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Patrick Dempsey shared a touching tribute to his ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ co-star Eric Dane, revealing they texted just a week before his demise from ALS complications. Popularly known as ‘McDreamy,’ Patrick spoke about his and Eric’s friendship with a heavy heart. He also spoke about his ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ co-star’s final days in an emotional tribute. Fans worldwide mourn the loss of the beloved McSteamy.Patrick Dempsey shares a heartfelt tribute for Eric Dane Patrick Dempsey woke to the tragic news on Friday. “I just woke up this morning, and I was very sad to read the news,” Patrick Dempsey said on The…

On January 20, 2026, Rev. Dr. Leo D’Souza, a Jesuit scientist based in Mangaluru, died aged 93. Dr. D’Souza, fondly known as Fr Leo, trained in the 1960s at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, working alongside stalwarts in the field such as Ingo Potrykus, Joseph Straub, and Sudhir Kumar Sopory.He set up one of India’s earliest tissue culture laboratories in 1975, where his women-led team of doctoral students slowly and steadily made a series of breakthroughs — including the world’s first ever test-tube cashew tree that was transferred to soil.“Fr. D’Souza was among the early…

People who score better for optimism have been shown to have healthier hearts. | Photo Credit: Pablo Guerrero/Unsplash Helen Keller, the American author and activist who was deaf and blind, became an international symbol of human potential. She wrote, “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”Optimism can be defined as maintaining positive expectations for the future. It is a human trait that has also been associated with better health and a higher quality of life. Optimism shapes how we look ahead and functions as a modulator that amplifies positive possibilities and…

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince (File photo) New Delhi: The increasing use of AI language models for information seeking and agentic commerce has put the existing internet business model under pressure, as these companies are crushing publishers, content creators, and small businesses, according to Matthew Prince, chief executive of internet infrastructure company Cloudflare. Explaining the problem, he said that for the past decade, individuals and creators – including researchers and small businesses – have sold subscriptions or shown ads to compensate for their work. But, now AI models scrape and regurgitate information, removing direct interaction between creators and users. “Google was…

Pakistan captain Babar Azam with Shaheen Shah Afridi Pakistan dropped ace left-arm pacer Shaheen Afridi and demoted star batter Babar Azam against Namibia in a must-win game after facing heavy defeat against India in the T20 World Cup group-stage match, but the team’s head coach, Mike Hesson on Friday rejected suggestions that changes were reactions to the heavy loss against India. Hesson said the decisions, including moving Babar Azam down the order and leaving out Shaheen Shah Afridi for the match against Namibia, were made for tactical reasons.India defeated Pakistan by 61 runs in the group-stage match, with Ishan Kishan…

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch New Delhi: For years, Europe watched its best AI researchers migrate to the US. India has faced the same challenge – a steady bleeding of top engineering and computer science talent to Silicon Valley. Reversing this flow is central to the global AI race, says Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO of French startup Mistral AI. “Like Europe, India was bleeding talent to the US,” Mensch said in an interview with TOI. “The more talent you retain and create value locally, the better.” Founded in 2023 by Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothee Lacroix, Mistral AI was created…

Microsoft has named Asha Sharma as the new chief executive of its gaming division, marking one of the most significant leadership changes in Xbox’s history. Sharma succeeds long-time gaming head Phil Spencer, who is retiring after nearly four decades at the company and will stay on as an adviser through the summer. Her appointment comes at a challenging moment for Microsoft Gaming, which is facing slowing revenue growth, rising costs and intense competition in the global console and content market.Sharma has been appointed Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft Gaming and will report directly to Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chairman…

Chandigarh: Thirteen days. That’s how long 17-year-old Kanishka Bist was on a ventilator in an intensive care unit, as machines breathed for her and doctors kept constant watch. On Friday, wheeled in on a stretcher, still hooked to an oxygen cylinder, she wrote her Class 12 board exam. No writer. Just Kanishka and her courage.A student of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa Senior Secondary School in Sector 26, Chandigarh, Kanishka has been living with muscular dystrophy since birth. The degenerative condition has long made everyday tasks demanding, but the past few weeks tested her endurance like never before. Her latest…

A Pocso court in UP’s Banda sentenced to death Friday a former govt junior engineer and his wife for sexually abusing 33 boys over a decade, some as young as three, and selling videos and photographs of their torture on the dark web to customers across 47 countries. Additional district judge PK Mishra said convicts Ram Bhawan (50) and Durgawati (47) inflicted such physical and psychological trauma on the survivors – some required hospitalisation for injuries to their genitals and a few developed squint eyes – that their crimes deserved to be categorised as “rarest of rare”. “The sheer scale…

Doctors caution that a seemingly ‘normal’ cholesterol report can be misleading. It’s not just about the cholesterol levels; factors such as inflammation, LDL particle size, and triglycerides can dramatically influence your heart health. Genetics and lifestyle choices, often overlooked, are equally significant. A comprehensive heart health assessment goes far beyond cholesterol numbers alone. A cholesterol report marked “normal” brings relief to anyone waiting for it. Many people read it as a clean bill of heart health. But doctors say this comfort can be misleading. A routine cholesterol test is useful, but it does not always show what is really happening…