An excerpt from Tanul Thakur’s ‘Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H-1B Visa Programme’.

May 2026 opens with a flood of free games, codes, and subscription perks across major platforms, from Steam giveaways to Pokémon Champions promotions. At the same time, neuroscience sees milestones ...

Dr. Charles Lieber, a former Harvard scientist convicted in 2021 of concealing his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program, has since rebuilt his brain-computer interface lab in Shenzhen, China, ...

A new tech company claims it has developed a hat that can literally read your mind — then translate it onto a computer. Much has been discussed about brain implants which require cracking open a ...

Consumer tech has spent the last decade turning the body into a stream of metrics. Heart rate, sleep stages, blood oxygen, recovery, stress, and readiness have all been packaged into dashboards that ...

In response to the tremendous clinical progress of Elon Musk’s Neuralink, investors are pouring money and attention into brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. But obscured by the VC buzz, one ...

A study has suggested a mechanism by which performing a physical behaviour can trigger a movement of the cerebrospinal fluid -- a clear liquid that circulates in the brain -- which may then carry away ...

Genesis AI, a global full-stack robotics company, has unveiled GENE-26.5, a robotic brain designed to help general-purpose robots perform complex physical tasks with human-level manipulation. The ...

For children with autism spectrum disorder and with an intellectual disability, the options for improving communication and social skills are limited. Talking therapies and behavioral programs can ...