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US Firm Uses Fungi To Develop Formula To Break Plastic In Baby Diapers
Disposable diapers contribute significantly to landfill waste, taking up to 300-500 years to decompose.
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Trump Media Seeks SEC Approval for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF
Trump Media and Technology Group is seeking to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that will invest in both Bitcoin and Ethereum. Trump Media has yet to reveal fees for the bitcoin ETF. Similar products have fees of 0.12 percent.
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Delhi, South Korea Discuss Clean Energy, Air Quality Projects
Delhi's Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa met South Korean officials to explore green industry cooperation between the two countries.
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Google, Scale AI's Largest Customer, Said to Plan Split After Meta Deal
Google plans to sever ties with AI data-labeling startup Scale AI after rival Meta acquired a 49% stake. Reuters' sources reveal Google, Scale's largest customer, had projected $200 million in payments this year for crucial human-labeled training data, vital for developing models like Gemini. The search giant is reportedly already in discussions wi...
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Microsoft Unveils ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Handheld PCs at Xbox Games Showcase
Microsoft on Sunday announced two new handheld gaming PCs at Xbox Games Showcase. Developed in collaboration with Asus, the new ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X become the first Xbox-branded handheld devices from the company. Built for gaming on-the-go, the former is powered by a Ryzen Z2 A processor while the latter has an even more powerful AMD ...
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US Army Aims To Produce 3D-Printed Skin To Help Treat Soldiers
Bioprinting technology is the process of creating 3D, cellular structures using bio-inks to make functional, biological replicas of body parts.
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IIT Madras Pravartak Invites Applications For Virtual Reality, Online Business Courses
IIT Madras Pravartak New Courses: The Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) course, developed in partnership with VyVoxel, an international player in AR/VR/MR, is a 60-hour online training scheduled to begin on June 14.
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NASA’s RASSOR Robot Digs Deep into Moon Mining Future with Successful Test
NASA’s RASSOR robot recently underwent testing at Kennedy Space Center, successfully excavating simulated lunar soil with its unique counterrotating drums. This trial validates RASSOR’s traction and digging capabilities, paving the way for IPEx—the next-gen, autonomous excavator designed to harvest Moon resources like oxygen and water. The te...
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'Bharat Gen', Indigenous AI-Based Model For Indian Languages, Launched
Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh launched 'Bharat Gen', an indigenously developed artificial intelligence-based multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) for Indian languages, here on Monday.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Is A Defence Contractor Now, Partners With Anduril For AI-Powered Products
The AI-powered military devices are expected to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to soldiers in the field.
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China Develops Laser Tech That Can Read Tiny Text From Nearly 2km Away
Scientists in China say they have developed a laser that can observe tiny text and other fine details at a higher resolution from a distance of 1.36 kilometres.
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Samsung Reportedly Plans to Replace Silicon With Glass Interposers for Advanced AI Chips by 2028
Samsung Electronics is reportedly developing a new glass substrate for advanced semiconductor packaging. Due to ever-increasing demand for AI chips, the South Korean firm is exploring the use of glass interposers instead of silicon interposers, to cut manufacturing costs and boost performance. Samsung is reportedly focusing on smaller panel prototy...
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Apple WWDC 2025 to Be Held From June 9 to June 13: All You Need to Know
Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025 is set to take place in June, Apple announced on Tuesday. In line with the previous years, the annual developers conference is expected to take place at Apple Park in California, while those around the world can watch all the developments unfolding via an online telecast of the event. It promises to offer...
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Apple Reportedly Partnering With Synchron to Develop Brain-Computer Interfaces
Apple is reportedly developing brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to let people use its devices without lifting a finger. As per the report, the Cupertino-based tech giant has partnered with Synchron, a medtech startup specialising in developing implantable BCIs, to create a new standard for this technology. The startup’s first device to follow thi...
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Apple Researchers Introduce Matrix3D, a Unified AI Model That Can Turn 2D Photos Into 3D Objects
Apple researchers released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate 3D views from multiple 2D images. The large language model (LLM), dubbed Matrix3D, was developed by the company’s Machine Learning team, in collaboration with Nanjing University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). The Cupertino-based ...
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US Firm Uses Fungi To Develop Formula To Break Plastic In Baby Diapers
Disposable diapers contribute significantly to landfill waste, taking up to 300-500 years to decompose.
-
Trump Media Seeks SEC Approval for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF
Trump Media and Technology Group is seeking to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that will invest in both Bitcoin and Ethereum. Trump Media has yet to reveal fees for the bitcoin ETF. Similar products have fees of 0.12 percent.
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Delhi, South Korea Discuss Clean Energy, Air Quality Projects
Delhi's Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa met South Korean officials to explore green industry cooperation between the two countries.
-
Google, Scale AI's Largest Customer, Said to Plan Split After Meta Deal
Google plans to sever ties with AI data-labeling startup Scale AI after rival Meta acquired a 49% stake. Reuters' sources reveal Google, Scale's largest customer, had projected $200 million in payments this year for crucial human-labeled training data, vital for developing models like Gemini. The search giant is reportedly already in discussions wi...
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Microsoft Unveils ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Handheld PCs at Xbox Games Showcase
Microsoft on Sunday announced two new handheld gaming PCs at Xbox Games Showcase. Developed in collaboration with Asus, the new ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X become the first Xbox-branded handheld devices from the company. Built for gaming on-the-go, the former is powered by a Ryzen Z2 A processor while the latter has an even more powerful AMD ...
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US Army Aims To Produce 3D-Printed Skin To Help Treat Soldiers
Bioprinting technology is the process of creating 3D, cellular structures using bio-inks to make functional, biological replicas of body parts.
-
IIT Madras Pravartak Invites Applications For Virtual Reality, Online Business Courses
IIT Madras Pravartak New Courses: The Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) course, developed in partnership with VyVoxel, an international player in AR/VR/MR, is a 60-hour online training scheduled to begin on June 14.
-
NASA’s RASSOR Robot Digs Deep into Moon Mining Future with Successful Test
NASA’s RASSOR robot recently underwent testing at Kennedy Space Center, successfully excavating simulated lunar soil with its unique counterrotating drums. This trial validates RASSOR’s traction and digging capabilities, paving the way for IPEx—the next-gen, autonomous excavator designed to harvest Moon resources like oxygen and water. The te...
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'Bharat Gen', Indigenous AI-Based Model For Indian Languages, Launched
Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh launched 'Bharat Gen', an indigenously developed artificial intelligence-based multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) for Indian languages, here on Monday.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Is A Defence Contractor Now, Partners With Anduril For AI-Powered Products
The AI-powered military devices are expected to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to soldiers in the field.
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China Develops Laser Tech That Can Read Tiny Text From Nearly 2km Away
Scientists in China say they have developed a laser that can observe tiny text and other fine details at a higher resolution from a distance of 1.36 kilometres.
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Samsung Reportedly Plans to Replace Silicon With Glass Interposers for Advanced AI Chips by 2028
Samsung Electronics is reportedly developing a new glass substrate for advanced semiconductor packaging. Due to ever-increasing demand for AI chips, the South Korean firm is exploring the use of glass interposers instead of silicon interposers, to cut manufacturing costs and boost performance. Samsung is reportedly focusing on smaller panel prototy...
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Apple WWDC 2025 to Be Held From June 9 to June 13: All You Need to Know
Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025 is set to take place in June, Apple announced on Tuesday. In line with the previous years, the annual developers conference is expected to take place at Apple Park in California, while those around the world can watch all the developments unfolding via an online telecast of the event. It promises to offer...
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Apple Reportedly Partnering With Synchron to Develop Brain-Computer Interfaces
Apple is reportedly developing brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to let people use its devices without lifting a finger. As per the report, the Cupertino-based tech giant has partnered with Synchron, a medtech startup specialising in developing implantable BCIs, to create a new standard for this technology. The startup’s first device to follow thi...
-
Apple Researchers Introduce Matrix3D, a Unified AI Model That Can Turn 2D Photos Into 3D Objects
Apple researchers released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate 3D views from multiple 2D images. The large language model (LLM), dubbed Matrix3D, was developed by the company’s Machine Learning team, in collaboration with Nanjing University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). The Cupertino-based ...
