Thursday, April 11, 2024
NEW DELHI — Sustainable waste management solutions provider Blue Planet on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Vac-Tech Engineering for an undisclosed sum. Blue Planet said in a statement that this acquisition will strengthen its technology in h...
27 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — More than seven in 10 (73 per cent) of business-to-business (B2B) sellers in India who exceed their targets are using artificial intelligence (AI), a new report said on Wednesday. The B2B sellers in the country are increasingly relying ...
27 Mar 2024
BENGALURU — About 63 per cent of Indian enterprises believe that generative AI will be important for their efforts towards sustainability, according to a new study on Tuesday. The global study conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV)...
26 Mar 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — Tech giant Apple has reportedly shelved plans to develop display screens for its smartwatch. According to a Bloomberg report, the tech giant has pulled the plug on an in-house project to build screens with microLED technology. The i...
23 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI, MARCH 22 (IANS) — In today’s rapidly evolving digital environment, 5G technology has shifted from a luxury to a standard expectation. It’s predicted that by December 2025, the number of 5G smartphones in India will increase f...
22 Mar 2024
WASHINGTON — NASA on Friday launched a shoebox-sized satellite, which aims to unravel the mysteries of cosmic blasts, to the International Space Station (ISS). The satellite, BurstCube, is enroute to the orbiting lab aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commerci...
22 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — Quit smoking if you are looking to reduce the ‘hidden’ abdominal fat, known as visceral fat, suggests a study. While smokers tend to have lower body weights than non-smokers, they tend to have visceral fat, which can be explained as...
21 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — About 80 per cent of Indian employees have said that they feel drained on days when they have a lot of meetings to attend, a new report revealed on Thursday. According to the Australia-based software firm Atlassian Corporation, 90 per c...
21 Mar 2024
KOCHI — Screening all pregnancies, irrespective of age, may help in early identification of Down syndrome cases, said doctors on World Down Syndrome Day on Thursday. Children born with the genetic condition have an extra full or partial copy of chr...
21 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — 5G users in India are using approximately 3.6 times as much mobile data traffic compared to 4G since its launch in October 2022 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a report showed on Wednesday. The average monthly data traffic per user als...
20 Mar 2024
SEOUL — South Korea’s antitrust regulator has launched an on-site inspection into over-the-top streaming platforms Netflix and Wavve on suspicion of their failure to properly notify users of terms of an early subscription cancellation, offici...
18 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — In a breather for big social media subsidiaries and internet platforms, the government has said that they no longer require approval before launching or deploying their AI models in the country. Let us find out what it means for Big Tec...
16 Mar 2024
UNITED NATIONS — India is behind an effort at the United Nations (UN) to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) systems are “secure and trustworthy” and to keep them open and accessible to the Global South. India is cosponsoring with the US a...
15 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — As the US House of Representatives passed legislation that could lead to a ban on TikTok that is being used by over 170 million Americans, it was the Indian government which first took the decision to block the Chinese short-video makin...
14 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — The landscape of smartphone technology is ever-evolving, with continuous innovations reshaping every facet of these omnipresent devices. Amid this evolution, numerous smartphones tout their camera capabilities as superior. However, the ...
13 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — Elon Musk who is currently locked in a battle with ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Wednesday that artificial intelligence (AI) will probably be smarter than any single human by next year. Musk has sued Sam-Altman-run company, alleging that...
13 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — About 59 per cent of Indians believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will make work easier and lead to better outcomes, a new report said on Tuesday. According to the automotive and consumer products maker Bosch, around 80 per cent of...
12 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX on Monday aced double launches of 46 Starlink internet satellites in low-Earth orbit — all under just six hours. The satellites lifted onboard the company’s reusable, two-stage Falcon 9 roc...
11 Mar 2024
BOSTON — Microsoft said on Friday it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with sto...
09 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — In new competition to Google-owned YouTube, Elon Musk on Saturday confirmed that X platform is launching a streaming service where people can watch long videos on their smart TV screens. The company is apparently launching a TV app for ...
09 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — Esports, which was once a male-dominated domain, is witnessing a significant shift as female gamers are carving their own space within the landscape by challenging stereotypes. With talent, resilience, and a supportive community, women ...
08 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to percolate across industries amid privacy concerns, the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the comprehensive national-level IndiaAI Mission with a budget outlay of Rs 10...
08 Mar 2024
SEOUL — South Korea’s antitrust watchdog has taken steps to penalise Meta Platforms for allegedly failing to protect local consumers on its e-commerce platforms of Facebook and Instagram, sources said on Friday. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC...
08 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — Elon Musk on Thursday said he is going to remove the count of likes and reposts from the users’ feed and only “view counts” will show on their timeline. X users slammed the decision, saying this is “excessively stupid” and...
07 Mar 2024
NEW DELHI — Global technology company HCLTech and digital workflow company ServiceNow on Thursday announced a partnership to deliver new generative artificial intelligence (genAI)-led solutions to enterprises. According to the company, the new offe...
07 Mar 2024
