Sci-Tech

New Delhi: NASA Tuesday informed of transmitting the first hip hop legend Missy Elliot's song The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) to Venus via its deep space network. The song was transmitted at 10:05 a.m. PDT Friday, July 12 from the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

San Francisco: Apple has made its new iOS 18 and other software updates available in public beta that come with several new features. Among the features are a set of customisation options, new text effects, the ability to lock and hide apps, manage Mail inbox,...

Cape Canaveral: Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago, and suspect there are hundreds more that could house future astronauts. An Italian-led team reported Monday that there's evidence for a sizable...

New Delhi: Stories created with help of ChatGPT are more creative, engaging their audience with more plot twists, compared to those by writers not using the tool, according to a research. However, researchers also found that diversity in stories by writers using generative artificial intelligence's...

New Delhi: Food delivery platforms Zomato and Swiggy have once again hiked platform fee to Rs 6 per order from an earlier Rs 5, a 20 per cent increase. Currently being charged in Delhi and Bengaluru, the platform fee is different from delivery fee, goods...

New Delhi: The funding momentum continued in the Indian startup ecosystem this week as 22 startups raised nearly $116.26 million, led by four growth-stage transactions. Last week, the domestic startup ecosystem raised nearly $176 million in funding across 16 deals. This week, four startups raised...

New Delhi: As it readies its constellation of Earth observation satellites, Bengaluru-based startup Pixxel Space has plans to map the Moon and asteroids, and look for materials required to build settlements in outer space. In an interaction with PTI editors at the agency's headquarters here,...

New Delhi: Japan's Softbank investment arm Softbank Vision Fund exited from Paytm in the June quarter at a loss of around $150 million, sources aware of the development said. Softbank invested about $1.5 billion in One97 Communications -- the owner of Paytm brand -- in...

Boston (US): The artificial intelligence boom has had such a profound effect on big tech companies that their energy consumption, and with it their carbon emissions, have surged. The spectacular success of large language models such as ChatGPT has helped fuel this growth in energy...

Bengaluru: A team of Indian scientists has created a user-friendly way to generate unpredictable random numbers crucial for stronger data encryption and provide robust cybersecurity, the Ministry of Science & Technology has said. The Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, which is an autonomous institute of the...