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Elon Musk – the new Twitter owner has already started changing the microblogging platform. On his first day, he fired top executives and is reportedly eyeing to sack more employees starting November. He is also planning to revamp account…

A few years ago, bilingual writer, musician, and dance scholar Sujatha Vijayaraghavan embarked on an ambitious journey to read hundreds of classic Tamil stories. The ones that didn’t fit into her dance project back then, have found a home in this collection, an anthology of 30 Tamil short stories, writings from the 1930s till today that embody the gloom and despair, the grit and grace, and the spirit and skill of the Thamizh people. 296pp, ₹699; Aleph Every story is unique, representing all strata of society,…

Indian software company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plans to step up its European expansion with several more research hubs, its technology chief said. Europe accounted for about a third of the company's annual revenue of $25.7 billion in its past financial year and is one of its fastest growing regions. TCS launched its first co-innovation and advanced research centre in Amsterdam last year to work with clients to adopt newer technologies, such as 5G and electric vehicles. "There will be many more such facilities…

Web3 has plenty of money going for it — well, yes quite a bit less than a few months ago — but it’s still hard to argue that mainstream consumers have lined up to embrace web3 internet services. There have been some flash-in-the-pan hits so far, but investors are still searching for consumer use cases that make the most of blockchains, tokens and NFTs, beyond just trading them. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) GP Sriram Krishnan believes the incentive structures of web3 makes the space a natural fit for social networking,…

The WHO estimates that one-fourth of the world’s population has latent TB. The HIV epidemic was a rude awakening. Suddenly there was a realization that TB was a grave crisis. HIV, because it compromised immunity, liberated the latent TB. The logic was inescapable: any widespread epidemic that adversely affected immunity had the capacity to make latent TB into an active and deadly killer. In Mumbai, TB is everywhere and nowhere. Spotting the bacteria is not unlike spotting a tiger in a jungle— while glimpses are…