Friday, April 26, 2024
NEW DELHI — Taking on Google-owned YouTube, X social media platform will soon launch a dedicated TV app for users to upload high-quality videos, its CEO Linda Yaccarino has announced. The X TV app’s user interface looks quite similar to YouTube. ...
24 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Digital financial services provider PayU on Tuesday announced that it has received in-principle authorisation from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a Payments Aggregator (PA) under the Payment Settlements Act, 2007. This ap...
23 Apr 2024
ROTTERDAM — India is showcasing its innovative technologies and power generation practices at the 26th World Energy Congress, being held in the Netherlands from April 22 to 25. The India Pavilion at the Congress is reinforcing the country’s c...
23 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — As cardiovascular diseases in women remain underdiagnosed compared to men, new machine learning models that use sex-specific criteria may help overcome this as well as boost treatment outcomes, according to a study. Although anatomical ...
23 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Fintech company BharatPe on Tuesday launched India’s first all-in-one payment product that incorporates POS (point of sale), QR, and speaker into a single device. Called BharatPe One, the product is designed to streamline transact...
23 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — The Ministry of Heavy Industries said on Tuesday that it has received as many as seven bids under the global tender for the re-bidding of Production Linked Incentives (PLI) for 10 GWh Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) manufacturing announce...
23 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — In our daily rush to accomplish numerous tasks simultaneously, it’s crucial to have smoothly operating tools and devices to prevent any disruptions in our lives. A single glitch can cause significant delays, particularly with our ...
22 Apr 2024
MUMBAI — The periodical comet, named ’12P/Pons-Brooks’ will finally reach closest to greet Earth on Sunday, as it hurtles towards the sun on its return journey after 71 years, thrilling the Indian and global scientific community. The ce...
21 Apr 2024
KANPUR — The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) hosted its HPC Symposium 2024, bringing together leading researchers and students to explore the transformative power of High-Performance Computing (HPC). This annual event serves as a cru...
21 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature that will allow users to react quickly to status updates on Android. According to WABetaInfo, the “quick reaction feature for status updates” is set to release for a fu...
21 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Elon Musk, on Sunday, said that Tesla car users will soon have an integrated experience with X social media platform. Replying to a follower who asked if we can get the X app integrated into Tesla cars, the tech billionaire said: “Com...
21 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — As the Asia-Pacific region experiences a surge in the adoption of Generative AI (GenAI), India is set to join the most rapidly expanding markets in the forthcoming years. According to an IDC report, the Asia-Pacific region is witnessing...
20 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — A team of Japanese researchers has identified how proteins collect abnormally in neurons which is a feature of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) are...
20 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — In a dampener for millions of Tesla lovers in India, Elon Musk on Saturday said he will not visit the country next week as earlier planned, as the billionaire faces “the moment of truth” next week when Tesla announces its qu...
20 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Dell Technologies on Friday launched the new portfolio of commercial artificial intelligence (AI)-powered laptops and mobile workstations in India. This includes the Latitude portfolio and the Precision portfolio. The Latitude portfolio...
19 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — The environment-tech sector in India has raised $7.3 billion in total funding to date, a report showed on Friday. The country’s environmental technology funding saw substantial growth between 2018 and 2022, surging from $0.23 billion ...
19 Apr 2024
BENGALURU — At least 20 energy companies have joined hands to create an alliance for an open energy network called the Unified Energy Interface (UEI), which is a unified payments interface (UPI)-like system for EV charging, the firms said in a stat...
19 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Rockets should be used to reach the stars not to harm fellow humans, said billionaire Elon Musk on Friday, in light of the ongoing wars between Iran and Israel, and Russia and Ukraine. “We should send rockets not at each other, ...
19 Apr 2024SAN FRANCISCO — Apple on Friday said that it removed Meta-owned WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China at the request of the Chinese government. As per the iPhone maker, the country’s internet regulator Cyberspace Administration of ...
19 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Meta on Thursday introduced Llama 3, its next generation of open source large language model (LLM) in the AI era. The company launched first two models of the next generation of Llama which are available for broad use. “We’re dedica...
18 Apr 2024
MANDI — A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi has developed natural polymer-based multifunctional smart microgels that will aid in promoting sustainable agriculture in India. The microgels work by releasing nitroge...
18 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Enterprise software major Salesforce on Thursday rolled out ‘Slack AI’, which uses a company’s conversational data to help users work faster and smarter — to all paid customers with expanded language support. Sla...
18 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — The chief of US space agency NASA has told lawmakers in Washington that China is using civilian programmes to hide military objectives in space. “China has made extraordinary strides [in space] especially in the last 10 years, bu...
18 Apr 2024
SEOUL — South Korean defence solutions company Hanwha Systems, on Thursday, announced that its small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite has successfully conducted a mission for Earth observation by capturing images of landmarks in major citie...
18 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Tech giant Google has laid off 28 employees who were involved in sit-in protests at its offices over a Google contract with the Israeli government. The layoffs happened after nine employees were suspended and then arrested in the US ear...
18 Apr 2024
