Dr. Shiv Kumar Sarin, Padma Bhushan awardee and renowned gastroenterologist-hepatologist, is Founder and Director of the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi. Known for pioneering work in liver disease—defining Acute‑on‑Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) and launching the ‘Yellow Ribbon Campaign’ for hepatitis B awareness—he has received honors like the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize…
In 2024, a Swiss company called FinalSpark claimed to have built the world’s first computer processor fired by human brain cells. To do this, the company evidently took small samples of living brain tissue, and — so the press release says — “connected them to specialized electrodes to perform computer processing and digital analog conversions…
Bill Gates (right) and Paul Allen, his childhood friend and Microsoft co-founder in the late 1960s Lakeside School Source CodeBill Gates (Allen Lane) There are few people in the world of technology with more interesting stories to tell than Bill Gates. The entrepreneur and co-founder of Microsoft has seen computers morph from hulking machines that…