New Delhi: Picture a grain of sand. Ordinary silica, dug out of a beach or a quarry, worth almost nothing. Now picture that same sand purified to 99.99 per cent purity, sliced into a wafer thinner than a fingernail, and etched with billions of nodes. That transformation — sand into silicon converted to a working…
U Lakshman Rao The spectacular demonstrations of humanoid robots—running, sprinting, playing games, performing coordinated movements and even participating in sporting activities—represent an important achievement in robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. They demonstrate that machines can acquire sophisticated physical capabilities through a combination of sensors, actuators, computer vision, reinforcement learning, simulation and increasingly powerful computational…
New Delhi: US technology major Apple has delayed the hypertension notification feature on Watch Series 12 in India to next year pending regulatory clearances, the company said on Wednesday. Apple has opened pre-order options for customers across several markets, including India, with the Watch Series 12 to become available across stores from September 18, at…
Mumbai: In a major milestone for India’s financial technology sector at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2026, Perfios, India’s leading B2B SaaS TechFin, was selected among an elite cohort of six technology companies to present its AI breakthroughs for BFSI directly to Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The high-profile showcase highlighted Perfios’ role as the…
MS Sparsha There are technology stories that arrive with a bang, dominate headlines and disappear just as quickly. And then there are quiet revolutions that steadily transform millions of lives without demanding attention. SWAYAM belongs firmly to the second category. Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds—better known as SWAYAM—is arguably one of India’s…
Singapore: Globe Teleservices (GTS), a global telecom solutions provider, hosted the Asia Innovation Summit 2026 on 20 August in Singapore, bringing together 50+ industry leaders from 30+ companies across MNOs, technology providers and enterprise ecosystems to discuss the forces reshaping digital communications. The expert-led panels focused on the key shifts reshaping digital communications, including the…
Hardly anyone outside India’s deep-tech ecosystem may have heard of NoPo Nanotechnologies. Yet, in a modest facility in Bengaluru’s Electronic City, a company born from an improbable dream is attempting to solve one of the most consequential problems in advanced manufacturing — producing carbon nanotubes at industrial scale. And it all began with Mars. Gadhadar…
Houston (US): Texas AI Learning Centre, set up in collaboration with the IIT Kharagpur Outreach Network, was inaugurated at the Tagore Centre here to advance artificial intelligence education, skill development, and industry solutions. Coinciding with India’s 80th Independence Day and IIT Kharagpur’s 75th anniversary, the facility was jointly launched by India’s Consul General in Houston,…
Sydney: This week, a trial commenced in the United States that could drastically change how Facebook and Instagram operate globally. The trial in Oakland, which is expected to last six weeks, pits 29 US states against the two social media platforms’ owner, Meta. Four states – California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey – are running…
Shimla: Researchers from IIT Mandi have created a bio-inspired surface coating on 3D-printed bone implants capable of mechanically disrupting bacteria and accelerating integration of the implant with bones. The research has been published in the Chemical Engineering Journal. It employs tiny hydroxyapatite structures, resembling sea urchins, on biodegradable plastic scaffolds to tackle two key problems…
