Aashish Aryan

2 weeks ago | rediff.com | Aashish Aryan |Shivani Shinde

Google is likely to rejig the roles of some of the engineering talent from its Hyderabad and Bengaluru offices and move some of its employees to more revenue-generating projects instead of letting them go for now, sources told Business Standard. This comes amid reports of search giant Google laying off employees from its Platforms and Devices division, including teams working on Android software and Pixel smartphones.

3 weeks ago | rediff.com | Aashish Aryan

Inputs from religious texts, scriptures of local dialects and inspirational word-of-mouth stories will also be included. The government is planning to use text, images, and other content from religious books and scriptures -- cutting across languages like Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, and some others -- as inputs for the AIKosh database, according to sources aware of the development.

1 month ago | rediff.com | Aashish Aryan

The government on Tuesday notified the Rs 22,919 crore scheme to promote domestic manufacturing of electronics components, display and camera modules, non-surface mount devices, multi-layer printed circuit boards and lithium-ion cells for digital applications, among others. The scheme is likely to be operationalised in the next 2-3 weeks.

1 month ago | rediff.com | Aashish Aryan |Nivedita Mookerji

The "construct of the DPDP Act" cannot be changed at this stage, though there may be some minor tweaks in the language of the Rules and formats in certain legitimate cases. Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. The government is unlikely to make any changes to the data storage and cross-border data transfer norms mentioned in the draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP) Rules, sources told Business Standard.

1 month ago | business-standard.com | Aashish Aryan

Kaplan talks about free flow of data to age-appropriate content and moreAashish Aryan New Delhi Mandating data localisation does not make sense for countries which want their companies to compete at an international level, the chief global affairs officer at Meta Joel Kaplan told Aashish Aryan in New Delhi. Edited excerpts from a conversation that ranged from free flow of data to age-appropriate content and more:What do you think of the draft rules of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act?