What’s the news: The National Medical Commission (NMC), India’s medical education regulator, has directed all medical colleges to make Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts (ABHA ID) mandatory for seeing patients, reported Mint. Until November 2023, this call for ABHA registration was only in the form of encouragement through circulars. However, according...

In a privacy policy change set to take effect on June 26, 2024, Meta plans to use the public information shared by its users to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. This includes things like posts or photos and their captions. The company says that to use less information that is directly connected to individuals, in some cases, it de-identifies...

PhonePe has announced its collaboration with Sri Lankan ride hailing platform PickMe to enable UPI-based QR payments for Indian travellers in Sri Lanka. The partnership will allow Indian tourists to conduct cashless transactions on PickMe rides, making PickMe the first ride-hailing platform in Sri Lanka to offer such a service to Indians travelling...

Google Maps will now store users’ location data locally on their devices instead of backing it up to its cloud, as reported by the Verge on 5th June 2024. Google, in a mail sent to its users, announced that users have until December 1st, 2024, to save this data to their mobile device before it gets automatically deleted, which means that people would...

Vistara Airlines recently confirmed on X that passenger-facing cameras at their boarding gates of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, capture photos of all flyers as part of the Digi Yatra process, regardless of their Digi Yatra enrolment status. The airline was responding to an X user’s question about the purpose of the cameras at the boarding...

What’s the news: 10BedICU, an initiative that seeks to create critical care ICUs in India’s rural government hospitals, uses OpenAI’s API to develop three AI-powered healthcare tools to deal with the recording of patients’ health data. According to Srikanth Nadhamuni, Founder of 10BedICU, the initiative has been developing software tools...