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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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Samit Dravid in India U19 squad to face Australia in multi-format series

The three-match one-day series will be held in Puducherry on September 21, 23 and 26, and India will be led by Uttar Pradesh's Mohammad Amaan




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Amid victory spree at 45th Chess Olympiad, here’s a recap of Dommaraju Gukesh’s other win - businessline’s Young Changemaker award

Gukesh’s grandparents, Usha and Shankar Raju, received the award on behalf of the 18-year old, who is representing India at the Chess Olympiad




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Gukesh beats USA’s Caruana as India closes in on maiden Gold at 45th Chess Olympiad

It was a Catalan opening wherein Gukesh got the complications running in his favour in the later stages of the middle game after grabbing a pawn




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See your house before it is built

Buyers can take a virtual look at the detailing that they want and customise their plans with a new technology.




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Décor ideas to usher in New Year

Decorations for celebrations can be thematic and traditional, writes M. Soundariya Preetha




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Living in glass houses

Glass has become very fashionable now but how much sense does it really make?




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Now, info just a click away

Chennai Corporation becomes the first in India to adopt a dashboard to manage civic issues. Nidhi Adlakha finds out more




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Décor, just a click away




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10 unusual design ideas

Out-of-the-box ideas to spruce up your home




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Apple accused by NLRB of deterring employees from discussing pay equity

Apple has been accused by the National Labor Relations Board of trying to prevent employees from discussing pay equity




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Walt Disney forms business unit to coordinate use of AI, augmented reality

Walt Disney is forming a new group to coordinate the company's use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality




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How cybercriminals use social engineering and malicious APKs to scam users | Explained  

At the Bengaluru airport lounge, a woman claimed she lost close to ₹1 lakh after she downloaded an app on her iPhone via an APK file on WhatsApp




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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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WhatsApp rolls out customised lists for organising chats

WhatsApp users said that they could start organising their chat messages with the help of custom lists




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FBI links video falsely depicting U.S. voter fraud in Georgia to ‘Russian influence actors’

U.S. intelligence officials say a video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors."




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Today’s top tech news: Apple’s labour challenges; Russian trolls target U.S. elections; Microsoft’s AI users in India




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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 struggles to curb hate speech before US vote: researchers

Meta is struggling to fully contain and address hate speech ahead of the U.S. election, according to research shared exclusively with the Thomson Reuters Foundation




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South Korea fines Meta about $15 million over collection of user data

South Korea has ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) in fines after finding it had collected sensitive user data and given it to advertisers without a legal basis




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LLM student sues Jindal Global Law School over AI use in examination

Lawyer and LLM student Kaustubh Shakkarwar claimed that his work was original, and also noted in a petition that the use of AI had not been clearly prohibited by the institution




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India recalls Flipkart antitrust probe report after Xiaomi complaint

India's antitrust body has recalled its investigation report into competition law breaches by e-commerce giant Walmart's Flipkart




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Trump expected to shift course on antitrust, stop Google breakup

Mr. Trump is also likely to pull back on some policies that have irritated dealmakers under the Biden administration, attorneys said




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Canada orders TikTok’s Canadian business to be dissolved but won’t block app

The Canadian government is ordering the dissolution of TikTok’s Canadian business after a national security review of the Chinese company behind the social media app but said it won’t block access




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Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government would legislate for a ban on social media for people under 16




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How Elon Musk's clout with Donald Trump could enrich his companies

Elon Musk’s backing of Donald Trump’s decisive victory for a second presidency gives the billionaire entrepreneur extraordinary influence in business




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OnePlus Nord 4 vs Motorola Edge 50 Neo | Features, prices, specs, and more

Though OnePlus Nord 4 and Motorola Edge 50 Neo are both mid-segment phones, they come with powerful specs. How do they differ?




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Oppo Find X8 series to use world’s first dual periscope camera and AI telescope zoom

The Oppo Find X8 series also gets a dedicated camera Quick Button to launch camera




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Amazon to invest $1.3 billion in Italy data centre business

Amazon's computing unit AWS on Thursday said it planned to invest 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in Italy over the next five years




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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D desktop processor launched with focus on faster gaming

AMD has launched the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as part of the Ryzen 9000 series, promising a faster gaming experience




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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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WhatsApp’s latest beta has bug causing green screen error

Until then, users have been advised to uninstall the beta version and use the version 2.24.24.4 which is working fine




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U.S. ordered TSMC to halt shipments to China of chips used in AI applications

Reports say TSMC notified Chinese chip design companies it would suspend 7 nanometer or below chips for AI and GPU customers beginning Nov. 11




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Google to let users resume cancelled app downloads in Play Store

However, the pause option can be used only within that day




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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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Netflix's ad-supported tier hits 70 million users

Netflix said on Tuesday its ad-supported tier had reached 70 million monthly active users globally, nearly doubling from about six months earlier




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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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Chemistry in Pictures: Enlightened suspension




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Chemistry in Pictures: Turns out you can rush art




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Chemical companies see auspicious start to 2018

Sales and earnings grow strongly for most firms, and the outlook is positive for the rest of the year




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Gulf of Oman has enormous dead zone severely depleted of oxygen




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Periwinkle gives up its cancer-busting secrets

Key enzymes in complex biosynthesis could enable alkaloid production




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Business Roundup




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ACS outreach at the USA Science & Engineering Festival and March for Science




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Business Roundup




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Sarepta acquires five muscular dystrophy gene therapies from Myonexus




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Can single-cell genomics lead to a new wave of drug targets? Celsius Therapeutics thinks so

The start-up, based on the work of Broad Institute scientist Aviv Regev, has raised $65 million to develop therapies for cancer and autoimmune disease




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Tellurium contamination, on the rise, travels to remote areas from industrial sources

As demand for the rare element grows, researchers trace the history of long-range tellurium deposition 




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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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Periodic graphics: Soap versus body wash

Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning explains the similarities and differences between the two bath products