Sci-Tech

London: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has laid out plans for the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to crack down on misleading adverts of cryptocurrency, bringing it in line with other financial promotions. A consultation response, published on Tuesday, sets out the UK government's...

New Delhi: In about two years of commercial rollout of its fixed-line broadband services, Reliance Jio has toppled 20 -year-old state-run telecom company BSNL as top service provider in the segment. According to a monthly telecom subscribers report released by the telecom regulator Trai on...

Washington: Scientists at NASA's Curiosity rover have found a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes from several powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars. While the finding is intriguing, it doesn't necessarily point to ancient life on Mars,...

New Delhi: BharatPe Co-founder and Managing Director Ashneer Grover, facing a controversy over alleged using inappropriate language against Kotak Mahindra Bank's staff, has taken voluntary leave till March-end, the fintech company announced Wednesday. Grover informed the Board of the fintech platform about his decision to...

San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has slammed the United Nations (UN) once again, saying that there are "not enough people" in the world and one should be more worried about population collapse. In a latest tweet, Musk posted, "UN projections are utter...

New Delhi: As India renews its thrust on local manufacturing of electronics under the production-linked incentive scheme (PLI) with Union Budget 2022-23 around the corner, Apple and Samsung alone are expected to manufacture/assemble smartphones worth around $5 billion (nearly Rs 37,000 crore) in the financial...

San Francisco: In the biggest deal ever in the world of gaming, Microsoft Tuesday announced to acquire Activision Blizzard, the maker of popular games like Call of Duty (CoD) and Warcraft, for a whopping $68.7 billion. When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become the world's third-largest...

New Delhi: Smartphone brand Vivo Monday announced that it will donate 100 smartphones worth Rs 10 lakh and a cash scholarship worth Rs 1.5 lakh to support education of 100 underprivileged kids. Vivo has collaborated with Protean (formerly known as NSDL) to announced a fresh...

Washington: A citizen scientist has discovered a giant gaseous planet about 379 light-years from Earth, orbiting a star with the same mass as the Sun, NASA has said. The exoplanet, called TOI-2180 b, was discovered in data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TOI-2180...

London: Science fiction is a genre very much associated with technological marvels, innovations, and visions of the future. So it may be surprising to find so many of its writers are drawn to Shakespeare – he's a figure associated with tradition and the past. Sometimes...