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Singer Michael Kiwanuka reveals he is recovering from a stroke - Published Award-winning singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has revealed he has suffered a stroke and faces a "long, tough journey ahead" to recover. The 39-year-old from London, who won the Mercury Prize in 2020 and

Dive Brief: - More U.S. households feel financially vulnerable – 17% compared to 15% in 2025 – reversing progress recorded a year ago, according to a survey from The Financial Health Network and the University of Southern California. - Less than 70% said they paid all their bills

A progressive economic group is kicking off an ad and organizing campaign targeting nearly two dozen purple congressional races by going after Trump’s unpopular idea to give voters $5,000. Economic Security Project Action, the political arm of the group that previously backed gua

Yinka’s view For decades, the debate around Africa’s natural resources has largely been over who gets the value from what the continent digs up and ships out. But at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion summit in New York this week, the recurring theme was more nuanced. The question was

South Africa’s post-apartheid Black empowerment rules are holding back billions of dollars in American capital, Washington’s ambassador said. L. Brent Bozell III, reiterating US criticism of measures aimed at redressing inequalities caused by apartheid, singled out mandatory loca

YouTube’s comments section is getting an upgrade, alongside the rollout of other community-focused features such as exclusive paid memberships, the company announced at its Made On YouTube event on Wednesday. Commenters will now be able to respond with GIFs or leave comments from

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) tests investor appetite in a landmark public debut on Thursday, concluding a decade-long journey to the stock market. The NSE stock is likely to make a modest debut despite strong institutional participation, with more than 100 qualified institut

The Scoop UN agencies are putting a premium on diversifying where they source technology and computing power — away from solely American providers. Last year’s US sanctions on the International Criminal Court, and Anthropic’s Mythos model cutoff earlier this year, provided a “wak

Sensex gained over 299 points to close at 74,828 while Nifty rose around 118 points to end the session at 23,447. Broader markets outperformed benchmarks, with Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 jumping up to 0.9%. Also read | Sensex crossed 85K for first time 2 years ago, n

An AI coding agent’s patch can pass tests yet fail when the server loads a real model and handles requests. Evaluating changes to inference-serving software therefore requires checking the full serving path, including whether the system returns correct results through its public

Scale your own way, using HPA with built-in support for PromQL metrics queries in GKE Jean-Marc François Software Engineer Valentin Hamburger Senior Product Manager Earlier this year, we announced native support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) custom metrics. This milestone al

GKE becomes more elastic: Scale to zero, save costs, and keep workloads responsive Eyal Yablonka Product Manager, Google Kubernetes Engine Scott Funkenhauser Senior Software Engineer, Google Kubernetes Engine True elasticity has long been the holy grail of cloud-native engineerin

A guide to speeding up your video processing with AlphaEvolve Anant Nawalgaria Group AI Product Manager & Engineer, Google Sascha Heyer Principal AI Lead, DoIt In real-time streaming, every millisecond counts. For example, at 30 frames per second (fps), developers have a strict f

On-demand convenience platform TimBuckDo has raised an undisclosed amount in a bridge funding round at a pre-money valuation of Rs 120 crore. The round was backed by Srinath Setty through his family office Trasa Ventures and Adarsh Narahari. The Bengaluru-based startup is prepari

China's YMTC wins patent battle against Micron in ongoing 3-year legal war over memory patents — new injunctions could restrict Micron's supply into Germany Micron continues to deny any wrongdoing and has appealed the ruling. A court in Germany has granted court injunctions again

Indian equities ended higher on Wednesday despite intraday volatility, as markets shrugged off an intraday surge in crude and focused on signs of strengthening domestic growth momentum. Geopolitical developments at the UN General Assembly kept a risk premium embedded in oil price

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Dive Brief: - Target launched a new national brand campaign, “Inside Out,” that focuses on its customers and iconic red shopping bags, per details shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. - The effort includes 30- and 15-second spots that will run across broadcast, streamin

YouTube announced a bunch of new creator tools at Wednesday’s Made On YouTube event, including a conversational editing tool that uses natural language to refine both long- and short-form footage. “A one-hour shoot can be 10 hours or more in the edit. So, what if we could speed t

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Thursday, September 24, following key business developments, fundraising plans, order wins, project updates, regulatory approvals and debt-reduction initiatives. Simplex Castings, Max Estates, Sheetal Universa

Shares of IonQ rose Wednesday after the company said it demonstrated the quantum computing industry's first end-to-end real-time quantum error decoder. The company's stock was more than 5% higher in morning trading after surging over 10% before the bell. The milestone, which IonQ

Alibaba claims new Qwen Image 2.1 AI model beats Google Nano Banana 2.0 with minuscule 7B parameter model — benchmarks show open-weight contender is competitive with OpenAI and Meta image models Open weights have once again thrown the guantlet down. Alibaba Cloud has released a n

The Scoop Paramount, looking to firm up its financial picture as it digests Warner Bros. Discovery, is looking for fresh sources of cash. Executives at the company have discussed asking Elon Musk to become part of a syndicate of equity investors into Paramount, according to peopl

Coltrane’s Sound, by John Coltrane. Sept. 23 marks the jazz legend’s 100th birthday. The title of his “highly underrated” 1964 album Coltrane’s Sound “could not have been more accurate, as each of the six pieces bear the unmistakable and indelible stamp of Coltrane’s early-’60s s

BYJU'S has reportedly reached a settlement with Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) over the dispute over the latter’s rights issue. As per a report by LiveLaw Biz, BYJU’S senior advocate Abhinav Vasisht and senior advocate C K Nandakumar on Aakash’s behalf, informed the N

"Naturally as one of the largest card issuing banks we will get 40 basis points of the value. Then we also have a payments rail road on the UPI network which is not as famous a Gpay or Phone Pay but still formidable. We also have a application which has many customers on board. A

YouTube is adding new AI-powered features to YouTube Music that aim to make it easier for listeners to discover music, explore artists, and find podcasts they may otherwise miss. Announced at this year’s Made On YouTube event, the updates include “Ask Music,” a conversational too

Americans are worried about the long-term viability of the safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare as they contend with rising costs, according to a new survey from the CFP Board. Half of advisors surveyed said they have seen clients take actions to try to manage th

Dive Brief: - While most (89%) shoppers don’t fully trust AI recommendations, 76% of them have used AI to make purchases in the past year, according to a SmartCustomer survey of nearly 1,200 U.S. consumers released Monday. - A third of survey respondents said they made a regretta

Shares of Sedemac Mechatronics Ltd are likely to see activity on Thursday as investors look set to sell a stake in the company through a block deal. According to sources cited by CNBC-TV18, up to 44.3 lakh shares, representing around 10% of the company’s equity, could be sold in

Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Zelio E-Mobility’s board of directors approved a proposal today to raise up to ₹167.95 Cr via a preferential issue of equity shares and convertible warrants to fund its growth initiatives. The BSE SME listed company will issue up to 9.73 Lakh eq

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RPS Ventures, an early investor in e-commerce platform Meesho, offloaded 3.86 crore shares in the Bengaluru-based company for around Rs 900 crore through multiple block deals on the BSE on Wednesday. According to stock exchange data, RPS Ventures through RPS WOS II LLC offloaded

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When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the shadows and shine a light into every corner,” Fiza said. “Every time we get a syste

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Multiples Alternate Asset Management has led a $150 Mn funding round in Prime Focus-backed AI audiovisual content platform Brahma AI, with the investment firm putting in $100 Mn through preferred shares. Brahma will use the fresh capital for research and development (R&D), intern

Listen to this article in summarized format The 2-year Treasury note yield climbed 8 basis points to 4.464%, while the benchmark 10-year yield rose 7 basis points to 5.058%, its highest level since July 2007. The 30-year Treasury yield advanced more than 4 basis points to 5.347%,

Iran's military on Wednesday described U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to annihilate Tehran as "a sign of strategic desperation," warning the country stands ready to inflict strikes "more crushing" than earlier in the nearly seven-month conflict. The combative message, whic