'Ghost number' 6174: Meet Dattatreya Ramchandra Kaprekar, the Indian schoolteacher who discovered a mysterious 4-digit number that almost always returns to itselfIndependence Day 2026: Dattatreya Ramchandra Kaprekar, an Indian schoolteacher, discovered the intriguing number 6174. This constant emerge...
13 Aug, 2026, 05.54 PM IST
Arkansas high school football player finds venomous cottonmouth inside helmet: Snake known for its deadly bite had been hiding behind paddingA Maumelle High School football player in Arkansas got a terrifying surprise when he discovered a 2-foot cottonmouth hiding inside his helm...
12 Aug, 2026, 10.44 PM IST
OpenAI has a secret ‘friction’ email that lets employees complain directly to Sam Altman and top bosses and it has a surprising Jeff Bezos-Amazon connectionOpenAI reportedly has an internal “friction” email that allows employees to flag workplace problems and bureaucratic bottlenecks, with seri...
12 Aug, 2026, 10.02 PM IST
Billionaire Ian Wace bought a $2.2 million Scottish island in 2017. Now, his $135 million Tanera Mòr revival has restored 50+ buildings, planted 100,000 trees and rebuilt a lost communityBillionaire hedge fund manager Ian Wace bought Scotland’s remote Tanera Mòr island for about $2.2 million in 2017, when its historic buildi...
12 Aug, 2026, 07.29 PM IST
'Reach everyone always with a caring heart': At 17, this Indiana teen turned her childhood health struggles into a mission to help people experiencing homelessness. She raised $6,800 and distributed 100 ‘blessing bags’At 17, Natalia Kleinrichert turned her childhood health struggles into a mission to help people experiencing homelessness in Fort Wayne, In...
12 Aug, 2026, 06.11 PM IST
400 goodbye messages, yoga and late-night soccer: Jeff Dean’s final 48 hours after 27 years at Google, co-leading Gemini and becoming ‘unemployed’ for one minuteAfter 27 years at Google and helping oversee and co-lead the development of Gemini, Jeff Dean’s final 48 hours were filled with emotional g...
12 Aug, 2026, 05.28 PM IST
Google's Gemini AI assistant reaches one billion usersGoogle's artificial intelligence assistant Gemini has surpassed one billion monthly users, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Tuesday, a week afte...
12 Aug, 2026, 08.04 AM IST
Quote of the day by Jeff Bridges: 'One of the things that I find so exciting about life is...' — Powerful life lesson on why you should embrace the unexpectedEmbracing unpredictability, actor Jeff Bridges reveals that life and filmmaking are filled with delightful surprises. He notes how spontane...
11 Aug, 2026, 11.22 PM IST
'I was like, wow, look at that': 1991 Mars Bar found after 35 years during Scunthorpe house clearance leaves social media stunned as 62.5g chocolate bar sparks shrinkflation debateA 1991 Mars Bar discovered during a Scunthorpe house clearance has gone viral after its 62.5g size was compared with today’s 40g version, s...
11 Aug, 2026, 04.55 PM IST
8-foot Burmese python found hiding under New Jersey family’s shed after swallowing a large opossum: Snake’s swollen belly revealed shocking backyard discoveryAn approximately 8-foot Burmese python stunned a New Jersey family after it was discovered hiding beneath their backyard shed in Freehold T...
10 Aug, 2026, 11.57 PM IST
Google seeks to step up AI push with DeepMind shakeup: ExpertsGoogle DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis stepped down from that role on Wednesday to become its chairman. DeepMind chief technology o...
07 Aug, 2026, 08.17 AM IST
Shiprocket trims IPO size; Google's AI leadership shake-upShiprocket is set to launch its IPO after lowering its issue size. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
06 Aug, 2026, 07.49 PM IST
Sanjay Ghemawat, the Kota kid who spent decades at Google building large-scale computing, is now leaving to make an AI that can run thousands of experimentsSanjay Ghemawat, the Google scientist who grew up in Kota, Rajasthan, is leaving the company after nearly three decades. Ghemawat helped bu...
06 Aug, 2026, 04.37 PM IST
Meet Sanjay Ghemawat, cofounder of AI startup Discovery LoopComputer scientist Sanjay Ghemawat is among the co-founders of Discovery Loop, the artificial intelligence startup launched by longtime Goo...
06 Aug, 2026, 03.53 PM IST
US stocks: Alphabet shares fall 4% as DeepMind chief shifts role in Google’s AI shakeupAlphabet's Class C shares declined significantly after a major AI leadership restructuring. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is moving to a new ...
06 Aug, 2026, 01.02 AM IST
Google's Jeff Dean launches AI startup Discovery LoopAnnouncing the venture on X, Dean wrote, "We are founding Discovery Loop... a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machi...
05 Aug, 2026, 10.56 PM IST
Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shifts roleGoogle's AI division sees a significant leadership overhaul and key departures. Demis Hassabis moves to chief scientist while Koray Kavukcu...
05 Aug, 2026, 10.18 PM IST