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• The system managed to create secure encryption keys at a speed of nearly 240 bits per second.
• The error rate in receiving quantum bits, or…

Tinder has rolled out a new feature called ‘Double Date,’ allowing users to team up with a friend and match with other pairs. The new group-style format is aimed at making dating more social, especially for GenZ, which makes up over half the app’s global user base.

The idea is simple: Pick a friend, link your profiles, and swipe on other duos. If either friend likes a pair and there’s mutual interest, a four-person group chat opens up, making it easier to skip the awkward one-on-one icebreakers.

Tinder says the feature has seen strong early…

Musk’s company, which is responsible for the AI chatbot Grok, needs the new money, in part, because it has already spent most of what it previously raised, the materials shared with investors indicate.

Between its founding in 2023 and when the…

In its June 2025 Work Trend Index Special Report, Microsoft says that while “Frontier Firms” — companies rapidly scaling with human-agent teams and AI at the core — are emerging, they risk being slowed down by a never-ending cycle of digital noise, fragmented schedules, and a lack of boundaries between work and personal time.

Microsoft’s…

The Vivobook S14 (S3407QA) is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series processor and includes a neural processing unit with up to 45 trillion operations per second. It has a 14-inch 2.5K display with a 16:10 aspect ratio and a 70 watt-hour battery that supports up to 30.5…

“I think for mundane intellectual labour, AI is just going to replace everybody,” Hinton said, referring to roles such as paralegals and call centre workers. “You’d have to be very skilled to have a job that it [AI] just couldn’t…

US President Donald Trump said he would likely extend the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok’s US assets, citing the app’s help with young voters in the 2024 election.

By Reuters June 17, 2025, 3:45:36 PM IST (Published)

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would likely extend a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short video app TikTok.

The president said in May he would extend the June 19 deadline after the app helped him with young voters in the 2024 election. His comments to reporters on Air Force One on…

The one-year contract, which the Defense Department disclosed Monday, is the latest push by the ChatGPT-maker to sell its technology to the US government.

In a blog post Monday, OpenAI said the contract is the company’s first project under a new entity it’s calling OpenAI for Government.

As part of the effort, OpenAI will work with the Defense…

India doesn’t need rupee stablecoins when it already has the rails, rules and resilience of sovereign digital money. In a trusted monetary system, innovation must strengthen stability — not substitute it, observes Srinath Sridharan, Corporate Advisor & Author of Family and Dhanda.

What really changes when a technology innovation enters finance? Are we solving a new problem, or simply repackaging an old one in better code? Can currency really be reinvented without rethinking the sovereign power behind it?

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The SIPRI report also outlines India’s strategic attention towards China, and how regional powers are accelerating nuclear modernisation as arms control norms weaken.

India advances towards nuclear modernisation 

India’s nuclear warhead count has risen to an estimated 180 as of January 2025, a modest increase from last year’s 172, as per SIPRI.

The…