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Disabling BitChat in India? | Explained

The notice was issued close to midnight on July 23

24 Jul 2026 6:36 pm
In screenshots we trust

Why screen-captures remain one of the last bastions of freedom

24 Jul 2026 6:14 pm
Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat over security concerns: Jack Dorsey

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

24 Jul 2026 5:05 pm
Google rolls out new selfie video sign-in feature

Google will allow users to set up verification by recording a brief video of themselves performing guided head movements that would capture multiple angles

24 Jul 2026 12:05 pm
U.S. Pentagon awards Oracle nearly $7 billion deal in latest software consolidation push

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

24 Jul 2026 10:00 am
Why did the EU fine Google | Explained

European Union fined Google460 million for search abuses and 430 million forthe Play Store breaches

24 Jul 2026 8:50 am
EU hits Google with $1 billion fine over its Play app store and search

It was the latest major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in reining in some of the world's largest companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing

23 Jul 2026 10:06 pm
Googles Sundar Pichai hails amazing quarter during earnings call as investors fret about delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro

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

23 Jul 2026 2:58 pm
AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic: Report

Anthropic will use the chips in its own data centres and through leased capacity from cloud providers, according to the report

23 Jul 2026 11:55 am
U.S. teen plaintiff suing Meta over mental health harms drops his claims against company

R.K.C., who started using social media when he was about 8, said he became addicted to it, losing sleep and suffering from depression and anxiety, according to court filings

23 Jul 2026 11:45 am
How magnetic levitation lifts and propels high-speed maglev trains

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

23 Jul 2026 10:40 am
Physical AI is now mainstream, reveals TCS survey

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.

23 Jul 2026 8:30 am
Science Quiz: Exceptional gases

A quiz on chemistrys dangerous molecules

22 Jul 2026 12:40 pm
OpenAIs AI agent goes rogue, hacks Hugging Faces internal systems

OpenAI and Hugging Face stressed that they were working together in order to better understand the incident and take forward the learnings from the breach

22 Jul 2026 11:36 am
Space Exploration Day | How are astronauts trained?

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!

22 Jul 2026 10:19 am
Microsoft to fund Mistral's European AI expansion in multibillion-dollar deal

Mistral, meanwhile, has added its AI models called Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 to Microsofts app builder known as Foundry

22 Jul 2026 9:00 am
Parts of Assam were once under sea: Study

A team from Nagaland University probed a prominent middle-Eocene sedimentary rock formation in Karbi Anglong district to arrive at a conclusion

21 Jul 2026 2:41 pm
What makes the brain the most complicated object in the universe

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

21 Jul 2026 12:53 pm
Are new neurons born in the adult human brain? Study revives debate

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

21 Jul 2026 12:48 pm
How groundbreaking new brain atlases capture development in motion

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

21 Jul 2026 12:46 pm
Psychedelics are revealing how the brain builds the sense of self

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

21 Jul 2026 12:45 pm
Scientists compile largest meta-dataset of tree inventory studies from India

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

21 Jul 2026 12:44 pm
Meta faces Tennessee trial over allegations Instagram was designed to be addictive

Tennessees trial is the second to test claims in a lawsuit brought by a state against Meta

21 Jul 2026 12:31 pm
Anthropics $1.5 billion settlement in authors class action copyright lawsuit gets approved

An Anthropic counsel stated that more than 91% of authors and publishers who were covered by the settlement had claimed their share

21 Jul 2026 11:54 am
Are smartphones becoming smarter with on-device AI? | Explained

The transition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the cloud to the local device, often called on-device AI, is arguably the most significant shift in the smartphone industry since the inception of the app ecosystem

21 Jul 2026 11:36 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
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
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