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More than 12,000 hectares of forest and agricultural land have burned over the past week, according to analyses from the European Unions Copernicus Earth observation programme

Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute

Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters, the numerical settings a model learns from data and uses to recognise patterns, generate answers, and carry out tasks

Amazons Great Freedom Sale begins on August 7 this year, with the company touting double digit discount rates across multiple categories

The alloy shares characteristics with other unusual high-entropy alloys and quasicrystals, which are of great interest among engineers for their strength and stability

The U.S. AI industry boasts of a short yet rich tradition of open letters signed by tech companies, but do these efforts lead to any meaningful results?

With land increasingly scarce and storage becoming crucial, heres why India is looking to its vast reservoirs for the next phase of solar expansion

The eSafety study painted a sobering picture. It found that children aged 10 to 15 were using social media just as frequently in March as they had before the ban came into force on December 10

The discovery of additional rogue behaviour at OpenAI, even if limited in nature, could feed growing appetite for regulation coming out of the White House and elsewhere

As Chinese AI models close the gap with their U.S. counterparts, military researchers are also examining distillation as a potential security risk

The company's gross margin was 50.1%, including a favourable impact of approximately 2% points from tariff refunds

The government earlier this week summoned a top Meta executive after Modis recent post addressing Indias youth and promising stringent measures against paper leaks was briefly restricted on Facebook.

Sarvam AI said Epoch Builder Edition will be available in private preview from August 2026, with general availability planned for the fourth quarter of 2026

The tablet gets AI-powered tools and software experiences like Google Gemini, Circle to Search, Smarter Reader, AI Writing Tools, and AI Notes

Amazon has made investments and signed partnerships worth billions with both OpenAI and Anthropic

Unlike the incident involving OpenAI's technology, Anthropic's models had access to the internet due to a misunderstanding between us and our evaluation partner, called Irregular, Anthropic said

While governments continue to ramp up efforts to contain the fires, Europe can also count on a herd of donkeys chomping away to prevent the next one

European Commission said it aims to attract at least 20 billion in private investments for the projects; the total was increased from five planned gigafactories to seven following strong interest from EU countries

Unusually for a big tech company, Meta's AI spending spree has seen its cash pile wind down, with free cash flow falling to $784 million from $8.5 billion a year earlier

Microsoft reported $90 billion in revenue and $35.8 billion in net income in the last quarter of its fiscal year

Samsung Electronics has reported a record operating profit of $62 billion for the April-June quarter

The story began on November 21, 1963, when the 715-kg Nike Apache rocket rose into the sky at Thumba, a fishing village on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram.

Starting fromAugust 2, the EU mandates labels for AI-generated content to boost transparency online. From deepfakes to manipulated text, find out how this new code seeks to protect users and maintain the integrity of information

Chinese AI firm Moonshot made headlines with the release of Kimi K3 earlier this month, igniting debate over the merits and risks of open-weight models

Social media influences and trends have been around us for quite long, but ever wondered if its actually changing the way you view food and healthy lifestyles?

The clothes in your wardrobe may be silently polluting the planet. Surprising? The fashion industry is the second biggest polluter in the world.

Imagine theres a power cut, but your phone still works. Sounds impossible today, but for decades, thats exactly what traditional landline phones could do.

Carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, flying horses, galloper... this amusement ride goes by many a name, but the joy it brings is always the same. A.S.Ganesh hops aboard this evergreen ride, picks a horse to seat himself and regales you with stories about it...

The mission will consist of a bio-inspired robotic explorer driven by an AI model, and will be capable of directly sampling particles from planetary ring systems something no mission has attempted before

Language acquisition, at its core, is a social dance. A caregivers response, its tonal quality, and content adapted to the childs level, controls what and if a child learns. This cannot be outsourced to a machine

The Delhi High Court order is the first detailed attempt by an Indian court to place AI training within the Copyright Act.

The notice was issued close to midnight on July 23

The notice comes after several users participating in the Jantar Mantar protest were observed using Bluetooth-based messaging apps after the government imposed temporary restrictions on internet services

Google will allow users to set up verification by recording a brief video of themselves performing guided head movements that would capture multiple angles

The agreement spans five years, with a further five-year option, and covers the entire Pentagon, along with the U.S. Coast Guard and the intelligence community

European Union fined Google460 million for search abuses and 430 million forthe Play Store breaches

Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended the companys frontier models amidst worries about the delayed release of the Gemini 3.5 Pro model that was expected last month

Maglev trains use powerful magnetic fields to move above the track without wheels, eliminating rolling friction, enabling speeds of over 400 km/hr; however, the technology requires dedicated guideways with precision engineering, making construction and operation expensive

Data integration, legacy modernisation, workforce capability, governance, and clearly defined accountability will determine whether promising pilots become repeatable, enterprise-scale deployments, TCS said in the report.

A quiz on chemistrys dangerous molecules

If you want to be in space, youll need training. A lot of it. Heres a look at all the different training from spacewalk to simulation that astronauts undergo to be efficient and valiant when, after much waiting, they finally get to space!

Every space mission is a team effort. Beyond the rocket and astronauts, specialised parts like launch vehicles, orbiters, landers and rovers work together to explore space. Heres what each one does.

Mistral, meanwhile, has added its AI models called Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 to Microsofts app builder known as Foundry

A team from Nagaland University probed a prominent middle-Eocene sedimentary rock formation in Karbi Anglong district to arrive at a conclusion

InvenTree-meta brings together information from 465 published studies conducted between 1991 and 2023, spanning more than 4,650 hectares of forests across all of Indias biomes

Tennessees trial is the second to test claims in a lawsuit brought by a state against Meta

If you completed that headline by saying one giant leap for mankind, you know whats coming. For the rest, who are more grounded, this is a quick timeline retracing the historic first human moon landing. On this Space Exploration Day, join A.S.Ganesh as he takes you from start to finish on humanitys historic voyage that spanned a little over a week in July 1969...

After AI chatbot Grok enabled users to create a barrage of sexual deepfakes and morphed photos earlier this year, a proposed class action lawsuit in the U.S. saw five people claiming that their lives have been shattered as a result of child abuse material

The parrot bornavirus 4, circulating among captive birds, has raised fresh concerns for aviculture and conservation efforts involving threatened parrot species

Previous studies had tried to answer this question using simplified climate models, finding the biospheres twilight could occur in 100 million to 900 million years