Technology

After spending weeks with the Redmi Pad 2, I realised it doesn’t feel strange and behaves exactly like a tablet should. Maybe that’s what’s missing from many modern tablet devices: they are trying too hard to be part computer, part tablet.  From a consumer’s perspective, I am glad that Xiaomi isn’t trying to market the … Read more

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, popularly known as IRCTC, is the go-to website for booking railway tickets and managing various aspects of rail travel, like catering and tourism. The online ticketing platform for Indian railways was introduced back in 2002 and allows users to bypass the long physical queues at railway stations. In … Read more

In April last year, Google announced that Keep reminders would be automatically saved to Tasks sometime in 2025, but did not share details on when the change would go live. Now, on its support page, the tech giant has confirmed that Keep reminders will integrate with Tasks in the coming months before the end of … Read more

Amazon has acquired the wearable startup Bee AI, best known for its $50 device that listens to and summarises your day. Bee co-founder Maria de Lourdes Zollo confirmed the acquisition in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday. Based in San Francisco, Bee gained the spotlight earlier this year at the CES tech show in Las Vegas … Read more

“My school had taken me for a field trip to a paralysis care centre, and I saw the difficulties the patients had in communicating with their caretakers and their surroundings. That’s where the idea came to me. What if there was a machine learning system which could understand what they’re saying?” said 11th-grade student Pranet … Read more

Apple released the fourth iOS 26 beta on Tuesday, July 22. The latest iOS beta introduces several changes to the Liquid Glass interface, along with a slew of new features. In the last beta, Apple had dialed down the transparency, which led some users to refer to the design language as “frosted glass” instead. However, … Read more

Apple’s changes to its App Store rules and fees will likely secure the green light from EU antitrust regulators, people with direct knowledge of the matter said, a move that would stave off potentially hefty daily fines for the iPhone maker. The company last month said developers will pay a 20% processing fee for purchases … Read more

Taiwan plans to launch its “Ten Major AI Infrastructure Projects” initiative, aimed at generating more than T$15 trillion ($510 billion) in economic value by 2040 as it strives to become a global leader in artificial intelligence.Premier Cho Jung-tai said in a Facebook post late on Tuesday that Taiwan aims to leverage its information and communications … Read more

Alphabet’s Google and OpenAI said their artificial-intelligence models won gold medals at a global mathematics competition, signaling a breakthrough in math capabilities in the race to build powerful systems that can rival human intelligence. The results marked the first time that AI systems crossed the gold-medal scoring threshold at the International Mathematical Olympiad for high-school … Read more

Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research and explore investing in British AI infrastructure, such as data centres, the government said on Monday. “AI will be fundamental in driving the change we need to see across the country – whether that’s in fixing the … Read more