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India 'shocked' as Musk's surprise China visit leaves them spurned

Musk was due to meet Modi last week and announce an investment of up to $3 billion in a car plant, but cancelled saying there were "very heavy Tesla obligations". [...]

BCG study shows 70% users excited about GenAI at work, but 43% positive about its impact on daily life 

Consumer understanding and enthusiasm around artificial intelligence is higher than expected.  [...]

Samsung Galaxy M55 Review | A refreshing arrival amidst Exynos push

By opting for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset in Galaxy M55, Samsung has made a smart decision for the highly competitive mid-range segment [...]

Financial Times inks content deal with OpenAI, as Axel Springer SE teams up with Microsoft

As more media companies enter into deals with AI companies, Financial Times announced a partnership with OpenAI while Axel Springer will be working with Microsoft [...]

Samsung’s operating profit soars tenfold amid AI chip expansion: Report

Samsung revealed a tenfold surge in operating profit for the last quarter [...]

Google has laid off more employees: Report

Google has laid off staff on teams including Flutter, Dart, and Python, reported TechCrunch [...]

Apple’s iPadOS to come under the control of stringent EU antitrust regulations

Apple’s iPadOS will be treated as a gatekeeper under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) [...]

Sharing Google location for bail violation of privacy? Supreme Court reserves verdict

The apex court had earlier asked Google for its assistance to understand the technology better and test it on the threshold of fundamental rights [...]

How to tag accounts on already posted Instagram Stories

Instagram offers an inbuilt tool to tag other users on ‘Stories’ after posting the same [...]

Plastic treaty talks conclude in Ottawa with little progress

The fourth round of talks was expected to deliver a timeline whereby primary plastic production was to halt but this did not pan out [...]

April temperatures in east and south India posted record highs

Average temperatures were nearly two degrees above what’s typical for the month, says the IMD [...]

Indian Institute of Astrophysics releases video of moon occulting Antares

The moon passed in front of the bright red star Antares on April 27, hiding it for roughly 40 minutes  [...]

ISRO study finds evidence of enhanced possibility of water ice in polar craters of Moon

The study suggests that the amount of sub-surface ice in the first couple of metres is about five to eight times larger than the one on the surface in both poles [...]

Why NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future

The mission would be the first to try to return rock samples from Mars to Earth so scientists can analyze them for signs of past life. [...]

Study says microbes, not fossil fuels, produced most new methane

An intensive modelling study has found methane emissions from fossil fuels declined between 1990 and the 2000s and have been stable since, whereas microbes have been producing more methane of late [...]

Indian forest activist Alok Shukla awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize

Shukla has led a decade-long grassroots campaign against some of India’s conglomerates -- including one operated by Adani Group, helmed by Asia’s second-richest man [...]

Sex differences don’t disappear as a country’s equality develops: study

Several studies have found that some psychological sex differences, such as those in personality, are larger in more gender-equal countries. [...]

The mind-bending maths that could stop ‘quantum hackers’

As the advent of quantum computers grows closer, cryptographers are trying to devise new mathematical schemes to secure data against their hypothetical attacks. [...]

Covishield | Plea in Supreme Court for probe panel for vaccine’s ‘risk factors’

The petition in the apex court comes after pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca’s admission in U.K. court documents that its vaccine against COVID-19 has the potential to cause Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome. [...]

Make EPI an ‘Essential Programme on Immunisation’

In the 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization, it is time for another expansion [...]

AstraZeneca’s submission in U.K. court nothing new, say doctors over Covishield’s potential to cause blood clots

Any adverse event associated with the vaccine would have occurred within 21 days to a month of the first dose, according to doctors [...]

Former nurse in Lok Sabha fray with focus on healthcare challenges

The 30-year-old Bharati Dasari said healthcare within the constituency lacks adequate attention to pregnant women and the curriculum of nursing colleges has remained stagnant for too long. [...]

In line with World Primary Immunodeficiency Week observed from April 22 to 29, doctors of Apollo Cancer Centres in Chennai raised the need for awareness and delved into the challenges posed by PIDs [...]

Doctors who get educated at the expense of the poor cannot shy away from serving them: Madras High Court

The Court came down heavily upon the trend of postgraduate medical students of government colleges attempting to get exemptions from their obligation to serve in public hospitals [...]

‘The IMA has not covered itself with glory’: Supreme Court takes exception to IMA president’s remarks about top court

Patanjali lawyer, Mukul Rohatgi, draws SC attention to the interview of IMA president; ‘The IMA has not covered itself with glory,’ SC says [...]

Heat of the moment

This week in health: why heat is a hot-button issue this election season, Indian spices’ quality crisis and inside the world of bio-hacking. [...]

The Union Health Ministry has directed real-time surveillance of cases of Influenza like Illness and Severe Acute Respiratory Infections in OPDs and IPDs of health facilities [...]

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