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

The comet has been becoming brighter during June and July, and it will continue to be observable through late July and the first half of August, with peak visibility occurring around August 2 and 3

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...

Qdenga could be responsible for enhancing dengue in children who have not had an infection yet in their lives. In such cases, the vaccine could simulate a primary dengue infection in the body, resulting in protection against DENV-1 and DENV-2 infections but not against a DENV-3 infection

Open-weight models allow users to download, run and customise the virtual brains of an AI, unlike proprietary models

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will pursue memory chip supply partnership with U.S. big tech companies

OpenAI, which has been in advanced talks for several weeks to lease the site, is among the companies showing the strongest interest in the project, per the report

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

The case has prompted debate about first in human gene-editing trials, particularly for rare but serious disorders

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!

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

For the first time, the thoughts and impressions of people unable to communicate with the outside world were translated into continuous natural language, using a combination of AI and brain imaging technology

Amid a morass of conflicting studies, new research from researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm has provided further evidence for adult neurogenesis using modern sequencing and machine-learning methods, infusing new life into a long-standing debate with important scientific and practical implications

New brain atlases combine several advanced mapping methods to trace how neurons and glia form, migrate, and diversify across time and species, turning static brain charts into a dynamic developmental reference

Psychedelics can temporarily loosen the brain patterns that support the feeling of a me, allowing researchers to watch that system reorganise itself in real time

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

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