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OnePlus 13 launched with Snapdragon 8 Elite and Android 15. Price, specs

OnePlus 13 gets up to 24 GB RAM and up to 1 TB storage in its home market




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iQOO 13 launched with Snapdragon 8 Elite and 144 Hz display

It is expected to ship to India later this month




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Honor Magic 7 Series with AI features running on Snapdragon 8 Elite launched

Snapdragon and Honor announced the launch of the AI-powered Honor Magic 7 Series




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Insurance Query: Coverage for adventure sports

Ensure that your policy covers a broad range of activities, including mountaineering, skydiving and skiing, among others




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Norway Chess: Praggnanandhaa defeats Magnus Carlsen for first classical win; sister Vaishali leads women’s competition

This significant win marks a milestone in Praggnanandhaa’s career, as he pushed Carlsen to fifth place, while Vaishali drew her game against Anna Muzychuk, further solidifying her lead




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Cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan to invest ₹1,400 crore in beverages and confectionery unit

Muralitharan plans to manufacture beverages and confectioneries under the brand “Muttiah Beverages and Confectioneries”




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Jayasuriya named Sri Lanka's interim coach ahead of limited-overs series against India

The Indian team will be touring Sri Lanka for three T20 Internationals and as many ODIs, starting July 27




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CAS verdict on Vinesh deferred again; to be delivered on August 16

The 29-year-old was disqualified from the women's 50kg free-style final for being 100gm overweight at the time of weigh-in on Wednesday last week




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Vinesh Phogat's appeal against Olympic disqualification rejected by CAS: IOA

Vinesh was disqualified for being 100gm overweight at the time of the weigh-in on the morning of the women's 50kg freestyle final last week




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Actor Naga Chaitanya to lead Hyderabad Blackbirds in Indian Racing Festival as team owner

The Indian Racing Festival, featuring the Indian Racing League and FIA Formula 4 Indian Championships, will begin on August 24 in Chennai




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Sachin Tendulkar joins America’s National Cricket League ownership group

The NCL tournament opens with a performance by singer Mika Singh and features themed nights, bringing a Coachella-like energy, a media release said




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MPL parent M-League’s revenue rises 22% to $130 million in FY24

Gaming company also recorded FY24 adjusted EBITDA of $0.2 million




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New Zealand opt to bat against India in third and final Test

Having sealed the series 2-0, the visitors made two changes to their line-up




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PVR INOX, Star Sports team up to bring Premier League action to Indian theatres

The screenings will launch with a Chelsea vs. Arsenal match on November 10, 2024, as part of Star Sports Select Screenings.




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Vintage makeovers

Connoisseurs of antique furniture speak to Sujatha Shankar Kumar about how to preserve these treasures




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Bags of fun

Bean bags are not only comfortable, but also add a laidback, fun vibe to the room




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U.S. regulators reject amended interconnect agreement for Amazon data centre

U.S. energy regulators rejected an amended interconnection agreement for an Amazon data centre connected directly to a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania




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Nvidia to take Intel's spot on Dow Jones Industrial Average

This development comes a day after Intel expressed optimism about the future of its PC and server businesses, projecting current-quarter revenue above estimates but warning that it had “a lot of work to do”




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Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature delayed again

Recall was first announced in May but held back from release during the Copilot Plus PCs event in June after security experts and insiders raised concerns




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Realme GT 7 Pro India launch date announced. Features expected from Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered phone

Realme GT 7 Pro would be the first phone to ship with Snapdragon 8 Elite in India with improved Gen AI features natively and Android 15 out of the box




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Owner of Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut says it’s ‘surreal’ that officials euthanised pet

A man who took in an orphaned squirrel and made it a social media star says New York state’s decision to seize and euthanize the animal won’t go without a response




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Meta opens Llama AI models to U.S. defense agencies, expanding military applications

The social media giant has partnered with leading contractors alongside tech industry leaders to facilitate government adoption of its AI technology




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WhatsApp working on Google Lens-like feature to verify images

WABetaInfo reported that a new feature as part of the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.23.13 would let users look up images shared with them




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Microsoft unveils open-source multi-agent AI system Magnetic-One

The system works with a lead agent called the Orchestrator which then directs the other four agents to solve tasks




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Honor X9c launched with 108 MP main camera and Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Honor X9c, yet to be launched in India, runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 platform and has a drop resistance of two metres




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Google Cloud announces initiatives for early-stage AI startups

AI-first startups will receive even greater support with $350,000 in credits given the compute-heavy needs of the technology




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Apple users look for promised Sketch feature in Image Playground

Apple users are looking for a previously mentioned ‘Sketch’ feature in the Apple Intelligence-powered Image Playground app




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Anthropic to provide Claude AI models to U.S. defense agencies

Anthropic’s Claude 3 and 3.5 models will be integrated with Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform and hosted on AWS




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OpenAI's ChatGPT back up after brief outage

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, it has attracted 250 million weekly active users




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Canva restores service after temporary global outage

Canva, the popular graphic design platform, faced a temporary outage that affected users worldwide




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Facebook and Instagram users in Europe can opt for less personalised ads

Facebook and Instagram users in Europe will get the option to see less personalised ads if they don’t want to pay for an ad-free subscription




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Dyslexia in many languages [electronic resource] : insights, interactions, and interventions / edited by Gad Elbeheri, Gavin Reid and Angela Fawcett.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge , 2025.




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Autophagy-focused Casma Therapeutics debuts with $58.5 million from Third Rock

The biotech will first tackle lysosomal storage disorders




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CRISPR diagnostics company Mammoth launches




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IFF to buy Frutarom in flavor and fragrance consolidation

Natural ingredients play spices up flavor and fragrance sector




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Solid body wash comes without packaging. But does that make it eco-friendly?

Cosmetics firms appeal to plastic-free consumers with the hybrid of bar soap and liquid body wash




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Takeda finally snags Shire in $62 billion deal

If successful, the transaction could spur more M&A among major drug firms




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New ventures try again to recycle polystyrene

Start-ups link with plastic makers on new recycling techniques




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IFF to buy Frutarom in flavor and fragrance consolidation

Natural ingredients deal spices up flavor and fragrance sector




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Magnetic fields could fish out enantiomers

Spin-state effect could lead to new way to run chiral separations on racemic mixtures




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Chemjobber’s mailbag

Chemistry blogger answers reader questions on job hunting, changing grad schools, and more in this edition of Bench & Cubicle




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Agent stops common cold virus replication

In cells, inhibitor created by fragment-based drug design prevents rhinovirus from reproducing




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Massive Attack’s space-age anniversary and an out-of-this-world vista




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Ardena acquires Syntagon to boost APIs




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Shrinking magnetic sectors

Analytical chemists are bringing these old-school mass analyzers into the high-tech, miniature realm




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Avara advances in dosage form business with third buy




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The mega-agency




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Scientists push back against Trump administration’s proposed visa rules




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U.S. EPA advisers want to give formal feedback on plan to restrict the science used by agency

Surprised by proposal, scientific experts to ask agency chief to wait for their feedback before finalizing rule




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U.S. EPA advisers want to give formal feedback on plan to restrict the science used by agency

Surprised by proposal, scientific experts to ask agency chief to wait for their feedback before finalizing rule