Spread the love NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the Centre of trying to grab power through the delimitation bill, adding that the women’s reservation bill had already been passed in 2023. He clarified that the Congress party “unequivocally” supported women’s reservation. He called the BJP-led Centre’s proposed move to increase Lok Sabha strength...
New brain-inspired ‘memristors’ promise to cut AI energy use
Spread the love Researchers from the University of Cambridge have reported a new kind of brain-inspired nanodevice, a hafnium-oxide memristor, that could dramatically cut artificial intelligence’s (AI) energy bill by bringing memory and computation into the same component. The findings were published in Science Advances on March 20. Spread the love
NHL Playoffs: Lightning vs Canadiens opener pushed due to arena scheduling
Spread the love Ivan Demidov #93 of the Montreal Canadiens skates with the puck under pressure from Charle-Edouard D’Astous #51 of the Tampa Bay Lightning during the first period of the NHL regular season game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Tampa Bay Lightning at the Bell Centre on April 9, 2026 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Matt Garies/NHLI...
‘Only after hitting 6s against India …’: Pak’s Farhan makes big revelation
Spread the love Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan makes big revelation (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: Pakistan batter Sahibzada Farhan says his most memorable sixes came against India, especially during the Asia Cup. “The ones I hit against India in the Asia Cup. People started to recognise my six-hitting ability after that,” Farhan told ESPNCricinfo. In that final, Farhan stood out by smashing...
Vignesh Shivan recalls seeing Jana Nayagan’s leaked version playing on a phone in Madurai: ‘I felt like breaking it’
Spread the love 4 min readHyderabadApr 15, 2026 06:33 PM IST Vignesh Shivan was on his way Madurai Airport when he saw a person watching the leaked version of Jana Nayagan on their phone. He knocked it out of their hand. Speaking on Behindwoods’ Straight From Hearts with Rangraj Pandey, Shivan said the moment hit harder than he expected. “I...
‘Xi will give me big, fat hug’: Trump says he opened Hormuz for China … ‘and also the world’
Spread the love AP file photo US President Donald Trump said China was “very happy” with his decision to permanently open the Strait of Hormuz, emphasising that he was “doing it for them” and the rest of the world. He added that the situation would not recur and claimed that China had agreed not to send weapons to Iran.“China is...
Snap to lay off 1,000 employees, CEO Evan Spiegel’s memo puts it on AI
Spread the love Snapchat’s parent company is laying off 16% of its global workforce, impacting around 1,000 employees, as it pivots towards profitable growth and integrates AI to enhance efficiency. CEO Evan Spiegel announced the move, aiming to slash costs by over $500 million by 2026 to achieve net-income profitability. Snap is cutting 16% of its global workforce—around 1,000 full-time...
Turkey school shooting: 4 killed, 20 hurt; 2nd such incident in two days
Spread the love Picture source: X Four people were killed and 20 others injured after a middle school student opened fire at a school in Kahramanmaras in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, governor Mukerrem Unluer said. Unluer told reporters that a teacher was among those killed. He said the attacker was a student who used his father’s weapons, which he had...
‘Ghost’ army ready: How Australia aims to tip the balance in Indo-Pacific
Spread the love File photo (AFP) Australia is quietly building one of the world’s most ambitious autonomous warfare capabilities, with two homegrown programmes, Ghost Shark and Ghost Bat, moving from prototype to production at a pace that has caught the attention of defence analysts. . With the first Ghost Shark underwater drones set to enter service this year and the...
Google finds its Philosopher’s stone: AI ethicist Henry Shevlin steps into DeepMind role
Spread the love Google DeepMind has created a new “Philosopher” role—and hired one of the world’s leading machine consciousness researchers to fill it. Henry Shevlin, Associate Director at Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, will focus on machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness starting May. The hire follows Anthropic’s own philosopher-in-residence model and signals a growing industry...
