Sci-Tech

New Delhi: Indian software engineer Soham Parekh, currently in the eye of the storm for moonlighting for multiple Silicon Valley startups, has defended himself by saying that he was forced to work for 140 hours a week due to financial constraints. Appearing on a YouTube...

New Delhi: Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut on the International Space Station, is working to develop a brain-computer interface in the orbital lab, said NASA Thursday. Shukla, part of the Axiom Space mission-4, used near-infrared technology to develop the interface in the Columbus laboratory...

Redmond: Microsoft is firing thousands of workers, its second mass layoff in months. The tech giant began sending out layoff notices Wednesday. The company declined to say how many people would be laid off but that it will comprise less than 4 per cent of...

New Delhi: Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia Wednesday said that all due diligence processes have been completed from their end for the entry of SpaceX’s Starlink service in India, and once they receive the necessary regulatory and licensing approvals from the space regulator, they can...

Rourkela: In what could enhance both robotic and human mission planning on Mars and deepen understanding of its habitability, a collaborative research by scientists from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, UAE University and Sun Yat-sen University in China have examined how spinning dust devils,...

New Delhi: IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has undertaken a key experiment to decode muscle health in space -- crucial for astronauts undertaking long space missions as well as for people with muscle loss on Earth. Shukla last week scripted history by becoming the first...

Puri: Cyber crime unit of the Odisha Crime Branch has identified 23 fake hotel websites and sent them for immediate blocking. Of these, 15 websites have already been taken down, and efforts are underway to block the remaining ones, Crime Branch sources said Monday. The...

New Delhi: Union Cabinet Tuesday approved the Research Development and Innovation Scheme with a corpus of Rs 1 lakh crore to spur private sector investment in research. The scheme, approved by the Cabinet at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aims to encourage...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted Tuesday that the Digital India initiative launched a decade ago bridged the digital divide between haves and have-nots, and democratised opportunity, stressing that it has become a people's movement. In a post on LinkedIn, he said while decades...