Sci-Tech

New Delhi: India’s smartwatch shipments have witnessed 50 per cent (year-on-year) growth in 2023, with Fire-Boltt leading the market, a new report said Wednesday. According to Counterpoint Research, this growth was fueled by the rising penetration of smartwatches, proliferation of low-cost devices to target first-time...

New Delhi: Google has said that government hackers last year used three undiscovered flaws in Apple's iPhone operating system to target users with spyware created by a European startup. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which investigates nation-backed hacking, published a report on Tuesday analysing several...

New Delhi: As the world celebrated Safer Internet Day, Apple Wednesday said it is making some of the most powerful tools for learning, exploring, and staying in touch while empowering families to stay safe. Apple said that it continually designs new features to help make...

New Delhi: The mobile phone manufacturing has increased from an estimated Rs 18,900 crore in 2014-15 to an estimated Rs 3,50,000 crore in 2022-23, making an impressive increase in production by more than 1,700 per cent, the government said Wednesday. Replying to a question in...

Bengaluru: Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella Wednesday announced that the company will train more than two million people in India in generative AI skills, to address talent shortage in the AI era. Addressing an event here, Nadella said that making sure that youth has...

New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) has worked with the US National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to expand the 'Take It Down' programme to more countries and languages to help millions of teens combat sextortion. "Take It Down is a programme designed to...

San Francisco: Elon Musk-run SpaceX is being investigated in the US for discrimination and sexual harassment, the media reported. Seven former employees alleged that SpaceX executives joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, according to multiple reports. The California Civil Rights Department...

Kochi: Doctors at the VPS Lakeshore hospital here successfully conducted the first-ever endo-robotic surgery on a 75-year-old woman. Robotic technology can play a significant role in reducing the morbidity of head and neck surgery. However, robots cannot be used for cancer below the voice box,...

New Delhi: As the policy-makers deliberate over how to curb deepfakes and AI-generated content in a year when the India and the US go to elections, Meta Tuesday said that in the coming months, it will label images that users post to Facebook, Instagram, and...

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The disruption of India's food systems during the Covid-19 pandemic was associated with a steep rise in malnutrition among children as the lockdown impacted their nutritional status, according to a study that was conducted in Odisha and Bihar. Researchers from the Tata-Cornell...