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Smart Home Ecosystem

When you're not at home, nagging little doubts can start to crowd your mind. Did I turn off the lights? Did I lock the door properly? Are the kids doing their homework or watching television? With a smart home, you can quiet all of these worries with a quick glance at your smartphone or tablet. You could connect the devices and appliances in your home so they can communicate with each other and with you. If you don't know about the Smart home ecosystem then don't worry, in this blog series we are going to learn in detail about Smart home, different smart home devices, how to setup them and how they work. What Is A Smart Home? A smart home is any home that includes automated, Internet of Things devices connected to mobile applications. Using these IoT devices, users can control many things in their home from lights to security systems to appliances. Increasingly, more and more homes are built with automation from the original construction, but technically, any home with an i...
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Google I/O 2023 key highlights (Generative AI, New Pixel devices and more)

“AI is having a very busy year,” said Google CEO Sundar Pichai, kickstarting Google I/O 2023 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. He said, the ‘AI company is reimagining all core products, including search with Generative AI, alongside announcing groundbreaking developments that will reshape the way users interact with the company’s suite of products and services. Gmail with "Help me write" feature After features like Smart Reply and Smart Compose, Gmail is now getting a new feature called “help me write.” It is a simple feature that can help you save time and effort when composing emails. Say your flight was just canceled and you want to write an email asking for a refund. The new feature can grab flight details from the airline cancelation email and compose a draft email for you. If you think it is too small, there is an option to “Elaborate” to make it more compelling, or you can even click on “Recreate” for a completely new email. The feature will start rolling out as a part o...

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer)

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re curious about what Chat GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is and how it works. Recently, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a powerful new chatbot that can communicate in plain English using an updated version of its AI system. While versions of GPT have been around for a while, this model has crossed a threshold: It’s genuinely useful for a wide range of tasks, from creating software to generating business ideas to writing a wedding toast. While previous generations of the system could technically do these things, the quality of the outputs was much lower than that produced by an average human. The new model is much better, often startlingly so. What exactly is chat GPT? It is a type of artificial intelligence that can understand and generate natural language text. It is trained on large amounts of text data and uses an algorithm called a transformer to learn how to generate text that is similar to human conversation. It is the largest, most pow...

Google’s Carbon programming language aims to replace C++

Is C++ in need of a replacement? Yes, it is - but the problem is that there is a lot of it about. Today there are just too many ways of doing anything with C++ and too many ways to make C++ look like your own personal language. Now a group of Google engineers has got together to see if their latest project, Carbon, can do something about the problem. At the C++ North event underway in Toronto this week, Google software engineer Chandler Carruth presented the Carbon Language , described as an “experimental successor to C++”, evoking high interest in the C++ community. “We understand the community interest in this keynote. We will post the recording on an accelerated schedule,” said the conference organizers on Twitter . Carruth is technical lead for Google’s core programming languages and language evolution, represents Google on the C++ Standards Committee, and is a contributor to LLVM and Clang. Google has a reputation for inventing, or just making use of, languages that are extensions...

What is Metaverse?

In the previous blog , we discussed the NFTs which can be used in Metaverse. In this current blog, we will see what is Metaverse and what is its relation with NFTs. The metaverse is hardly a brand-new concept, but the speed with which it recently began making headlines is impressive. Facebook is responsible for setting the metaverse buzz in motion. The company, a pioneer in social media (in a sense the earliest version of the metaverse itself) recently went through a major rebrand. Facebook is now Meta, and the company has plans to make significant moves in the metaverse world in the years to come. What is the metaverse? The metaverse is a concept of a persistent, online, 3D universe that combines multiple different virtual spaces. You can think of it as a future iteration of the internet. The metaverse will allow users to work, meet, game, and socialize together in these 3D spaces. The concept was developed in the science-fiction novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. However, while the...

What is Non-fungible token (NFT)?

Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebranded the social giant as Meta Platforms Inc., underscoring the growing popularity of a promising phenomenon: the metaverse. This Metaverse concept has a connection with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the very token we can use to represent ownership of unique items? Hence in this blog, we are going to understand first what is NFT and then in further blogs I am planning to cover Metaverse. What is an NFT? The acronym NFT means non-fungible token, which means a unique digital asset that cannot be modified or replaced with something else on the blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, which is a fungible cryptocurrency, which can be traded for a predetermined value, like any other currency or money. An NFT is a unique token with no interchangeability with other tokens – much more like a piece of art. Those unique NFTs do not have a set standardized value. Instead, non-fungible tokens (again much like art) are based on the current market value. The ...

The importance of feedback culture

Giving and receiving feedback is an essential ingredient for the long-term success of any organization… or any relationship for that matter. What is employee feedback? And why is it important? Employee feedback is any information exchanged by employees (formally or informally) regarding their performance, skills, or ability to work within a team. Positive and negative feedback is important because it helps break bad habits, reinforces positive behavior, and enables teams to work more effectively toward their goals. Whatever your role in your company, at some point you’re going to have to give feedback. In my experience, giving praise is easy because everyone loves a nice compliment. Constructive criticism, on the other hand, is much harder to deliver… and can be just as challenging to hear. Following are a few strategies that I learned in my career path for giving effective, actionable employee feedback. 1. Give timely feedback Don’t wait weeks or even months to pull someone up after a...