Technology

Artificial intelligence is making rapid strides in computational biology. Recently, researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute created the world’s first entirely AI-generated genome. In what can be called a breakthrough, the new virus created by AI can infect and kill bacteria.  Scientists have already used AI to design individual proteins and even small multi-gene … Read more

OM SYSTEM added two new devices to their lineup, including a new camera and a telephoto lens: the OM-5 Mark II interchangeable lens camera and the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 50-200mm F2.8 IS PRO lens. OM SYSTEM also added that these products they are offering are built for wildlife, macro, birding, landscape, travel and street and … Read more

German software giant SAP on Friday, September 19, announced the launch of sovereign cloud capabilities in India, enabling its customers to store data locally in the country. The company said that its ‘Sovereign Cloud’ offering will help governments and regulated industries modernise their infrastructure with cloud and AI while retaining full control over sensitive data. … Read more

Hackers can easily break into your WhatsApp account, and one of the most common tricks today involves delivery scams. Actor-director Upendra, known as Real Star, and his wife Priyanka recently fell prey to one such fraud. Priyanka received a call from someone posing as a delivery agent from Dubai, who claimed her package could not … Read more

Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for U.S. rivals, in a paper that is likely to reignite debate over Beijing’s place in the race to develop artificial intelligence. The rare update from the Hangzhou-based company – the first estimate it has released of … Read more

Perplexity AI, on Thursday, announced that it has integrated the popular AI-powered photo editing tool Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, also known as Nano Banana, into its WhatsApp bot. Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, shared the development on his LinkedIn account.  With this, now users can edit images through Perplexity’s AI through WhatsApp. … Read more

Google has been continually adding Gemini to its popular products and services, such as Android and Gmail, and the newest one to receive the AI treatment is Chrome. The tech giant says Gemini in Chrome is coming to both the Mac and Windows desktop versions of the app, and like its Android counterpart. In a … Read more

As I left the keynote presentation where CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the new Ray-Ban glasses with a display and headed toward the press room at the old Meta campus, one thing that struck me was the slide showing the $799 retail price.  I was honestly shocked and surprised (although the glasses and their price had … Read more

Huawei outlined its long-term chip plans for the first time on Thursday and said it would launch some of the world’s most powerful computing systems – underscoring China’s drive to wean itself off foreign semiconductor suppliers like Nvidia. In an announcement that broke years of secrecy about its chips business and which could increase the … Read more

Huawei said on Thursday it would roll out four new iterations of its Ascend AI chip over the next three years, breaking years of secrecy to reveal its chipmaking progress and ambitions to compete against Nvidia for the first time. The Chinese technology giant has been one of the key players in leading efforts to … Read more