Author: Punit Panchal

New Delhi: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has commenced legal action against three food businesses that sell Priyagold biscuits, Dodla Dairy Limited and Ueir Organic Foods Pvt Ltd. The regulator said in a statement on X on Saturday, October 17, 2026 that it is treating the lapses as serious food safety violations. Cattle feed used in biscuits Surya Food & Agro Ltd.’s case is most interesting. The company was inspected following a consumer complaint and had serious hygiene and safety issues at its premises. The cattle food waste of Bran (not fit for human consumption) was…

New Delhi: Starlink has spent years trying to get into India, and the past week showed that getting in may be the easier half of the job. On Thursday, Reliance Industries put out a statement saying it has “never feared competition” and welcomes rivals in satellite communications, Starlink included, as long as everyone follows Indian law. It also noted that Jio’s own satellite services are still waiting on clearances. Starlink responded by saying it has worked with regulators and operators for more than five years. It said it has built dedicated systems and gateways in India meant to serve only…

New Delhi: For years Samsung has been fighting Qualcomm’s Snapdragon in the in-house chip market. But, reports by Korean industry experts say that could be coming to an end. In Samsung’s tests, the Exynos 2700 outperformed Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. For now, Samsung is reconsidering its choice of processor for the Galaxy S27 Ultra. Faster in multi-core work The first one is in terms of raw performance. In multi-core Geekbench tests, it was reported the Exynos 2700 scored about 10% lower than Qualcomm’s fastest chip. The multi-core scores represent its ability to run intensive parallel processing…

New Delhi: After almost nine years of missed dates, Tesla showed its next Roadster on Thursday night at a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas. The event streamed from near Waco, and the car is built around SpaceX hardware including thrusters, carbon-overwrapped pressure vessels, diffusers and big fans. It did look like nothing else on the road. Whether any ordinary person will ever own one is another matter. What it’s made of The short version is weight reduction taken to an extreme. The prototype is built to be as light as possible, with steer-by-wire and a yoke instead of a…

New Delhi: Tesla Roadster has been promised for so long that it had started to feel like a running joke. On October 15, Tesla gave people something to look at instead. During a livestream from SpaceX’s McGregor, Texas facility, the next-generation Roadster accelerated to 60 mph in 0.81 seconds, according to figures circulating from the event. That’s less than a blink and a half. It also jumped over other Teslas parked on the course and performed aerial stunts, including a kickflip, using cold-gas thrusters. Tesla’s own account posted a clip afterward with the caption “Real life, baby.” The 45-second video…

New Delhi: The debate surrounding “vibe coding” has taken to X as developers list both pros and cons of the growing trend for AI to generate code based on simple prompts. The term was popularized in early 2025 by Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder. A style of development where the developer writes a natural language description without any particular structure into an AI tool like Claude and a code is generated by the tool. The fans state that it is much quicker to build prototypes and small projects. The supporters cite speed and accessibility. They contend that now anyone lacking…

New Delhi: Save the date on November 1 from the widely circulated messages on X; AIRTEL, Jio and Vi users will see the name of the unsaved caller on 4G and above networks. Here is a list of the unsaved caller with their name displayed on 4G and higher networks from widely circulated posts on X from November 1. Those posts are what you should check for the date, with your operator. International calls will display “International Call” and saved contacts will retain the names the user gave to them. Currently Indian networks only display a number. While present systems…

New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani has no time frame to play at anymore, because “soon” has been a while now. Jio Platforms chairman has said their draft RHP was approved by the board of the company on the same day and would be sent to India’s securities regulator, the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI).The chairman of Reliance Industries has told the share holders at the company’s annual conference that their company board had approved their draft RHP the same day and would be sent to the securities regulator, Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), of India that day. Far removed…

New Delhi: Netflix told employees on Wednesday that it will lay off roughly 1,000 people, about 6% of its workforce. Most of the cuts will fall on product, technology, legal and human resources teams, according to a company email. The company had about 16,000 full-time employees at the end of last year, according to its annual filing. Variety describes it as the largest round of layoffs in Netflix’s history. Other outlets frame it as the biggest since 2022, when the company cut 450 jobs over two rounds after losing subscribers. Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters explained the decision in…

New Delhi: Realme UI is going away. Realme phones, plenty of older ones included, will move from Realme UI 7 to ColorOS 17, the same shift OnePlus is making as it leaves OxygenOS 16 behind. For anyone who has been on a Realme phone for a while, that’s a bigger deal than it sounds, even if ColorOS was the code base underneath all along. The early impressions come from a Realme GT8 Pro, so this is the flagship experience. One caveat: how ColorOS 17 feels will vary by price bracket, and budget and mid-range testing is still to come. The…