New Delhi, July 13 Increased heating due to climate change is leading to more thunderstorm activity and consequently, more lightning strikes worldwide, senior scientists said on Saturday. At least 43 people were killed due to lightning strikes in Uttar Pradesh...
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San Diego (US), July 13 Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or so stones came from the planet Mars. It’s not that hard for...
New Delhi, July 12 Researchers have developed a very innovative method for analysing MRI heart scans with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) technology which could save valuable time and resources and improve patient care. The teams from the Universities...
July 11 Around 5,000 years ago, the population in northern Europe collapsed, decimating Stone Age farming communities across the region. The cause of this calamity, called the Neolithic decline, has remained a matter of debate. New research based on DNA...
New Delhi, July 9 Tech Mahindra on Tuesday announced a collaboration with Microsoft to modernise workplace experiences with Copilot for Microsoft 365. This will benefit over 1,200 customers and an initial over 10,000 employees across 15 locations. Tech Mahindra will...
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Beijing, July 8 Scientists have identified a super resilient desert moss species in China’s western region of Xinjiang that could help sustain possible colonies on Mars, a study by the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed. When subjected to conditions that...
New Delhi, July 8 In good news for Notepad users, Microsoft has rolled out spellcheck and autocorrect in the Notepad app in Windows 11 — 40 years after the text editor was first introduced in Windows in 1983. The tech...
New Delhi, July 8 In a worrying trend, Elon Musk-owned X is manually reviewing certain users’ direct messages (DMs) to investigate reported violations and misuse of its service, “or to comply with laws or governmental requests”. When an X user...
New Delhi, July 7 Want a satellite picture of your backyard? It may soon be possible as Bengaluru-based space start-up Pixxel plans to unveil an online software suite to browse through images of earth captured by its satellites and also...
New Delhi, July 6 WhatsApp conversations cannot be used as evidence in a court without a proper certificate as mandated under the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, the Delhi High Court has said. The ruling came on an appeal filed by Dell...
Tokyo, July 1 Japan deployed an upgraded Earth observation satellite for disaster response and security after it was launched on a new flagship H3 rocket Monday. The H3 No. 3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on a...
New Delhi, June 30 India and the US are looking at cutting-edge military technology, including military-grade semiconductors to guide long-range missiles and new artificial intelligence backed situational awareness equipment that will be jointly developed by a US company with...
New Delhi, June 29 Having meaningful social interactions with peers is associated with lower loneliness and greater affective well-being, a new study has shown. To conduct the study, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the researchers followed...
New Delhi, June 29 Meta said that it took down over 15.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.8 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in May....
New Delhi, June 27 Exam graders could have trouble spotting answers generated by AI-based chatbots, researchers said after their study found that these answers not only went undetected but were also graded better than those written by students. On behalf...
New Delhi, June 26 A new AI-based model could predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by analysing an individual’s speech, the developers said. Trained on audio recordings of patients with mild cognitive impairment—early stages of memory loss, the model achieved...
New Delhi, June 26 Social media use does not raise the risk of depression in all adolescents, revealed a study on Wednesday which found parental hostility and peer bullying as major risk factors driving teenagers to mental health conditions. Early...
New Delhi, June 24 E-commerce giant Flipkart has started rolling out its own payments app Super.money, in a fintech push, over a year and a half after separating from PhonePe. Now live in beta on the Play Store, the new...
New Delhi, June 24 A team of US researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that could help electrical grids prevent power outages by automatically rerouting electricity in milliseconds. The automated system, published online in the journal Nature Communications,...
New Delhi, June 24 Denser grey matter in the cognition region of a brain could be helping serial entrepreneurs in adapting multiple strategies, enabling them to repeatedly launch new businesses compared to others, according to a recent research. The study...
Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, June 24 Everyone is familiar with the regular popcorn and potato but not many would be familiar with the ones associated with our neigbouring planet—the Mars. Interestingly, a couple of days after NASA posted about a...
New Delhi, June 24 Meta on Monday announced the availability of its AI assistant ‘Meta AI’ in India on WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and meta.ai portal. With this, people can use Meta AI in feeds and chats across its apps...
New Delhi, June 22 Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new in-app dialer feature that will allow users to make calls directly from the app. According to WABetaInfo, they will not need to add contacts to their address book...
New Delhi, June 18 Amid the growing debate over artificial intelligence (AI) models, Google on Tuesday launched its AI assistant Gemini’s mobile app in India. The Gemini app is now available in India, supporting English and nine languages — Hindi,...
New Delhi, June 17 An Artificial Intelligence-based app, PadhAI, scored over 170 marks out of 200 in the UPSC preliminary exams-2024 solving the entire paper within seven minutes and qualifying above the general score which usually remains under 100. The...
Neeraj Mohan New Delhi, June 16 A statement by SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, advocating for the elimination of electronic voting machines (EVMs) due to hacking risks, has ignited a fresh controversy in India. Musk’s remarks have resonated particularly...
New Delhi, June 14 A new study has provided “unambiguous evidence” that the Earth’s inner core began to slow down its rotation in 2010, compared to the planet’s surface. Researchers said that the slowing down could change the length of...
New Delhi, June 12 Use of chemical fertilisers and animal waste on croplands soared deadly emissions of nitrous oxide—a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane—by 40 per cent between 1980 and 2020, according to a new report...
Bengaluru, June 12 Researchers at the Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have developed a novel remediation process for removing heavy metal contaminants such as arsenic from groundwater. The three-step method, which is patent-pending, also ensures...
New Delhi, June 12 Elon Musk on Wednesday confirmed the roll out of a new feature that will hide all likes by default for X users. X is rolling out “private likes” which will likely show up on users’ timelines...
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