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It's not that we haven't seen robots do unusual things in the past. From walking alongside humans to performing acrobatics, we have seen the field of robotics grow by leaps and bounds in the past few years. However, it's the combination of Boston Dynamics' “Spot” and BTS, the South Korean boy band, that makes for a delightful watch. No, the two haven't really collaborated, but it's no less than a collaboration when robots perform on one of the famous BTS tracks, right? Boston Dynamics, the American robotics and engineering company, was recently acquired by Hyundai Motor Group

The pandemic brought unprecedented times for every organisation, and no one was ready for a lockdown and elongated work from home scenarios. Enterprises had to quickly adapt to ensure business continuity while minimizing redundancy across geographies, establishments, and teams.

Tata Sons is planning to raise $2-2.5 billion for its digital business. It is working on launch of a super app. The group might initially raise funds from equity private firms and then look for strategic investors after scaling up the business, according to a report in The Economic Times.

IT industry body Nasscom on Thursday said the sector continues to be a net hirer of skilled talent, and that the top 5 Indian IT companies are planning to add over 96,000 employees in 2021-22.

The statement comes in the backdrop of a report by Bank of America that said domestic software firms are set to slash 3 million jobs by 2022 as automation gains pace across industries, especially in the tech space.

The purpose of personalized medicine is to select and deliver patient-specific treatments to achieve the best possible outcome. The challenge lies in identifying an optimum treatment as the number of possible predictors of good response like genetic and other biomarkers, and the option of treatments is increasing.

The healthcare industry is now unimaginable without technology. Artificial intelligence has shown its incredible potential in transforming the healthcare industry. Starting from diagnosing brutal cancerous cells or heart diseases to early detection of a possibly deadly virus, technological algorithms have surpassed the abilities of humans in detecting and uprooting them.

Google has released several updates to both the robots.txt documentation and the structured data documentation last Friday. Here is a list of those changes from Google's site.

India recorded the highest game downloads in the casual mobile gaming sub-segment in the world (excluding China) in 2020, with Q1-Q3 2020 downloads standing at 7.3 billion, accounting for 17% of the global mobile game downloads, according to a report by KPMG. Further, the monthly active users for the top 100 mobile games and the time spent on online gaming, increased 10-15% post lockdown 2020.

Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed that search results showing FAQ structured data are now limited to only two results. Danny also confirmed that it was not done to curb abuse of the structured data rich results by SEOs and explained the reasons why they did this.

That is according to a survey by Risk Based Security, which found that the number of records exposed reached a staggering 36 billion in the first three quarters of 2020 alone. The most exposed data types included access credentials in the form of email addresses and passwords. This is a stark reminder to everyone of the importance of maintaining good cyber hygiene, especially having unique, complex passwords for every site they access.