Vuyani Jarana: How a boy fascinated by radios became a champion of rural connectivity
As the youngest child in a household without a breadwinner, he felt responsible for helping support his family.
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Indian, German firms to collaborate on immunoglobulin products: Indian Embassy
The Indian mission facilitated the exchange of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) between Germany's Neovii Biotech GmbH and India's VINS Bioproducts Ltd. on the sidelines of the Indo-German Health Leadership Dialogue on October 13, says Embassy of India in Berlin
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Even Benchmark thinks AI is eroding the venture pact against backing rivals
Benchmark says the Valley’s rule against backing rivals is getting harder to keep.
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From lab to life: Why translating AI advances to the real world is a major challenge
AI systems more reliable in everyday settings is a challenge worth solving, not just to improve gadgets and apps, but because AI has the potential to support human well-being, whether that means safer streets, smarter healthcare or more secure homes
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Trump names national intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead a new federal AI task force
The task force will reach out to consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and AI companies, the Republican president said.
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When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
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Steam can now show game achievements in separate ‘sets’
Valve is introducing a major new feature for Steam achievements called "achievement sets" that lets developers list different groups of achievements for a base game and DLCs. "In games that support sets, you still unlock achievements by playing the game as usual," Valve says.
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ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open.
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Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch
Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI.
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KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
KDE celebrates 30 years with a new Plasma release, a farewell to X11, and a movie.
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The tech backlash is now in theaters
Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality.
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Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
Discovery data from Plex users will help studios, advertisers.
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Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
Medical experts explicitly recommend against blanket screenings.
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Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector…
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Astra | The latest leap
OpenAI’s latest model launch and the cancellation of an updated version over safety concerns have intensified debate over whether AI capabilities could outpace human control
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Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the importance of failure and bouncing back from it
Panay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.
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Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
The incident is likely 1st confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered by targeted ads.
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Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar.
Porsche’s turnaround plan for 2035 involves less volume but more expensive cars.
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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
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Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites.
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Bluesky wants to make it easier to buy, sell, and fundraise on the network
The executives argued that advertising isn’t the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.
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Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
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What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.
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Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
Its effect on people remains an ongoing question.
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