Sci-Tech

December 18, 2024 7:44 PM

Indian Army launches AI incubation centre in Bengaluru

Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi inaugurated the Artificial Intelligence Incubation Centre (IAAIIC) in Bengaluru on Wednesday through a virtual ceremony, highlighting the Army's commitment to adopting innovative technologies and empowering its personnel with Artificial Intelligence (AI). T...

December 18, 2024 5:40 PM

India reveals ambitious space station plans, accelerates private-sector role

India is accelerating its space ambitions with the announcement of the Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS), a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space station designed to establish a sustained human presence in space. The station aims to support medium- to long-duration human spaceflight missions and enable advanc...

December 18, 2024 11:30 AM

Japan’s Space One Kairos rocket fails minutes after liftoff

Japan's Space One terminated the flight of its Kairos small rocket shortly after liftoff on Wednesday, marking the end of its second attempt in nine months to become the country's first company to deliver a satellite to space. It is the latest in a series of recent setbacks for Japanese rocket deve...

December 17, 2024 1:01 PM

Japan, India startups to study laser-equipped satellite to tackle space debris

Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental approach to the increasingly imminent problem of orbital congestion. Tokyo-based Orbital Lasers and Indian robotics company InspeCity said ...

December 16, 2024 3:50 PM

Britain sets first codes of practice for tech firms in online safety regime

Britain's online safety regime came into force on Monday, requiring social media companies like Meta's Facebook and ByteDance's TikTok to take action to tackle criminal activity on their platforms and make them safer by design. Media regulator Ofcom said it had published its first codes of practice...

December 15, 2024 5:11 PM

South Korea to invest $1.9 billion in tech to tackle climate change

The South Korean government plans to invest 2.7 trillion won ($1.9 billion) in developing technologies to combat climate change next year, the Ministry of Science and ICT announced on Sunday.   This represents a 3.9 percent increase from the 2.6 trillion won allocated for the initiative in 2024, ...

December 14, 2024 1:49 PM

OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk bid to block for-profit conversion

OpenAI asked a federal judge in California on Friday to reject a request by billionaire Elon Musk to halt the ChatGPT maker’s conversion to a for-profit company. OpenAI also published a trove of emails and text messages with Musk on its website to argue that he initially backed for-profit status ...

December 13, 2024 1:00 PM

Genomes reveal timing of Homo sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to ...

December 12, 2024 5:01 PM

Firefly Sparkle galaxy offers a taste of the infant Milky Way

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because its gleaming star clusters resemble the bioluminescent bugs - in a discovery that is giving astronomers a peek at what our Milky Way may have looked like in its infancy. Resear...