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The man behind Windows 95, Bing and Copilot Plus PCs is leaving Microsoft after 35 years

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s consumer chief marketing officer and one of its longest-serving executives, is leaving the company after 35 years. He announced the decision in an internal memo to staff on Thursday, first reported by Business Insider. Mehdi isn’t walking out the door immediately. He plans to work through the next fiscal year—which at Microsoft...

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Why Vaibhav Sooryavanshi plays only as Impact Player for RR

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) MUMBAI: He has left the cricketing world spellbound with his tremendous hitting abilities, with sixes and fours raining off his marauding blade relentlessly but Rajasthan’s explosive opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has also faced a bit of scrutiny for playing as an ‘Impact Player,’ which means that he has only batted during...

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The big AI shock: Have Indian IT sector stocks lost their lustre?

IT stocks crash (AI image) Globally technology sector stocks are leading stock market rallies. In India, the picture is the opposite. The Nifty IT index has dropped around 23% since the start of the year, sharply underperforming the broader market decline of around 10%.In fact, ⁠IT has been the worst-performing major sector in the Indian...

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Future wars will span cyber, cognitive domains: CDS Anil Chauhan

NEW DELHI: Chief of defence staff Anil Chauhan on Saturday said future wars will be fought across multiple domains including land, sea, air, cyberspace and cognitive warfare, as he inaugurated the NIBE Defence Manufacturing Complex in Maharashtra’s Shirdi and described the city as an emerging hub of defence manufacturing and technological innovation.Addressing the inauguration ceremony,...

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‘Neither unemployed nor am I lazy but … ‘: Sonam Wangchuk calls himself ‘an honorary cockroach’

PTI file photo Environmentalist and educationist Sonam Wangchuk on Saturday expressed support for the online “cockroach” movement led by the self-styled “Cockroach Janata Party” (CJP), calling himself an “honorary cockroach”.He also urged the government to engage with the concerns raised by youngsters instead of suppressing their digital expression.When asked whether he would formally join the...

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Swipe, scroll, repeat: How algorithms are shaping young minds

Representative AI image A toddler swipes across a screen before learning to hold a pencil properly. A teenager wakes up and reaches for Instagram before even getting out of bed. At dinner tables, family members sit together, but each is absorbed in a different digital world. Childhood, friendship, boredom, validation, many of life’s earliest experiences...

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West Bengal shifts Bakrid holiday to May 28, cancels earlier dates

The West Bengal government has declared May 28, 2026, as a public holiday on account of Id-Ud-Zoha (Bakrid), revising its earlier holiday schedule for the festival.In a notification, the state government said, “in partial modification of the aforesaid notification, the Governor is pleased to declare 28th May, 2026 (Thursday) as a public holiday on account...

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