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Physics Nobel goes to scientists who enabled machine learning

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks, the......

Recalled envoy cautions students going to Canada

Indians hoping to study in Canada should think twice because many students have ended up in substandard colleges with no job prospects despite spending lakhs of rupees, resulting in depression and......

IISc cancels talk on UAPA, over 100 academics, students protest

More than 500 scientists, academicians and students have written to the Bengaluru-based IISc expressing dismay over the cancellation of a discussion on anti-terror law UAPA that was to be led by......

Unvaccinated people increase Covid risk for the vaccinated: Study

Unvaccinated people threaten the safety of those who are vaccinated against COVID-19 even when the immunisation rates are high, according to a modelling study published on Monday. Photograph:......

WHO Numbers May Raise India's Covid Deaths

The World Health Organisation is set to release its estimates of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 in early April, reports Amruta Byatnal, On devex.com, and the figure could be more than twice the......

University of Toronto honours Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto. The degree was conferred on him at the Rotman School of Business at the graduation......

Why smartphone makers are under govt lens

A Chinese company named Shanghai AdUps has been sending massive data about phones and users to servers in China. The recent directive of the government to smartphone companies, a majority of them......

Why govt is breathing down Alibaba's neck

RJio’s LYF, Videocon and other smartphone makers to also get notices After Chinese smartphone makers, the government has turned its attention to mobile apps from the neighbouring country. A......

New greenhouse gas has higher global warming impact than CO2

Scientists have discovered a long-lived man-made greenhouse gas that appears to have the highest global-warming impact of any compound to date. The chemical -- perfluorotributylamine -- is the most......

Canadian scholars pay rich tributes to CK Prahalad

Management scholars from across Canada paid rich tribute to C K Prahalad, the India-born management thinker who passed away on April 17, at their annual conference. The conference was held by the......

2024 Belongs To Payal Kapadia!

All We Imagine as Light has been on several critics' best of the year lists, including Sight and Sound (Payal Kapadia appeared on the magazine's cover, perhaps a first for an Indian filmmaker), to......

Just How Did The Class Of 2024 Fare?

It was a testing ground for the new actors who stepped into the limelight this year. Some emerging faces, some who had never acted before, this new crop of actors made the industry sit up and take......

2024: Top 10 International Films

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite 2024 films that he watched at film festivals in Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and India. It's that time for the year to track its very best. These are personal choices,......

Does Laapataa Ladies Deserve To Go To Oscars? VOTE!

Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies has been picked as India's official entry for Oscars 2025, the Film Federation of India announced on Monday. The Hindi film, a light-hearted satire on patriarchy, was......

Goodbye Maggie!

IMAGE: Maggie Smith poses for the media at a hotel in central London, August 13, 2015, for a media interaction to promote Downton Abbey's final season. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters The......

Gauff is youngest player since Sharapova to win WTA Finals

IMAGE: USA's Coco Gauff celebrates with the trophy after winning the women's singles final against China's Qinwen Zheng at the WTA Finals in King Saud University Indoor Arena, Riyadh, Saudi......

Vaishali becomes GM: Title awarded after long wait

Happy that the title is finally out: R Vaishali on officially becoming GM Photograph: Kind Courtesy chessvaishali/X A Grandmaster much before the title was officially bestowed on her by FIDE......

Former World pole vault champion Barber dies at 29

IMAGE: Shawn Barber, the Canadian record holder and 2015 World champion in pole vault, died of medical complications. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters Shawn Barber, the Canadian record holder and......

Gayle, Harbhajan, Afridi among star-studded marquee players

IMAGE: Chris Gayle will ply his trade for Mississauga Panthers. Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters The player draft for the much-awaited Global T20 Canada 2023 was held in a hybrid-form on......

Kobe Bryant, daughter 'Mambacita' died pursuing basketball dream

Since he retired from the National Basketball Association in 2016, Kobe Bryant had been coaching his daughter Gianna's middle-school basketball team. IMAGE: Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers......

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