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Chinese EV battery maker CATL unveils LFP battery with 1,000 km range

Chinese electric vehicle battery maker CATL unveiled a lithim ion phosphate battery with a driving range of more than 1,000 kilometers on a single charge [...]

Snowflake launches their own open-source LLM

The company has claimed that Arctic LLM’s performance is close to other open models from companies like Meta, Mistral and Databricks.  [...]

Emphasise domestic IP, photomask subsidy for semiconductors: ICEA

The electronics industry body provided some suggestions for making sure India’s semiconductor is able to compete globally. [...]

Google opens client-side encryption for non-users in Meet

Google is updating its client side encryption to allow external participants to join encrypted calls on Google Meet [...]

Realme P1 5G Review | Deja vu

Realme P1 is powered by the Dimensity 7050 5G chipset, which is built on a 6nm process and features an octa-core CPU configuration [...]

Nvidia to acquire Israeli AI software provider Run:ai

Nvidia agreed to acquire the Israeli AI software provider Run:ai for a reported sum of USD$700 million [...]

Apple to cut production of Vision Pro headset due to low demand: Report 

Apple is cutting shipments of its Vision Pro for the rest of the year due to low demand, opening up the possibility for a lower-cost mixed reality headset [...]

Meta reports revenue jump as Zuckerberg sees stock volatility over AI plans

Meta reported revenue of around $36.5 billion, up 27% from last year, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned that the company might see stock volatility [...]

U.S. President Biden signs bill that will see TikTok sold or banned next year

As U.S. President Joe Biden has signed the bill, TikTok-parent ByteDance has less than a year to divest its ownership or see TikTok banned in the U.S. [...]

Taiwan chipmaker UMC warns of muted auto, industrial demand

Taiwanese chipmaker UMC warned of muted auto and industrial demand despite a rise in wafer shipments in the second quarter as inventory levels for computing, consumer and communications segments improved [...]

China launches 3-member crew to its space station as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon by 2030

The China Manned Space Agency, or CMSA, held a send-off ceremony — complete with flag-waving children and patriotic music — for the Shenzhou-18 crew earlier on April 25. [...]

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Venus

This week’s science quiz is on the planet Venus. [...]

Blue whales make comeback near the Seychelles after 60 years

In the waters of the northern Indian Ocean, whalers illegally killed more than 1,200 blue whales, including 500 near the Seychelles, between 1963 and 1966 [...]

Understanding of Earth's flowering plants blossoms in genome study

Angiosperms, plants that produce flowers and generate their seeds in fruits, encompass about 330,000 species and comprise about 80% of the world's plants [...]

Huge energetic flare from magnetic neutron star detected

Scientists have now detected the most distant-known instance of one of these eruptions, called a giant flare, from a magnetar residing in a galaxy called Messier 82, or M82 [...]

Team including Indian scientists designs potent antidote to cobra, krait venom toxins

The antidote 95Mat5 worked well against multiple venoms and protected mice from death; the only exception was the king cobras’ venom, where the compound only delayed death [...]

 Future Skills at Monash College and Microsoft partner to transform tech education with AI

Students will be given a suite of certifications and badges from Microsoft through the program.  [...]

New type of host defence against Zika, dengue infections revealed

Scientists have identified a novel defence mechanism the human body uses to prevent some viruses from transmitting via non-conventional routes [...]

The fizz in the shaving cream

As long as the pressure is maintained in a closed system and the gas from a pressurised source is not allowed to escape, it takes up a very small amount of space. [...]

In search of skin lightening creams, kidneys take a hit

Researchers from Kerala have reported a series of cases from Malappuram district where the regular use of fairness creams has been linked to nephrotic syndrome. Heavy metal screening of the blood and urine samples of these patients revealed high levels of mercury, the toxic effects of which are well-known [...]

FSSAI in process of collecting pan-India samples of Nestle's Cerelac baby cereals: CEO

FSSAI collecting samples of Nestle’s Cerelac baby cereals amid concerns of high sugar content in products [...]

Health Ministry constitutes task force on brain healthcare

It will recommend ways to improve accessibility and quality of brain healthcare at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels [...]

Team including Indian scientists designs potent antidote to cobra, krait venom toxins

The antidote 95Mat5 worked well against multiple venoms and protected mice from death; the only exception was the king cobras’ venom, where the compound only delayed death [...]

New test to diagnose special learning disabilities in adults to be rolled out by year-end

This comes after a petition in Supreme Court challenging the exclusion of adults with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) from getting certificates [...]

New type of host defence against Zika, dengue infections revealed

Scientists have identified a novel defence mechanism the human body uses to prevent some viruses from transmitting via non-conventional routes [...]

Dr. Reddy’s recalls Sapropterin Dihydrochloride oral solution powder in U.S. due to ‘sub potency’

The issue was discovered during an accelerated stability test in addition to customer complaints. [...]

Toss out the junk food, bring back the healthy food plate

There needs to be a people’s movement, backed by sincere policy interventions, to promote healthy and nutritionally diverse diets and ensure informed food choices [...]

Unrelenting heat likely to impact health of children and elderly, caution doctors

With temperatures only set to increase from first week of May, experts stress on precautionary measures to prevent heat-related illness, including heat exhaustion and strokes [...]

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