Alphabet’s Google laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit, The Information reported on Friday, citing a person with direct knowledge of the situation. The cuts in the division, which houses the Android platform, Pixel phones and the Chrome browser among other applications, follow Google’s January buyout offers to employees in the […]
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FROM post-coaching burnout to a grading system that reinforces “toxic competitiveness”, relentless academic demands and a culture marked by caste and gender-based discrimination: these are among key triggers flagged by a committee set up by IIT Delhi last year to “study the institutional processes and environment” in the context of student suicides, The Sunday Express […]
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Billionaire Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI will go to a jury trial in spring 2026, the federal judge presiding over the case decided on Friday. Last month, OpenAI and Musk agreed to fast-track a trial over OpenAI’s for-profit shift, the latest turn in a grudge match between the world’s richest person and OpenAI CEO Sam […]
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Mahesh Ramanujam is the co-founder and CEO of Global Network for Zero (GNFZ), an independent net zero certification body based out of the US, helping businesses, governments, and communities achieve net-zero carbon emissions. Mahesh works on creating a global framework for decarbonisation, encouraging industries to adopt sustainable practices. Mahesh is also the former president and […]
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Q. With UK universities exploring campuses in India, is LSE considering a footprint in India? There’s a range of opportunities from a full-fledged branch campus to in-country programs to partnerships with universities. We’ll explore all options to see what makes most sense for us. It’s different for different universities, so we haven’t made a decision […]
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In more than half of the country’s 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), placements for BTech students dropped by more than 10 percentage points in 2023-24 compared to 2021-22, according to the first such disclosure of data by the union government. Barring IIT (BHU) Varanasi, 22 of the 23 IITs have seen a drop in […]
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Astronomers with the European Space Agency (ESA) have hit upon a jackpot after their telescope, Euclid, captured high-resolution images of 26 million galaxies, opening up a huge treasure trove towards studying the dark universe. Launched in July 2023 and having commenced its scientific operations in February last year, the Euclid Mission is being led by […]
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Abhijit Bose, WhatsApp’s head of India, and Rajiv Aggarwal, Director Public Policy, Meta India, have resigned from their positions. Shivnath Thukral, Director of WhatsApp Public Policy in India, has now been made Director, Public Policy for all Meta brands in India. This comes less than a week after Meta announced its biggest layoffs ever, trimming […]
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In the last one decade, the number of Indian students annually picking the United States for higher education has more than doubled, with the country’s share in the total number of international students going up from 11.8 per cent to 21 per cent, according to the Open Doors Report 2022 released Monday. The numbers assume […]
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Twitter Blue will probably “come back end of next week”, billionaire owner Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. Twitter on Friday paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed. The coveted blue check mark was previously reserved for verified accounts of politicians, famous personalities, journalists and […]
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