Washington, June 10 Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft scored a crucial achievement last week with the delivery of two astronauts to the International Space Station, but problems encountered along its journey in space and more hurdles that lie ahead make the aerospace...
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New Delhi, June 10 A mobile app could help predict if a pregnant woman will develop depression in the latter stages of pregnancy, according to new research. By asking women to respond to surveys during their first trimester, researchers identified...
Washington, June 7 Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams danced her way to the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours on Friday, as the Boeing Starliner spacecraft successfully docked to the orbital laboratory. Along with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore,...
Houston, June 6 On the way to the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore tested out a unique capability of the spacecraft on orbit – manual piloting. Williams flew to...
Seoul, June 5 Global streaming giant YouTube has expanded its shopping features in South Korea to help creators generate additional revenue through their videos, company officials said on Wednesday. YouTube unveiled its shopping affiliate program for eligible Korean creators the...
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New Delhi, June 3 2023/24 El Niño event, which drove record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather around the world, is predicted to transition to La Niña conditions later this year, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)....
Beijing, June 2 China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the Moon on Sunday, a landmark mission aiming to retrieve the world’s first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere, China’s space agency said. The...
Ajay Banerjee New Delhi, May 31 In a revelation on how China was meddling in Indian and Sikh affairs, social media giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has said a network originating in China targeted global Sikh community, including...
New Delhi, May 31 While the adoption of robotics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT) in the agriculture sector is helping fight labour shortages and climate change, it is also raising the risk of cyberattacks, according to a...
New Delhi, May 29 Ancient Egyptians attempted to operate on excessive tissue growth or learn more about cancerous disorders after a patient’s death, revealed a study on two 4,000-year-old skulls. Known to be the place of one of the early...
New Delhi, May 28 IT services major Wipro, on Tuesday, announced a partnership with the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) to leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and big data analytics for health behaviour innovations. CBR...
New Delhi, May 27 Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology may be key to fighting loneliness among humans, which is known to seriously impair health, according to a robotics expert. Tony Prescott, from the University of Sheffield, UK, argues in his new...
New Delhi, May 25 Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday slammed Meta-owned WhatsApp for allegedly exporting users’ data every night. An X user posted that WhatsApp exports user data nightly, which is “analysed and used for targeted advertising,...
Houston, May 23 Boeing’s Starliner first crewed spacecraft to be piloted by Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams is expected to be launched between June 1 and 5 after the flight was postponed earlier this month due to a technical snag. Williams,...
Mumbai, May 23 US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti has said America will send an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station by the end of this year. The NISAR project, a joint Earth-observing mission between US space agency NASA...
Sydney, May 22 Australians don’t know and can’t control how data brokers are spreading their personal information. This is the core finding of a newly released report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Consumers wanting to rent a...
Jakarta, May 19 Tycoon Elon Musk arrived on the Indonesian island of Bali on Sunday ahead of the planned launch of SpaceX’s Starlink internet service, which the Indonesian government hopes will boost internet penetration and health services in remote parts...
New Delhi, May 18 More than 50 lakh large farmland trees vanished between 2018 and 2022 in India, partly due to altered cultivation practices, revealing a “concerning trajectory,” new research published in the journal Nature Sustainability has found. Researchers said...
New Delhi, May 18 Climate change is likely to negatively affect the health of people suffering from brain conditions such as migraine and Alzheimer’s, new research published in The Lancet Neurology journal has found. Extreme temperatures, both low and high,...
New Delhi, May 18 Boeing Starliner’s historic crewed manned mission has been delayed yet again over a helium leak detected in one of the capsule’s thrusters, said NASA on Saturday. The spacecraft, aiming to carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and...
New Delhi, May 17 Eighty-five per cent of people surveyed in India say they are already experiencing the effects of climate change, and more than a third of them have either already moved or considered moving because of extreme weather...
New Delhi, May 17 Nearly one in four Indians faced hacking attacks in the first quarter (January-March period) this year, as malware continues to be a major cyber threat, a report showed on Friday. In the quarterly data released by...
New Delhi, May 16 Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said the X platform will soon launch more features to make live content more engaging and reach a wider audience. When X senior security engineer Nathan McGrady asked what is...
New Delhi, May 15 Apple prevented over $7 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions on its App Store in the last four years, the company has informed. In the same period, Apple blocked over 14 million stolen credit cards and over...
New Delhi, May 15 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday announced that their Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the AI company. Sutskever has been replaced by Research Director Jakub Pachocki at the company behind ChatGPT AI chatbot. “Ilya and...
Bengaluru, May 15 IT industry veterans N R Narayana Murthy and Kris Gopalakrishnan on Wednesday batted for increasing funding for research and higher academic institutes in the country by both the private and public sector, and stressed on the need...
New Delhi, May 13 Google Cloud and Bharti Airtel have collaborated to deliver cloud solutions to the latter’s customers, according to a joint statement issued on Monday. The long-term partnership will offer cloud solutions from Google Cloud to fast-track cloud...
New Delhi, May 11 Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a feature that will restrict users from taking screenshots of profile pictures on iOS. As shown in the screenshot shared by WABetaInfo, a message will occur on the screen notifying...
New Delhi, May 10 Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, on Friday, said that subscribed users can post movies, TV series or podcasts on the platform and earn money via monetisation. Replying to his sister Tosca Musk who co-founded the...
Kochi, May 8 Researchers at the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) have scientifically described and added two new species of needlefish from Indian waters. Genetic and molecular analysis, coupled with taxonomic examination, confirmed that these newly identified species have...
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