MobileNews

NPCI Launches Fingerprint Authentication for UPI Payments, Wearable Glass Verification, and More

October 9, 2025
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), in collaboration with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), announced a series of digital payment initiatives at the Global Fintech Fest 2025 in Mumbai on Tuesday. Among the highlights are fingerprint authentication for UPI payments and wearable glass-based transactions, aimed at making India’s digital payments ecosystem faster, more secure, and…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

Google’s Search Live comes to India, AI Mode gets more languages

October 9, 2025
Google is bringing its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, to India – launching in English and Hindi – and expanding AI Mode to seven new Indian languages, as the company strengthens its presence in one of its fastest-growing markets. Introduced in the U.S. in July, Search Live builds on Google’s Project Astra technology and is available through the…
Read more
NewsPhotography

Naked truth: One of the world's largest public art exhibitions is being staged to highlight the climate crisis

October 9, 2025
Whatever your position on climate change, there is no escaping the debate – especially when 16 artists and photographers bring the climate crisis conversation to where you work, live and travel, in one of the world’s largest public art exhibitions. Part of the UK Brazil Season of Culture 2025-26 (celebrating 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries), It’s Not Easy…
Read more
Cleantech & EV'sNews

E-motorcycle maker Zero moving headquarters from the US to Europe

October 9, 2025
Zero Motorcycles, one of the world’s leading Western electric motorcycle manufacturers, announced that it is relocating its global headquarters from California to the Netherlands. The move marks a major strategic shift for the company as it doubles down on Europe, which has long been its largest market for electric two-wheelers, despite the American company’s US base of operations. According…
Read more