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Tesla gears up for fully self-driving cars amid skepticism (Update)

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Tesla gears up for fully self-driving cars amid skepticism (Update)  April 22, 2019 by Michael Liedtke And Tom Krisher Tesla CEO Elon Musk maintained that the electric carmaker had developed the "best" computer chip for autonomous driving Tesla expects to have full self-driving cars in which humans won't have to touch the steering wheel around the second quarter of next year. The company made the announcement during an investor conference at its Palo Alto, California, headquarters Monday, in which it outlined its bold but risky bid to transform Tesla's electric cars into driverless vehicles. CEO Elon Musk told investors that the company's computer to enable its electric cars to become self-driving vehicles is powered by the best processing chip in the world. Tesla had never made its own computer chip before it hired an ex-Apple engineer three years ago to design it. Now, Musk boasts the chip is better than any other on the market "by a huge margin." Expe...

New launch Rs 20 Note

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RBI to launch new Rs 20 notes, this is what they look like The Reserve Bank of India will soon be issuing new Rs 20 notes. The notes will come in a greenish yellow colour and will be a continuation of the Mahatma Gandhi series. The new notes will have a motif of Ellora Caves on the reverse, depicting the country’s cultural heritage, a press release by the RBI said. While the base colour of the note will have be Greenish Yellow, it will have “other designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse”. At the same time, the press release also clarified that the previous banknotes in the denomination of Rs 20 issued by the RBI will continue to be legal tender. Apart from a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre of the note, it will also have the denominational numeral 20 written in Devnagari script. The new notes will also have the Ashoka Pillar emblem on the right, Mahatma Gandhi portrait and electrotype (2...

Upcoming 5G

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What is 5G and what will it mean for you? By Matthew Wall Toechnology of Business editor   Business Share this with Email Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with Whatsapp Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionHigh-speed mobile could enable robots, sensors and other machines to communicate Superfast "fifth generation 5G" mobile internet could be launched as early as next year in some countries, promising download speeds 10 to 20 times faster than we have now. But what difference will it really make to our lives? Will we need new phones? And will it solve the "notspot" issue for people in remote areas? What is 5G exactly? It's the next - fifth-generation of mobile internet connectivity promising much faster data download and upload speeds, wider coverage and more stable connections. It's all about making better use of the radio spectrum and enabling far more devices to access the mobile internet at the same time. Wha...

Most hacked passwords

Do You Use '123456' or 'Qwerty' As Your Passwords? World's Most Hacked Passwords Released; Is Yours on the List? Most hacked passwords Is your password strong enough that it cannot be hacked? According to a new study, millions of people are using '123456' or 'qwerty' as their passwords. While we would have all at some point used these as our passwords, its high time we change it. The study says that these passwords are the most hacked ones as it is widely used. According to UK's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), 23.2 million accounts that were hacked used the password '123456'. The second most used password is 123456789; the top five also includes 1111111. Details of the analysis covering the 100,000 most commonly re-occurring passwords accessed by hackers in global breaches were taken from the site ' Have I Been Pwned ' run by security expert Troy Hunt. The survey comes ahead of the NCSC's Cyber UK conference wh...

IMPORTANT FOR ONLINE SBI CUSTOMERS

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For SBI Customers: Forgot Your Password? Reset it This Way SBI net banking provides you almost every banking service at the comfort of your home. May it be fund transfer, online shopping, utility bill payment or mobile recharge, SBI net banking has made life simpler and faster. You don’t have to visit the bank to avail such services. Every transaction is secured by passwords. credit: third party image reference You may need to reset your login and transaction passwords under certain conditions as discussed below: 1. Go the official website of State Bank of India and click on 'Login' under Personal Banking. 2. A page will be displayed, Click on 'Continue to Login' to proceed. 3. Click on "Forget Login Password" on the login screen. 4. On the new page, select 'Forgot My Login Password' and click on 'Next' to proceed. 5. You will be redirected to a page where you will be asked to provide details like username, account number, countr...