Coca-Cola signs a $1.1 billion deal to use Microsoft Cloud and AI Technology

Under the agreement, Microsoft and Coca-Cola will "jointly experiment" with Azure OpenAI. That service uses technology from Microsoft-backed startup and ChatGPT creator OpenAI to let customers build chatbots and other AI services that run in Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service.

Coca-Cola would test Microsoft's Copilot offerings to see how the tools improve productivity for the beverage maker. Copilot is an AI assistant that can help summarize lengthy email discussions and build slide decks for business presentations, among its many functions.

🔗 Microsoft

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Nintendo Eyeing To Enter the Indian Market

Nintendo has never launched its consoles officially in India.

One of the reasons that Nintendo did not choose to enter the Indian market is likely due to high taxed imposed on video games and consoles.

Also, Nintendo is not a “fan of India’s BIS rules which they fear could reveal their factories.”

Now its been reported that Nintendo has been “eyeing India again.”
Recently, Nintendo employees visited key Indian markets like Mumbai .

However, NO deal has been finalised between Nintendo and any distributor in India.

Nintendo Switch 2 is scheduled to release in 2025 now instead of 2024 previously

ℹ️ Credits: @TechLeaksZone
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MS-DOS 4.0 is now open source!

In partnership with IBM and in the spirit of open innovation, Microsoft has now released the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license.

While their team was unable to find the full source code for MT-DOS, they did find MS DOS 4.00, which is now released, alongside the additional beta binaries, PDFs of the documentation, and disk images.

🌐 GitHub
🔗 MS Blog

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WhatsApp tells Delhi High Court it will shut down in India if forced to break encryption

The court was hearing petitions filed by WhatsApp and its parent company Meta challenging Rule 4(2) of the Information Technology Rules, 2021. Rule 4(2) says ‘significant’ social media intermediaries (those with more than five million registered users) must be able to identify the first originator of any information on its platform when ordered to do so by a court or another competent authority.

WhatsApp said that complying with the rule would require storing vast numbers of messages for extended periods, which no other country mandates. It said the rule exceeded the scope of its parent law, the Information Technology Act, which does not mandate breaking encryption.

The government argued that there must be a mechanism in place to trace the originators of messages, citing the need for accountability. The court has adjourned the case to 14 August.

As a platform we are saying that if we are told to break encryption, then WhatsApp goes

🔗 Mint
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Telegram is down, imagine this message gets sent before it's up.

Edit (11:02 GMT +05:30):
• It went down at approximately 9:35.
• It's up now, no wonder you can see this message.

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Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements

Microsoft has added a code that will warn you if your PC does not meet the hardware requirements. The warning will be displayed as a watermark so you know that you cannot use certain AI-powered built-in apps because of an unsupported CPU.

While initially, only PopCnt seemed to be a necessity, it looks like mandatory SSE4.2 requirement is also being added to the underlying code, and unsupported old CPUs that do not pack these instructions will no longer be able to boot into Windows 11 24H2.

🔗 Tom's Hardware

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Is Telegram's DC5 down again? Hell yeah, it is.

Edit (2:05 PM - GMT +05:30):
• It went down at approximately 1:36 PM
• It's now up at 2:05 PM

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Wondering which data centers (DC) are associated with which countries? Here's a list with the corresponding country codes:

• DC1
• DC2
• DC3
• DC4
• DC5

ℹ️ Credits: OctoGram - DC Status

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Want to check your typing speed? Here's how you can do it:

You can use a website like https://monkeytype.com or https://typeracer.com to check your typing speed. They will give you random words or sentences to type.

After the test finishes, they will tell you your typing speed, also known as WPM or Words Per Minute, with accuracy and more data.

Here's mine, check your typing speed with MonkeyType and send it in the comments!

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YouTube Now Wants to Show You Ads When You Pause Videos

These ads will show up when you pause an ongoing video you watched. The ads will take up the screen while the video you were watching is paused. The video will be shrunk down and ads will fill up the player. You will need to dismiss the pause ad to resume watching the video.

Pause ads on smart TVs were already under pilot testing, as announced in YouTube’s Brandcast event last year. Google’s Vice President Philipp Schindler shared the results of this experimental test during Alphabet’s first quarter earnings call. According to him,

"Initial results show that Pause Ads are driving strong brand lift results and are commanding attention."

🔗 Beebom

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iPads join iPhones in requirement to follow strict EU rules

iPadOS will now have to comply with the rules that allow users in Europe to download apps from outside the Apple App Store, uninstall apps preloaded on iPads, and select default services like browsers from choice screens.

The Commission's investigation found that Apple presents the features of a gatekeeper in relation to iPadOS, as among others:

• Apple's business user numbers exceeded the quantitative threshold elevenfold, while its end user numbers were close to the threshold and are predicted to rise in the near future.

• End users are locked-in to iPadOS. Apple leverages its large ecosystem to disincentivise end users from switching to other operating systems for tablets.

• Business users are locked-in to iPadOS because of its large and commercially attractive user base, and its importance for certain use cases, such as gaming apps.

Apple has now six months to ensure full compliance with the DMA obligations as applied to iPadOS.

🔗 EU's website
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