--- Siri interrupts reporter during live weather forecast, disagrees with him ---
Apple's voice-based assistant Siri recently interrupted meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker during a live weather forecast broadcast on BBC when he was sharing a weather forecast for snowfall in Minneapolis and Denver in the US. Siri, which got activated on his Apple Watch, said, "There's no snow in the forecast." "It probably doesn't know what place I'm talking about," Tomasz replied.
--- First-ever text message was sent 27 years ago on this day ---
The first-ever text message was sent on December 3, 1992, when UK-born engineer Neil Papworth wrote "Merry Christmas" and sent it to the cellphone of Richard Jarvis, the then Director of Vodafone UK. Since mobile phones didn't have keyboards at the time, Papworth typed the message on a computer. Richard was at a Christmas party when he received the text.
--- Fixing tech glitch taking more time than expected: HDFC on net banking outage ---
As HDFC Bank's net banking outage entered its second day on Tuesday, the bank said, "Resolution of the technical glitch is taking more time than anticipated." "While some customers are able to transact using NetBanking and MobileBanking App, a few may still be facing intermittent issues," it added. Users complained that the glitch delayed their salaries and bill payments.
