This week in tech news (1st week of February 2024): RBI bans Paytm Payments Bank citing persistent non-compliance and serious supervisory concerns, Apple brings long-awaited Vision Pro headset to US Now on sale.
This week's tech news in India: This week has been an interesting week in the world of technology. Apple officially launched its first spatial computing device, Vision Pro, and RBI also announced to ban his Paytm Payments Bank from all services. Credit or deposit related transactions.
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Apple launches Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro headset is currently available in the US starting at $3,499 or approximately Rs 3,00,000, making it one of the most expensive consumer mixed reality or spatial computing devices powered by the M2 chip. Masu. Powers your MacBook and iPad Pro.
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Paytm Payments bank banned in India
RBI has banned Paytm Payments Bank, which will come into effect from March 2024, and the bank will not be able to offer any kind of credit or deposit-related transactions due to non-compliance and serious supervisory concerns. However, Paytm has ensured that all services will continue to work for users and the platform will soon partner with other banks to offer products such as Paytm Wallet, Paytm-linked FASTag .
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X trying to be the next YouTube
X, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform, is currently focused on attracting more creators to its platform by incentivizing high payouts for content they publish natively on the platform. Masu. As a result of this effort, the platform recently paid Jimmy Donaldson, also known as Mr. Beast, a whopping $263,655 for a video that received over 169 million views. According to the creator, this payout is much higher than what YouTube pays for similar videos. number.
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Google may rebrand Bard
Bard, Google's generative AI assistant, may soon be getting a makeover and is expected to be called Gemini, leaked documents from X, formerly Twitter, suggest. Google already calls some of its large language models “Gemini,” and this rebrand will make it much easier for the company to offer a variety of AI-powered features under one umbrella. It will be.
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Date first uploaded: April 2, 2024 14:04 IST