Sci-Tech

New Delhi: China has blocked Meta’s proposed $2 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus, citing national security concerns, in a move that signals tighter regulatory scrutiny of cross-border technology deals, a new report has said. According to a report by Modern Diplomacy, the National...

New Delhi: The Moon's surface is not just a uniform pile of dust, but a distinct two-layer "cake-like" structure with the top being only a few centimetres, a statement from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said Tuesday, quoting a new study. The layers show...

Oakland: A federal court Monday dismissed claims filed against OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to remain a nonprofit dedicated to guiding artificial intelligence's development for the good of humanity. Musk, the world's...

New Delhi: OpenAI -- the parent company of ChatGPT -- has integrated its AI coding assistant Codex into the ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android users, allowing developers to monitor, manage and approve coding tasks remotely from their smartphones. The feature is currently being...

Los Angeles: NASA’s Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter with Mars Friday and a planned gravity boost to set the spacecraft on its final course to the solar system’s largest known metallic asteroid, thought to be the remnant core of an ancient protoplanet....

Bhubaneswar: IIT-Bhubaneswar announced the launch of an industry-linked MTech programme in cybersecurity for engineers working in different industries. The programme is scheduled to commence on July 24, with applications currently open for eligible candidates who aspire to advance their careers in cybersecurity through this innovative...

The Hague: A French woman and two Americans tested positive or showed symptoms of hantavirus Monday as nations around the world scrambled to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by an outbreak and quarantine or isolate them. Passengers from the ship began flying home...

Tenerife (Spain): A hantavirus-stricken cruise ship with more than 140 people on board has arrived at Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands, off the coast of West Africa, where the passengers and some of the crew are to disembark. The World Health Organisation, Spanish...

New Delhi/Balasore: India has successfully test-fired an Advanced Agni missile with the strategic ability to deploy multiple payloads to separate targets simultaneously -- a milestone that places the country among a select league of global powers. The testing of the missile with Multiple Independently Targeted...

Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: Researchers at the National Institute of Technology (NIT)-Rourkela have developed a lightweight material that can come in handy in developing durable aircraft landing gear. Typically made of aluminium and aluminium alloys, aircraft landing gear is designed to absorb the weight of the aircraft and...