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An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and, With Nothing to Lose, Planted Them. The Result Was Almost Biblical When a seven-eared stem emerged from the ground, it seemed like a miracle. What Claudio Grossi had unearthed was an ancient grain that proved to be an a

Bringing Google TPUs to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Karan Batta Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Gurmeet Goindi Sr. Director, Product Management As AI workloads scale across every industry, organizations need compute options that optimize throughput, latency, an

AI - UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic i

It’s a tough time to launch an external SSD, with demand for flash and RAM at all-time highs thanks to AI hyperscaler demand. But content creators, videographers, and media collectors need more, faster, and roomier options, so Samsung has launched its first USB4 external drive, t

CopperPilot’s CEO said the startup has built its AI design agent so that “no hardware team is ever blocked because a board is too hard to design.” The post CopperPilot Raises Pre-seed to Develop AI Agent for PCB Design appeared first on EE Times.

The capex spend in the first half of the fiscal year surpassing the stipulated target of ₹7,286 crore for the period.

Following the finalisation of the allotment for Jio Platforms’ IPO, investors are now eyeing potential listing gains ahead of the stock’s market debut on Wednesday, October 28. Based on the prevailing grey market premium (GMP) of ₹250 per share, Small Non-Institutional Investors

For a read into which jobs in tech are mission-critical, take a look at Microsoft’s buyout offer, extended this week to a quarter of its employees. Excluded from the 60,000 workers eligible for severance are people who work in roles tied to data centers, cybersecurity, quantum co

Apple has rolled out its latest iOS 27.2 update for iPhones and iPads, featuring expanded language support and improved memory functions for Siri AI, suggestions in messages, and Apple Pencil support for the foldable iPhone Duo. With the new software update, Siri AI can now be us

Police reportedly pulling motorists over because AI algorithms deem their driving patterns 'suspicious' — rights group report warns AI surveillance systems will sweep in more innocent people than wrongdoers Officers may look for a minor traffic violation to justify pulling the dr

Liz’s view Anthropic’s IPO prospectus is a perfect ink-blot test. Believers will see a fast-growing company with blue-chip backers, $131 billion of cash, and founders with a seriousness of purpose. Anthropic has burned less than 7% of the capital it has raised, good enough for re

Apple is bringing an AI assistant to its suite of productivity apps, including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The assistant, which is built on AI models from Apple and OpenAI, can understand a document's context to perform tasks like designing, animating, and refining slides in Key

Spotted at Walmart today, at a pretty good price, is this RTX 5060-powered MSI Crosshair gaming laptop for just $1,249. With price rises across the board on laptops and PCs, it's important to keep an eye out for large discounts on gaming gear. The MSI Crosshair has been discounte

US stock market today: S&P 500, Nasdaq rise aided by tech stocks - Edited byAjay Vaishnav - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 19:16 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 19:16 IST The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq moved higher after the opening bell on Tuesday as gains in chipmakers and AI-link

MedPlus Q2 Results: Net profit flat as revenue surges 21%; store-level ROCE at 72% - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 19:10 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 19:13 IST A rapid expansion in the pharmacy network drove strong top-line growth, even as margin pressures kept overall profit

Williams loses again - to opponent 28 years younger - Published Former world number one Venus Williams lost her 16th singles match in a row as she was beaten by an opponent 28 years younger at the Guangzhou Open. The 46-year-old American, who has won seven Grand Slam singles titl

Meta Platforms is slightly increasing the size of its planned stock sales to fund AI investments to a total of $97.5 billion from $95 billion, the company said. The company is increasing the common stock offering in its fundraising plan to $25 billion from $22.5 billion, Meta sai

Listen to this article in summarized format The Dow Jones Industrial Average, however, remained under pressure, weighed partly by a decline in Sherwin Williams after the paintmaker reported a quarterly profit miss. At 9:57 a.m. ET, the Dow was down 0.14% at 52,287.66, while the S

Developer notaroomba (AKA Nathan Alspaugh) has published details of his Keybytes project on GitHub. In essence, this is a modular project where a Keyword hub is magnetically connected to Keybit keys, and each key has its own microcontroller. Hence the number of keys and their lay

Anthropic warned potential investors in its landmark public offering that it expects its already-high energy costs to get higher, and that delays in securing access could slow down the AI buildout. In its IPO prospectus filed on Monday, the tech giant revealed it is on the hook f

Troovy, a food and snacks brand, has raised Rs 100 crore in a Series B round of funding led by Fireside Ventures, with participation from Sharrp Ventures and other investors. The Gurugram-based brand will use the funding for R&D, expanding its manufacturing capacity, and scaling

Tim’s view The balance of power in Ukraine’s energy war is shifting. In Washington, bipartisan blowback is mounting against the Trump administration’s dangling of lucrative energy prizes for the Kremlin. Senate Democrats issued a stern warning on Monday that they plan to investig

Japanese internet company GMO Internet is investigating a data leak after suspected unauthorized access to its Onamae cloud desktop service, which provides virtualized desktops to financial traders. The IT and internet services giant said on its blog that it believes the attacker

Dating back to around 400 CE and made of dichroic glass, the Lycurgus Cup is notable for exhibiting different colors depending on the light. (It gets its name from the scene depicted on its surface, of King Lycurgus of Thrace.) Light it from the front, and the cup looks green; li

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PTC India Financial Services Q2 results: Net profit rises 9.5% to ₹44 crore, NII up 2.5% - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 19:01 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 19:01 IST The lender successfully restored its mandatory infrastructure finance asset threshold to secure its specialize

On Tuesday, the benchmark Sensex ended nearly flat, slipping 8 points to close at 73,598. Despite the subdued market sentiment, six stocks from the BSE 500 index touched fresh 52-week highs, marking their highest price levels in the past year. A 52-week high represents the highes

Apple adds M6 to 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac — starts at $1,999 for the new clamshell notebook Apple's latest chip is in two more machines Apple is updating two more computers to its M6 system-on-chip. The base 14-inch MacBook Pro and the iMac lineup are getting the company's la

The company recorded a net profit of Rs 368.81 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in an exchange filing. Its total income rose to Rs 1,669,47 crore against Rs 1,372.31 crore a year ago. Total expenses surged to Rs 1,238.34 crore from Rs 909.02 crore in the same quarte

Mbappé sorry for 'ill-judged' Mao remark after backlash in China - Published Kylian Mbappé has apologised for "ill-judged" comments he made about late Chinese leader Mao Zedong which led to him being dropped by several Chinese brands. Mbappé had reportedly told French talk show T

Listen to this article in summarized format Under Regulation 9C of the Sebi (Debenture Trustees) Regulations, 1993, a debenture trustee holding a valid certificate of registration is required to transfer activities not regulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi

Featured Story Verizon revamps FWA with mmWave 'breakthrough' to match fiber speeds Verizon reveals 1-Gig FWA service using millimeter wave to add 10 to 15 million high-speed broadband premises as overall Q3 subscriber growth surges. Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: UK mini

Two Democratic senators who have long overseen US intelligence say the Trump administration is illegally withholding a secret court’s findings from Congress until lawmakers renew a program that lets federal agents read Americans’ communications without a warrant. Seven months ago

Hacker awarded $50k bounty for reporting bug to Sony that allowed PS5 Linux exploit — move sparks backlash from jailbreaking community The security researcher who originally discovered the hypervisor bug held off reporting it to Sony, intending to disclose it only after the launc

The company now expects comparable currency-neutral earnings per share to grow at least 9% in 2026, up from its previous forecast of 7% to 8%. Coca-Cola's third-quarter revenue rose 7.4% to $13.38 billion, beating analysts' estimate of $12.92 billion, according to data compiled b

FLASH Spectra Logic reclaiming under-used storage Storage Reclaim is a Spectra Logic offering that identifies the least-used files and objects in a customer’s SSD and disk drive data estate and can move them to lower-costs storage to free up space. Several other storage suppliers

Gandhar Oil Refinery Q2 Results: Net profit jumps over 4-fold, revenue surges 73% - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 18:47 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 18:47 IST Gandhar Oil Refinery boosted its operational earnings and widened profit margins on the back of surging quarterly rev

AI - UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic i

At The Hindu Semiconductor Summit, V.K. Saraswat, A. Sivathanu Pillai and Deleep Nair warn that imported chips leave network-centric weapons vulnerable, and that waiting until 2030-35 for advanced nodes would be too late

Kamaljeet Singh flags foreign dependence on critical inputs; calls for stronger R&D, manufacturing infrastructure and specialised skills

JSW Infrastructure Q2 profit falls 12% to ₹318 crore on forex losses - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 18:38 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 18:38 IST Currency depreciation dragged down net profit despite double-digit revenue growth and higher cargo volumes. To offset margin compr

Muthamizhchelvan calls for closer industry-academia collaboration to develop semiconductor talent and translate university research into commercial products

Consul-General of the Federal Republic of Germany identifies opportunities in power semiconductors, manufacturing technologies, research and skills development, citing Tamil Nadu’s automotive and electronics industries

U.S.–China tensions underscore need for domestic technology capabilities and resilient supply chains; industry flags gaps in materials, manufacturing expertise and specialised talent

At The Hindu Semiconductor Summit, industry and government agree the shortage is of industry-ready talent and exposure, and that success should be measured by intellectual property and products, not certificates.

AI inference infrastructure startup Simplismart has raised $14 million in a Series B funding round led by Dallas Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, Shastra VC and Micromax. The company will use the funds to further develop its AI inference platform, expand it

Featured Story Verizon revamps FWA with mmWave 'breakthrough' to match fiber speeds Verizon reveals 1-Gig FWA service using millimeter wave to add 10 to 15 million high-speed broadband premises as overall Q3 subscriber growth surges. Marvis, described as an AI brain, now unifies

SoftBank Group plans to make $50 billion of investments in Malaysia, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said, according to a Bloomberg report. Anwar said Saturday that Son had identified locations in Kuching, Sarawak, and peninsular Malaysia for the planned investments following a vide

Ray Kurzweil does not want to die, but at the age of 78, he has been thinking more about it, a preoccupation that he describes as a “major motivating force of human beings.” So over the past year, Kurzweil, whose keen observations and 2005 bestseller “The Singularity Is Near” hav

Palmer Luckey has been a California billionaire since he was 21 years old, when he sold his first company, virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR, to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. His current company, defense tech firm Anduril, is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, not