Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family Plan Pricing Details Confirmed for Ireland and Colombia

Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family plan is now official. Microsoft has revealed pricing details for the long-rumoured plan, which is now available in Ireland and Colombia. The subscription allows users to share their account benefits with up to four people in their gaming circle. Game Pass Friends & Family is priced at €21.99 (about Rs. 1,746) per month in Ireland, and...

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AI-generated artwork that won 1st prize stirs controversy

San Francisco, Sep 2 (IANS) A game designer has won the Colorado State Fair's fine art competition using an AI-generated piece of art in the US, which has created a stir among other artists who have accused him of accelerating the death of creative jobs.

According to The Verge, the artwork titled "Theatre d'Opera Spatial", which Jason Allen submitted for the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition under the category "Digital Arts/Digitally-Manipulated Photography", was made using the well-known text-to-image AI generator Midjourney.

Since most people are unfamiliar with how text-to-image AI generators function, many users claimed that Allen had been dishonest in submitting the work.

This claim was made in response to a widely shared tweet about Allen's victory.

However, Allen has defended himself and said: "I wanted to make a statement using artificial intelligence artwork."

"I feel like I accomplished that, and I'm not going to apologise for it," the report quoted him as saying to The Pueblo Chieftain.

Text-to-image AI systems are trained on billions of pairs of images and text descriptions, which they mine for visual patterns, the report said.

Users then feed them text descriptions known as prompts, and the software generates an image that matches this description based on its training data, it added.

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8 in 10 Twitter accounts fake, claims top security expert as Musk laughs

New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday went after Parag Agrawal-led platform once again, after a top cybersecurity expert claimed that as high as eight in 10 Twitter accounts are fake.

Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence at cybersecurity company F5, who spent more than 20 years with the US federal law enforcement and intelligence organisations, told The Australian that more than 80 per cent of Twitter accounts are probably bots -- a massive claim as Twitter says only 5 per cent of its users are bots/spams.

"Sure sounds higher than 5 per cent," tweeted Musk, along with tagging the news article.

"On a $/bot basis, this deal is awesome," he chuckled.

Musk has terminated the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal, and the matter is now in a US court, over the presence of bots on the platform, and seeks answers from Agrawal via an open debate.

According to Woods, a former CIA and FBI cybersecurity specialist, both Musk and Twitter have underestimated the bot problem on the micro-blogging platform.

Musk is now trying to buy more time from the court to start the Twitter trial, set for October 17, citing the testimony by whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko.

Zatko is set to testify at US Congress on September 13 about allegations he leveled against the Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform.

The former Twitter security head has alleged that Twitter misled regulators about its security practices and actual number of bot accounts.

Zatko has also received a subpoena from Musk's legal team to appear for a deposition on September 9 in the ongoing lawsuit between Twitter and Musk.

Musk has said that the testimony of Twitter whistleblower justifies his termination of the $44 billion deal to buy the micro-blogging platform.

The Tesla CEO has to prove to the court that Twitter violated some aspect of the merger agreement, else he will have to shell out a $1 billion fine for cancelling the deal.

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Saints Row Review: How Not to Make Open World Games

Saints Row review: the new open-world game from Deep Silver Volition utterly fails to recreate the quirky life of crime that the original series mastered. Saints Row was released on August 23 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X. The game serves as a reboot of the popular Saints Row franchise that rivalled the GTA series.

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Tech can help solve some of Indias biggest challenges: Microsoft President

New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith on Thursday said that technology can help solve some of India's biggest challenges, like climate change and food security.

Smith, who is in India this week, said the country can take a giant leap via world-class innovations that can help solve global issues.

"I'm in India as the country celebrates 75 years of Independence. It's an exciting time to learn more about how technology can help solve some of India's biggest challenges -- and how India's innovation is shaping the future," tweeted Smith.

A Twitter user from India responded: "Welcome to India, Brad. Food security and climate change are the biggest threat to humanity and I strongly believe India will emerge as a global leader, showcasing how to make the world a better place for everyone".

The Microsoft president earlier met Minister of State for IT and Electronics, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, in the capital.

"Brad Smith, Microsoft India's Anant Maheshwari called on me at my office. Had a discussion around the future of emerging technologies," Chandrasekhar had tweeted.

Smith earlier said that India will become the global superpower in artificial intelligence (AI).

During the 'RAISE 2020' virtual conference on AI inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he applauded the Indian government's efforts in AI development, saying the national strategy on AI is the right foundation.

"AI can revolutionise virtually every part of the economy, and I think in so many ways the countries that move the fastest to deploy AI more quickly than others, will find that they will be accelerating economic growth," he had said.

Last Year, Smith said that India will play an important role in regulating technology.

"In my view, India has really been at the forefront, together with the EU, in advancing principles around digital sovereignty," Smith had said during a media interaction.

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LG OLED Flex TV LX3 With 42-Inch Bendable Display Launched: Details

LG’s latest television, the OLED Flex is a 42-inch television with a bendable display that can be used either as a flat screen or a curved display with a curvature of up to 900R. The television is designed for a more immersive gaming experience, with a 4K HDR-capable screen.

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Cryptocom accidentally credits more than 7mn to a customer: Heres what happened next

Due to an unfortunate typo, cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com mistakenly issued a customer A$10.5 million ($7.2 million) rather than the expected A$100 ($68), media reports say. Seven months later, when the exchange finally discovered the error, but till then some of the money had already gone, The Verge reported citing the Australian news outlet 7News as saying. The initial transfer occurred in May 2021. However, the exchange only realised the mistake when conducting an audit in December that year, the report said. Thevamanogari Manivel, the customer in question, reportedly transferred the money to a joint account and spent $890,526 on a lavish, five-bedroom mansion for her sister instead of reporting the inaccurate return to the exchange. Now the company's fighting to get its cash back with a lawsuit filed in the Victoria Supreme Court. The court has also ordered Manivel to sell the home and return the money (with interest) to the exchange. The case will resume in court this October.

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