As part of its Grand Challenges Exploration programme, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has granted $100,000 to researchers hoping to use chewing gum to detect malaria indicators in saliva so that blood does not have to be drawn.
Indian start-ups and software product companies are trying to attract engineers and programmers who are either stranded in India because of the lockdown or H-1B visa holders who have been laid off.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, whose foundation has been part of the effort to develop and deliver COVID-19 vaccines, has warned that the next four to six months could be the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the last couple of months, top Indian IT services providers, including TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Tech have announced setting up cyber threat management centres in the US and Europe.
The royalty payment obligations will be subject to arbitration.
The footprints of Indian-origin corporate executives at multinationals is expanding, with Sandeep Kataria taking over the reins of footwear major Bata as its global chief executive officer. From FMCG majors to IT titans, Kataria joins the league of Indian-origin executives who have climbed the highest echelons of corporate across diverse sectors globally. From Nooyi to Pichai to Nadella, the list of such people at the helm of multi-billion dollar enterprises is long.
Jerry Yang, who founded Yahoo along with David Filo in 1995, has left to "pursue other interests outside of Yahoo". Yang, who carried the designation "Chief Yahoo", exited two weeks after Scott Thompson, who used to run eBay's PayPal unit, joined as CEO.
TIME said a record 45 people on this list are under 40 -- including the youngest designer ever, 14-year-old actor Millie Bobby Brown -- and a common theme in the tributes is how much people can learn from them.
NITI Aayog had been asking for Rs 7,500 crore for three years to set up an AI framework.
'The group having rice flour and wheat flour showed an increase in glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c), and the group that took the jackfruit flour had a significant decrease in HbA1c.' 'Our results showed a decrease in fasting blood glucose (FBG) and postprandial glucose (PPG) after the green jackfruit flour meal.'
Bill Gates has revealed that the development of "next-generation" ultra-thin condoms to enhance sexual pleasure is in progress.
a list of top five powerbanks that strike a perfect balance between price, portability and capacity
Though a visual treat, the 10th instalment doesn't stand out in terms of gameplay.
If you have been using the same old mouse on your computer for a long time, then you might be surprised to learn the new features that a new mouse sports. Optical and laser technologies are fast replacing the rolling ball that used to adorn the underbelly of the old mouse.
After Research In Motion (owners of BlackBerry), the home ministry will now turn the screws on Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle. These companies provide technology and services for the virtual private networks (VPNs) run by various operators in India. The government will ask them to conform to regulation that allows intelligence agencies to lawfully intercept data. Failure to do so could result in the termination of VPN services by operators using their technology.
These firms have launched a site called Schema.org, which consists of a common set of HTML tags that webmasters would use to mark up structured data on their sites.
In an interview to Vogue magazine, Melinda Gates has revealed that Bill has barred in three kids, Jennifer, 13, Rory, 10 and Phoebe, 7 from using any of the Apple products.
Earlier, there was one giant in Finland, now, there are two - Nokia and Microsoft, said Alexander Stubb, Finland's minister of foreign trade.
Besides, the company has sought nod from shareholders for issuing bonus in the ratio of 1:1
It's one of the most-anticipated games of 2018.
Cyber security sleuths have alerted Indian internet users against hacking attempts of a clandestine multi-identity virus -Bladabindi -- which steals sensitive personal information of a user for nefarious purposes.
The virus possesses a unique ability to acquire a safe network domain id in order to falsely add itself to the firewall exclusion list and bypass a user's firewall mechanism.
Lumia 830 is the last phone to carry the iconic Nokia branding. But is it geared to take on the competition? Himanshu Juneja has the answer.
Gates and his wife Melinda, 44, have three children -- Jennifer, 14, Rory, 11, and eight-year-old Phoebe.
The game delivers in terms of visuals, the roster and the number of modes.
And if you have started wondering why such innovations come only from American companies, Ajit Balakrishnan offers the answer.
The minister said Industrial Disputes Act provides for constituting different authorities to ensure harmonious industrial relations and prevent strikes and lockouts.
Aadhaar is something that had never been done by any government before, not even in a rich country
While Microsoft's latest retails better than Vista, it still has a long way to go to completely dethrone older OSes in India.
The black screen of death is a play on the 'blue screen of death' colloquialism used for the error screen that has plagued Windows users over the years.
While HackerEarth has clients and developers globally, the US consists more than a third of the revenue stream, and plans to ramp it up to 60 per cent of the total share.
The beta version has seen over 1.3 mn downloads; over 2,000 firms in India are moving to the latest version.
Experts say the new guideline is likely to hurt foreign players more, especially card companies such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express who process and store credit card transaction data outside of India.
The state police is yet to confirm if the recent suicides are linked to the cyber game.
Bill Gates, a frequent visitor to India, had a firsthand experience of this variety of rice when he visited the country last year.
'To all the MBAs that burn the candle at both ends, travel half-a-million miles every year, and spend little or no quality time with their families, the rise to riches of Mr Bikhchandani and Mr Banga, should be true inspiration,' notes Sandeep Goyal.
The device, Win 400, is available at Rs 4,979.
We explore some of the more advanced features of MS Word.
Reliance has significant investments in telecom, consumer retail and media businesses in India.
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