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It is a known fact that humans have evolved from their ape ancestors. From crawling to walking we have come a long way and it seems that they are following suit, delving into the world of AI. In an experiment conducted in a Costa Rica forest reserve, capuchin monkeys learned to use an AI touchscreen...

Congress workers held during E20 fuel protest outside Gadkari’s Nagpur residence NEW DELHI: Police on Monday detained Congress workers protesting against the Centre’s ethanol-blended fuel policy outside Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s residence in Nagpur.“We condemn E20 being imposed on us. We will continue to fight,” said youth congress leader Mehul Adwani.The protest march began at...

BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri (L, Photo credit: X/@Ramesh Bidhuri) alleged locksmiths and puncture repairers outnumbered students at a recent protest NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri on Sunday alleged that “puncture banane wale aur tala banane wale” (those who fix tyre punctures and locksmiths) outnumbered students at the recent Jantar Mantar protest against the...

(Representative image) Low mortgage rates and a greater scope for remote work during the pandemic had reportedly led to high demand for second homes and vacation properties.  For years, Palm Springs symbolised California’s red-hot luxury housing boom, with affluent buyers snapping up second homes and vacation properties at record prices. That frenzy, fuelled by pandemic-era...

Aquib Nabi and team of Jammu and Kashmir Ranji cricket celebrate after taking wicket of Smaran Ravichandran wicket of Karnataka at the Ranji Trophy finals at Rajnagar KSCA cricket stadium at Hubali on Thursday. NEW DELHI: There was a time when Auqib Nabi didn’t own a pair of bowling spikes.For his first U-19 trial in...

Every year, just after a road is opened to traffic, excavators return. The municipality may resurface a stretch only to see it dug up within weeks to lay a water pipeline, fix a sewer, lay an electricity cable, expand a gas network or pull fibre-optic lines for telecommunications companies.The cycle is so frequent that for...

Kerala floods: Death toll rises to 15, 7 missing as heavy rain continues NEW DELHI: Chief minister VD Satheesan on Monday said that the death toll in rain-related incidents across Kerala has risen to 15 as heavy rainfall continued to batter the state and rescue operations intensified.Addressing a press conference after reviewing the flood situation...

Phogat accused the authorities of shielding the former BJP MP throughout the case NEW DELHI: Wrestler Vinesh Phogat said the women wrestlers would appeal against the acquittal of former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. She alleged that “the entire state machinery, the government, and the system have been working to...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a message for anyone anxious about AI taking their job: the technology is actually hiring. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal hours before Meta’s June quarter earnings, Zuckerberg said that “all the work around AI has net created a lot of jobs because there’s all this infrastructure that needs to...

Lauren Sanchez worked at The Beach Waterpark in Albuquerque during its first summer in 1987 Lauren Sanchez’s latest trip to the Galápagos Islands has put the spotlight on a journey that began far from the ocean conservation projects she supports today. In 1987, the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ wife and former journalist Lauren Sanchez worked...