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Who is David Sabatini? Ex-MIT scientist, once a Nobel contender, wins $6 million defamation caseDavid Sabatini was awarded $6 million in damages after winning a defamation lawsuit against Kristin Knouse. The jury found that Knouse defa...
Meet Jonathan Frankle, who taught programming to law students, then a 'lottery ticket' idea led to a $1.3 billion exit and Databricks' top AI jobFrankle became part of the founding team at MosaicML. It was an AI startup established in 2021. There, he served as its chief scientist. He...
Trump honours Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella after Vance drops H-1B visa hammer on companyPresident Donald Trump recognized tech leaders including Satya Nadella with National Medals for their achievements during a ceremony. Vice ...
Trump plans to honour Microsoft's CEO after Vance drops H-1B visa hammer on companyThe crackdown on Microsoft came under Vance's purview as the head of a fraud task force, but the targeting revealed the tension between the...
Trump plans to honor Microsoft's CEO after Vance drops an H-1B visa hammer on the companyVice President JD Vance announced that Microsoft has been suspended from the skilled foreign worker visa program. This decision coincides w...
Margaret Hamilton, whose software guided Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, dies at 90Margaret Hamilton, known for her software work on the Apollo 11 mission, died at the age of 90. She led the software engineering team at MI...
In 2012, Jennifer Aniston became an investor and face of Living Proof; four years later, Unilever agreed to buy the science-based haircare companyJennifer Aniston has been instrumental in the rise of Living Proof, a haircare brand that prioritizes groundbreaking science in its product...
How a single-celled alga helped scientists control brain cells with light — the discovery behind the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel discovered channelrhodopsin, a light-sensitive protein in single-celled algae....
From 'lower middle class' Tamil family, he missed IIT Madras CSE by just 0.01, was rejected by MIT. Today, he is the CEO of a $20 billion AI startupPerplexity cofounder and CEO Aravind Srinivas turned academic setbacks into a remarkable AI career. After missing IIT Madras Computer Scien...
In 1962, James West and Gerhard Sessler patented a small, low-cost microphone; their design is estimated to be used in 90% of microphones made todayIn 1962, inventors James West and Gerhard Sessler revolutionized audio technology by patenting the electret microphone. This innovation qui...
Anthropic touts AI-led biology discoveryUS artificial intelligence startup Anthropic on Wednesday unveiled the first discovery from its molecular biology lab, a previously unknown...
What is CosmicWatch? How a $100 detector can spot invisible particles 'muons' raining down from spaceWith a price tag of approximately one hundred dollars, CosmicWatch is a cost-effective handheld muon detector. This device identifies the u...
MIT researchers are giving millions of plastic bottles a new life by turning plastic waste into homes, decks and bridges using AI robotsIn a significant development, the Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of Massachusetts Institute of Technology are turning millions of pla...
Doomers and boosters: who's who in the AI warsThe furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps -- and a cautious middle. Today, most of the doomers warnin...
- Science says ancient roman concrete could repair its own cracks: The secret was hidden in tiny white chunks
Modern concrete can become vulnerable when cracks allow water and chemicals to seep into its interior. Ancient Roman concrete, by contrast,...
Something strange may be happening high above the surface of Venus: New study finds a surprising clue about whether life could survive in its acidic cloudsNew research suggests peptides can survive Venus's acidic clouds. These molecules maintain stable structures in highly concentrated sulfuri...
In 1976, a theoretical physicist pushed Caltech toward building a machine to detect Einstein’s gravitational waves - 39 years later, black-hole-hunting LIGO heard their ripples, and by 2017, the Interstellar science adviser wept before the man who predicted them while receiving the Nobel PrizeKip Thorne, an illustrious physicist, chased the elusive gravitational waves predicted by Einstein for many years. His commitment yielded t...
74 years before ChatGPT was released, a former child prodigy was talking about AI usage by humans. His 5 big predictions might already be trueA child prodigy who became one of the pioneers of cybernetics was thinking about intelligent machines decades before artificial intelligenc...
In 2022, MIT researchers built a portable desalination unit that removed particles and salts at once, producing about 0.3 liters per hourMIT scientists created a portable device that turns seawater into safe drinking water. This compact system uses advanced processes to remov...
This child prodigy developed technology to detect lead in drinking water. Years later, she made her way to MIT. At 19, made history by winning the Stephen Hawking honourGitanjali Rao's journey as a young innovator began at the age of ten when she created Tethys, a device to detect lead in drinking water. Th...