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Norbert Wiener was one of the most unusual mathematicians of the 20th century: a child prodigy who graduated from Tufts at 14, earned a Harvard PhD at 18, and spent most of his career at MIT. During World War II, his work on anti-aircraft fire-control problems helped lead him to the idea of cybernetics, the...

Amit Shah with Suvendu Adhikari (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: In what seemed largely impossible in 2021, became exhaustively debatable five years later. Can Suvendu Adhikari defeat Mamata in home turf Bhabanipur? The question gained political legitimacy in 2026 given the nail-biting contest in 2021 Nandigram battle, where Mamata had challenged her ex-protege.Taking the battle to...

A small-town boss in the US state of Louisiana has handed his 540 full-time employees a combined $240 million after selling his family’s company, with the average worker walking away with around $443,000.Graham Walker, former CEO of Fibrebond Corp. in Minden, sold the electrical-equipment enclosure maker to power-management giant Eaton for $1.7 billion last year....

Sunil Gavaskar (PTI Photo) The balance between bat and ball in modern-day cricket has once again come under the spotlight, with Sunil Gavaskar voicing strong concerns over how heavily the game now favours batters in the T20 era.With massive scores becoming routine in the ongoing IPL 2026 season and totals above 250 no longer considered...

India’s labour market is changing, but the transition is not uniform. Over the years, employment has moved away from the agriculture sector towards non-farm activities and larger enterprises. Yet, agriculture continues to account for a major share of jobs, highlighting how it is still India’s job market backbone.The latest PLFS 2025 unit-level data by SBI...

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A localised cooling failure at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centre is claimed to have sparked disruption, crippling services for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and derivatives giant CME Group. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the issue, which AWS attributed to “increased temperatures” in the AWS Health Dashboard within a single data centre...