Thomas Stoltz Harvey pictured in 1994 holding part of Einstein’s brain which he’d kept with him for decades (Michael Brennan/Getty Images) Albert Einstein died on 18 April 1955, aged 76. His death marked the end of one of the most influential scientific lives in history. It also marked the beginning of a long, unsettled afterlife […]
There’s a reason the British monarchy still exists while its European cousins were sent packing—or worse, beheaded. The French built guillotines, the Russians built firing squads, but the British built committees. Even when they dethrone their own, they do it with a press release and polite applause. So when King Charles III ordered his younger […]
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, few names have made waves quite like Matt Deitke. At just 24, Deitke turned heads by rejecting a $125 million offer from Meta to join its elite AI division. What followed was even more astonishing: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally met with him and doubled the offer […]
Tom Lehrer (Picture source: X) Tom Lehrer, the sharp-witted American singer and satirist known for his darkly comic songs, has died at the age of 97. He was found dead on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lehrer first found fame in the 1950s with his self-produced albums, but it was the 1960s TV […]
US President Donald Trump on Friday signed the “GENIUS Act,” a new law aimed at regulating payment stablecoins, marking a significant step toward bringing legitimacy and oversight to the cryptocurrency industry. The law, officially titled “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins,” represents a major policy shift for digital assets in the US. The […]
