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World, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new startup, launches in the US: Everything you need to know | Explained News
[ad_1] World, a start-up backed by OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, launched in the United States this week with the opening of its first retail store in San Francisco. The store of the startup, which aims to allow users to verify their humanity online, features tech devices called the Orbs that ...
For the first time, 2 new genome-edited rice varieties: Why is this such a major breakthrough for ICAR and India’s agriculture? | Explained News
[ad_1] Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday (May 4) released two genome-edited varieties of rice, the first achievement of its kind in the country. These two varieties, which are climate-resilient, conserve water, and boost yields, have been developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) using cutting-edge genome ...
Experts Explain: AI as ‘normal’ technology | Explained News
[ad_1] Ever since the artificial intelligence (AI) research organisation OpenAI launched its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022, AI has been seen as a supremely disruptive technology that will soon fundamentally transform our lives — for good or for bad. Some believe that the impact of AI will be ...
Soviet-era spacecraft, launched 50 years ago, to crash back to Earth: Should you be worried? | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiMay 8, 2025 08:48 AM IST A piece of a Soviet spacecraft launched more than 50 years ago is expected to crash back to Earth later this week. The part, which is from the Kosmos 482 mission, was supposed to land on Venus but could not ...
What are Turkish Songar drones, used by Pak to attack India? | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 10, 2025 05:16 AM IST Pakistan’s attempted drone incursion in 36 military and civilian sites between the intervening night of Thursday (May 8) and Friday (May 9) likely involved Turkish-made Asisguard Songar drones, India said on Friday. In a press briefing, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi ...
NOAA slashes its weather balloon launches: Why is this significant? | Explained News
[ad_1] In the wake of budget cuts by the Trump administration, a Silicon Valley startup will soon start to replace the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) weather balloons with AI-powered alternatives, which are supposed to be much cheaper. Since March, NOAA has slashed its weather balloon launches across the ...
AI basics | OpenAI’s latest AI models report high ‘hallucination’ rate: What does it mean, why is this significant? | Explained News
[ad_1] A technical report released by artificial intelligence (AI) research organisation OpenAI last month found that the company’s latest models — o3 and o4-mini — generate more errors than its older models. Computer scientists call the errors made by chatbots “hallucinations”. The report revealed that o3 — OpenAI’s most powerful ...
ISRO’s 101st satellite launch fails: Recalling the only two other instances when ‘workhorse’ PSLV failed
[ad_1] PSLV-C61 mission failed: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) 101st satellite launch failed in the early hours of Sunday (May 18). The Earth observation satellite EOS-09 was aboard the PSLV-C61 (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle). While the exact reason for the failure is yet to be determined, ISRO said the ...
Astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar passes away What is the Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravity?
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 20, 2025 05:00 PM IST Astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar Theory Gravity Explained: Eminent Indian astrophysicist, science communicator, and Padma Vibhushan awardee Jayant Narlikar passed away in Pune on Tuesday (May 20) at the age of 87. He was best known for propounding the Hoyle–Narlikar theory ...
How renowned cosmologist Jayant Narlikar helped build the steady-state theory of the universe
[ad_1] Professor Jayant Narlikar, one of India’s most prominent scientists, passed away in Pune on Tuesday morning. An astrophysicist, Narlikar is best known for his work on an alternative model of the universe, separate from the Big Bang, in collaboration with his PhD guide Fred Hoyle, one of the leading ...
