New York: Google might have fired over a thousand employees in the week since January 10, but CEO Sundar Pichai has told his employees to brace for more layoffs through 2024. The Verge reported this on Wednesday, citing an internal memo. The reason Pichai mentioned in the memo were ambitious goals and a need to invest…
Pune: `Ugram’, an assault rifle developed by the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) in collaboration with a private firm was launched on Monday, officials said. The weapon, developed at the Armament Research and Development Establishments (ARDE), the DRDO’s Pune-based laboratory, is designed to meet the Indian Army’s `GSQR’ (General Staff Qualitative Requirement) of a…
New Delhi: When Narayana Murthy once visited the US for client work during the initial days of Infosys, a temperamental American businessman made him sleep on a large box in a windowless storeroom surrounded by cartons though his own home had four bedrooms. Indian-American author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has come out with a biography covering…
New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Wireless Personal Area Network as also Wireless Local Area Network (WPAN/WLAN) registration to all entities engaged in such businesses. DoT has said that non-compliance may lead to withdrawal or disconnection of telecom resources obtained from the authorised telecom licensees. Accordingly, it said, all…
New Delhi: India demonstrated the capability of the Akash missile system to engage four aerial targets simultaneously at a range of 25 kilometres, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said on Sunday. It said India became the first country to have such a capability using a single firing unit. “India became the first country to…
San Francisco/New Delhi: India and the US have signed an agreement to promote innovation through increasing cooperation among startups, address regulatory hurdles, and share best practices on fundraising by entrepreneurs, an official statement said on Wednesday. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) on enhancing innovation ecosystems through an innovation handshake under the framework of India-US Commercial…
New Delhi: India is unlikely to go in for hyperloop technology for ultra high-speed trains in the near future as the technology is at a ‘very low level’ of maturity and may not be economically viable at the current juncture, NITI Aayog Member V K Saraswat said on Sunday. Saraswat, who is heading a committee to…
New Delhi: iPhone-maker Apple Inc on Tuesday said it does not attribute threat notifications, such as the ones received by some MPs belonging to Opposition parties, to any specific state-sponsored attackers and that it cannot provide information on what causes such warnings. After some of the most vocal critics of the government said they received warnings…
New Delhi: The Indian Army’s Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) ‘Prachand’ on Monday successfully carried out the firing of 70mm rockets in both day and night conditions, officials said. The firing was carried out at a firing range near Likabali in Assam, they said. “The inaugural firing of 70 mm rocket and 20mm turret guns of Light Combat…
New Delhi: Reliance Jio has unleashed the world’s fastest roll-out of 5G mobile telephony network, deploying a 5G cell every 10 seconds and together with its fixed-wireless broadband offering has made India the broadband capital of the world, its chairman Akash Ambani said on Friday. Speaking at the Indian Mobile Congress, Ambani said that Jio “is…
