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On Tuesday, India introduced four crew members for its maiden Gaganyaan space voyage, as it aims to become the world's fourth country to send a crewed mission into space, just months after a historic landing on the south pole of the moon.Gaganyaan, or "sky craft" in Hindi, is the first mission of its kind for India and will cost about 90.23 billion rupees ($1.5 billion Cdn). It involves the launch of a habitable space capsule over the next year to an orbit of 400 kilometres, and its return via a landing in the Indian…

Google's decision to remove some apps in India from its app store "cannot be permitted", Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday, amid an ongoing dispute over service fee payments to the US firm.Google on Friday removed from its Play Store many Indian apps, including Matrimony.com's popular Bharat Matrimony and job search app Naukri, saying the companies were not abiding by its in-app payment guidelines.Vaishnaw said he has held talks with Google and will meet the startups, which needed…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image Google has restored all its apps after Union Minister of Electronics & IT Ashwini Vaishnaw intervened. To discuss the matter further, the minister will meet with Google on Monday. Story is updating..  function loadFacebookScript(){…

Taking a strong view of Google pulling off some apps from its Play Store, the government on Saturday said delisting of Indian apps cannot be permitted and that the tech company and the startups concerned have been called for a meeting next week. In an interview to PTI, IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the startup ecosystem is key to the Indian economy and their fate cannot be left to any big tech to decide. The minister's comments assume significance as Google on Friday began removing some apps, including…

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has expressed the government's strong opposition to Google's removal of certain applications from the Play Store.  He stated that the government will not permit the delisting of apps and has called for a meeting with the tech giant in response to this…

Investment in the domestic semiconductor space will increase at least five times to 7.5 lakh crore, making India one of the top five semiconductor manufacturing nations by 2028, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for electronics and IT, communications and railways.Vaishnaw told ET that the government will be focused on execution of India’s first semiconductor fab project, by the Tata group, along with two other chip assembly proposals, in record time.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

A day after a grim-faced Justin and Hailey Bieber were photographed attending services at their local Beverly Hills megachurch, a conservative Christian YouTube minister removed the Instagram post that initially sparked this week’s speculation about the health of their marriage. Hailey Bieber reportedly, and understandably, was unhappy about reports that she and Justin were dealing with “something” in their marriage — and about her father’s role in encouraging the speculation, according to TMZ. Earlier this week, Stephen…

The minister, who launched 'Investor Information and Analytics Platform' developed by IIT Madras, said this platform will address the gap in "our visibility of the innovation ecosystem".New Delhi: The country has created a thriving startup innovation ecosystem in the past 2-3 years and the next wave will emerge from areas such as semiconductors, microelectronics, artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT,…

Google's Gemini AI chatbot came under scrutiny yesterday with the company temporarily halting image generation amid concerns over inaccuracies in historical depictions. Following this issue, the tech giant apologised for these inaccuracies. However, it now faces a new challenge in India as the country's IT Minister, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, flagged violations of IT rules and criminal code provisions by Gemini.Gemini AI's Political BiasThe controversy unfolded when a verified user shared a screenshot revealing biassed…

Image Source : ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Artificial Intelligence The government on Tuesday said it is working on to unveil a draft regulatory framework for artificial intelligence (AI) by June-July this year, amid concerns over a rise in deepfakes and user harm associated with the new technology. While addressing a Nasscom event in New Delhi, Minister of State…