Technology

AI4Bharat, a research lab at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, has introduced a new, open-source benchmark test specifically designed to assess the performance of large language models (LLMs) on Indian languages as well as Indian context and safety. Developed with support from Google Cloud, the Indic LLM-Arena benchmark is a crowd-sourced platform that evaluates … Read more

Apple, in collaboration with designer Issey Miyake, has unveiled a new “limited edition” accessory called the iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the idea of “a piece of cloth,” the carrying pouch can comfortably hold any iPhone along with other small, everyday essentials. Crafted in Japan and designed by Issey Miyake Design Studio, which also made the … Read more

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) conducted another key test last week as part of preparations for the country’s first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan. The test, held on November 3, was designed to verify the crew module’s stability in the event of a delay in the deployment of one of its main parachutes. The experiment … Read more

Intel said on Monday its CEO Lip-Bu Tan would oversee the chipmaker’s artificial intelligence efforts after the firm’s chief technology officer departed for ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Sachin Katti, who has led Intel’s AI efforts since a management reorganization at the chipmaker in January, said on social media site X that he had joined OpenAI. “We … Read more

Are you among those who frequently travel and are often hassled by ID cards and other personal artifacts? Well, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has introduced a new Aadhaar mobile application for iOS and Android devices. With this, UIDAI aims to offer Indian residents a more convenient and secure way to carry their … Read more

When Mission Bhashini was first conceived under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in 2018-19, it promised to bridge India’s language divide by developing speech-to-text AI models and multilingual translation tools. The timing proved prescient, coming four years before OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022 which set off the global AI arms race. Today, … Read more

Best Air Purifiers Under ₹5,000 in India (2025): As winter settles over northern India, much of the region is once again shrouded in a thick blanket of smog. With AQI levels frequently crossing the “severe” mark in Delhi and nearby cities, indoor air quality can be just as poor as the outdoors. Thankfully, both large and … Read more

Google has unveiled its Gemini 2.5 Flash model, known as Nano Banana, which has recently attracted attention for its sophisticated image-editing and natural language image-generating features. Social media users have begun posting samples of its enhanced features. Sources claim that the next Nano Banana 2 model will excel in text rendering, infographics, charts, and user instruction compliance. It … Read more

India’s smartphone market seems to be at an all-time high. According to the latest report by International Data Corporation (IDC), the smartphone market has reached a five-year high in the third quarter of 2025 with a 4.3 per cent year-over-year (YoY) growth to 48 million units. As per IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the … Read more

Meta on Monday, November 10, unveiled a suite of open-weight AI models with automatic speech recognition (ASR) capabilities that support more than 1,600 languages worldwide, including 500 “low-resource languages” that have been transcribed using artificial intelligence (AI) for the first time. The Omnilingual ASR models have been developed by Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team. … Read more