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Mexico, April 8 The first total solar eclipse to grace North America in seven years made landfall in Mexico on Monday as millions of skywatchers gazed upward for the start of a celestial display at least partially visible, weather permitting,...

London, April 8 Months after creating the new Microsoft AI organisation to help advance their consumer AI products and research, including Copilot, the tech giant has now announced that it is opening a new AI hub in London, UK. According...

New Delhi, April 8 Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) on Monday announced the “successful deployment” into space of its sub-metre optical satellite that was assembled and tested in India. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched TSAT-1A satellite from the Kennedy Space...

New Delhi, April 8 A team of South Korean scientists has developed a new labelling technology that can observe neuronal structure in detail and help decode degenerative brain disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, as well as stroke — known...

Washington, April 8 The moon will blot out the sun for millions of people in North America along a path crossing from Mexico into the United States and then Canada in a total solar eclipse occurring on Monday, April 8....

New Delhi, April 7 India’s weather scientists have started harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance weather forecasts, India Meteorological Department Director-General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said. In a free-wheeling interaction with PTI editors, he said over the...

Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, April 5 Come April 8 and the world will witness its first solar eclipse of this year. Given that it will be the first total solar eclipse since December 4, 2021, makes the celestial event even more...

New Delhi, April 4 Social media platform X has expanded its ‘Community Notes’ program to India, a fact-checking type feature that allows people to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading posts. The activation of ‘Community Notes’ program in India comes...

San Francisco, April 4 The US space agency NASA has selected four companies — Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab — to develop a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) that Artemis astronauts will use to travel around the Moon’s surface....

Bengaluru, April 3 A multi-institutional team has provided critical insights into the evolution and origins of the virus strains fuelling lumpy skin cattle disease outbreak, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has said. In May 2022, cattle across India began...

New Delhi, April 2 Six genes have been found to be at the heart of emotional response and meaning perception, in turn making up one’s personality, including their outlook and functioning, according to new research. These genes were also found...

New Delhi, April 2 The melting of glaciers in a warming climate exposes new ground that are then colonised by invasive species, a new research has found. The study, conducted by UK-based researchers, looked at how living organisms colonise new...

New Delhi, March 30 As world leaders scramble to tackle the menace of deepfakes in a global election year, Sam Altman-run OpenAI is trying to develop beneficial AI, with a text-to-speech model called ‘Voice Engine’. The AI model uses text...

Toronto, March 29 A team of researchers here on Friday said they have identified genes which might be partially behind cerebral palsy, a condition which affects the ability to move and maintain balance and posture in children. The seven-year study,...

Jodhpur, March 28 Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur have developed a new low-cost, paper-based analytical device that can be connected to smartphones to provide on-spot detection of glucose levels. The device carries a lab-based functionalised biodegradable...

New Delhi, March 27 In a bid to take on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Elon Musk on Wednesday said that X platform will soon allow its ‘Grok’ AI chatbot to more paying subscribers. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Tesla...

Guwahati, March 26 Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati on Tuesday announced the transfer of key technology for the commercial rollout of India’s first recombinant vaccine for swine fever virus in pigs and wild boars. Swine fever...

San Francisco, March 24 OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has said that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk thought that the ChatGPT-maker company would fail and “he chose to part ways”. In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, Altman said that...

March 24 China has introduced guidelines to phase out U.S. microprocessors from Intel and AMD from government personal computers and servers, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made...

San Francisco, March 23 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....

New Delhi, March 23 Worried about not being able to work out daily? Exercising even once a week is better than no physical activity, said Dr Sudhir Kumar, a Hyderabad-based neurologist. The doctor, popularly known as ‘Hyderabaddoctor’ on X.com, said...

New Delhi, March 23 Earliest “building blocks” of our Milky Way galaxy have been identified from 12-13 billion years ago, which is very close in time to when the universe’s first galaxies started to form, according to a new research....

Sydney, March 23 Australian researchers have in a new study discussed how low temperature and carbon-rich melts can help bring concentrations of valuable metals, used in renewable energy technologies, from deep within the Earth’s interior mantle. The team from Macquarie...

Washington, March 21 The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors and stifles innovation. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in...

March 21 Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess. Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralysed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played...