Sci-Tech

Stockholm: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning. “This year's two Nobel Laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation...

San Francisco: A jury at a district court in the US has found that tech major Cognizant allegedly discriminated against non-Indian workers in Silicon Valley, asking for punitive damages against the company. According to multiple reports, the jury verdict against Cognizant came in a class-action...

New Delhi: The model for the development of the Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV) will be announced soon and that will provide a huge opportunity for industries to come into the space sector right at the beginning of design itself, ISRO chief S Somanath said...

Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated. The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is “proving to be fundamentally important for how...

New Delhi: Shares of Ola Electric Mobility tumbled 9 per cent Monday amid reports of service quality issues of its electric scooters and its CEO's spat on social media. Sliding for the third straight day, the stock of the company plunged 9.14 per cent to...

New Delhi: NASA’s Europa Clipper mission that aims to search for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa has been stalled due to hurricane Milton, expected to pose "life-threatening hazards" for parts of Florida in the US, the space agency informed Monday. Europa Clipper was set...

New Delhi: A war of words broke out between Ola founder Bhavish Agarwal and stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra Sunday on social media platform X over the after sales and service quality of the company's electric scooters. It started when Kamra responded to a post on...

New Delhi: About 21 startups in India raised nearly $93 million in funding across 16 deals this week, which included four growth-stage deals and 12 early-stage fundings. It is a big drop from nearly $461 million raised by 29 domestic startups last week, which included...

New Delhi: India conducted three successful flight tests of a very short-range air defence missile system at Rajasthan's Pokhran firing ranges. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Saturday congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Army for the flight tests of the fourth-generation...

New Delhi: India's services sector activity fell to a 10-month low in September as new businesses, international sales and output growth moderated, a monthly survey said Friday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services Business Activity Index fell from 60.9 in August to 57.7 in September,...