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November 9, 2024 1:51 PM

India’s smartphone market estimated to grow 7-8 per cent this year

India’s smartphone market is expected to grow by 7-8 per cent this year, driven by strong demand for premium, 5G, and AI smartphones, according to a new report. The overall mobile handset market in India is anticipated to maintain steady growth. ...

November 8, 2024 11:23 PM

Futuristic sectors like AI, Pharma, Electronics and food processing hold tremendous potential for Goa: Piyush Goyal

Goa’s future lies in sectors like data centres, artificial intelligence, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and food processing, according to Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal. Addressing the Amazing Goa Business Summit, Goyal emphasi...

November 8, 2024 3:58 PM

Chinese rover helps find evidence of ancient Martian shoreline

With the assistance of China's Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions of years ago - a far cry from the dry and desolate world it is today. Scientists said on Thursday that data obtaine...

November 7, 2024 10:20 PM

Israeli researchers develop software enabling in-memory processing, bypassing CPU

Israeli researchers have developed software that enables computers to process data directly in memory, bypassing the need for the central processing unit (CPU), according to a statement from the Israel Institute of Technology on Thursday. This innov...

November 7, 2024 9:58 PM

Gujarat becomes India’s first state to implement a dedicated semiconductor policy

In a historic step aligning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for a Viksit Bharat@2047, the Gujarat government has introduced India’s first 'Gujarat Semiconductor Policy 2022-2027.' Led by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, this ambitious pol...

November 6, 2024 1:46 PM

Webb telescope reveals rapid growth of primordial black hole

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects, which increase in mass over time by eating material that wanders too close, reside at th...

November 5, 2024 12:51 PM

South Korea fines Meta about $15 million over collection of user data.

South Korea has ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) in fines after finding it had collected sensitive user data and given it to advertisers without a legal basis, Seoul's data protection agency said. The U...

November 4, 2024 5:38 PM

UAE’S ADNOC to deploy autonomous AI in the energy sector for the first time

UAE energy giant ADNOC will apply highly autonomous agentic artificial intelligence in the energy industry for the first time, in partnership with G42, Microsoft and AIQ, its CEO Sultan Al Jaber said on Monday (November 4) at an industry event in Abu...

November 3, 2024 11:57 AM

UN nature summit agrees on payments for use of genetic information

Countries at the U.N. COP16 nature talks in Colombia on Saturday agreed to how companies in sectors such as pharmaceuticals and cosmetics should pay for the use of genetic information drawn from biodiversity in their research and development. Nearly...

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