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Hangzhou, Oct 6 (IANS) Indian men’s team bags silver in bridge after losing to Hong Kong at the 19th Asian Games, here on Friday. A team of Raju Tolani, Ajay Prabhakar Kahre, Rajeshwar Tewari, and Sumit Mukherjee lost 238.1-152 to Hong Kong in the final.–IANSbc

New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) In a recent experimental breakthrough on secure quantum communication, researchers at IIT Delhi have achieved a trusted-node-free quantum key distribution (QKD) up to 380 km in standard telecom fiber with a very low quantum bit error rate (QBER). The IIT Delhi said that this long secure length is the highest achieved so far, not only in India but first globally for the Differential Phase Shift (DPS) QKD protocol, keeping IIT Delhi at the forefront of research and development in quantum communication technologies.The research team informed that such low QBER enables the DPS QKD scheme resistant…

New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) About 74 per cent of CEOs globally are concerned about their organisations’ ability to avert or minimise damage to the business from a cyberattack, even though 96 per cent of CEOs believe cybersecurity is vital to organisational growth and stability, a new report revealed on Friday.According to the global IT services firm Accenture, about 60 per cent of CEOs said that their organisations don’t incorporate cybersecurity into business strategies, services or products from the outset, and more than 44 per cent believe cybersecurity requires episodic intervention rather than ongoing attention.“The acceleration of generative AI makes…

New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Meta-owned Instagram has started testing the ability to share Stories to multiple audience lists. “Today, we started testing the ability to share your stories to multiple audience lists. This allows you to share stories to smaller groups and gives you more control over who can see your stories,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri said on his broadcast channel.”As someone who uses Close Friends often, I’m pretty excited about being able to create additional lists for the people in my life,” he added.With this feature, users will be able to share their stories with close groups. This…

San Francisco, Oct 6 (IANS) With about 65 lakh subscribers in the country at the moment, streaming major Netflix has reportedly “not succeeded” in scaling up its business in the key Indian market.Netflix’s slower growth in India is primarily owing to the lack of local content, TechCrunch reported on Friday, citing analysts at global asset management firm AllianceBernstein. The analysts reportedly said that only “12 per cent of the titles” Netflix offers in India were local content. In comparison, nearly 60 per cent of Amazon Prime Video’s offerings were in domestic languages in the country. Prime Video has about 2…

One of the primary judges, Anu Malik shared his excitement about the show’s new idea and detailed: “This is the first time on a singing reality show that the creative team has come up with this brilliant idea of launching an original singer by giving the contestant an original song composed by reputed producers. The singers are getting launched while the show is going on.”The composeradded: “I feel lucky to be associated with a cult show like ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’ that is getting global recognition. Everywhere I go, fans are coming up to me and appreciating how the…

Researchers at the University of Southern California-Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences have found that the tongue responds to ammonium chloride through the same protein receptor that signals sour taste.Emily Liman, Professor of biological sciences speculates that the ability to taste ammonium chloride might have evolved to help organisms avoid eating harmful biological substances that have high concentrations of ammonium.”Ammonium is found in waste products — think of fertiliser — and is somewhat toxic, so it makes sense we evolved taste mechanisms to detect it,” she said, in the paper published in the journal Nature Communications.In some northern European…

A bench of CJI D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra ordered that a joint meeting be convened between President of the NCLAT and officials of Ministry of Finance along with Ministry of Corporate Affairs to sort out all issues, including availability of funds by the Union government. Likewise, the bench ordered that a meeting will be held by Union government officials with the Chairperson of NCLT to make sure that hybrid hearings are made available in the NCLT at the option of appearing lawyers or litigants. During the hearing, Additional Solicitor General K.M. Natraj apprised the bench…

OpenAI has been discussing various options to address the shortage of expensive AI chips it relies on, but no final decision has been made, according to Reuters, citing sources.These options have included developing its own AI chip, collaborating more closely with other chip makers, including Nvidia and also diversifying its suppliers beyond Nvidia.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has made acquiring more AI processors a primary priority for the company, is one of the main driving forces behind this decision.He has raised concerns about the restricted availability and expensive costs of the hardware required to power OpenAI’s software, the report said.OpenAI…

Earlier, Kiran beat Japan’s Nodoka Yamamoto before going down against Zhamila Bakbergenova in the semifinal.Later, Aman Sehrawat, the Asian Championships gold medallist, beat China’s Liu Minghu 11-0 by technical superiority, in the men’s freestyle 57kg bronze medal match.Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Bajrang Punia, however, lost in the men’s freestyle 65kg bronze medal to Japan’s Kaiki Yamaguchi after suffering a loss by technical superiority.Earlier, Sonam Malik beat Chinese opponent and reigning Asian Champion, Long Jia 7-5 in women’s freestyle 62kg to clinch the bronze medal.–IANSbc