The crypto world is buzzing. If you ask a true believer, they’ll say this is just the beginning of a financial revolution. Ask a skeptic, and they’ll swear we’re watching a bubble inflate in real time, one that could pop at any second. This entire debate is now playing out in a public showdown between
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Life lessons of the Dalai Lama by AFP Staff Writers Mcleod Ganj, India (AFP) June 30, 2025 Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, ostracised by Beijing while feted by leaders across the world, has over decades penned a plethora of life lessons. He is the author of dozens of books, on topics ranging
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(Bloomberg) — For London commuters squished into cramped carriages, faces against sweaty armpits, every day is a heat wave, and every heat wave is an inferno. Unusually hot weather is making it almost unbearable to travel on the UK capital’s underground train network. As pedestrians bake in 30C heat at street level, seeking shade among
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Sony India has introduced two new soundbar models in an expansion of its BRAVIA Theatre lineup of home entertainment products. The BRAVIA Theatre Bar 6 is a 3.1.2ch soundbar and comes with a wireless subwoofer while the BRAVIA Theatre System 6 is a 5.1ch home theatre system with a dedicated subwoofer as well as wireless
The rain begins, and for many cities, so does the chaos. Choked roads, submerged streets, endless traffic — a familiar monsoon story. If you’re indoors, you may enjoy the patter on your window. But step outside, and it’s a different world: stalled vehicles, knee-deep water, and helplessness. Year after year, the same scenes play out.
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Women in STEM is a popular term you would have heard, and it is well-celebrated in the modern age. However, what about the women who laid the stepping stones for the term? Women who not only broke gender barriers but also played an important role in laying the foundation in several modern fields. One such
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Bats, the winged mammals, are essential to ecosystem pollination, to give just one example, and control of insects, among others. And in addition to their utility to ecosystems, they are also the bearers of a dark reputation: as reservoirs for an impressive variety of deadly viruses that have caused a number of human pandemics. In
In wine-making circles, ‘noble rot’ is an exalted name for the botrytis fungus (Botrytis cinerea). It infects grapes, penetrates the skin, causes the berries to lose water by evaporation and shrivel up, and thus concentrates the sugars and flavours in them. Since only a small percentage of grapes in a vineyard are infected, they must
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Elon Musk’s political silence lasted exactly three weeks. For anyone else, that might seem brief. For Musk, it was an eternity. Some even speculated that the Tesla CEO had backed away from politics and geopolitical affairs for good. This was a profound misunderstanding of the man who has just spectacularly reminded politicians of his power
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A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human genome and transform our understanding of health and disease. But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying
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