Sci-Tech

Baku (Azerbaijan): In the closing hours of the UN climate conference here, rich countries Friday proposed increasing climate finance for developing nations from $100 billion to $250 billion per year by 2035, far short of the trillions needed to address the escalating climate crisis. A...

New Delhi: An international team of scientists from India and the US have decoded the mysterious source behind fiery hot gas around the Milky Way galaxy. In the last few years, scientists have discovered gaseous matter pitched to be around 10 million degrees Kelvin hot....

New Delhi: Ola Electric Mobility is cutting 500 jobs across verticals and levels as part of a restructuring exercise, according to people aware of the development. The company, which has come under the scanner for its poor aftersales service recently, had started the job cut...

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has introduced a new feature called voice message transcripts and voice messages can now be transcribed into text, “to help you keep up with conversations no matter what you’re doing”. Transcripts are rolling out globally over the coming weeks with a...

Geneva: The World Health Organisation has authorized the first mpox vaccine for children, a decision experts hope will help make immunizations more widely available to one of the hardest-hit populations during the ongoing outbreaks of the disease in Congo and elsewhere in Africa. In a...

New Delhi: In a bid to combat the rising air pollution woes of India, tech giant Google on Wednesday launched Air View+ -- an artificial intelligence-based solution that can help the government and the people with useful hyperlocal air quality information. Air View+ is powered...

New Delhi: Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are in the news again after allegations were levelled against Congress's Maharashtra president Nana Patole and NCP (SP)'s Supriya Sule of being involved in "illegal bitcoin activities" to fund their poll campaign. Here is a look at what cryptocurrency/bitcoins are:...

Mumbai: India saw Private Equity/Venture Capitalist (PE/VC) investments worth $4.7 billion across 91 deals in October, a 40 per cent increase from September, a report showed Wednesday. Credit investments were the leading deal type in October, followed by growth investments, according to the IVCA-EY monthly...

Baku (Azerbaijan): India Tuesday said the new climate finance goal to support climate action in the Global South should be founded in the principle of climate justice and demanded that rich nations take the lead in mitigation and provide enough carbon space for developing countries....

Bengaluru: ISRO's latest communication satellite, GSAT-N2 was launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral in the US and successfully placed into orbit, the space agency's commercial arm NSIL said. The 4,700 kg GSAT-N2 High-throughput (HTS) satellite has been injected into the desired orbit, NewSpace India Limited...