Sci-Tech

Melbourne: Last week, Elon Musk announced his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, had implanted a device in a human for the first time. The company's PRIME study, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last year, is testing a brain implant for “people with paralysis...

New Delhi: The government Saturday launched the ‘Digital India FutureLABS’ initiative that will enable partnerships between the government, startups and large enterprises to foster electronics design ecosystem. Launching the initiative that aims to boost India's electronics and IT sector by establishing a research and innovation...

New Delhi: The year 2024 started off on a worse note for the tech employees, as more than 122 tech companies and startups laid off more than 30,000 workers in January itself, while the job cuts continue unabated. According to data compiled by layoff-tracking website...

San Francisco: Google has officially retired its 'cached' web page feature as the company said that it was 'no longer required'. Google's search liaison confirmed the development, saying, "It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a...

New Delhi: The government has emphasised that social media intermediaries should identify and remove misinformation or information that impersonates another person, including those created using deepfakes, else face legal action, as actor Akshay Kumar finds himself in the crosshairs of a deepfake scandal. A fabricated...

San Francisco: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is planning to sell at least 50 million company shares in the next year, the media reported. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Amazon, where Bezos currently serves as executive chair, said its...

San Francisco: Elon Musk-run SpaceX has quietly invited proposals for exceptional science and research ideas that will enable life in space and on other planets, to be executed on orbit using its Dragon spacecraft capsule. Research proposals submitted to SpaceX will be reviewed and evaluated...

New Delhi: Google, which brought Gemini Pro into its AI chatbot Bard in English last December, has now made it available in more than 230 countries and territories in over 40 languages, including nine Indian languages. The nine Indian languages include -- Hindi, Tamil, Telugu,...

New Delhi: As 32-year-old model-cum-actress Poonam Pandey succumbed to cancer, doctors have said that cervical cancer vaccine is a must among Indians. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in Indian women, accounting for about 18 per cent of all cancers occurring in this...

New Delhi: Embattling edtech company Byju's Friday said investors have no voting rights on CEO change, after statements from a select few investors surfaced, calling for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to replace founder and group CEO Byju Raveendran. Think & Learn Private Limited, the...