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On January 11, 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an insulin injection as a treatment for diabetes. A disease that had haunted humankind for millennia finally became treatable, and the century since has seen a lot happen, both good and bad. A.S. Ganesh takes stock of a disease that is now unfolding as a global epidemic

The results also indicate that aerosol induced fog invigoration is stronger at night-time and weakens after sunrise, the paper stated

Civil society groups have argued that the Acts amendment of Section 8(1)(j), turning a partial exemption for government bodies to turn over personal information into a total exemption, undermined transparency

Tezpur University-led study finds chemical signatures that could help diagnose one of Indias deadliest cancers early; gallbladder cancer is a leading cause of death in these regions, affecting females twice as much as males

After the backlash, Grok was responding to image altering requests with the message: Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe to unlock these features

Google is bringing Gemini-powered AI features to all Gmail users inboxes, while subscribers will get additional features

As American politics tightens and AI transforms work, the writer travels through Silicon Valley to examine how Indian immigrants are adapting, recalibrating and surviving

Tech deals have in recent years faced intense regulatory scrutiny on concerns that dominant companies may further boost their market power

Alphabets Google, Meta Platforms, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon will not face heavy-handed regulations in Europes digital rule overhaul, per sources

Investors have until January 21 to accept Paramounts latest $108.4 billion proposal, paying them $30 a share, an offer the Warner Bros board says is inferior

Plants cant only detect vibrations in their environment, they can also alter their behaviour based on the information they receive

Mr. Modi said that AI start-ups were the co-architects of Indias future and said that the country has immense capacity for both innovation and large-scale implementation

In November, Apple asked New Delhi judges to strike down the 2024 law, which could also have implications for global giants such as Pernod Ricard, Publicis, Amazon and other foreign companies

For the first time, the Chinese smartphone maker introduced a mini and a c phone in its evolution

China accessed email systems used by some staffers on the House China committee as well as aides on the foreign affairs committee, intelligence committee and armed services committee, the report said

Platforms are now required by law to detect and prevent this material, UK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said in a statement

The US exiting the worlds core climate action bodies makes it harder to make credible deals to reach climate finance numbers because other countries will ask why they should pay more when a major historical emitter is out

Spotify is expanding its monetisation programme for creators and introducing new tools for video podcasters

Google and startup Character.AI have settled lawsuits filed by families accusing artificial intelligence chatbots of harming minors, per filings

Private reserves are popular in Africa. In India, however, responsible private reserves are more about potential than reality. In dissecting how wildlife returned to Jabarkhet Nature Reserve and how it has balanced tourism needs with conservation, it is possible to trace a model for private reserves in India

The social media platform has been scrutinised by the government after its Grok chatbot publicly generated non-consensual sexualised pictures of women

Annas Archive is a search engine that catalogues media on shadow libraries across the internet, thereby enabling digital piracy

State-backed initiatives like the Thousand Talents Plan have dangled fast-tracked hiring and bountiful grants to lure overseas experts in strategically important fields

Lenovo unveiled an artificial intelligence cloud gigafactory with Nvidia at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday

The appointment comes at a time when Meta faces criticism from advocacy groups and lawsuits alleging the company failed to protect young users from harmful content

While the XPS technique to study materials surfaces works great in a vacuum, real-world chemical reactions usually happen under atmospheric pressure. Yet studying a catalyst in a vacuum is a bit like trying to study how a fish swims by looking at it on dry land

Protecting a biome like grasslands cant happen in isolation but must come about through goals shared by the various U.N. bodies. Unfortunately, there are still debates ongoing about whether biodiversity and climate goals align and how institutions can build synergies

The plea also sought appropriate guidelines to all investigating agencies, including cyber cells, to ensure no bank account gets frozen without a written order and intimation to the account holder within 24 hours of such action

Alexa+ Early Access customers will be able to use Alexa.com through their browser to get a web-based AI assistant

Succeeding in a consistent way raises the bar for future accomplishments, and it will be good for ISRO to be able to move into the resulting opportunity space

After a string of fresh lawsuits and a landmark settlement in 2025, the new year promises to bring a wave of rulings that could define how U.S. copyright law applies to generative AI

The research capabilities of individuals and institutions matter for the research-teaching link to be consequential

Complaints of abuse flooded the internet after the recent rollout of an edit image button on Grok

Remote-sensing technology allows engineers and scientists to map land, forests, water bodies, and minerals without physically touching the ground; by detecting spectral signatures from visible and invisible light, satellites and drones reveal the health and location of natural resources

Modern experimental techniques can measure the gaps between the different energy levels of the H2 molecule with a relative accuracy of about one part in 100 billion; the question is whether the theories used to calculate these energy levels match with what experiments have found, and these calculations are very difficult

The average number of daily attacks in 2025 jumped 113% from 2023 when the bureau first began publishing such data

As December cold spreads its wings, frigid wind enthusiastically conducts Asias winter once again all thanks to one Mr. Siberian High.

Tech companies looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly being voted down

AI being built into humanoid robots remains a work in progress, with human tele-operators overseeing their operation remotely

A new and first of its kind study could help scientists engineer proteins with functional advantages that have been hitherto unknown, and could pave the way for new bioengineering where researchers can manipulate bacteria to produce useful materials, independent experts said

Ministry of Electronics and IT has directed the U.S.-based social media firm to submit a detailed action taken report (ATR) within 72 hours from the date when the order was issued.

The first observation using the Airy Transit Circle telescope, a device that functioned for over a hundred years, was taken on January 4, 1851! The telescope bears the name of English mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy, a methodical scientist who designed it. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about Airy and his transit circle

Examining classical Indian texts written before the 8th century CE, the scientists have also questioned the belief that Arab alchemists first developed mineral acids after the 9th century

The ministers said they had also reported the content to French media regulator Arcom for checks on whether the content complied with the European Unions Digital Services Act

Planting trees is not an innocent solution and misguided greening risks are worsening urban warming, a new study of 761 cities has found

In a separate reply to a user on X on Thursday, Grok said most cases could be prevented through advanced filters and monitoring although it said no system is 100% foolproof

The Ministry ordered the social media platform to undertake a comprehensive audit of its AI chatbot to ensure it does not generate such imagery