How to Choose the Best Domain Hosting Service

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January 18, 2023

There is a lot of domain hosting services in the market. If you’re trying to pick the right one, there are a few things to keep in mind. One of them is whether or not you want to pay extra for a better server. Another is what type of support you’re looking for. You should also consider how easy it is to get started. For instance, some of the best domain hosting options offer free website templates and easy-to-use website-building tools.

HostGator

HostGator is one of the best domain hosting providers out there. Its ease of use and affordable plans make it the ideal host for a variety of websites. While it may not be perfect for all types of sites, it’s good enough for the average blog or website.

Depending on what you’re looking for, you can choose from a wide range of plans. All plans come with free SSL certificates, unlimited email accounts, and unlimited bandwidth. However, you might want to look into more powerful VPS or dedicated products. They’re also better suited for large or business-critical sites.

One of the best features of HostGator is its fast-loading speed. You can set up an account in less than 15 minutes. Afterward, you can begin to customize your site. You can add a custom domain name and a free SSL certificate.

DreamHost

DreamHost is a strong contender in the web hosting industry. They offer a wide range of plans and services at great prices. The company also provides a money-back guarantee. However, the service may not be suited for every business.

For the most part, DreamHost is user-friendly. Their hosting plans are affordable, and they include everything you need for a successful website. This is great for beginners and entrepreneurs. Although it has some drawbacks, such as slow server speeds, it’s reliable.

Aside from the standard features, DreamHost offers domain locking, which prevents unauthorized changes. Additionally, DreamHost includes a custom control panel, which simplifies access to emails and databases.

In addition, DreamHost has an active community forum. This is especially helpful for new customers, who can ask questions about how to get started.

Bluehost

If you are looking for a domain hosting solution, you should check out Bluehost. This company offers an affordable, reliable service that is easy to use. Despite their low price, they offer a wide variety of features to keep your website running smoothly.

They also offer a free SSL certificate which encrypts your site’s important information, thereby improving its security. Another useful feature is their automatic backups.

The company’s website boasts a comprehensive knowledge base that includes how-to tutorials, articles, and other helpful tidbits. Those interested in creating a new site may want to check out the site builder.

Bluehost offers support on a number of platforms, including live chat, email, and phone. A streamlined user interface makes it easy to learn how to manage your hosting account.

Godaddy

GoDaddy is one of the most popular domain name registrars in the world. They’ve been around since 1997 and now manage over 77 million domains. In addition to providing top-notch web hosting services, they also offer premium security, anti-hacking, and spam protection. Whether you’re a first-time website owner or a long-time veteran, GoDaddy has something to fit your needs.

GoDaddy offers free domain registration for a year with certain plans. They also offer SSL certificates for HTTPS websites. You’ll also find many optional add-ons for your site.

The GoDaddy website interface is easy to use and offers many features. You can create email accounts, edit content, and build your own website.

You’ll get to choose between Plesk and cPanel control panels. Plus, there are unlimited email accounts and unmetered bandwidth. Dedicated servers and VPS hosting are also available.

Employee testifies Tesla faked 2016 video promoting its self-driving technology

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January 18, 2023

Employee testifies Tesla faked 2016 video self-driving

According to testimony by Ashok Elluswamy, director of Autopilot software at Tesla, the company faked a 2016 video promoting its self-driving technology. It was first reported by Reuters.

The video, which is still on Tesla’s website, shows a Tesla Model X driving on urban, suburban, and highway streets, stopping at a red light, and accelerating at the green one. The video carries the tagline: “The person in the driver’s seat is there only for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.”

Elon Musk used the video as evidence to prove that Tesla “drives itself” by relying on its several built-in sensors and self-driving software. However, Ashok Elluswamy said that video was staged using 3D mapping on a predetermined route, which is a feature that is not available to consumers.

According to Elluswamy, drivers had to intervene to take control during test runs. The scenes that were left on the cutting room floor included the test car crashing into a fence in Tesla’s parking lot when trying to park itself without a driver.

In Musk’s July deposition, which was taken as evidence in a lawsuit against the company for a fatal 2018 crash, Elluswamy said Musk asked the Autopilot team to record a video demonstration of the system’s capabilities.

Musk promoted the video at the time by saying that Tesla vehicles require “no human input at all” in order to drive from urban streets to highways and to eventually find a parking spot. Neither Musk nor Tesla has commented on the matter.

ASAP Kerala offers certificate course in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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January 18, 2023

ASAP Kerala certificate course Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

A state-run skill upgrading agency, ASAP Kerala, is offering a certificate course in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, which is certified by IIT Palakkad.

ASAP has come out with the program as AI and ML technologies are emerging as the frontier technologies inspiring innovation, leading to the development of various new applications and products.

The 756-hour course has been designed as per industry needs and international standards. The course is beneficial for students and professionals.

The course provides practical knowledge required for an array of new jobs in the artificial intelligence field, including Business Intelligence Developer, AI & ML Scientist, Robotics Scientist, AI Research Scientist, Data Scientist, and Machine Learning Engineer.

The course module has been designed by Madras IIT. Applications for the course will be open from the 1st of February, and classes will commence on the 24th of April.

The course is being conducted in collaboration with several colleges across Kerala in a blended learning mode that includes online and physical sessions. A batch will have 30 candidates. The total cost of the course for students is Rs 41,300 and for professionals is Rs 64,900, inclusive of GST.

IEEE announces free program on AI Ethics and Governance

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Sahil Pawar

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January 18, 2023

IEEE announces free program on AI Ethics and Governance

The world’s largest technical professional organization, IEEE, has announced a program that provides free access to global socio-technical standards in AI Ethics and Governance to facilitate guidance and considerations toward trustworthy AI.

Under the IEEE GET Program, selected standards are being made available for free to encourage their adoption in advancing technology for humanity in crucial areas.

By making available the vital building blocks, the IEEE GET Program will contribute to creating AI systems that are more trustworthy. It will further the agenda of raising awareness on understanding the importance of AI ethics issues and how to address them.

The program can assist AI developers in incorporating human-centric design principles in their product roadmaps and organizational governance structures. It can also help to level up business processes such as procurement, risk management, and marketing.

With support from IEEE, industry sponsors, and the government, several IEEE standards are available for free download via the IEEE GET Program. Users can access the IEEE GET Program on AI Ethics Governance Standards through IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

WEF unveils prototype of its Global Collaboration Village metaverse

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January 18, 2023

WEF unveils prototype Global Collaboration Village metaverse

The World Economic Forum has revealed a working prototype of its purpose-driven metaverse, Global Collaboration Village, where organizations can gather to learn, create solutions, and take action toward the world’s most pressing challenges.

Launched in partnership with Accenture and Microsoft, The village has a town hall and a virtual Congress Centre for future meetings like plenaries, workshops, and bilaterals.

Virtual collaboration spaces for immersive storytelling aim to inspire collaboration, real-world impact, and experiential learning on global issues. For example, in a virtual ocean hub, users can dive into the ocean’s depths and analyze why marine ecosystems must be protected to preserve life on land and in water.

There are also stakeholder campuses where World Economic Forum partners can collaborate with others to shape their presence. In the future, the forum will invite organizations to build in these immersive spaces to bolster learning, collaboration, and partnership further.

Klaus Schwab, WEF Founder and Executive Chairman, said, “With the Global Collaboration Village, we are developing the first public purpose-oriented application of metaverse by building a true global village in the virtual space.”

“Supported by a range of partners from the public and private sectors, the village will use the frontier capabilities of the metaverse to find solutions for addressing the big issues of our time in a more open, inclusive, and sustained way,” he added.

Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion over copyright violation

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Sahil Pawar

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January 18, 2023

Getty Images is suing the creator of the popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, Stability AI, over an alleged copyright violation.

In a press statement, the stock photo company claimed that Stability AI copied and processed millions of images unlawfully, which were protected by copyright, to train its software.

The statement also said that Getty Images had commenced legal proceedings against the Stability AI firm in the High Court of Justice, London.

Getty Images CEO Craig Peters said that the company has already issued Stability AI with a letter before action, which is a formal notification of impending litigation in the UK. The company has not said whether legal proceedings would take place in the US, as well.

Peters said, “The company made no outreach to Getty Images to utilise our or our contributors’ material, so we are taking action to protect our and our contributors’ intellectual property rights.”

A press representative from Stability AI, Angela Pontarolo, said that the Stability AI team did not receive information about the lawsuit and therefore declined to comment.

Microsoft to add OpenAI’s ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service

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January 18, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the company would soon add OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service very soon.

“ChatGPT is coming soon to Azure OpenAI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply world’s most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives,” CEO Satya Nadella tweeted on Tuesday morning.

ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure OpenAI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives. https://t.co/kQwydRWWnZ
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) January 17, 2023

The software giant Microsoft also announced the ‘general availability’ of its Azure OpenAI Service, which provides customers with access to various AI tools for use in their own applications.

The news comes amid reports that Microsoft is in talks to invest about $10 billion in OpenAI, which may increase the valuation of the San Francisco-based firm to $29 billion.

With the new changes, ChatGPT as a whole, and not just its underlying tech, will soon be available through Microsoft’s cloud. Those using the Azure Service already have access to tools such as the GPT-3.5 language system that ChatGPT is built on and the Dall-E model for generating images from text prompts.

Public interest in OpenAI had surged following its November release of the text-based chatbot that can draft prose, poetry, or even computer code on command. It is powered by generative artificial intelligence and conjures new content after training on vast amounts of data.

DataStax acquires machine learning company Kaskada

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January 17, 2023

The real-time AI company, DataStax, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kaskada, a machine learning (ML) company.

Kaskada first solved managing, storing, and accessing time-based data to train behavioral machine learning models and deliver the instant, actionable insights that fuel AI.

According to the companies, DataStax and Kaskada have a proven track record of contributing to the open source communities. Initially, Datastax will open-source the core Kaskada technology, and it plans to offer a new ML cloud service later this year.

Most machine learning initiatives do not deliver the results that businesses require because the process is manual and complex. Due to this, many models underperform as they lack the context and relevance of real-time data.

Datastax today includes event streaming with Astra Streaming and the massively scalable Astra DB database-as-a-service built on Apache Cassandra.

The inclusion of Kaskada to DataStax’s portfolio of cloud services will provide organizations with a single environment to cost-effectively deliver applications infused with real-time AI using advanced machine learning models.

Iran and Russian to launch gold-backed cryptocurrency together

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January 17, 2023

Iran Russian launch gold-backed cryptocurrency

According to a report by Cointelegraph, the government of Russia and the Central Bank of Iran are collaborating to launch a new cryptocurrency that is gold-backed.

Russia’s news agency Vedomosti reported that Iran is working with Russia to develop a “token of the Persian Gulf region” that will be used as a means of payment during international trade.

According to the executive director of Russian Association of Crypto Industry and Blockchain, Alexander Brazhnikov, the token is expected to be released as a stablecoin backed by gold (RACIB).

Cointelegraph further said that instead of using fiat currencies like the Iranian rial, the US dollar, or the Russian ruble, the stablecoin aims to enable cross-border transactions. The report highlights that the potential cryptocurrency would function in an Astrakhan special economic zone where Russia began to accept Iranian cargo shipments.

Anton Tkachev, a member of the Committee for Information Technology, Information Policy, and Communications, Russia, emphasized that a joint stablecoin project would only be feasible after the Russian digital asset market has been fully regulated.

The Russian lower house of parliament once more pledged to begin regulating cryptocurrency transactions in 2023 after numerous delays, Cointelegraph stated.

Microsoft to receive EU antitrust warning over Activision Blizzard acquisition

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January 17, 2023

Microsoft EU antitrust warning Activision Blizzard acquisition

Microsoft is likely to get an EU antitrust warning over its $69 billion bid for “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard, said people familiar with the matter. This could pose another challenge to the completion of the deal.

The European Commission is working on a charge sheet known as a statement of objections, explaining its concerns about the deal, and will send it to Microsoft in the coming weeks. The EU antitrust watchdog has now set a deadline of April 11 for its decision on the deal.

Microsoft aid that the company would continue to work with the European Commission to address all the marketplace concerns. The company affirmed that its goal is to bring more games to more people and that this deal will further that goal.

Microsoft announced the acquisition in January last year to help it compete better with leaders Sony and Tencent. However, US and UK regulators have voiced concerns over the US Federal Trade Commission going to court to block the deal.

Microsoft was being expected to offer remedies to the EU regulators in an attempt to avoid a statement of charge and shorten the regulatory process, said other sources familiar with the matter.

The EU competition enforcer, however, is not expected to be open to remedies without first sending out its charge sheet, although there are ongoing informal discussions on concessions, the people said.