Thursday, November 21, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk, who is busy promoting Donald Trump for the keenly-watched US presidential election on November 5, has reportedly laid off more employees from his X social media platform. According to a report in The Verge, a new wave of ...
02 Nov 2024
NEW DELHI — India has one of the highest levels of treatment coverage for tuberculosis, among the 30 high TB burden countries, revealed a recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The report showed that India is among seven of 30 high T...
01 Nov 2024
NEW DELHI — The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Friday announced the launch of its first analog space mission, to study the challenges of extraterrestrial conditions that will help in future space missions. The mission, which includes ...
01 Nov 2024
NEW DELHI — Even as India aims to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, five years ahead of the global target, a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday showed that the country accounts for 26 per cent — the highest —...
30 Oct 2024SEOUL — South Korea’s national space agency on Wednesday said it will join hands with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct studies related to the Moon exploration Artemis programme. According to its officials...
30 Oct 2024
CUPERTINO (CALIFORNIA) — Apple on Tuesday introduced the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon to pack an incredible amount of performance into an even smaller form of just 5 by 5 inches. With ...
29 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — Hormonal changes caused due to pregnancy, or the use of oral contraceptives, and the longer life expectancy are some of the reasons that explain the higher incidences of strokes among women than men, said experts on World Stroke Day on ...
29 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — In groundbreaking research, a team of Australian researchers has identified the placenta’s unexpected influence on maternal mental health. The finding may potentially revolutionise the understanding of pregnancy-related anxiety an...
29 Oct 2024NEW DELHI, OCT 29 (IANS) — Apple Intelligence is quickly adding support for more languages and in April next year, English (India) will be supported along with several others, the company has announced. The tech giant has announced the first set of...
29 Oct 2024NEW DELHI — Smartphones have become an integral part of our daily lives, and with each passing year, manufacturers strive to outdo themselves and their competitors. In this landscape of constant innovation, realme’s GT Series has carved out i...
28 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — Aimed at promoting the scaling and adoption of impactful AI solutions to enable large-scale socio-economic transformation, the IT Ministry has launched the ‘IndiaAI CyberGuard AI Hackathon’. This hackathon is part of the application...
26 Oct 2024NEW DELHI — In a bid to transform the startup manufacturing ecosystem, the government has formed a strategic partnership with HCLSoftware, a global leader in software solutions. Under the ‘Manufacturing Incubation Initiative,’ startups will...
26 Oct 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is reportedly planning to launch its next AI model called ‘Orion’ in December this year which is potentially up to 100 times more powerful than GPT-4. According to a report in The Verge, unlike the release o...
25 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — In a groundbreaking move set to revolutionise business operations, IGT Solutions on Thursday said it has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch TechBud.AI, a cutting-edge Generative AI platform aimed at streamlining recruitm...
24 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — Indian sustainable eating habits such as limiting food waste, prioritising vegetarian diets, and consuming locally sourced foods can help address global climate change, a pressing issue worldwide, according to a report. A recent Living ...
24 Oct 2024NEW DELHI — Amid the boom in the global capability centres (GCCs) in India, the country is projected to see 2,500 such centres over the next four years, with their office space footprint likely to surpass 300 million square feet, according to a new...
24 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — Almost 750 million additional people were covered by 5G in 2023 and more than half of that was due to rollouts by operators in India alone, a new GSMA report said on Wednesday. The consumer experience on mobile networks continued to see...
23 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — The government on Tuesday announced a new spam-tracking system to identify and block incoming international calls posing as Indian phone numbers. The system was made operational and within 24 hours of operation, about 1.35 crore or 90 p...
22 Oct 2024
SEOUL — The health ministry here said on Monday it plans to co-host an annual biotechnology convention next month with the World Health Organization (WHO), bringing experts together to discuss strategies for a stable global healthcare supply chain....
22 Oct 2024KIGALI — Rwandan Minister of Health Sabin Nsanzimana said that there have been no new infections of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the country for the past five days, indicating significant progress in the fight against the deadly virus. Nsanzimana...
21 Oct 2024
SEOUL — US-based social media platforms YouTube and Instagram saw their usage time among South Korean users rise sharply in September from a year earlier, data showed on Sunday, while domestic platforms like KakaoTalk and Naver lost ground. The tot...
20 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — DigiLocker, the flagship e-governance platform, is empowering millions of citizens with digital tools to simplify their lives, the IT Ministry said on Saturday. Thousands of citizens tuned in live from across the country for ‘Ask Our ...
19 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — A team of US researchers is pioneering the self-assembly of human liver tissues in low-Earth orbit (LEO) — the area of space below an altitude of around 1,931 kms — which could lead to novel stem cell-derived liver tissues, providin...
19 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI — Cancer patients are nearly five times more likely to experience bankruptcy, as financial fallout can follow patients with cancer and their families in the form of lower credit scores and other forms of monetary challenges years after a ...
19 Oct 2024NEW DELHI — Over 1 billion young people are at the risk of hearing loss globally due to unsafe listening habits, and it is important for policymakers and regulators to develop global standards not only for device manufacturers but also for users an...
19 Oct 2024
