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Prada skips AI, brings back the pencil for its Christmas ad

Featuring actors Sadie Sink and Maya Hawke, the campaign uses hand-drawn animation to bring a winter wonderland to life.

A Bengaluru startup has launched a dating app that is a therapist cum Seema Aunty

Western apps such as Bumble and Tinder are tailored more for individualistic cultures. They haven’t quite been tailored to Indian sensitivities. In that cultural gap lies an opportunity for Wavelength.

AI found a painting stolen in 1972. How Italy is using tech to recover missing art

AI can recognise altered paintings and fragments sold separately, but it has limits.

Was it Rembrandt or his student? AI tool offers clues to an old art mystery

The study, published in the PNAS, was a collaboration between mechanical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University and a renowned Rembrandt expert.

What are rad-hard materials? Why satellites and nuclear reactors need them

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are using AI agents to analyse radiation damage in electronics.

What are the best and the worst things about being PM Modi

The titanium-coated PM must use his shield to protect his party colleagues. CMs, ministers, MPs, MLAs are all having a blast, and leaving it to PM Modi to ensure their stay in power. 

A literary prize for AI-written books? France’s Prix Pascal invites entries

The Prix Pascal is named after Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, philosopher and polymath who invented one of the earliest mechanical calculators.

Can a selfie reveal your cancer prognosis? US study says AI may help estimate risk

Researchers trained the technology using more than 40 million facial images, along with photographs of over 30,000 cancer patients.

India’s IT giants rode labour arbitrage for 30 years. AI is hurting billable hours business model

Hyderabad/New Delhi: Standing in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building earlier this month, US Vice President JD Vance delivered a stark message to India’s top...

Alexa is getting chatty and nosy. She even knew the name of a journalist’s dog

Alexa discovered a New York journalist's personal interests, shopping habits, favourite movies, and even his underwear preferences.

On Camera

MC Stan questioned women rappers’ anger. He should know what rap is built on

MC Stan has built his music around struggle, rivalry and aggression. So why question women rappers for bringing their own anger to hip-hop?

India’s crude imports set to record highest-ever 5.4-5.6 mn b/d in October as refiners diversify supplies

Russian oil accounts for 35 percent of imports, down from 55 percent in July, as Angola and Venezuela gain amid shipping disruptions.

Design, develop & deploy: Sarvam signs 5-year MoU with MoD to build AI for Army, Navy, IAF

Work will be carried out by Chanakya, Sarvam’s firewalled division. Focus areas are decision support, target acquisition and data fusion across the ‘sensor-to-shooter loop’.

Netanyahu has won because he isn’t defeated. And Israel is left more divided

Netanyahu has won only because he hasn’t been defeated. He’s also changed Israel fundamentally. Any ruling alliance now will have to be a coalition to the exclusion of Israel’s Arab citizens.