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ISRO To Launch Venus Mission In 2025: French Space Agency
ISRO To Launch Venus Mission In 2025: French Space Agency

New Delhi: ISRO is scheduled to launch its Venus mission in 2025 and France will participate in it, French space agency CNES said on Wednesday. The VIRAL (Venus Infrared Atmospheric Gases Linker) instrument co-developed with the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos and the LATMOS atmospheres, environments, and space observations laboratory attached to the French national […]

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Facebook Finally Integrates Messenger With Instagram

New Delhi: In a first serious step to realising the dream of CEO Mark Zuckerberg to integrate its family of apps, Facebook on Wednesday announced to connect the Messenger and Instagram for a cross-app chat with bringing some of the best Messenger features to the popular photo and video sharing platform. Messages and calls from […]

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Chromecast With Google TV Arrives In US For $50

New Delhi: Taking a cue from Apple TV, Google has introduced a new entertainment experience called Google TV that will be available first on the new Chromecast dongle beginning with the US. The Chromecast with Google TV comes with a remote and plugs right into the TV’s HDMI port. The dongle is available for $49.99 […]

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WhatsApp Beta Brings 'Always Mute', Media Guidelines & More

New Delhi: WhatsApp has enabled multiple features like ‘Always Mute option’, a new Storage Usage UI along with accompanying tools as well as new Media Guidelines to its Android beta user base. According to WABetainfo, a website that tracks WhatsApp in Beta, all these features are in WhatsApp 2.20.201.10 beta for Android and are yet […]

Google Creates New Tool To Transform Every Sound Into Music
Google Creates New Tool To Transform Every Sound Into Music

San Francisco: Google has created a new machine learning tool called Tone Transfer that allows people to transform every sound like whistling into something like a violin, or a saxophone, or a flute. “We created a tool called Tone Transfer to allow musicians and amateurs alike to tap into DDSP (Differentiable Digital Signal Processing) as […]

India Discovers 1328th Butterfly Species In Rajasthan
India Discovers 1328th Butterfly Species In Rajasthan

Jaipur: India’s 1328th butterfly species has been discovered in Rajasthan during the ongoing “Big Butterfly Month”, which is being celebrated from September 5. Butterfly expert and teacher Mukesh Panwar, a resident of Sagwara in Dungarpur district, discovered this species named Spealia Zebra. You May Like: New Trapdoor Spider Species Discovered In Odisha Panwar, a member […]

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Google Rolls Out New, Helpful Editor In Photos App

New Delhi: Google has rolled out a new, more helpful editor in the Photos app on Android with smart suggestions and easy-to-use granular adjustments. Google has added a new tab in the editor that uses machine learning to give people suggestions that are tailored to the specific photo they are editing. The suggestions help people […]

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Twitter Giving People More Control Over Conversations In India

New Delhi: Twitter is giving people more control over the conversations in India and is adding different conversation formats to empower people with choices and make them more comfortable in conversations, the micro-blogging platform said on Sunday. According to a 2019 Twitter report, 51 per cent of Twitter’s Indian users Tweet in English and 49 […]

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Climate Change Responsible For Record Sea Temperature Levels: Study

London: Researchers have found that global warming is driving an unprecedented rise in sea temperatures, including in the Mediterranean sea. Data from the European Union’s (EU) Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) will increase concerns about the threat to the world’s seas and oceans from climate change. The Ocean State Report revealed an overall trend […]

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Microsoft Blocked 13 Billion Malicious Emails In 2019

New Delhi: Microsoft blocked over 13 billion malicious and suspicious mails in 2019, of which more than 1 billion were phishing credential attacks. In 2020, the tech giant is busy tackling misinformation around Covid-19 as cybercriminals pivoted lures to imitate trusted sources like the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other national health organisations, to get […]

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Paytm Takes On Google, Unveils India's Own Android Mini App Store

New Delhi: In a bid to support Indian app developers after its own app was removed by Google from its Play Store recently, leading digital payments platform Paytm on Monday launched an Android Mini App Store to support local developers take their innovative products to the masses. Paytm said it will provide listing and distribution […]

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India's Supercomputer 'PARAM Siddhi-AI' To Use Nvidia Tech

Pune: Graphics giant Nvidia on Monday said that India’s largest high performance computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer PARAM Siddhi-AI will use its technology along with indigenously developed HPC-AI engine, software frameworks and Cloud platform by the country’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). Nvidia said that the supercomputer will be based on its DGX SuperPOD […]

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ISRO Gearing Up For Rocket Launches With Virtual Launch Control Centre

Chennai: Trying to make up for lost time due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Indian space agency is gearing up for three quick rocket launches carrying domestic and foreign satellites, said a senior official. The Indian space agency has also developed a Virtual Launch Control Centre to test the rocket systems at the rocket port […]

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Facebook To Remove All Content From Far-Right US Group QAnon

San Francisco: Facebook has announced to remove any Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing the far-right conspiracy theory group QAnon, even if they contain no violent content. This is an update from the initial Facebook action in August that removed Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts associated with QAnon when they discussed potential violence while imposing […]

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Google To Now Alert Users About Critical Issues Within Apps

New Delhi: Google is set to roll out a new safety feature that will automatically issue an alert within the Google app people are using and help them address it, and the users no need to check email or phones alerts for a suspected hack or a compromise. The new alerts are resistant to spoofing, […]

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