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Consumers are already feeling the pinch. Minus ceasefire, second order impacts can hit prices of everything from essentials to electronic goods. Govt’s done well so far. But it may have a tougher job in near future A distant war is squeezing Indian pockets; driving up LPG, food, travel, and everyday costs. And, if war continues,…

What OpenAI dumping its video generator means &, more important, what it doesn’t mean In the end, it’s ended with a whimper, not a bang. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora,” OpenAI posted on X yesterday. Not as surprising as the Feb 28 attack on Iran, this was still a pretty surprising development. Because of how…

‘They’ have gone, but I still feel the stains of their venom on my soul. A cloudy evening and a book, what else do I need !  Unwinding myself, I breezily walk along the hedged pathway that leads me to the poolside of my society. It is a soothing place with a babbling fountain that…

Imagine a company called OpenAI made a super cool tool named Sora that could turn words into videos—like writing “a dragon flying over a city” and boom, a video appears. Now suddenly, they said: “We’re… Source link

Wodehouse to warzone…and a sexy JV    It used to bee a lazy insect;  then came PG Wodehouse’s Drones Club members, as gainfully unemployed but with sharper tailoring. After lying dormant for decades the term has… Source link

Closure of Hormuz Strait may lead to another global recession, unless Trump gives Iran an off-ramp, sort off Most people living today were born after 1990. Israel and Iran were already sworn enemies by then. But their feud didn’t bother the rest of us until four weeks ago, when US and Israel took a “decapitation”…

You plan your day perfectly at 9 am. By 11:30, it’s already irrelevant. A call runs over. An urgent issue pops up. A “quick” task takes two hours. And just like that, your carefully time-blocked schedule collapses. If this sounds familiar, the problem isn’t your discipline. It’s how our world works. The promise of time blocking…

Myself Kamalamma from Kunjibettu in Udupi.  What to tell you! Few days back early morning, I am opening our front door and looking outside and who is looking back at me? Tamanaah Bhatia, that Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood whatever-wood heroine! I am shouting, Woooah, Tamannah Bhatia! And the Mister who is shaving in the bathroom is…

Dear reader, Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This week, we explain how Dhurandhar shows that Bollywood has learnt the art of myth-making, examine why gold is facing a ‘tough time’, decode why gold prices are plunging, explore the curious history of the Church of England (which is set to get…

We must rethink our fear of the roach   If humans’ deep dislike had the power to wipe it out, the cockroach would be doomed. But it’s thriving. It’s gone to space. It’s even had babies in space. And given its established history of hitching rides on ships, planes, trains, one does wonder whether it did…