Sci-Tech

New Delhi: More than $239 million was raised by 26 Indian startups in funding last week, which includes nine growth-stage deals and 15 early-stage deals. Two early-stage startups did not disclose the amount raised, reports Entrackr. In the week of May 6-11, around 24 early...

New Delhi: A substantial species barrier is preventing the spread of deadly chronic wasting disease (CWD) seen in deer, elk and moose to humans, found a study. CWD, also known as “zombie deer disease”, is highly transmissible and a type of prion disease -- degenerative...

New Delhi: India has become an alternative investment destination for many Western companies, according to the latest World Economic Situation and Prospects report of the UN. The report which has increased the forecast of India’s GDP growth by 0.7 percentage points to 6.9 per cent...

Sydney: Earlier this week OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted as a step towards more natural engagement with AI. According to the demonstration video, it can have voice...

New Delhi: Hospitality major Oyo will refile its initial public offering (IPO) papers with markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) after refinancing its existing $450 million Term Loan B (TLB) at a lower interest rate. Oravel Stays Ltd, which operates the travel-tech...

New Delhi: Boeing Starliner's historic crewed manned mission has been delayed yet again over a helium leak detected in one of the capsule's thrusters, said NASA Saturday. The spacecraft, aiming to carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Indian-Origin Sunita Williams to the space station, is...

New Delhi: The government will fund up to 50 per cent of AI compute infrastructure that will be created in partnership with the private sector, a senior official said Friday. While speaking at a CII Annual Business Summit, Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) Secretary...

New Delhi: Cloud software major Zoho's Founder and CEO Sridhar Vembu Friday said the company is not ready to announce anything yet regarding investments in a semiconductor fabrication unit. Reacting to reports that Zoho is geared up to pump millions of dollars into a chip...

New Delhi: Nearly one-third of the individuals who received Bharat Biotech's anti-Covid vaccine Covaxin reported 'adverse events of special interest,' or AESI, according to a one-year follow-up study conducted by a team of researchers at BHU. Nearly 50 per cent of 926 study participants in...

New Delhi: British-Swedish pharma giant AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, made in collaboration with Oxford University has been found to raise the risk of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) -- a rare but fatal blood clotting disorder, claimed researchers Thursday. While not new, VITT emerged as...