In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was testing sound through wire when an accidental spill of acid helped make telephone historyAlexander Graham Bell's telephone invention was not a lucky accident. He and his assistant Thomas Watson were already conducting detailed e...
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Google to test building AI data centres in spaceGoogle plans to launch AI data centers into space by 2027. These solar-powered satellites will use proprietary AI chips. The project aims t...
06 Nov, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
We're not past this 52-year cell-by dateOn April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the world's first mobile phone call with a prototype that weighed nearly 2 kg and to...
03 Apr, 2025, 11.32 PM IST
IISc alumnus endows chair professorships in medical research, hopes for solutions for Type-1 diabetes and kidney diseases“We are extremely grateful to the Venkatramanan family for their generous contribution, which will foster cutting-edge medical research at ...
18 Oct, 2024, 02.08 PM IST
- Stock market update: Stocks that hit 52-week highs on NSE in today's trade
Orient Bell, Shalimar Paints, Global Education, Kohinoor Foods and Axita Cotton, hit their fresh 52-week highs during the day.
30 Jun, 2022, 05.17 PM IST
Nokia to set up robotics lab at Indian Institute of Science BengaluruNokia will set up a robotics lab at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru for research on socially-relevant use cases based on ...
04 Aug, 2020, 05.56 PM IST
Sumit Gupta: For whom the BellTroxLittle-known Delhi firm BellTroX helped clients spy over a period of seven years.
30 Jun, 2020, 12.43 PM IST
Venkatesh Narayanamurti: The man who started Harvard’s engineering school is now campaigning for a holistic attitude to researchIn 1998, V Narayanamurti had founded the engineering school at Harvard University. He was hired after a sterling performance at the Univers...
18 Dec, 2016, 12.09 PM IST
Yahoo pulled plug on Bengaluru R&D, but Verizon's keen on itVerizon, one of the largest wireless and cable companies in the world, already has a centre in Chennai, with 6,500 people, that handles in-...
26 Jul, 2016, 11.21 AM IST
Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read about the lab that's won the most Nobel PrizesFor his 21st pick, he's gone with "The Idea Factory," written by Fast Company editor Jon Gertner and first published in 2012.
11 Nov, 2015, 01.26 PM IST
Indian-origin executives who have risen to the top at AlphabetHere are some of the other Indian-origin executives who have risen to the top at the biggest unit of newlycreated holding company Alphabet:
12 Aug, 2015, 02.08 AM IST
Infosys Labs being modelled on the lines of legendary Xerox PARC and Bell LabsThe move is a part of a strategy that comes weeks after the organisational reshuffle that resulted in the wing being realigned to the compa...
08 Apr, 2015, 01.35 AM IST
Top corporates hire over 200 students at NIIT UniversityLeading companies like ICICI Bank, Amazon, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and SAP Labs have hired over 200 students from NIIT University.
03 Nov, 2014, 06.29 PM IST
Indian-origin researcher Arjun Raj features among 10 most promising scientists in the worldThe young scientist Arjun Raj heads a 10-member team at Raj Labs on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Set up in 2010 and funded by the...
05 Oct, 2013, 01.33 PM IST
- Indian-American CEO of tech firm killed in US shooting
An Indian-American CEO of a semiconductor company was shot dead along with two other persons by a laid-off employee. US crisis: Impact on I...
15 Nov, 2008, 09.39 PM IST
- HAL plans MRO at old Bangalore airport with Rs 120 crore
HAL is looking at setting up a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility to leverage its Bangalore airport asset, which is now closed...
31 Jul, 2008, 03.37 AM IST
- 'Novell to expand India development centre'
Novell, a global leader in enterprise-class solutions and support for proprietary and open source software, would expand its India developm...
14 Feb, 2007, 04.10 PM IST