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OpenAI marks hardware debut with mini-keyboard designed for Codex users

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

16 Jul 2026 5:56 pm
Google appeals Indian ruling over its ads platform, citing consumer harm

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

16 Jul 2026 4:58 pm
Meta turning a blind eye to illegal gambling ads, UK Gambling Commission says

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

16 Jul 2026 4:57 pm
What prolonged fasting can do to the human body | Explained

New findingsfrom controlled studies across the worldreveal that the body undergoes significant, systematic changes across multiple organs during prolonged periods of fasting

16 Jul 2026 3:26 pm
When does the brain first respond to music?

A new study investigates infants auditory responses and spontaneous movements to music during their first year

16 Jul 2026 2:30 pm
A new era of Indian ecology looks to its horizons, and to the ground

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

16 Jul 2026 2:12 pm
Is the global smartphone industry going through a structural downturn? | Explained

This contraction has dragged the market down to its lowest second-quarter volumes since 2013, effectively wiping out over a decade of transactional growth

16 Jul 2026 9:37 am
Why are five anonymous female users suing Elon Musks xAI? | Explained

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

15 Jul 2026 2:52 pm
How protein biosensors can shrink the timeline of medical emergencies

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

15 Jul 2026 12:51 pm
26 Meta employees sue, alleging AI-driven layoff picks hit workers on medical and parental leave

A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems for layoffs

15 Jul 2026 11:51 am
NASA astronaut Anil Menon, two others reach International Space Station

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

15 Jul 2026 11:41 am
How the Gaganyaan crew module is built to survive

What happens to the crew and service modules during descent?

15 Jul 2026 10:25 am
Decoding the tech tools streamlining our health systems

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

15 Jul 2026 10:05 am
Can AI moderate social media content? Heres why it falls short

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.

15 Jul 2026 8:15 am
Deep-Tech, AI, Innovation to shape Indias future: Dr. Mashelkar

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.

14 Jul 2026 6:37 pm
New York to impose the countrys first state-wide moratorium on data centres

New York will block new large data centers that fuel artificial intelligence for up to a year to protect the environment and energy grid

14 Jul 2026 4:43 pm
Nasscom warns of decline in deep engineering skills as AI takes over routine work

According to the study, while roughly two-thirds of Indias young workforce are AI-proficient, only 23% qualify as AI-native

14 Jul 2026 4:31 pm
UMANG portal flaws exposed user data across hundreds of services, researchers find

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

13 Jul 2026 6:58 pm
Lack of trees causing heat waves, other climate-induced events in Karnataka rain monsoon

Environmentalist calls for afforestation in Karnataka to mitigate rising temperatures

13 Jul 2026 3:55 pm
Interview | Shubhanshu Shukla on his new book, The Second Orbit

The astronaut speaks about his learnings in space, the importance of science communication, and the space habits he holds onto

13 Jul 2026 11:45 am
Material filters tritium from nuclear wastewater at record speed

The research team, from across China, achieved this using a metal-organic framework, work on which won the Nobel Prize for chemistry last year

13 Jul 2026 11:01 am
Why has Meta pulled back Muse AI feature from Instagram?

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

13 Jul 2026 10:12 am
Science Snapshots: July 12, 2026

Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute

12 Jul 2026 4:08 pm
U.S. regulator green-lights mission to launch giant mirror to orbit

Erendil-1 named for a character in the Tolkien fantasy epic The Silmarillion will be a single satellite in a non-geostationary orbit

12 Jul 2026 12:01 pm
Fix the house: On social media, social media access

Governments should regulate social media platforms, not users

11 Jul 2026 1:02 am
10 Jul 2026 7:18 pm
Why is Metas Muse Image AI feature facing a backlash?

Muse Image, introduced earlier in the week, was the first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs and is available in Meta AI

10 Jul 2026 1:17 pm
Govt. receives WhatsApps reply on notice over username feature

The Ministry is reviewing the companys response, a senior official said

10 Jul 2026 11:11 am
Meta to put AI chip into production in September as it looks to double computing capacity, memo shows

To expand computing infrastructure, Meta has secured long-term, multi-year supply agreements, the memo showed

10 Jul 2026 11:06 am
Explained | Why Truecaller has lashed out against TRAIs 140, 160 series numbers

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.

9 Jul 2026 12:12 pm
Deadly bird virus PaBV-4 identified for first time in India

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

9 Jul 2026 12:00 pm
French antitrust watchdog orders Meta to resume talks over fees for publishing content

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

9 Jul 2026 10:15 am
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 model for coding, agentic tasks

SpaceXAI said Grok 4.5 was trained across tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 graphics processing units

9 Jul 2026 10:11 am
Assassins Creed: Black Flag Resynced boasts unique ship combat in an unmatched world

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

8 Jul 2026 8:57 pm
China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say

Huaweis hold on the market is already weakening as tech rivals Alibaba and Baidu develop their own AI chips and gain market share

8 Jul 2026 11:20 am
Canada province preparing lawsuit against OpenAI over school shooting

British Columbia said Tuesday it was preparing a separate case, in coordination with the families, and had retained lawyers both in Canada and California

8 Jul 2026 11:14 am
How the amino acid leucine helps our cells produce energy

Leucine offers both protection and more energy to cells and organs

8 Jul 2026 10:20 am
Child exploitation horrific crime, dont want such content on our apps: Meta

Meta said it was categorically inaccurate to suggest that it knowingly and deliberately targets ads featuring children to people based on an inappropriate interest

8 Jul 2026 12:25 am
When might life on the earth end?

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

7 Jul 2026 2:44 pm
Social media and how they know you

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.

7 Jul 2026 1:49 pm
U.S. cyber agency is using Anthropic's Mythos to audit government code, sources say

The scanning is being done by CISAs Attack Surface Evaluation team, according to one of the sources

7 Jul 2026 10:14 am
Why has the Centre issued a notice to Meta over Instagram? | Explained

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

7 Jul 2026 10:00 am
Diamond jewellery, microart cast in shape of 18K gold rocket among payloads to be launched by Vikram-1

On July 6, Skyroot Aerospace announced that Indias first privately developed orbital-class rocket will be carrying six payloads

6 Jul 2026 4:02 pm
Oldest quasars ever found deepen 'perplexing' space mystery

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

6 Jul 2026 2:00 pm
Dolly, the sheep that stands as an icon for cloning

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

5 Jul 2026 2:15 pm
Worlds largest science machine faces tough question: after the Higgs boson, what next?

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

5 Jul 2026 10:30 am
Science Snapshots: July 5, 2026

Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute

5 Jul 2026 8:00 am
Why are there concerns over WhatsApp usernames? | Explained

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?

5 Jul 2026 6:56 am
AI hiring outpaces overall IT recruitment in India, report shows

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

4 Jul 2026 10:56 am