Author: Rahul M

Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images When it was announced that “Blue Bloods” would be ending in 2024, fans were understandably up in arms about losing their favorite police procedural. Few were as vocal as star Tom Selleck, who struggled to accept that the show was ending after Season 14. Before long, CBS announced a spin-off series titled “Boston Blue” that would center on Selleck’s co-star Donnie Wahlberg (who plays his on-screen son, Danny Reagan), and that’s only made Selleck more apoplectic about the cancellation. “It was a huge disappointment, and I still…

The new era of Silicon Valley runs on networking—and not the kind you find on LinkedIn.As the tech industry funnels billions into AI data centers, chip makers both big and small are ramping up innovation around the technology that connects chips to other chips, and server racks to other server racks.Networking technology has been around since the dawn of the computer, critically connecting mainframes so they can share data. In the world of semiconductors, networking plays a part at almost every level of the stack—from the interconnect between transistors on the chip itself, to the external connections made between boxes…

While often dismissed as imagination or fear, sensed presence is gaining traction as a subject of neurological and psychological study. It appears in contexts ranging from dark basements to polar expeditions, and in some cases, during serious medical conditions. By examining how the brain reacts in certain environments, researchers are narrowing in on why some individuals are more likely to sense something—or someone—that isn’t there. A recent experiment explored how sensory deprivation and mental traits influence this phenomenon. The findings offer a glimpse into how the brain handles ambiguity when its usual cues are stripped away. But beyond clinical relevance,…

Countries offering more comprehensive multi-hazard early warning systems reported six times fewer mortalities caused by weather-related events, a joint report released by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) stated. Global Status of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems 2025, released Wednesday at the COP30 Belém climate summit, further noted that 60 per cent of the world’s total countries, or 119 countries, now offer multi-hazard early warning systems. Although the United Nations launched the ‘Early Warnings for All’ initiative in 2007, it is during the past decade that more countries have acted on this…

With the police considering the targeting of US nationals by a fake call centre in Bengaluru for “digital arrests” as an organised crime, the bail petitions of 19 people, including two directors from Rajasthan, who are accused in the scam exposed last month have been rejected by a sessions court in the city.The Bengaluru police have added section 111 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which pertains to organised crime, to the charges of fraud and misuse of information technology in the case against Cybits Solutions Pvt Ltd, which was registered last month following a tip-off about a fake call…

The discovery was made by Ethan Kruse, a doctoral student at the University of Washington, while reviewing Kepler data. What he found wasn’t a planet but an unusual pattern of recurring brightenings, a microlensing signal produced by one star magnifying the light of its companion. According to Kruse, this was completely unexpected, even within the professional community: “If everyone’s missed this one, then there could be many more that everyone’s missed as well.” The system’s configuration matched theoretical predictions made in 1973 by André Maeder, who had hypothesized the existence of binaries capable of gravitational lensing. KOI-3278, situated around 2,600…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A passenger bus fell into a deep ravine early Wednesday after crashing with another vehicle in southern Peru, killing at least 37 people and injuring 13 more, authorities said.The health manager of the Arequipa region, Walther Oporto, said to local radio RPP that the bus hit a pickup truck and it went off a road on a curve, falling more than 200 meters (more than 650 feet) to the banks of the Ocoña river.The bus had departed from the city of Chala, a mining area also in southern Peru, and was heading to the city of…

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday passed a resolution strongly condemning the terrorist car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort on the evening of November 10, which killed 13 people and injured many others. Significantly, the cabinet called the incident a heinous terror incident perpetrated by anti-national forces, confirming that it was a terror attack on Indian soil. A statement issued by the cabinet said, “The Cabinet pays its solemn respects to the victims of this senseless act of violence and conveys its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families.” The cabinet also observed two minutes of silence…

A new study suggests that people residing in economically and environmentally burdened neighborhoods show measurable signs of dementia risk—even before symptoms appear. Researchers used brain scans and blood tests to uncover biological changes linked to Alzheimer’s and related diseases. This research, led by Wake Forest University School of Medicine, points to a stark reality: social vulnerability, environmental inequality, and economic hardship don’t just shape daily life—they might shape the brain itself. It’s the first time such detailed links have been made between place-based social factors and biomarkers of dementia, providing concrete evidence of how deeply neighborhood conditions can affect long-term…

At the close of polling on Tuesday in the Bihar Assembly elections, the state not only notched its highest-ever voter turnout, but also saw women set a new record in voting. Against the overall turnout of a record 66.91%, the voting percentage among women voters was 71.6%, as much as 8.8 percentage points more than the 62.8% turnout among men and the largest ever gap.In terms of absolute numbers too, women appear to have out-voted men in Bihar, which would be a first for the state. After the Election Commission’s (EC) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the…