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July 29, 2024 4:25 PM

India accounts for nearly half of the global digital payments: RBI report

India accounts for nearly half of the world's digital payments, holding a 48.5 percent share in global real-time payment volumes, according to a report released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday. The report also underscores India's leaders...

July 29, 2024 12:10 PM

Tech Leaders Forum of India launched at World Education Conference 2024 in Dubai

The Tech Leaders Forum of India (TELFI) was officially launched today at the World Education Conference 2024, hosted by the Federation of Economic Development Association (FEDA) at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University in Dubai. TELFI, a new initiati...

July 28, 2024 5:58 PM

Researchers give new insight into role of PTPRK in tissue repair, cancer

Researchers at the Babraham Institute have uncovered new insights into the function of PTPRK, a protein linked to multiple forms of cancer and coeliac disease. The study, published in the Journal of Cell Science, reveals PTPRK's crucial role in tumor...

July 26, 2024 5:57 PM

Govt unveils comprehensive measures to boost electric vehicle adoption in India

In a recent Rajya Sabha session, Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma, Minister of State for Steel and Heavy Industries, clarified that the FAME-India Scheme phase-II does not provide direct incentives to electric vehicle manufacturers. Instead, the scheme f...

July 26, 2024 4:00 PM

Google AI systems make headway with math in progress toward reasoning

Alphabet's Google unveiled a pair of artificial intelligence systems on Thursday that demonstrated advances in solving complex mathematical problems, a key frontier of generative AI development. The current class of AI models, which work by statisti...

July 26, 2024 3:09 PM

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 cleared to return to space, FAA says

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has been cleared to return to space by the U.S. aviation regulator after it was grounded by a rare mid-flight failure, the Federal Aviation administration (FAA) said on Thursday. The FAA said it did not find any public safet...

July 25, 2024 10:13 PM

Meta oversight board tells company to clean up rules on AI-generated pornography

Meta's Oversight Board on Thursday said the company's rules were "not sufficiently clear" in barring sexually explicit AI-generated depictions of real people and called for changes to stop such imagery from circulating on its platforms. The board, w...

July 25, 2024 5:35 PM

Researchers reveals ways of preventing cancer cells from colonizing liver

Researchers at ETH Zurich have made a significant discovery in the fight against cancer metastasis, potentially paving the way for new treatments to prevent the spread of colorectal cancer to the liver. In a study published today in Nature, a team l...

July 25, 2024 1:45 PM

India, UK forge semiconductors partnership to strengthen technology security

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy unveiled the UK-India Technology Security Initiative during his inaugural visit to India, marking a significant stride towards enhancing bilateral cooperation in semiconductor technology. Lammy held high-level meetin...

July 24, 2024 6:01 PM

Facebook removes 63,000 accounts in Nigeria over ‘sextortion’ scams

Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it had removed about 63,000 Facebook accounts in Nigeria that attempted to engage in financial sexual extortion scams mostly aimed at adult men in the United States. Nigerian online fraudsters, known as "Yahoo boys",...

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