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The Browser Choice Alliance, and Mozilla Research, have again highlighted Microsoft’s attempts to engineer an illusion of choice. (iStock photo)
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Microsoft’s tactics with Edge face renewed scrutiny over browser choice

Even though Microsoft attempts to focus on an artificial intelligence (AI) conversation that also includes the Edge web browser, industry bodies and researchers are calling…

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A OnePlus 15 Flagship smartphone on display. The company says its India operations will continue as usual despite ongoing global restructuring. (OnePlus India)
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Will OnePlus exit India soon? Company shares plan amid speculation

Amidst significant product restructuring currently underway, technology company OnePlus insists it is “business as usual” for the India operations, attempting to dispel rumours about the…

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The Delivery Hero logo. Uber has agreed to acquire the food delivery company in a $14.8 billion deal. (AFP)
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Uber to acquire Germany’s Delivery Hero in $14.8 billion deal

Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to buy Delivery Hero SE in a deal that values the German food-delivery company at $14.8 billion. The Delivery Hero…

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Mehran Gul says timing of Chinese AI Company Zhipu releasing a powerful open weight GLM-5.2 model “couldn’t have been better”. (Official photo)
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‘The AI rationale is shifting, to cost and trust’: Mehran Gul

For much of the past three years, the artificial intelligence (AI) race appeared deceptively straightforward. The fastest, strongest and most powerful will likely win. The…

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The SU7 series is equipped with silicon carbide controls, chargers, and compressors with peak efficiency of 99.6%. (Official image)
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Tech Tonic | Xiaomi is no longer making just gadgets, it is building an empire

When Xiaomi first made its intentions clear with the Human x Car x Home philosophy in early 2024, skeptics would have likely brushed it aside…

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Mozilla Over The Edge report
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Mozilla calls out Microsoft, placebo sleep, Stuffcool Lumo, and Xiaomi Sky Nomad

Opening thoughts. Mozilla isn’t at best pleased with typical Microsoft tactics. Monopolistic behaviour, is another way to describe it. Mozilla’s published the Over The Edge…

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A worker carries a sack of urea fertiliser as he loads it in a farmers tractor at a Multipurpose Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society in Karnal, in the northern state of Haryana, India, June 19, 2026. REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra (REUTERS)
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Govt clears new investment policy for urea sector

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved a new investment policy for the urea sector to attract fresh investments in domestic manufacturing and…

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A worker fills a car with petrol as he gestures towards the fuel barometer for the passenger to check, at a fuel station in Kolkata. (Reuters File)
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Don’t want E20, go for pure petrol, says Gadkari: What drivers in India can actually buy at the pump

Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari, defending the government’s ethanol-blending programme, said in an interview that motorists who dislike the blended fuel…

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The RBI’s Financial Stability Report shows that 58% of aggregate household debt in India comprises non-housing retail loans. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
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Your Money: How can you climb out of a debt trap?

Bhuvanaa Shreeram felt liberated when she started earning for herself more than 24 years ago. It meant she could begin repaying her education loan. She…

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Sir Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder & CEO at Google DeepMind believes Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is close, transformative. (HT picture | Vishal Mathur)
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‘Future is not yet written’: Sir Demis Hassabis wants a watchdog for frontier AI

In what is the clearest outline of a vision for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) yet, Sir Demis Hassabis, Nobel Laureate as well as Co-Founder &…

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