Thursday, April 11, 2024
NEW DELHI — Skygazers in North America are in for a treat today as the first solar eclipse of 2024 will shine bright on Monday night. During a total solar eclipse, the moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth, casting a shadow on the planet. ...
08 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Over half of urban Indians (about 51 per cent) use words or phrases from specific regional languages to express love language or in humorous or witty situations, which cannot be fully translated into English, according to a report on Mo...
08 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — The G20 sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant has said that India needs at least one million fast chargers to adopt electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030. In a post on X, he said that instead of importing, the country needs to push l...
07 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Challenging Brazil’s court order to block certain popular X accounts, tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that he will lift all the restrictions even if they have to close their office in the country. This move comes after X Corp ...
07 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — With major elections taking place around the world this year, particularly in India, South Korea and the US, a Microsoft Threat Analysis team has warned that China will create and amplify AI-generated content to benefit its interests. D...
06 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Information Technology (IT) solutions provider Mphasis on Friday announced a multi-year global strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch Gen AI Foundry for financial services. According to the comp...
05 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — In 2012, India had just one registered startup in the space sector — Dhruva Space from Hyderabad. The country now has close to 200 space startups. This exponential growth in the space sector is due to the government’s transforma...
05 Apr 2024
BENGALURU — Three out of the five data-driven deep tech startups, graduated from the 12th cohort of accelerator programme ‘NetApp Excellerator’ are led by women founders, the data infrastructure company said on Friday. The five startups...
05 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — By 2040, cases of prostate cancer are likely to double worldwide to 2.9 million per year, from 1.4 million per year in 2020, according to a new analysis published in the Lancet Commission. Over the same period, annual deaths are project...
05 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — users on Friday started losing followers as Elon Musk-run social media platform kicked off the exercise to remove bots. The action came as spam and porn bots swarmed the platform in the past few months, leaving users flummoxed. “I...
05 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Thursday introduced a new global advertisement format ‘Live Event Ads’ to help companies increase event registrations, build brand awareness, and drive measurable results from inv...
04 Apr 2024
SEOUL — South Korea and the World Bank have agreed to enhance partnership on digital identification initiatives to share expertise and technologies related to South Korea’s advanced digital ID system with developing nations, the state-run min...
04 Apr 2024
SEOUL — South Korea will funnel 710.2 billion won ($526.9 million) into the government’s projects to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into everyday life, the science ministry said on Thursday. The AI Strategy High-Level Consultative Cou...
04 Apr 2024SEOUL — Mercedes-Benz Korea, Stellantis Korea and two other carmakers will recall more than 50,000 vehicles due to faulty components, the Transport Ministry here said on Thursday. The four companies, including Honda Motor and Jaguar Land-Rover Kore...
04 Apr 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — The US space agency NASA has selected three companies — Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab — to develop a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) that Artemis astronauts will use to travel around the Moon’s surface. S...
04 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — In the vast expanse of human history, communication has always been the cornerstone of progress, innovation, and societal cohesion. Language and communication have been the biggest contributors to Homo Sapiens evolving to be intelligent...
03 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which comes under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, on Wednesday warned users of multiple vulnerabilities in Android and Mozilla Firefox web browsers which c...
03 Apr 2024
LONDON — Vodafone and Nokia on Wednesday said that they have successfully tested a new internet technology, which could improve the home broadband experience for customers, particularly when gaming or making video calls. Using a replica fibre-to-th...
03 Apr 2024
NEW YORK — There has been an increase in the number of people switching to electronic cigarettes while quitting regular tobacco smoking, claims a study. Previously, using electronic cigarettes did not lead to smoking cessation. The new study led by...
03 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — HCLTech on Wednesday announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to create industry solutions and drive business value with the tech giant’s multimodal large language Artificial Intelligence (AI) model ‘Gemini’...
03 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Tuesday released a consultation paper for formulation of the ‘National Broadcasting Policy 2024’, in an effort to bolster the broadcasting sector which is a sunrise industry. The c...
02 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — While in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment offers hope, navigating a career along with the complex series of fertility procedures can become a roadblock for a woman’s career. Employers offering fertility benefits can go a long w...
02 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Global technology brand OnePlus on Monday launched Nord CE4 smartphone with the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset and 8GB RAM. The 6.7 inch device, starting at INR 24,999 and available in two colours (dark chrome and celadon...
01 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — There has been a four-fold increase in online doctor consultations in India, since the Covid-19 pandemic, revealed a report on Monday. The report by Practo, a digital healthcare platform, showed that Tier 1 cities account for most onl...
01 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Diabetes patients with high blood pressure may be at risk of developing a stroke, finds a study by Chinese researchers. The study published in the journal Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews, showed that s...
01 Apr 2024
