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Bengaluru: Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink said on Wednesday it now has 21 total participants enrolled in trials worldwide, as it completes two years since it officially began testing on humans.This marks an increase from the 12 people the company in September said had received its chips and were using them to control digital and physical tools through thought.The implant is designed to help people with conditions such as a spinal cord injury. The first patient has used it to play video games, browse the internet, post on social media and move a cursor on a laptop.”A primary aim…
This disparity in gender demonstrates entrenched social norms, widespread poverty, and weak public provisioning of educationIslamabad, About 28 per cent of school-age children in Pakistan — roughly 20 million — remain out of school, exposing structural failures that cannot be fixed by political slogans, a report has stated. “The latest findings of the Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) offer a sobering reality check on Pakistan’s education and human development trajectory. Despite repeated official declarations of an ‘education emergency,’ 28 per cent of school-age children – roughly 20 million – remain out of school,” an editorial in Pakistan-based ‘Business Recorder’ stated.”While…
Imran Khan has been vocal about his mental health journey just so he can also help someone else who is going through it. The actor who was recently seen onscreen after 11 years in a cameo in ‘Happy Patel’ has finished shooting for a film. He will make his comeback with ‘Adhoore Hum Adhoore Tum’ co-starring Bhumi Pednekar and directed by Danish Aslam. In an exclusive chat with ETimes, as Imran opened up on his divorce and mental health journey, he revealed what made him realise it and seek help. Though, he admits that he never had any issues in…
Last Updated:January 28, 2026, 14:18 ISTGoogle Photos is getting this AI-powered Gemini editing tool with Nano banana for users in India who have an Android phone.Google Photos AI editing is now available for millions of users.Google is finally bringing its new AI-powered editing tool in Photos for more users this week. The company is rolling out the Ask AI option in the Photos app for all Android users in India and other countries and you don’t need to use the Pixel 10 phone to get this feature anymore. Google’s new AI feature had launched with the Pixel 10 models for users…
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has retired from the space agency, capping a stellar 27-year career during which she completed three missions aboard the International Space Station and set various human spaceflight records.Ms. Williams, 60, is currently visiting India. On Tuesday (January 20, 2026) afternoon, she participated in an interactive session hosted at the American Center here.Posters of the event— “Eyes on the Stars, Feet on the Ground”, at the venue, described her as ‘NASA Astronaut, Ret. and U.S. Navy Captain, Ret.’ During conversation, she shared her experiences from the time when she had got stuck in space when an eight-day…
NEW DELHI: Dubbing the India-US trade deal interim framework as a “surrender”, Congress on Saturday said commerce minister Piyush Goyal’s statement on agri imports was “too clever by half” as the joint statement mentions a list of products which India would eliminate or reduce tariffs upon, including “additional products”.Congress MP Jairam Ramesh noted “additional products” were not specified, that the category was “too open-ended and shows that something is being hidden”. He said there would be concerns when more details came to light.Former finance minister P Chidambaram said India and the US had not reached any trade agreement and this…
Alphabet-owned Google on Monday said it would be “extremely difficult” for Australia to enforce a law prohibiting people younger than 16 from using social media, warning that the government’s initiative would not make children safer online.Governments and tech firms around the world are closely watching Australia, which in December will become the first country to block the use of social media by people younger than 16.Social media platforms will not be required to conduct age verification procedures; instead, they will be asked to use artificial intelligence and behavioural data to reliably infer age.In a parliamentary hearing on online safety rules…
Last Updated:January 31, 2026, 11:11 ISTSupratim Sarkar has been appointed as the new Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, while Manoj Verma, who was serving as CP Kolkata, has been moved to the post of Director of Security(Left) Supratim Sarkar, new Kolkata commissioner and (Right) Peeyush Pandey, new acting DG of Bengal. (News18) – Algorithmically enhanced imageIn the run-up to assembly elections, West Bengal has carried out a major reshuffle in the police hierarchy, appointing Peeyush Pandey as the new Acting Director General (DG) of the state police. As the matter of appointing a permanent DG is currently pending in court, the…
Pune: Weekend gridlocks have almost become a norm on the Mumbai-Pune expressway, and this Saturday was no exception. A surge of traffic once again brought the corridor to a crawl, with lumbering trailers and heavy vehicles choking the ghat stretch and turning peak-hour movement into a sluggish and exhausting ordeal. Officials said the traffic surge was partly due to local body election-related travel.This bottleneck comes barely days after a 32-hour ordeal caused by the overturning of a propylene tanker near the Adoshi tunnel in the Khandala ghat on Tuesday. The incident had triggered a massive traffic snarl, leaving thousands of…
WATER IS GOLD: At Metropolis Gurukrupa, this bio chamber is used for treating black water. The human faecal matter will compost inside these bins, and release the water which can further be treated for flush or drinking requirements. Look at any large apartment complex in the city, and you’ll find a regular stream of tankers entering to fill up the water storage sumps. Many smaller ones depend on borewells, but often in combination with tankers. Water is typically one of the biggest sources of expenditure for complexes that depend on tankers. And those costs are rising as borewells dry up,…