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Cats spend a large part of their day observing their surroundings. A cat suddenly stops, sits still and stares at one spot on a wall. There is nothing obvious there. No insect, no movement and no sound that you can detect. Yet the cat remains focused on the same patch for several seconds, sometimes much…
Representative image of a seasonal park ranger living and working in a remote national park. Image credit: ChatGPT. In 2023, Andrew Coval made an unusual career change. The Philadelphia lawyer left his legal work behind, drove a 2000 Toyota Camry across the United States and arrived in California to work as a seasonal ranger at…
Commander Pete Conrad studies the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had landed two years previously; the Apollo Lunar Module. Image credits: Wikipedia Apollo 12 splashed down safely on November 24, 1969, but four days earlier, part of the spacecraft never made it home. In an official report on the mission of Apollo 12 (December 1969) published…
The spot inside the New Town mall, where the boy was stabbed Kolkata: A 20-year-old engineering student was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly stabbing his classmate repeatedly and slashing his neck, at a crowded shopping mall in New Town. The attack, carried out in front of hundreds of shoppers, left the victim battling for his…
LONDON: A UK judge refused bail to Indian lawyer Vijay Aggarwal accused of sexual assault and human trafficking on Wednesday saying there was a major risk of him fleeing to avoid trial as he had no strong ties to the UK.Sasha Wass, representing Aggarwal at Southwark Crown Court, pleaded for bail saying Aggarwal is a…
Google Brain founder Andrew Ng has rejected claims that artificial intelligence is on track to kill humans. In his latest newsletter, Ng argued that fears of existential risk are exaggerated and blamed OpenAI’s flawed sandboxing for the Hugging Face incident, saying engineering fixes not pauses are the real solution. Ng also criticised what he described…
Nearly two decades ago, rapper 50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson) joined an effort to transform an underused community garden in Queens into a public green space designed for gardening, recreation and community gatherings. Today, the site continues to carry his name as the Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Community Garden.The project began in 2007 and had…
In Samastipur, four men were arrested after a video surfaced showing them allegedly harassing a girl in public. PATNA: Barely days after a disturbing video of the alleged public harassment of a minor girl in Jamui triggered widespread outrage and police action, another purported incident of a woman being harassed in public has surfaced in…
NEW DELHI: India continued their strong run in kabaddi at the Asian Games as both the men’s and women’s teams registered comfortable wins in their group-stage matches on Wednesday.The women’s team defeated 2018 gold medallist Iran 37-23 in their second group match. The men’s team also recorded a big win, beating Bangladesh 48-25 in their…
Food science writer Krish Ashok of ‘Masala Lab’ fame busts nutrition myths by the dozen while juggling a day job as head of AI at a tech firm. He tells Srirupa Ray why we must look past food marketing and not treat social media claims as medical adviceFSSAI’s recent proposal to have a ‘red hexagon’…
