Meet Soumith Chintala: Indian-origin techie rejected by 12 US universities, now CTO of ‘Thinking Machines Lab’

Soumith Chintala’s remarkable ascent from countless university and job rejections to co-creating PyTorch and reaching the role of VP at Meta is a powerful story of determination and perseverance. Soumith Chintala’s journey from repeated academic and professional rejection to becoming one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence has struck for many daydreaming techies, […]

Real-life Stranger Things: Girl who went to explore Hawkins Lab site dies after falling from building | World News

A late-night visit to an abandoned building made famous by the Netflix series Stranger Things ended in tragedy when a 19-year-old girl fell to her death while exploring the restricted site. The building was used as the filming location for Hawkins National Laboratory in the series. The incident occurred on December 19 at the Briarcliff […]

Monkey madness in Mississippi: Lab monkeys escape from truck after highway crash | World News

It was meant to be just another shipment, a truck rumbling down Interstate 59 with lab monkeys headed to a future full of medical tests, needles and white coats. But fate had other ideas. A sudden crash flipped the truck on its side, doors flew open, and the once-caged primates suddenly found themselves staring at […]

Alexei Navalny’s widow says lab reports show her husband was poisoned

Alexei Navalny’s widow says lab reports show her husband was poisoned (AP) The widow of Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that two independent labs have found that her husband was poisoned shortly before his death in a Russian prison. Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin‘s fiercest foe, […]

UAE scientists create paper test that diagnoses diseases in 10 mins, no lab needed! | World News

UAE’s 10-minute paper test can be quickly modified to detect COVID-19, malaria, dengue, chickenpox, and more/ Photo : Abu Dhabi Media Office A breakthrough in infectious disease testing is set to revolutionize the way healthcare is approached in low-resource and remote settings. A team of scientists at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has unveiled […]

DNA Diagnostics Center Lawsuit: ‘I’m grieving’: Woman sues DNA lab after wrong paternity test led to abortion

This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. A 28-year-old woman from Yonkers has filed a federal lawsuit against DNA Diagnostics Center and Winn Health Labs, alleging that a faulty paternity test led her to abort her pregnancy and inadvertently end her engagement, only to learn months later that the test results were […]