After the implementation of paid subscription service which charges $8 (roughly Rs. 660) for a blue verification badge on the microblogging site, X CEO Elon Musk has introduced a new feature to hide the Blue tick.

According to the Help page of the micro-blogging site, one of the features reads, “Hide your checkmark: As a subscriber, you can choose to hide your checkmark on your account. The check mark will be hidden on your profile and posts. The checkmark may still appear in some places and some features could still reveal you have an active subscription. Some features may not be available while your checkmark is hidden. We will continue to evolve this feature to make it better for you.”

As per a Mashable report, for subscribers to Twitter Blue, the “Hide your blue checkmark” option is visible in the “Profile customisation” page in your Account Settings.

Twitter first introduced the blue check mark system in 2009 to help users identify celebrities, politicians, companies, brands, news organizations, and other accounts “of public interest” as genuine and not impostors or parody accounts. The company didn’t previously charge for verification.

Musk launched Twitter Blue with the check-mark badge as one of the premium perks within two weeks of the company’s takeover last year.

On April 1, Twitter removed blue ticks from verified accounts, following the implementation of paid subscription service which charges USD 8 for a blue verification badge on the microblogging site.

B-town celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, and Alia Bhatt, politicians CM Yogi Adityanath, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, and cricketers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are among those who lost their verified blue ticks from their Twitter accounts. But, others got the badge back after a few days.

Notably, on July 24, Twitter replaced its recognisable bird logo with the letter “X” as its new official mark.

Earlier, Musk, also the CEO of Tesla, said after certain organisational changes, the number of monthly users of social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, had hit a “new high.”

He posted a graph of user statistics that indicated the most recent count to be above 540 million.

In the post, Musk also referred to this design as an “interim” one, suggesting that there may be other logo changes in the future.

According to a report by US-based tech portal TechCrunch, it’s possible that the social network won’t stop changing the logo. According to Musk, the business would eventually “bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”

Source: Gadgets360

X, formally known as Twitter, has rebranded the social media dashboard application for management, TweetDeck, with the new name ‘XPro.’

Now, if users visit the TweetDeck website while logging out, they will see ‘XPro’ written at the top of the page.

However, the URL is still “https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/”

“XPro is a convenient way to view multiple timeline columns in one easy interface,” the company mentioned on the page.

X-owner Elon Musk had announced this rebranding last week. In response to a post about TweetDeck, Musk replied, “Name is changing to XPro. Will come with a wide range of psy op plugins.”

Last month, the platform launched an improved version of TweetDeck and said, “In 30 days, users must be Verified to access TweetDeck.”

Musk had started hinting at the rebranding of Twitter as X on July 23 with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”

Flip a coin. Heads or tails, correct? Without a doubt, when we perceive how the coin lands. Yet, while the coin is as yet turning in the air, it’s neither heads nor tails. It’s some likelihood of both.

Advanced PCs have been making it simpler for us to handle data for quite a long time. Be that as it may, quantum PCs are ready to take registering to an unheard of level. Quantum PCs address a totally new way to deal with figuring. And keeping in mind that they will not supplant the present PCs, by utilizing the standards of quantum material science, they will actually want to tackle extremely complex factual issues that the present PCs can’t. Quantum registering has such a lot of potential and force that McKinsey has recognized it as one of the following large patterns in tech. Quantum figuring alone — only one of three primary areas of arising quantum innovation — could represent almost $1.3 trillion in esteem by 2035.

This is the secret: traditional processing, the innovation that controls your PC and cell phone, is based on bits. A piece is a unit of data that can store either a zero or a one. Conversely, quantum registering is based on quantum bits, or qubits, which can store zeros and ones. Qubits can address any mix of both zero and one all the while — this is known as a superposition.

At the point when old style PCs take care of an issue with different factors, they should direct another estimation each time a variable changes. Every computation is a solitary way to a solitary outcome. Quantum PCs, in any case, have a bigger working space, and that implies they can investigate countless ways all the while. This chance implies that quantum PCs can be a whole lot quicker than traditional PCs.

However, the principal genuine proof that quantum PCs could deal with issues excessively convoluted for traditional PCs didn’t show up until 2019, when Google reported that its quantum PC had made a significant forward leap: it tackled an issue in 200 seconds that would have taken an old style PC 10,000 years.

Albeit this was a significant achievement in figuring, it was to a greater degree a hypothetical jump forward as opposed to a pragmatic one, since the issue the quantum PC settled had no certifiable use by any stretch of the imagination. In any case, we’re quickly moving toward when quantum PCs will truly affect our lives. Peruse on to figure out how.

Canadian movie chief James Cameron has communicated his anxiety about the risks of the quick extension of man-made consciousness (computer based intelligence), underscoring that his 1984 science fiction blockbuster ‘The Eliminator’ ought to have filled in as an advance notice. In a meeting with CTV News, the prestigious chief shared his conviction that the “weaponisation” of artificial intelligence could prompt disastrous outcomes.
At the point when gotten some information about the chance of man-made reasoning causing the termination of humankind, a trepidation shared by some industry chiefs, Mr Cameron said that he totally shares their anxiety. “I totally share their anxiety. I cautioned you folks in 1984 and you didn’t tune in,” he told the power source, alluding to his film ‘The Eliminator’, which spins around a robotic professional killer made by a keen supercomputer known as Skynet.

As per Mr Cameron, the greatest risk lies in the weaponisation of the new innovation. “I believe that we will get into what might be compared to an atomic weapons contest with computer based intelligence. What’s more, on the off chance that we don’t assemble it, different folks are without a doubt going to fabricate it, thus then, at that point, it’ll heighten.”

In Mr Cameron’s vision of artificial intelligence on the war zone, PCs could work so quickly that people would not be able to mediate, wiping out the chance of harmony talks or truce. Managing such innovation requires an emphasis on de-heightening, yet the chief said he questions that simulated intelligence frameworks would stick to such standards.

Mr Cameron has recently communicated comparable worries, recognizing that while artificial intelligence enjoys its benefits, it could likewise prompt shocking results and possibly mean certain doom for the world. He has even conjectured that aware PCs could as of now be controlling the world “without our insight, with complete command over all media and data”.

What Happened: A man in Kozhikode, Kerala, lost 40,000 to an artificial intelligence-based scam. The man was a part of a deep-fake scam that involved someone the man knew, according to the police.
A deepfake scam works like this:

As per the police in Kerala, Radhakrishnan got a video approach WhatsApp from an obscure number. At the point when he got the call, the individual on the opposite side appeared as though one of his previous partners in Andhra Pradesh.

The individual on the opposite side asked ₹ 40,000 from Radhakrishnan through Google Pay to help a general in the clinic. Radhakrishnan became suspicious when another request for 30,000 was made, so he complained to the Cyber Police.

With the artificial intelligence getting all the more impressive, tricksters are utilizing it to imitate somebody, making the qualification among genuine and counterfeit testing. Computer based intelligence innovation is utilized to break down and interaction information, like facial pictures and voice accounts, working with the production of practical deepfake recordings that intently mirror an individual’s appearance and voice.

In May, one more stunning episode was accounted for from China when a trickster utilized simulated intelligence controlled face-trading innovation to mimic a companion of the casualty during a video call and get an exchange of 4.3 million yuan ($622,000).

Experts have provided advice on how to avoid falling victim to such con artists. The majority of deepfakes have poor resolution, so people are urged to check the video quality. If you pay close attention, the deepfake videos will either abruptly stop or loop back to the beginning after a certain amount of time, indicating that they are fake. Before making any financial transactions, it is also advisable to contact a person separately to verify that they are present on the video call.