.  Bitcoin…

The private seed phrases of Ledger users could be shared with governments if their custodians were ordered to do so, but this is “not a real concern,” according to CEO Paul Gauthier. Read Full Article

The Sukanya Samriddhi account is a popular savings instrument in India for parents with daughters as it offers government-guaranteed, tax-free returns. However, simply opening a Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) account may not be sufficient for securing your daughter’s future due to several reasons.  Top 6 reasons not to invest in Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana1)Sukanya Samriddhi account interest rateSukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) currently offers an interest rate of 8 per cent. However, this SSY interest rate is changeable on a quarterly basis. This may not be enough to combat the high inflation associated with goals like education and marriage expenses, said Amit…

Google Pay in conjunction with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Tuesday launched the facility for users to make United Payments Interface (UPI) payments with RuPay credit cards. With this, users will now be able to link their RuPay credit cards with Google Pay to pay at all online and offline merchants where RuPay credit cards are accepted. This is in line with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s decision to allow the linking of RuPay credit cards to the UPI platform in June 2022. “The integration of RuPay Credit Card on UPI delivers a remarkable user…