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The government had awarded the contract in June to Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle andAlibaba. [...]

The tech giant also launched Pixel Pass, a subscription service starting at $45 per month for U.S. customers that will include the Pixel 6 and access to the premium versions of YouTube and YouTube Music. [...]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to unveil the new name at the company’s annual connect conference on October 28, the report added. [...]

Netflix said it will move to reporting on hours for its titles later this year rather than the number of accounts that choose to watch them. [...]

Today's Cache dissects big themes at the intersection of technology, business and policy. Written by John Xavier, tech news lead at The Hindu [...]

As the number of such cases will increase in Chennai in the days to come, animal rescuers start focussing on letting people know how not to kill the bird with kindness [...]

There are some concerns about how early and how mild the disease has to be for the drug to work, says Dr. Kang. [...]

While previous studies have suggested that Venus may have been a much more hospitable place in the past, with its own liquid water oceans, a recent st [...]

The crew will do three spacewalks to install equipment in preparation for expanding the station; assess living conditions in the Tianhe module and conduct experiments in space medicine and other fields [...]

Space rockets on the Korean peninsula have been fraught with concerns over their potential use for military purposes, leaving South Korea’s efforts lagging more capable programmes in China and Japan. [...]

During a 2.5-month average follow-up period after the second dose, the study showed a 67 per cent lower risk of infection for the combination of AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccine shots. [...]

Last month, India said that it will resume export of surplus COVID-19 vaccines in the fourth quarter of 2021 under the ''Vaccine Maitri'' programme and to meet its commitment to the COVAX global pool. [...]

Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, which has developed Covaxin, had submitted EOI to the World Health Organisation on April 19 for its vaccine. [...]

If EU regulators agree, it would be the first opportunity for younger children in Europe to get immunized against COVID-19. [...]

The recommendation is non-binding but it’s a key step toward expanding the U.S. booster campaign to millions more Americans. [...]