Sci-Tech

Seoul: South Korea will begin production of a laser weapon designed to strike down enemy drones for deployment this year, the defence procurement agency said Thursday, in a push to become the first country to operate such a weapon. Last month, the Defence Acquisition Program...

New Delhi: Tech giant Apple has issued a fresh warning to iPhone users in at least 98 countries, including in India, about a potential new mercenary spyware attack like 'Pegasus'. According to the Apple warning, it has detected that “you are being targeted by a...

New Delhi: India's battery energy storage capacity grew more than four-fold to 219 MWh as of March 2024, Mercom Capital said. As of March 2023, the overall battery energy storage capacity in India was at 47.6 megawatt hour (MWh), the US-based research firm said in...

New Delhi: Indians travelled close to 1,000 cities across 68 countries over the year, a new report revealed Wednesday. According to the ride-hailing platform Uber, summer holidays appear to be the most popular travel time for Indians to travel abroad as schools and colleges go...

Bhubaneswar: New technological developments are providing capabilities to society, but at the same time, they are also creating new challenges for humanity, President Droupadi Murmu said Tuesday. Murmu was addressing the 13th graduation ceremony of the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar....

Khurda: Making reels turned out to be disastrous for two youths as they fell into a waterfilled stone quarry at Bada Saunlia under Tapang police limits in this district Monday. Till the time last reports came in one of the youths had been rescued by...

New Delhi: With millions of people across five continents experiencing scorching heat last month, the European Union's (EU) climate agency, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), confirmed Monday that June was the warmest on record. It also marked the 12th consecutive month of global temperatures reaching...

New Delhi: London-based consumer tech brand Nothing Monday launched a new smartphone under its sub-brand CMF with a 50MP camera in India. Launched in two variants (6GB+128GB and 8GB+128GB), the new smartphone CMF Phone 1 comes available at a starting price of Rs 15,999. Along...

Seoul: South Korea's antitrust regulator is expected to take punitive steps against Google regarding allegations that it has unfairly bundled YouTube's music service with its premium subscription programme, officials said Monday. The tech giant was accused of providing the YouTube Music streaming service to users...

New Delhi: The Indian startup ecosystem raised nearly $176 million in funding across 16 deals in the first week of this month. In the biggest funding round, fashion e-commerce platform Purplle secured $120 million led by Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Agri-tech startup Arya.ag also announced...