Meta’s highest paid employee Alexandr Wang recently shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) taunting Google’s Gemini model. Wang was responding to a leaderboard shared by an X user – Tae Kim depicting Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 outperforming the world’s biggest internet company’s latest AI model – Gemini 3.6 Flash. “Google getting beaten by @alexandr_wang…
If you thought the airport security checkpoints are the safest areas, this explosive data will leave you shocked! The moment we move towards the security checks, we place our electronics like laptops, chargers and mobile phones, wallets, leather belts, among others very casually into a plastic tray before disappearing into the X-ray scanner. But as…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has a favourite food he wishes were not so closely tied to climate change. Even as he invests heavily in climate campaigns and sustainable food technologies, Gates has admitted that cheeseburgers remain his weakness, a comfort food he loves but also sees as a climate disaster. The billionaire has repeatedly spoken…
NEW DELHI: As Congress rethinks its organisational leadership in poll-bound Punjab, Rahul Gandhi Sunday met five key state functionaries ahead of a decision on a reshuffle.Leader of the opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, state chief Amarinder Raja Warring, ex-CM Charanjit Singh Channi, Sukhjinder Randhawa and Vijay Inder Singla met Rahul at 10, Janpath. Sources said Rahul…
NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday took a swipe at the Centre after the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said a passport is primarily a travel document and should not be treated as proof of citizenship.In a post on X, Owaisi wrote: “According to the govt, no document is conclusive proof of citizenship….
India remained the world’s second-largest buyer of Russian fossil fuels in May, importing Russian hydrocarbons worth an estimated 5.8 billion euros (USD 6.7 billion), as refiners stepped up purchases of discounted crude from Moscow, according to a report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).Crude oil accounted for the bulk of…
We all know someone who practically lives in black. Open their wardrobe and it’s a sea of black T-shirts, black shirts, black dresses, black trousers and black jackets. While everyone else is experimenting with bright colours and seasonal trends, they’re reaching for the same shade every morning without a second thought.At first glance, it may…
A federal judge in California on Monday temporarily blocked Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery from completing their proposed $110 billion merger, granting a 14-day restraining order as a multistate antitrust lawsuit challenging the deal moves forward.The order prevents the companies from closing the transaction until at least August 3, when the court will hear…
In a quiet corner of northern Finland, a burial that once seemed unremarkable has started to feel like it belongs to several different lives at once. The grave was first uncovered decades ago near the shores of what is now known as Lake Yli-Kitka, a landscape of cold water and forest that rarely gives up…
NEW DELHI: Giving a push to its ambitious coal and lignite gasification programme, govt Wednesday floated a request for proposal (RFP) inviting companies to set up projects under its Rs 37,500-crore incentive scheme.Launched in May, the scheme aims to support the gasification of 75 million tonnes (MT) of coal and lignite by 2030 to produce…