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New Delhi, April 26 Amid the ongoing cricket fever in the country, scamsters have been posing as Mahendra Singh Dhoni to con people on social media, the Department of Telecom (DoT) said on Friday, warning people against falling into the...

New Delhi, April 26 Messaging service platform WhatsApp on Thursday submitted before the Delhi High Court that if it is made or compelled to break encryption of messages, then the platform will stop functioning. The submissions came while the division...

New Delhi, April 25 Nearly one in four Indians (22 per cent) have said they recently came across political content they later discovered to be deepfake, a new report revealed on Thursday. According to the cyber security company McAfee, about...

Chandigarh, April 24 It will be a rare celestial treat in Bengaluru on Wednesday as all shadows would vanish for a few minutes. This unique astronomical event is called ‘Zero Shadow Day’ and is set to occur between 12:17...

New Delhi, April 23 The number of Internet subscribers reached 936.16 million at the end of December 2023, registering a quarterly rate of growth 1.96 per cent from 918.19 million at the end of September, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of...

San Francisco, April 23 Most dating apps (80 per cent) might share or sell your personal data for advertising, a new report revealed on Tuesday. The developer of the Firefox Internet browser Mozilla examined 25 apps and labelled 22 of...

New Delhi, April 23 Researchers have developed a new AI-based model that can predict irregular heartbeat, or cardiac arrhythmia, about 30 minutes before its onset. The researchers found that the model proved to be 80 per cent accurate in predicting...

New Delhi, April 22 More than 27 per cent of the identified glacial lakes in the Himalayas have notably expanded since 1984 and 130 of those are in India, ISRO said on Monday. In a statement, the space agency said...

New Delhi, April 21 Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature that will allow users to react quickly to status updates on Android. According to WABetaInfo, the “quick reaction feature for status updates” is set to release for a...

New Delhi, AprIl 20 If the current rate of plastic production continues, it could use up the global carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by as early as 2060 or no later than 2083, according to...

Dipender Manta Mandi, April 19 A research team from IIT-Mandi has achieved a significant breakthrough in sustainable agriculture with the development of natural polymer-based multifunctional smart microgels. These microgels were engineered to release nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilisers over...

San Francisco, April 19 Apple on Friday said that it removed Meta-owned WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China at the request of the Chinese government. As per the iPhone maker, the country’s internet regulator Cyberspace Administration of...

New Delhi, April 19 Fossils recovered from Kutch in Gujarat may have belonged to the spine of one of the largest snakes to have ever lived, according to new research from IIT-Roorkee. From the Panandhro Lignite mine, researchers discovered 27...

Melbourne, April 18 Earlier this year, Neuralink implanted a chip inside the brain of 29-year-old US man Noland Arbaugh, who is paralysed from the shoulders down. The chip has enabled Arbaugh to move a mouse pointer on a screen just...

New Delhi, April 16 Social media giant Meta’s Oversight Board has invited public comments to decide on actions to be taken on AI-generated obscene images in two cases related to public figures in India and the US. One of the...

New Delhi, April 16 In a dampener for new X users, Elon Musk has announced they may be charged for posting content on the social platform. In reply to an X user, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said that unfortunately,...

Los Angeles, April 15 NASA is seeking a cheaper, simpler approach to one of its top science priorities in the midst of a budget crunch – retrieving precious soil samples collected on Mars and flying them back to Earth, US...

April 15 Along coastlines from Australia to Kenya to Mexico, many of the world’s colorful coral reefs have turned a ghostly white in what scientists said on Monday amounted to the fourth global bleaching event in the last three decades....

New Delhi, April 15 Amid the global economic headwinds, India continues to be the preferred outsourcing destination for businesses aiming to build and expand their digital services portfolio, a new report showed on Monday. About 45 per cent of high-tech,...

New Delhi, April 13 Elon Musk-run X Corp banned a record 2,12,627 accounts in India between February 26 and March 25, mostly for promoting child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity. The micro-blogging platform also took down 1,235 accounts for promoting...

Satya Prakash New Delhi, April 13 Noting that Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds immense potential to transform the way legal professionals work, CJI DY Chandrachud on Saturday said it represented the next frontier of innovation, promising to revolutionize various domains with...

Michigan, April 13 The most frequent type of pulmonary fibrosis scarring of the lungs is idiopathic, which means that the cause is unclear. Researchers are working quickly to develop treatments to prevent or reduce idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and associated...

New Delhi, April 13 Elon Musk on Saturday asked young talented people to join his Artificial Intelligence (AI) venture called xAI across the verticals. His xAI company is currently hiring engineers and designers, apart from people for product, data and...

New Delhi, April 12 WhatsApp has said that it is testing its large language model-powered chatbot Meta AI, with users in India and some other markets, in an effort to tap the massive user base to up its artificial intelligence...

New Delhi, April 12 Sam Altman-run OpenAI on Friday said it has made its AI chatbot called ChatGPT more direct and less verbose. In a post on X, the company said its new GPT-4 Turbo model is now available to...