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Sundar Pichai meets US General today amid military jitters over Google’s AI push in China

Google invited General Joseph Dunford for talks after he said the firm's AI work in China 'indirectly benefits the Chinese military'.

Huge salary offers & a glut of companies as IIT placement season kicks off with a bang

Microsoft, Apple offer packages over Rs 1 crore as IITs expect better recruitment season due to ‘robust early hiring trends’.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer, and Saudi Arabia to admit to Khashoggi’s death

US President Donald Trump says climate change scientists have political agenda, and 93-year-old crowned 'Miss Holocaust Survivor'.

Paul Allen, billionaire who co-founded Microsoft, dies at 65

Paul Allen was regarded as the brains of the Microsoft partnership while Bill Gates was the marketing whiz.

For most internet tech companies like Google, venturing into hardware will remain a hobby

Google technology is already everywhere, Android is an example. It didn’t need its own hardware product offering to achieve the same.

LinkedIn, like Facebook, is allowing researchers to use its data, but with one big caveat

Restrictions on data mining will stop researchers from using data beyond the requirements of their projects.

Why Australia has detained 119 kids on an island, and ‘cyberbullying’ in the White House

Microsoft claims to have thwarted Russian bid to hack the US Senate, and Beijing defies Washington to continue Iran oil imports.

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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.