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November 20, 2025 4:03 PM

Spanish court orders Meta to pay $550 mln to digital media companies

A Spanish court has ordered that the multinational tech company Meta pay 479 million euros ($552 million) to Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulation. Madrid's Commercial Cour...

November 19, 2025 6:52 PM

NASA set to release new images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS

NASA is set on Wednesday to release new images of an interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet probably even older than our solar system. 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July by an Asteroid Terrestria...

November 19, 2025 6:45 PM

Century-old Kodaikanal Observatory data offers new insights into the Sun’s magnetic future

Astronomers have tapped into more than a century’s worth of solar observations from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KoSO) to reconstruct the Sun’s past polar magnetic behaviour—paving the way for better predictions of its future activity. Fo...

November 19, 2025 12:59 PM

Breakthrough in rare-earth magnetism promises more efficient quantum technologies

In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have discovered a new form of magnetism in a rare-earth compound - an advance that could pave the way for faster, more energy-efficient quantum and spintronic technologies. A team from the Jawaharlal N...

November 19, 2025 11:28 AM

Indian scientists help rewrite 50-year-old biological rule

Indian scientists, in collaboration with researchers from Rutgers University, have challenged a fundamental biological concept that has shaped textbook understanding of bacterial gene regulation for nearly five decades. Their findings could open new ...

November 18, 2025 10:31 PM

Cloudflare restores services after outage impacts thousands of internet users

Cloudflare has fully restored its services after an outage on Tuesday at the web-infrastructure company prevented thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT. The company said the outage that began around 6.30 a.m. ET ...

November 18, 2025 8:32 PM

‘Space’ will ensure global space for India as a frontline nation: Dr. Jitendra Singh

Union Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said that “Space” will ensure global space for India as a frontline nation in the world. Emphasising India’s expanding role in the global space ecosystem, the Minister said ...

November 17, 2025 3:55 PM

DoT cautions manufacturers and sellers on mandatory IMEI registration; consequences of tampering

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has cautioned manufacturers, brand owners, importers and resellers of telecom equipment, reminding them of mandatory International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) registration requirements and warning of se...

November 17, 2025 1:22 PM

India’s Electronics Push Enters a New Phase as Innovation Becomes the Core Engine

India’s electronics sector has progressed significantly from primarily assembling to becoming a hub of design, innovation, and deep-tech development. This transformation did not occur overnight; it resulted from years of deliberate policy focus, in...

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