New Delhi: Microsoft's Notepad app on Windows 11 has been steadily improving in recent years, and now it finally gets a character count. In a new Canary channel test version of Windows 11, Microsoft has added a character count at the bottom, similar to how...
New Delhi: Doctors have extracted more than sixty live worms from a patient's eyes during an operation in China. The woman, whose identity has not been revealed, had been experiencing itchy eyes and one day, after rubbing them to relieve the tingling sensation, she was...
New Delhi: China is still playing catch-up with the US when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), as it faces lack of access to advanced chips amid strict regulation, the media reported. The arrival of ChatGPT -- and a barrage of AL models from US-based...
San Francisco: Apple will reportedly release a new entry-level iPad in the second half of 2024. According to Nikkei Asia, citing sources, Apple is working with China's BYD, a key iPad assembler, to move new product introduction (NPI) resources to Vietnam. NPI includes a tech...
San Francisco: Google’s experimental AI-powered note-taking app called NotebookLM, is now widely available in the US with new features like a noteboard space and suggested actions. The feature is starting to use Gemini Pro, Google’s latest model for scaling across a wide range of tasks...
London: The UK's competition regulator will look into the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, including recent developments, to understand the impact the merger could have on competition in the UK. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is examining whether Microsoft’s association...
London: SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19, can last in the lungs of certain individuals for up to 18 months after infection, finds a study. The study, published in the journal Nature Immunology, showed that Covid virus’ persistence appears to be linked to a failure of...
New Delhi: The development of digital public infrastructure (DPI) in India in the last decade has steered the growth of startups in the country, industry leaders said Saturday. Addressing FICCI’s annual general meeting and annual convention Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder of Info Edge India Ltd, said...
Sydney: An international team of experts has developed a way of using polyethylene waste (PE) as a feedstock and converted it into valuable chemicals, via light-driven photocatalysis. Most of the plastics used today end up being discarded and accumulated in landfills. PE is the most...
San Francisco: The ouster of Sam Altman by the previous OpenAI board was the culmination of several issues around Altman’s strategic manoeuvring and a “perceived lack of transparency” in his communications with directors, the media reported. At one point, during the discussions about Altman’s possible...
Last week, I wrote about South Asia remaining poor compared to nations in Asia, which have done something different from...
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The recent empanelling of IRS officer Rahul Navin as the interim chief of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and conferring upon...
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It appears to be a season of Indian spies getting nabbed or identified for messing up with their espionage work...
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The Congress’ disastrous performance in the just concluded Assembly elections to Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan presents an uphill task...
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