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Who is Demis Hassabis, the DeepMind founder who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
He founded DeepMind in 2010, which he sold to Google in 2014 in what was Google's largest European …
Sam Shead,Lakshmi Varanasi
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Google DeepMind CEO wins joint Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on AlphaFold
Demis Hassabis and fellow DeepMinder John Jumper have won one half of the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Beatrice Nolan
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3 US-based academics awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on wealth inequality
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson won the prize for their "studies of how instit…
Polly Thompson
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Bhutan is known for prizing happiness. Its people also work longer than any other country.
Despite Bhutan's reputation for putting happiness above GDP, its people work longer than anywhere e…
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
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Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI' who warned of its existential risk, awarded Nobel Prize for Physics
Geoffrey Hinton and John J. Hopfield win the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for machine learning inve…
Jyoti Mann
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Arundhati Roy awarded Pen Pinter Prize for her 'unflinching' writing
The judges noted Roy's incisive commentary on issues ranging from environmental degradation to huma…
PTI
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Meet the professor who just won the Millennium Technology Prize — and $1.1 million
Professor Bantval Jayant Baliga of North Carolina State University won this year's Millennium Techn…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Millennial male voters are a prime prize for Harris and Trump. Her campaign's got a plan — get Tim Walz on Twitch.
Gen Z and millennial voters will make up around 48.5% of eligible voters for the upcoming 2024 pres…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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This team has silenced critics: BCCI secretary Shah hails India's triumph, announces ₹125 crore award
"They have faced and silenced their critics with stellar performances time and again. Their jo…
PTI
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who wrote a book on aging cycles 6 miles a day at age 72. Here are 3 things he does to stay healthy.
Venki Ramakrishnan thinks longevity treatments are overhyped. To age well, he leads an active life …
Kim Schewitz
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This picture won a prize in an AI competition — but it's real
The photographer Miles Astray fooled judges of an AI picture contest with a real photo of a flaming…
Jyoti Mann
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The Nobel Prize-winning 'godfather of AI' says he's glad one of his students had a hand in ousting Sam Altman from OpenAI
"I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman," Hinton said on Tuesd…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Switzerland offers $60K cash prize for ideas to rid its iconic alpine lakes of military ammunition
Most of the ammo is said to be submerged between 150 and 220 meters deep in Lake Thun, Lake Brienz,…