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The hardware launch of Codex Micro comes as OpenAI is locked in a legal feud with Apple over the alleged theft of trade secrets from the iPhone-maker
To ensure their ads are promoted by Google and target the right customers, companies bid on keywords that online consumers type into the search engine
Britains Gambling Commission said on Monday that Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, was turning a blind eye to illegal online casinos advertising on its sites
New findingsfrom controlled studies across the worldreveal that the body undergoes significant, systematic changes across multiple organs during prolonged periods of fasting
A new study investigates infants auditory responses and spontaneous movements to music during their first year
The second Indian Wildlife Ecology Conference at Ashoka University was a forum where researchers from universities, government agencies, NGOs, and field stations together figured out where the discipline is heading using insights into evolutionary history, long-term monitoring, public policy, technology, and public health
This contraction has dragged the market down to its lowest second-quarter volumes since 2013, effectively wiping out over a decade of transactional growth
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
Proteins are important diagnostic targets because they are involved in almost every biological process; over the last two decades, scientists have developed aptamers for hundreds of disease-relevant proteins and have become the recognition element of choice in advanced biosensor designs
A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems for layoffs
The Roscosmos spacecraft carrying Anil Menon and Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from Baikonur at 8:17 pm IST on Tuesday (July 14, 2026) just as the orbital laboratory flew over the cosmodrome
What happens to the crew and service modules during descent?
The systems that are gaining real adoption are the ones that are transparent about what they do, that keep the doctor in charge of every decision, and that treat a patients information with the seriousness it deserves
Meta has spent years telling the public that better automation and more advanced models will make its platforms safer. But a detection system only catches what its been built to catch.
India must focus on creating affordable, globally competitive solutions that benefit millions. Indias procurement policy, which favours lowest bidder over innovation, has emerged as the biggest barriers to technological advancement and indigenous innovation.
New York will block new large data centers that fuel artificial intelligence for up to a year to protect the environment and energy grid
According to the study, while roughly two-thirds of Indias young workforce are AI-proficient, only 23% qualify as AI-native
The data exposed include UAN with the EPFO, LPG cylinder booking details with at least one major oil marketing company, and Aadhaar numbers across several services where a users ID details are saved
Environmentalist calls for afforestation in Karnataka to mitigate rising temperatures
The astronaut speaks about his learnings in space, the importance of science communication, and the space habits he holds onto
The research team, from across China, achieved this using a metal-organic framework, work on which won the Nobel Prize for chemistry last year
The heavily criticised AI feature was announced along with the introduction of Muse Image, which was the first AI image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs
Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute
Erendil-1 named for a character in the Tolkien fantasy epic The Silmarillion will be a single satellite in a non-geostationary orbit
Governments should regulate social media platforms, not users
Muse Image, introduced earlier in the week, was the first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs and is available in Meta AI
The Ministry is reviewing the companys response, a senior official said
To expand computing infrastructure, Meta has secured long-term, multi-year supply agreements, the memo showed
The caller ID apps developers have argued that users are reporting massive amounts of spam from the supposedly authorised 140 and 160 series of phone numbers for telemarketers and banks.
The parrot bornavirus 4, circulating among captive birds, has raised fresh concerns for aviculture and conservation efforts involving threatened parrot species
The authority said Meta likely abused its dominant position, and it ordered the Facebook owner to put forward details of its payment plan within 15 days
SpaceXAI said Grok 4.5 was trained across tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 graphics processing units
Avast ye! Dust off that black flag and practise singing your sea shanties because Assassins Creed: Black Flag is back as Resynced, the same game you loved, now with eye-popping visuals
Huaweis hold on the market is already weakening as tech rivals Alibaba and Baidu develop their own AI chips and gain market share
British Columbia said Tuesday it was preparing a separate case, in coordination with the families, and had retained lawyers both in Canada and California
Leucine offers both protection and more energy to cells and organs
Meta said it was categorically inaccurate to suggest that it knowingly and deliberately targets ads featuring children to people based on an inappropriate interest
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
Ever searched for something once and then seen it everywhere online? It can feel like social media is reading your mind, but the real explanation is even more fascinating.
The scanning is being done by CISAs Attack Surface Evaluation team, according to one of the sources
Learn more about the notice issued by the Union government to Meta for disabling the advertisements and content on Instagram that allegedly promote or facilitate access to CSEAM
On July 6, Skyroot Aerospace announced that Indias first privately developed orbital-class rocket will be carrying six payloads
As more powerful telescopes allow us to see further back in time, galaxies and other cosmic objects have turned out to be far bigger than had been thought possible at such an early age
On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep was born. The existence of Dolly the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell wasnt revealed to the world until February 22 the following year. Thirty years on after Dollys birth, A.S.Ganesh tells you some secrets about her and the debates that centred around her
As the Large Hadron Collider switches off its beams for a four-year overhaul, the question is no longer what it has found but whether anything bigger is worth building
Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute
What is the username feature that WhatsApp intends to roll out? How does it work and what privacy safeguards are built into it? Why is the Indian government asking WhatsApp to stop its roll-out? Can the government dictate an apps features?
The sectors AI hiring rose 16% year-on-year in June, while overall IT jobs declined 3%, according to job portal Naukris monthly JobSpeak report

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