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VCs turn the screws; Ex-Paisabazaar CEO’s new betHappy Friday! Investors are rewriting the rules of engagement with founders after governance blowups. This and more in today’s ETtech Morni...- In 1955, TV engineer Eugene Polley tried to free viewers from getting up during commercials, and the remote control changed living roomsThe remote control, debuting in 1955, revolutionized the television landscape by placing the power of choice in viewers' hands. No longer t...
- Over 1,500 bat species carry thousands of deadly viruses but rarely get sick, and scientists are only just beginning to understand whyBats possess a unique, preactivated innate immune defense that stops viruses from fully replicating, even after cell entry. This remarkable...
- MIT researchers channel AI to turn hand gestures into robot training dataRobots are learning to grasp objects with help from a new ultrasound wristband. Developed at MIT, this device captures human muscle and ten...
- Elon Musk's biggest rival isn't a startup, it's China, and they just won the brain chip raceElon Musk brain chip Neuralink competitor: China has approved the world's first brain-computer chip, NEO, for commercial sale after complet...
- Quote of the day by Paul Krugman: 'Debt is one person's liability, but another person's...' - financial lessons and insights on role of debt in the economy, flow of money and growth of wealth by Nobel Prize-winning economist and pioneer of New Trade TheoryQuote of the day by Paul Krugman: Nobel laureate Paul Krugman sheds light on debt, emphasizing it's a two-sided coin. While a borrower's li...
- How the Supreme Court is reshaping the US midterm electionsThe US Supreme Court is set to decide two crucial election law cases. One case challenges rules on counting mail-in ballots received after ...
- In 1965, a chemist expected a routine polymer solution and got a bizarre cloudy liquid instead: It became KevlarIn 1965, the world of materials science was forever changed by scientist Stephanie Kwolek, who stumbled upon a peculiar cloudy polymer mixt...
- In 1953, a chemist spilled an experimental polymer on a shoe and found that one patch refused to get dirty: This led to the foundation of ScotchgardFor many adults, revisiting beloved shows serves as a soothing balm during turbulent times. This practice isn't simply a means to escape bo...
- At 15, a teenager building video games from his bedroom accidentally helped create one of the internet’s earliest coding communitiesIn the days prior to the internet, enthusiastic young hackers relied on floppy disks to trade their innovative programs. Bulletin board sys...
- The QWERTY keyboard layout may have been designed partly to slow typists down before typewriters jammed themselves apartTypewriters of the past often struggled with jamming, a problem that sparked innovation. Christopher Latham Sholes stepped in with the revo...
- IITs reach for global stature amid endowment crunchIndian Institutes of Technology are actively expanding their global presence. They are forging international partnerships, establishing ove...
- A 14-year-old farm boy’s sketch in a field helped lead to televisionA 14-year-old Idaho farm boy, Philo Farnsworth, envisioned electronic television while observing plowed fields. His groundbreaking idea, de...
- Pizza Hut's AI system promised 30-minute delivery, now it's facing 45-minute waits and a $100M lawsuit insteadPizza Hut's new AI system, Dragontail, has led to a major lawsuit. A large franchisee claims the technology backfired, causing delivery del...
- In 1926, a failed rubber coating experiment and a strange elastic solid accidentally changed the future of plasticsIn 1926, chemist Waldo Semon accidentally discovered how to make polyvinyl chloride flexible. This breakthrough transformed manufacturing a...
- A simple astronomy program led two U.S. high school students to help discover four exoplanetsIn an inspiring display of youthful ingenuity, two American high school students have teamed up to publish a groundbreaking scientific pape...
- A 15-year-old Sierra Leonean teen built batteries and a radio station from scrap partsA young innovator named Kelvin Doe from Sierra Leone built batteries, generators, and a radio station using discarded electronics. He salva...
- In 1849, Walter Hunt twisted a piece of wire while thinking about debt: The tinkering helped create the modern safety pinWalter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849. His design improved on earlier pins by adding a spring and catch. This made the sharp end safe...
- In 1938, Roy Plunkett investigated a blocked gas cylinder during routine lab work: The waxy residue inside became Teflon and reshaped industrial chemistryThe year was 1938 when a gas cylinder unexpectedly jammed, leading chemist Roy Plunkett to stumble upon a curious white material. This rema...
- A construction site buried by Mount Vesuvius may have finally explained why Roman concrete lasted for thousands of yearsAncient Roman concrete's remarkable durability, long attributed to luck, is now understood as a result of a sophisticated "hot mixing" proc...
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