Following extensive testing for the proof of concept, Disney Star, the Indian division of the media behemoth Walt Disney Company, is ready to debut its Starverse metaverse platform.
As per ET, the Starverse launch has been coordinated with the start of the 2023 Indian Premier League (IPL) season. The metaverse platform will assist Disney Star in improving its online sports fan experience.
According to Disney Star Head of Sports Sanjog Gupta, the sports genre naturally lends itself to a multi-platform, multimodal, and communal experience. “The name of our metaverse is Starverse and the first version of it is a 3D immersive environment for sports fans,” he said.
“We will open the Starverse to users at scale for the first time at this time,” said Gupta. He added that Disney Star wanted to release the final version after examining user behavior in a 3D ecosystem and evaluating features.
Because it will offer an always-on experience, Starverse will primarily set itself apart from other metaverse ventures now underway in India.
Gupta added that Disney Star is collaborating with a number of organizations to create the Starverse. According to ET, three different agencies are working on the tech backend, 3D models and environments, and gamification of the experience.
Microsoft will host a major news conference on February 7th. Right after Google made its ChatGPT rival official, the software behemoth is today formally announcing an in-person event that will take place at the company’s Redmond headquarters. Invitations to the event were mailed out last week.
Microsoft isn’t giving many hints about the event, which begins on February 7th at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern. However, it’s likely that the business will concentrate on its alleged ChatGPT integration into Bing and its more extensive cooperation with OpenAI.
One can expect a number of significant announcements since the invitation states that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will discuss some progress on a few exciting projects.
The invitation comes just after Microsoft extended its collaboration with OpenAI in a $10 billion deal, making it OpenAI’s sole cloud partner. Microsoft’s cloud computing resources will power all OpenAI workloads across products, API services, and research.
Additionally, Microsoft’s event comes shortly after Google unveiled Bard, a rival to ChatGPT. Only a small group of people are now testing the “experimental conversational AI service,” but Google pledges to make it more widely available to the public in the upcoming weeks.
Interpol, a global police body, is now looking into how it can investigate crimes that take place in the metaverse. According to the BBC, Interpol has created its own virtual reality environment to aid users in training and participating in virtual meetings.
Jurgen Stock, the secretary general of Interpol, stressed the need for the organization to not fall behind because today’s criminals are tech-savvy and seasoned professionals who swiftly adopt any new technology to commit a crime.
Police officers can experience the metaverse through this new virtual reality environment that can only be accessed through secure servers. This will help them have a better understanding of the kind of crimes that might occur and how they might be handled.
When discussing crimes that might occur in the metaverse, Interpol’s innovation and technology head, Dr. Madan Oberoi, noted that there have been instances of sexual harassment in the virtual world. Nevertheless, he continued, applying the notion of crimes that take place in physical space to the metaverse is challenging.
Oberoi continued by stating that one of the significant difficulties Interpol faced was raising awareness of the issues. He suggested that law enforcement authorities educate themselves about the metaverse before trying to assist those who have been injured there.
According to the secretary general of Interpol, the investigation of future Metaverse crimes will be crucial. He continued by saying that because almost all cybercrimes have an international component, it is by nature international crime.
A US court has granted Meta permission to proceed with the acquisition of VR firm Within despite the US Federal Trade Commission’s continuing antitrust case against the tech giant.
The court rejected the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction against the acquisition following a seven-day hearing.
After carefully examining the evidence and the parties’ arguments, the court said that it is not “reasonably probable” that Meta would enter the market for VR dedicated fitness apps if it couldn’t complete the acquisition.
The FTC attempted to prevent the acquisition of Within by Meta in July of last year since Meta is already a significant player at every level of the VR industry.
The agency claimed that Meta and Zuckerberg intended to “illegally buy a dedicated fitness software that illustrates the value of virtual reality to consumers” in order to grow Meta’s virtual reality empire.
The FTC now has time to appeal after the US court decided in favor of Meta. The well-known fitness software “Supernatural” is a property of the Within VR firm.
A-list artists like Katy Perry, Imagine Dragons, Lady Gaga, and Coldplay are featured among the high-caliber workouts available on Supernatural, which are virtually set in stunning, lifelike locations like the Galapagos Islands.
Today, organizations are affected by cyberattacks like malware, phishing, man-in-the-middle attack, SQL injection attacks, and more. Due to such attacks, organizations’ systems, programs, and networks are damaged. Therefore, to avoid cyberattacks, organizations follow specific cybersecurity methods. If you are looking for an overview of cybersecurity and its practices, this article will help you with some of the best cybersecurity presentations.
Top Presentations on Cybersecurity
Listed below are some essential and primarily used cybersecurity presentations.
Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity
Olivier Busolini published Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity presentation in March 2019, he is a cybersecurity professional working with AI in cybersecurity. This presentation provides a basic introduction to AI, an overview of AI technologies, machine learning technologies, basics of deep learning, difficulties faced during building AI solutions, and tips for cybersecurity strategy.
This presentation also includes an introduction to red and blue AI technologies and a list of organizations that are using AI to follow cybersecurity practices to secure their information. Therefore, with AI and Cybersecurity presentations, learners can get a brief idea of cybersecurity solutions.
Published in October 2019, the AI and impact on Cybersecurity presentation by Graham Mann cover the explanation of what AI is and its impact on cybersecurity. The presentation includes content like the importance of AI, cloud computing, machine learning algorithms, and blockchain. It also consists of statistics on cyberattacks in 2018, cyber targets in 2019, and AI-assisted cyberattacks.
With the AI and its impact on Cybersecurity presentation, you will know the potential of AI technology and its impact on cyberattacks and cybersecurity practices. This presentation also briefs you about AI and the laws associated with it.
This presentation was published by Priyanshu Ratnakar, who is the Founder, Director, and CEO of Protocol X, in March 2021. It provides a brief idea of AI in cybersecurity and is suitable for every person who wants to learn how AI can help in cybersecurity. The presentation consists of topics like the basics of AI, machine learning and deep learning, AI in real-life, the effects of AI in cybersecurity, and how hackers use AI technology to attack computer systems.
Tanishk Jharwal, a Student at Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology Management and Gramothan (SKIT) published the IT fundamentals of Cybersecurity presentation. This presentation highlights cybersecurity in four parts:
Introduction to cybersecurity tools and cyberattacks
Cybersecurity roles, processes, and operating system security
Network security and database
Cybersecurity compliance, framework, and system administration
The presentation also includes contents such as categories of cybercrime, a list of security tools, safety tips for cybercrime, and the advantages of cybersecurity. It explains cyber crimes like hacking, phishing, spam emails, denial of service, spyware, adware, malware, and ransomware.
Wiam Younes, Carnegie Mellon University, published the cybersecurity 101 presentation. The PPT includes an introduction to cybersecurity, security threats and risks in computer systems, security measures in cybersecurity, safely managing your passwords, managing your email accounts, and securing your computer systems.
The Cybersecurity 101 presentation teaches you to protect the data you are handling and provides guidelines for protecting yourself from cyber attacks. It offers different policies and procedures for protecting your network and system.
With this cybersecurity ppt, you can identify cybercrime-related theft, including credit card fraud, financial identity theft, government identity theft, mortgage fraud, and license plate number identity theft. This ppt also guides you through different practices to protect yourself from identity theft.
The Cybersecurity Introduction is a presentation from the students of Mohawk College in Hamilton, Canada. This presentation provides you with the basics of cybersecurity, its definitions, principles, and about cyber threats. It also guides you through different sources of cyber threats, classifications of cyber threats, unstructured cyber threats, structured cyber threats, and highly structured cyber threats.
With this presentation, you can also learn about cyber attacks, their types, and the impacts of cyber threats. This presentation will also give you a brief idea about malicious code and its types. The Cybersecurity Introduction PPT highlights the vulnerabilities of your computer system in cybercrime.
7. Study of Emerging Trends and Challenges of Cybersecurity
Published in January 2022, the Study of Emerging Trends and Challenges of Cybersecurity presentation by Ritvik Kumar provides an overview of emerging trends and challenges in cybersecurity. The presentation consists of content such as the basics of cybersecurity and cybercrime, trends in changing cybersecurity, cybersecurity techniques, cyber ethics, and the roles of social media in cybersecurity.
This presentation also highlights the cybersecurity incidents reported to Cyber999 in Malaysia between January 2012 and 2013. Cyber999 is a cybersecurity center operated by Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT) to report incidents related to cyberbullying or cyberattacks.
The Cyberattacks and IT Security in 2025 presentation is drafted by RadarServices, the European market leader for managed security services. RadarServices interviewed designated IT security experts in Europe and Asia and shared their views in this presentation concerning the development of cyberattacks and security technologies till 2025.
The presentation provides an overview of the questions like the type of cyberattacks that will be estimated in 2025, what are the biggest challenges for IT security technologies today and which will be there in 2025, and in which areas of IT security organizations need to invest to be viable in 2025.
The presentation highlights the dangers of cyberattacks that will likely happen in 2025. It also briefs you on security technologies companies need to use to prevent cyberattacks’ dangers.
The Cybersecurity in Society presentation by Rubal Agarwal was published in August 2018. This presentation provides an overview of cybercrime, its types, and its stages. It also provides you with the importance of cybersecurity and safety tips for cybercrime.
He also presented cyber crimes such as hacking, child pornography, phishing, denial of service attacks, cyber terrorism, virus spreading, and software piracy. It highlighted the statistics of the number of cybercrime cases in India in January 2015. The presentation also consists of the effects of cybercrime in India. The PPT also includes the top 10 security assessment tools to identify vulnerabilities in cyber security.
The Cybersecurity presentation was published in October 2021 by Vinod Sencha. The presentation contains the importance of cybersecurity, cybersecurity domains, the CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) Triad, and threats and vulnerabilities in cybersecurity. It also highlights the concepts like phishing and its statics and examples, malware, viruses, bombs, Trojans, Worms, email worms, denial of service attacks, and ransomware.
Vinod Sencha focuses on the Covid-19 cyber threats in the presentation. He also briefs you about society’s types of cybercriminals, virus detection, cybersecurity and privacy, and footprinting.
Twitter will no longer offer a free access to the Twitter API. Late on Wednesday night, the official Twitter Developer account announced that the platform would no longer provide open access to the Twitter API and would instead facilitate a “paid basic tier.”
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
Although Twitter has not yet disclosed the price, it has stated that it will provide further details about what you may expect next week.
The Application Programming Interface, or API, of Twitter, enables outside parties to acquire and examine publicly available Twitter data, which can then be used to develop programmable bots and independent software applications that connect to the platform.
For developers who desire to remove limitations on accessing endpoints and unlock the extra enterprise features, Twitter currently offers limited free access to its API in addition to premium, scalable tiers.
The decision to remove free access to Twitter’s API follows the platform updating its developer rules to ban third-party clients, causing popular third-party Twitter apps like Twitterrific and Tweetbot to abandon the platform.
The government of India has introduced new crypto tax penalties, including for the non-payment of crypto tax deducted at source (TDS).
Much to the disappointment of crypto community, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman didn’t mention crypto in her Budget speech this year. Crypto income stays taxed at 30%, while TDS stays at 1%.
The Finance Minister presented the Union Budget for 2023 on Wednesday, one day after she presented this Economic Survey, highlighting the necessity for a common approach toward regulating the crypto ecosystem.
No changes to #Crypto taxation in India in the #BudgetSession. It stands at 1% TDS and 30% on profits.
This puts India at a web3 disadvantage for another year!
But it does not discourage me from building. Keep building for real use cases.
Following the speech, co-founder of crypto exchange Coindcx, Neeraj Khandelwal, tweeted, “No changes to crypto taxation in India in the Budget Session. It stands at 1% TDS and 30% on profits. This puts India at a web3 disadvantage for another year.”
Although the finance minister didn’t mention crypto in her Budget speech, the Finance Bill reportedly contains an Income Tax Act amendment applicable to crypto TDS.
According to Crypto tax firm Koinx, the penalty for failure to pay or deduct crypto TDS includes an amount the same as the unpaid TDS, which will be imposed by the joint commissioner. Noting the same for late payments, a 15% interest per annum will also be imposed.
India’s largest retail chain, Reliance Retail, will now start accepting retail payments in digital rupees, in a move that could supercharge the country’s adoption of the recently launched Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
The Ambani-led firm said it has partnered with Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank, and fintech Innoviti Technologies to launch in-store support for the digital rupee.
The retail giant on Thursday said customers who want to pay with the country’s CBDC, called E-R, will be provided with a dynamic digital rupee acceptance QR code at the store to scan.
Reliance Retail, which is part of Indian conglomerate Reliance, said it has rolled out support for CBDCs at its gourmet store line Freshpick and will eventually expand the feature to all of its properties. Thursday’s move makes Reliance the biggest Indian company to adopt the digital rupee.
“This historic initiative of introducing digital currency acceptance at the stores is in line with the company’s strategic vision of providing Indian consumers with the power of choice,” said V Subramaniam, Director, Reliance Retail.
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, has confirmed in the earnings call that the company is planning to bring AI-like Search features that people can engage with directly.
“In the coming months, we will make these language models available, starting with LaMDA, so that people can engage directly with them,” said Pichai.
“This will help us continue to get feedback, test, and safely improve them. These models are particularly amazing for composing, constructing, and summarizing. They will become even more useful for people as they provide up-to-date, more factual information,” he added.
During the question-answer session, Pichai added that Google would launch more labs products, beta features in certain cases, and gradually scale up from there. “Obviously, we need to make sure we are iterating in public, these models will keep getting better, so the field is fast changing. The serving costs will need to be improved,” he said.
“So I view it as very, very early days, but we are committed to putting our experiences, both in terms of new products and experiences, actually bringing direct LLM experiences in Search, making APIs available for developers and enterprises and learning from there and iterate as we have always done. So I’m looking forward to it,” he added.
Due to the pandemic causing a 252% increase in weekly meeting time in the past two years, Teams is incorporating AI throughout the meeting process to make the experience more streamlined.
AI integration will eliminate the need for extra time spent on tasks during meetings and offer features such as intelligent recaps, suggested tasks and personalized highlights, and live translations in 40 languages.
Teams Premium will also allow for customizable meeting templates and advanced meeting protection. The integration of AI with Teams is expected to lower costs and improve productivity for users, with a 30-day free trial of Teams Premium available.
Organizations that purchase Teams Premium before July 1, 2023, will receive a 30% discount, paying $7 per user per month instead of the standard $10 pricing. The use of AI with Teams is poised to revolutionize the way meetings are conducted within organizations.
