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How does the internet always have an answer?

When you are ever stuck with a doubt or confusion, you often automatically open your phone or any device, open Google, and type it out in a second. But have you ever wondered how the internet always seems to have an answer to your queries?

11 Apr 2026 4:18 pm
Artemis II: Indian-American Amit Kshatriya, senior NASA official behind U.S.'s moon mission

As NASAs Associate Administrator, Amit Kshatriya, leads the agencys 10 centre directors, as well as the mission directorate associate administrators at NASA Headquarters

11 Apr 2026 2:39 pm
After Artemis II, NASA looks to SpaceX, Blue Origin for Moon landings

China, which is hoping to send humans to the Moon by 2030, has been making progress as well, raising fears in the Trump administration that the United States could get left behind

11 Apr 2026 1:04 pm
Artemis II spotlights engineering of human spaceflight and ISROs progress

Each Artemis mission effectively reduces the risks for the next mission, allowing it to focus on progressively more sophisticated tasks; in future, it is entirely possible that ISRO and NASA can work together on joint Artemis-Gaganyaan missions

11 Apr 2026 12:25 pm
Apple at 50: A loyalist on the brands evolution in India

From buying an iPod Mini in 2004 to standing in line for early iPad launches, one long-time user traces how Apple Inc. shaped taste, tech and aspiration in India and how the global giant has, over time, gone quietly desi

11 Apr 2026 11:55 am
Artemis astronauts splash down into Pacific Ocean

The crew members -- Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Reid Wiseman -- are to be met by recovery teams and flown to a U.S. military ship for medical evaluations

11 Apr 2026 5:57 am
Tesla is developing a new smaller, cheaper EV, sources say

Tesla says it plans to start production this month of a two-door Cybercab robotaxi, first unveiled as a concept vehicle in 2024, with no pedals or steering wheel

10 Apr 2026 2:50 pm
EU lawmakers want to tax Big Tech to fund budget

Fierce negotiations are expected between the European Parliament and member states, especially over where to find extra money that governments are reluctant to chip in

10 Apr 2026 2:10 pm
Meta, CoreWeave deepen AI cloud partnership with fresh $21 billion deal

Meta has been rapidly expanding compute capacity to power the development and deployment of its large language models

10 Apr 2026 1:14 pm
Meta pulls ads aimed at recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits

More than 3,300 lawsuits involving addiction claims are pending in California state court against Meta, Google, Snapchat parent Snap Inc and ByteDance

10 Apr 2026 12:10 pm
Elon Musk's xAI sues Colorado over state's new AI law

U.S. President Donald Trumps AI advisers favour federal oversight through a streamlined national framework instead of a patchwork of state-level rules

10 Apr 2026 11:51 am
OpenAI projects $2.5 billion in ad revenue this year, $100 billion by 2030: Report

OpenAI expects to generate $2.5 billion in advertising revenue this year, with projections to reach $100 billion by 2030, Axios reported

10 Apr 2026 11:40 am
Florida AG opens probe into OpenAI ahead of potential IPO

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings sent a letter to OpenAI in September 2025 expressing deep concern over increased reports of how OpenAIs products interact with children

10 Apr 2026 11:37 am
Amazon cloud unit's AI revenue run rate exceeds $15 billion in first quarter, CEO says

The numbers are also ascending rapidly, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a letter to shareholders

10 Apr 2026 10:29 am
Meta transfers top engineers into new AI tooling team

The social media company is starting to inform staffers selected for transfer into the Applied AI (AAI) Engineering unit this week, according to the memo

10 Apr 2026 10:16 am
xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong leaves company: Report

Anthony Armstrong, named xAIs CFO in October, has departed the company, the Information reported

10 Apr 2026 9:45 am
OpenAI pauses UK data centre project over regulation, costs

We see huge potential for the UKs AI future. London is home to our largest international research hub, and we support the Governments ambition to be an AI leader, OpenAI said

10 Apr 2026 9:39 am
Artemis astronauts gird for re-entry and splashdown

Artemis II astronauts are scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 0537 IST on April 11

10 Apr 2026 9:27 am
In breakthrough, cheap aluminium may replace costly catalysts in pharma

New research has found aluminium can be made to behave in the same way that makes transition metals such good catalysts; the stakes are high for India, which has abundant aluminium but currently meets its transition metal needs almost entirely through imports

10 Apr 2026 7:30 am
IT industry, govt. examine cybersecurity implications of Anthropics Mythos model

Claudes new LLM has found security vulnerabilities over a decade old in widely used software; as large U.S. firms get early access, Indian firms and the IT Ministry are examining what lies ahead

9 Apr 2026 5:47 pm
Is BSFs idea to have reptiles in the water along Bangladesh border sound?

Snakes or crocodiles introduced in vulnerable riverine gaps should be explored for feasibility, per a directive to theBorder Security Force on March 26

9 Apr 2026 11:52 am
Russia sees China's WeChat, Douyin as models for its homegrown Max messenger

The Kremlin sees this kind of platform economy, in which e-commerce firms and affiliated banks help businesses reach their customers through online services, as its main tool for boosting slowing economic growth

9 Apr 2026 11:36 am
OpenAI will reserve portion of IPO shares for retail investors, CFO tells CNBC

OpenAI raised over $3 billion from individual investors in its latest funding round

9 Apr 2026 11:30 am
Satellite data shows Earth is getting ever brighter at night

Cities and towns glow at night, obscuring most of the stars that once shone above

9 Apr 2026 10:16 am
Disney plans to cut 1,000 jobs: Report

Walt Disney is planning to cut as many as 1,000 positions in the coming weeks, many of which will be made in the companys marketing department, the Wall Street Journal reported

9 Apr 2026 10:04 am
U.S. court declines to block Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting for now

Anthropic alleges that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth overstepped his authority when he designated the company a national security supply-chain risk

9 Apr 2026 3:35 am
Adobe launches Student Spaces in Acrobat for learners seeking AI tutoring, quizzes

Adobes Student Spaces in Acrobat, that is in beta, is a free tool designed to help students keep track of assignments, compile multimedia resources, and create educational tools for themselves and their study groups

8 Apr 2026 2:12 pm
Fast-moving cornstarch acts like a liquid before hardening

A new study has solved a complex physics puzzle and also has practical applications

8 Apr 2026 1:25 pm
EU warns urgent to patch legal gap on online child sex abuse

Google, Microsoft, Meta and Snapchat said in a letter last week that they would continue to ake voluntary action and scan messages when necessary

8 Apr 2026 10:00 am
Intel joins Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip project to power humanoid, data centre goals

Elon Musk said his rocket company SpaceX, which recently merged with his social media and AI firm xAI, and Tesla would build two advanced chip factories at a sprawling facility in Austin, Texas

8 Apr 2026 9:42 am
How energy efficiency drives seasonal mountain bird migration worldwide

Birds move up and down mountains primarily for food, and not to track temperature as previously thought, according to a new study. But how does this knowledge inform conservation management?

7 Apr 2026 4:33 pm
With new standardisation rules, CCTV companies can now compete fairly: Qubo CEO

Per the framework, CCTV devices must use secure chips from trusted sources and have properly-tested firmware with high levels of encryption

7 Apr 2026 2:57 pm
India and the second Space Age

India and the second Space Age offers a comprehensive survey of the challenges and opportunities ahead.

7 Apr 2026 2:50 pm
U.S. ends probe into Tesla remote driving feature after software updates

The NHTSA last year opened an investigation into 2.9 million vehicles equipped with its Full Self-Driving system over more than 50 reports of traffic-safety violations and a series of crashes

7 Apr 2026 12:15 pm
Netflix debuts new 'Playground' gaming app for kids

The streaming giant said the new features aim to be a curated space where parents know kids are entertained, engaged and enriched

7 Apr 2026 12:09 pm
Start-ups take the boardroom at The Hindu Deep Tech Summit

In a session styled like a live funding round, entrepreneurs pitched not just ideas, but conviction laying bare their origin stories, market potential and the capital they needed to grow

7 Apr 2026 10:35 am
Understanding Indias internet censorship regime

An internet users experience in India depends on the ISP, which determines their access to content

7 Apr 2026 8:42 am
Artemis II breaks Apollo 13s distance record with daring moon flyby that included a solar eclipse

The Artemis II astronauts have completed their record-breaking trip around the moon

7 Apr 2026 8:02 am
Take up the challenge, work hard: Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala word of advice to youngsters

The session, titled From Lab to Nation: How India Can Build A Global Deep Tech Ecosystem, covered Professor Jhunjhunwalas return to India in the 1980s, the key principles behind the success of IIT Madras Research Park, and more

6 Apr 2026 10:56 pm
The Hindu Deep Tech Summit 2026: Commercial viability key to key to deep-tech investment, says Panel

Panel discusses investor approach and market readiness among other things.

6 Apr 2026 10:08 pm
Unlocking early detection, better treatment pathways for PCOS and endometriosis using microRNAs

Findings associated with miRNAs in womens health disorders can allow clinicians to create a molecular profile for every individual, use the curated miRNA panels to differentiate between PCOS and endometriosis, diagnose women at a preliminary stage, and even utilise newer treatment modalities

6 Apr 2026 2:16 pm
Elon Musk asks SpaceX IPO banks to buy Grok AI subscriptions: Report

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup are serving as active bookrunners, or the lead banks managing the deal, Reuters reported

6 Apr 2026 10:11 am
Questions arise over reproducibility in social, behavioural sciences

The scientific issue of 'reproducibility crisis' points to how about 60-70% of scientists cannot reproduce results from their own or others' experiments described in journal-published and peer-reviewed studies

5 Apr 2026 6:01 pm
Dwarka Basin: an ancient haven

The Basin is a significant geological and archaeological region located off the coast of Gujarat

5 Apr 2026 4:11 pm
The discoverers of radio emissions from Jupiter

The discovery of Jupiters voice the first noise known to have come from a different planet was announced to the world on April 5-6, 1955. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Bernard F. Burke and Kenneth L. Franklin publicly disclosed their discovery of radio emissions from the largest planet of our solar system. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at both these men and their discovery

5 Apr 2026 8:17 am
Telegrams Durov says Russia triggered payment system problem by blocking VPNs

Telegram said Moscow is trying to force Russians to use MAX, a state-backed messenger app schools and universities have been told to use

4 Apr 2026 2:43 pm
DeepSeek's V4 model will run on Huawei chips: Report

The release of DeepSeeks low-cost models V3 and R1 triggered a global tech stock selloff last year

4 Apr 2026 10:54 am
Artemis II astronauts pass half-way point on way to Moon

The milestone was hit around two days, five hours and 24 minutes after liftoff, according to the NASA official broadcast

4 Apr 2026 10:40 am
Microsoft to invest $10 billion for Japan AI data centres

Microsoft President Brad Smith met Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at her office on Friday to announce the investment

4 Apr 2026 10:26 am