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Battle lines drawn as PUBG Mobile re-enters India in new avatar
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Battle lines drawn as PUBG Mobile re-enters India in new avatar

New Delhi, June 18: "Yeh PUBG wala hai kya?" Prime Minister Narendra Modi had quipped during the 'Pariksha pe Charcha 2.0' in January 2019, asking a mother who raised concerns about her son being too much involved in online gaming. The PUBG game has since crossed many levels before coming to a...
Google team uses AI to create next-gen chips faster than humans
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Google team uses AI to create next-gen chips faster than humans

New Delhi, June 13: As the world faces acute semiconductor or chip shortage, a team of Google researchers is working on to design next-generation artificial-intelligence (AI) chips, and has created an AI model that allows chip design to be performed by artificial agents with more experience...
Facebook forms global alliance with leading health organisations
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Facebook forms global alliance with leading health organisations

San Francisco, June 11: With an aim to empower the public on how social media and behavioural sciences can be leveraged to improve the health of communities, Facebook has formed a global alliance called 'Alliance for Advancing Health Online with leading health organisations.The partners include...
Scientists devise novel method for early detection of tropical cyclones
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Scientists devise novel method for early detection of tropical cyclones

New Delhi, Jun 9: A team of scientists has devised a novel method for early detection of tropical cyclones. The method aims to identify initial traces of pre-cyclonic eddy vortices in the atmospheric column, prior to satellite detection over ocean surface, and track its spatio-temporal evolution,...
India among top 3 Asian nations affected by DNS cyber attacks
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India among top 3 Asian nations affected by DNS cyber attacks

New Delhi, Jun 7: India is among top three countries in Asia which experienced highest cost of DNS (domain name system) attacks in 2021 to date, as nearly 90 per cent of organisations globally experienced DNS attacks, with the average cost of each attack around $950,000, a new report showed on...
NASA has announced two missions to Venus by 2030; Heres why thats exciting
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NASA has announced two missions to Venus by 2030; Here's why that's exciting

Nottingham (UK), Jun 6: (The Conversation) For decades, the exploration of our solar system left one of our neighbouring planets, Venus, largely unexplored. Now, things are about to change. In the latest announcement from Nasa's solar system exploration programme, two missions have been given the...
Govts last notice to Twitter, warns of penal action
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Govt's 'last' notice to Twitter, warns of penal action

New Delhi, June 5: The Union Ministry of Electronics and IT has sent its final notice to Twitter over non-compliance of the new IT rules and has again warned of penal action in case the US-headquartered social media platform fails to comply with the norms.The notice sent by the ministry noted...
FB launches India tech scholars programme for law students
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FB launches India tech scholars programme for law students

New Delhi, June 4: Facebook India on Friday announced a new initiative the Facebook India Tech Scholars (FITS) programme -- for law students in the country.The novel programme aims to provide students from select leading law schools in the country a platform for research and mentorship on...
Microsoft to showcase next generation of Windows on June 24
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Microsoft to showcase next generation of Windows on June 24

New Delhi, June 3: Microsoft has revealed that it will showcase the next generation of Windows operating system on June 24.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and chief product officer Panos Panay will present the new Windows experience, reads a media invite.During the just-concluded 'Build' developer...
Indian-American girl among winners of Apple WWDC21 student challenge
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Indian-American girl among winners of Apple 'WWDC21' student challenge

Cupertino (California) June 1: Indian-American student Abinaya Dinesh, 15, has been chosen among the winners of annual 'WWDC21 Swift Student Challenge', Apple announced on Tuesday. She has created an app called Gastro at Home, which she plans to launch on the App Store this summer.Passionate about...
Google, Facebook updating website to reflect new grievance officer appointed under IT rules
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Google, Facebook updating website to reflect new grievance officer appointed...

New Delhi, May 30: Large digital companies like Google and Facebook have begun updating their websites to reflect the appointment of the grievance officers under the new social media rules that came into effect recently. According to government sources, large social media companies like Google,...
NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Ways downtown
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NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way''s ''downtown''

Cape Canaveral, May 29: NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy''s violent, super-energised "downtown."It''s a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and countless black holes in the center, or...
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