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How does Indias Cell Broadcast System work? When can it automatically warn people about disasters such as earthquakes, lightning and tsunamis?
The filmmaker speaks about returning to Karthis Sardar, the challenges of satisfying a diverse audience, and taking the spy genre beyond its familiar tropes
Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute
Compared to the Samsung Galaxy Watch 9, the Pixel Watch 5 feels more focused on Googles ecosystem and Gemini, while Samsung offers broader health and fitness insights
AI, Connectivity and What Comes Next: Inside Asia Innovation Summit 2026
A growing body of global research suggests dogs can be trained to detect cancer and other human illnesses, from Parkinson's to Covid-19
The statement follows a Reuters report that a swarm of OpenAI agents had hijacked a communally edited German site earlier this year and used it as a springboard
His proposal, which was immediately dismissed by the state's Governor, comes days after he signed an order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America in the middle of a trade war with neighbouring Canada
Behaviour and personality changes, rather than memory loss, can be among the first signs of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which commonly affects people between 45 and 65
It raised several other concerns. These include whether the design, development, realisation, integration, testing and launch of PSLV, LVM3, SSLV and successor vehicles will continue as ISRO functions or will cease.
The flood, from the ancient canyon system, the largest in the Solar System, is estimated to have released 1,245 trillion cubic metres of water and may have raised the global mean level of the hypothesised ancient Martian ocean by about 34 metres, according to a new study published online in the peer-reviewed journal Icarus.
At a time when conversations are moving more towards banning phones and social media, heres a glimpse into the conversation I had with Sugata Mitra on various things from his works and life to his idea being implemented worldwide
The Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels on September 2 imposed a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for pupils up to eighth grade for the 202627 academic year
The Central Bureau of Investigation has carried out searches at 89 locations across 20 States
Tesla started manufacturing the Cybercab in April, and Musk promised production would grow exponentially later in the year or next
Musks Grok AI chatbot has faced criticism over its creation of sexually explicit content
The artificial intelligence company had been expected to make its IPO prospectus public as early as next week, two of the people said
The agents, AI programmes that work on their own, without a person guiding each step, left about 18,000 messages on DSEwiki, a German site for programmers
The claim, filed with the Competition Appeal Tribunal by law firm Hausfeld, centres on Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system
Giorgia Meloni, 49, has been Italy's Prime Minister since October 22, 2022. She is also the first woman to hold the position
The party alleged that the government has still not withdrawn the cases it had filed against student protesters; the gherao will be in a phase-wise manner across all 24 districts over four days
FOSS United says the amount likely represented a fraction of public university spending on software it claims could be replaced by open source equivalents
Such black holes, each roughly the mass of a loaded semi-truck, would evaporate rapidly if left on their own, say the researchers
We take the bomb blast at the residence of the Congress party leader as an attack on democracy. If there are different views, they should be negotiated and discussed peacefully,says Senior Congress spokesperson
Mr. Upadhyay said that C-DOT is only the third provider of cell broadcast system service in the world, due to the complex nature of the software needed to pull it off
The researchers cautioned that the findings represent an early stage of biomedical research and require extensive validation before any clinical application becomes possible
Google Pixel 11 is not a phone that tries to reinvent the Pixel formula. Instead, Google has focused on making the existing experience better, and that approach works surprisingly well
Poco X8 ships with a 9,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery, while the Poco X8 Power gets a 10,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery
The messaging group was set up by engineers before the wall of water, mud and rock crashed down the Trishuli valley in Nepal
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
The Cybercab is a two-seater autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel, pedals or mirrors
The 51.7 metre tall GSLV-F17 blasted off from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, about 135 km from Chennai, at a prefixed time of 2.55 am, lighting up the dark skies amid rains.
El Nino is a naturally-occurring phenomenon and is not caused by climate change. But scientists expect it will exacerbate the heat of a planet already warming from burning fossil fuels, while amping up weather extremes
Anthropic said the only affected models remaining are Opus 4.8 and Opus 5; rest of the models have recovered to the baseline error rate
Chief Minister directs Ministers, elected representatives and officials to visit fields and advise farmers on suitable crop alternatives; says govt. will keep ready 90,000 kg of seeds of less-water-intensive crops for distribution, 90 crore will be spent on seed subsidy
Drones with a takeoff weight exceeding 25 kilograms, as well as those with thermal imaging capabilities and docking stations face a 100% tariff; smaller drones face a 25% duty
Google announced the launch of its new AI model, Gemini 3.8, with two variants
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said AI giant Anthropic is back on the right side with the Trump administration
The case focused on Googles ad tech stack, the suite of tools that website publishers use to sell ads and advertisers use to buy them
The companys safety practices have come under scrutiny since OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI agents went rogue during a security test and hacked into AI company Hugging Face
Uber has a total of roughly 34,000 employees with operations in more than 70 countries, according to a recent SEC filing
Only high school students, typically aged 14 and above, will be permitted to use artificial intelligence in limited pilot programmes
A tactical pause could also give the U.S. military some breathing room to replenish its heavily depleted munitions stockpiles, the sources said
External Affairs Minister writes to Janata Dal (U) MP Sanjay Jha after he complained that the 1996 India-Bangladesh treaty had negatively impacted Bihar; the treaty is set to lapse on December 31
The new draft Bill introduced during the recently concluded Monsoon Session seeks to allow a general diversion of park land

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