Imagine landing in India and paying for coffee, cabs, or souvenirs with UPI, without an Indian bank account or mobile number. That’s exactly what the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has made possible. At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, NPCI has rolled out a pilot of its ‘UPI One World’ […]
Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced a two-hour global outage today (February 16). Thousands of users reported being unable to access their feeds and seeing blank screens. However, it continued to turn on and off for brief periods. More than 45,000 people reported outages between 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm on the
Tech company Google is preparing to launch its cheapest smartphone, Pixel 10a, in India on February 18. However, almost all the features and specifications of the phone have been leaked online even before its launch. According to reports, this time the company’s focus is on improving the hardware and battery rather than making major design
From presidents and prime ministers to tech CEOs and researchers, the world has landed in India’s capital for the India AI Impact Summit 2026, turning Bharat Mandapam into the centre of global AI conversations. This is the first major AI summit hosted in the Global South, and India is positioning itself not just as a
Imagine getting a fraud call from what looks like an Indian number, but the caller is sitting thousands of kilometres away. That’s the kind of cybercrime network Indian agencies now want to break. To tackle the growing wave of online fraud originating from abroad, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Indian Cybercrime Coordination
Ever watched a 45-minute YouTube video and thought, “I just need the key points”? Or maybe you wanted to turn that brilliant video into notes, a blog post, or subtitles, but the idea of typing everything out felt exhausting. Yes, YouTube does offer an in-built transcription option. However, it doesn’t always provide clean, well-formatted text.
Ever watched a 45-minute YouTube video and thought, “I just need the key points”? Or maybe you wanted to turn that brilliant video into notes, a blog post, or subtitles, but the idea of typing everything out felt exhausting. Yes, YouTube does offer an in-built transcription option. However, it doesn’t always provide clean, well-formatted text.
A few days ago, a 79-year-old retired civil engineer from Delhi was a victim of cyber fraud. Scammers lured him into updating his life certificate through a fake advertisement. After this, money was withdrawn from his bank account. Recently, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) shared a video of a similar incident from its ‘X’
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have shown that simple, misleading text placed in the physical environment can hijack the behaviour of AI-enabled robots without hacking their software. The study warns that self-driving cars, delivery robots, and camera-guided drones that rely on large vision-language models could misread text on signs, posters, or objects
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[[{“value”:” Engineers at the University of Rochester have developed a laser-etching process that makes ordinary aluminium tubes “unsinkable”, even after prolonged submersion or heavy damage. The team, led by optics professor Chunlei Guo, treated the inside of the tubes to create micro- and nano-scale pits that make the surface superhydrophobic, causing it to repel water.
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