Spread the love One puff of a cigarette, within seconds, infuses the human bloodstream (via the lungs) with nicotine, the acutely addictive and carcinogenic chemical in tobacco. Nicotine binds to the brain’s cellular receptors, sparking the dopaminergic reward system to keep smokers hooked. And then there are additives in cigarettes, such as menthol, which gets nicotine to linger longer in...
Tesla former AI director Andrej Karpathy has a new word for engineers
Spread the love OpenAI’s founding team member Andrej Karpathy Former Tesla AI director and OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, who popularised the term vibe-coding has introduced a new phrase for the next stage of AI-driven software development: agentic engineering. While vibe-coding refers to humans prompting AI to write code, agentic engineering describes a process where AI agents themselves generate and refine...
SpaceX delays Mars mission, Musk says: ‘It is only possible to travel to Mars when …’
Spread the love Source: The New York Times Elon Musk-owned space company SpaceX is shifting its near-term focus away from Mars to prioritise building a self-sustaining city on the Moon. The update was shared by the tech billionaire in an X post citing faster timelines and easier launch opportunities. Sharing the post, Elon Musk said that a Moon city could...
IIT-Delhi, Germany team makes device to sort current by ‘handedness’
Spread the love In a new study in Nature, scientists from IIT-Delhi and Germany have demonstrated a device to separate electrons based on their ‘handedness’ without powerful magnetic fields, taking a step towards chiral electronics, which could in future enable low-power devices. The human left hand is a mirror image of the right; the two can’t be perfectly superimposed. In certain...
‘Delhi will become Khalistan’: Several schools receive bomb threats; warns Parliament will be targeted
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Several schools in the national capital received bomb threat emails on Monday, triggering panic among students, parents, and school authorities, and prompting an immediate response from security agencies.Teams from local police stations, along with K9 units and bomb detection and disposal squads, were rushed to the affected schools as a precautionary measure. The bomb threat...
After a martech exit, this founder wants to rewrite the D2C growth playbook
Spread the love Revolutionizing D2C Growth: Umair Mohammed’s Vision for E-commerce Success, EconomictimesB2B Published On Feb 9, 2026 at 09:35 AM IST For many direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands in India, growth has become a more delicate calculation. Customer acquisition is expensive. Discounts eat into margins. Returns on digital ads fluctuate. Yet, much of the ecosystem still depends on the same global...
3 wives, 1 dead live-in partner, 3 dead daughters: Ghaziabad suicide case reveals grim past
Spread the love Ghaziabad Triple Suicide No mention of mother in 8-page death note; As the investigation into the Ghaziabad triple suicide continues, many questions remain unanswered.GHAZIABAD: Behind the closed doors of a ninth-floor flat in Ghaziabad, a complicated family life was quietly unravelling. When three sisters leapt to their deaths of each other, what lay hidden inside the home...
‘My blood pressure was 116-71. Can I still have a heart attack? I’ve been so nervous about it’
Spread the love 3 min readNew DelhiFeb 9, 2026 09:30 AM IST A Quora user wanted to know: “My blood pressure was 116-71. Can I still have a heart attack? I’ve been so nervous about it,” so we reached out to experts who said that a blood pressure reading of 116/71 mmHg is actually normal and healthy. “It means your...
Stock market today: Nifty50 opens in green; BSE Sensex rallies strongly
Spread the love <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-128094373,imgsize-82718,width-400,resizemode-4/stock-market-today.jpg" alt="Stock market today: Nifty50 opens above 25,800; BSE Sensex rallies over 500 points" title=" Stock market today (AI image) ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Stock market today (AI image) Stock market today: Indian equity benchmarks, Nifty50 and BSE Sensex, opened in green on Monday, rallying strongly on the back of India-US trade deal joint statement issued over...
SpaceX shifts focus from Mars to Moon, Musk says
Spread the love SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the back burner to prioritise establishing a settlement on the Moon, founder Elon Musk said Sunday (February 8, 2026). The South Africa-born billionaire’s space company has found massive success as a NASA contractor, but critics have for years panned Mr. Musk’s Mars colonisation plans as overambitious....
