University pays students to play video games: How Roehampton’s esports scholarship is rewriting the rules of student funding What if there could be a scholarship for playing games? Ta-da! Wish granted. The University of Roehampton in the UK is offering esports scholarships to students who can demonstrate excellence in competitive gaming while keeping their academic…

AI study reveals when LLM acceleration works—and when it can make performance worse PUNE: A study investigating why the same artificial-intelligence acceleration technique can more than double performance on one workload while slowing another has received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Emerging in Computing Technologies (INCECT 2026), hosted by Jain College…

Kerala Commerce student becomes AI innovator without taking the traditional engineering route. (Photo: LinkedIn) At an age when most Class 12 students are focused on board examinations and choosing a college, Raul John Aju was already building AI tools, running an education platform and teaching students and professionals how to use artificial intelligence.Known online as…

From coolie to NUS scholar: Ramthulla Shaik’s remarkable journey through GATE and IISc. (Photo: LinkedIn) For Ramthulla Shaik, the journey from a lower-middle-class family in Andhra Pradesh to the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru and now the National University of Singapore (NUS) has reportedly been shaped by one thing: the determination to change his…

Dhruv Global School, principal Sangeeta Rautji win top honours for innovative education PUNE: Dhruv Global School has marked a significant achievement at the Mimamsa Education Conference held in Pune, which recognises excellence, innovative initiatives and visionary leadership in schools and pre-primary educational institutions.The prestigious conference honoured Dhruv Global School with two distinguished awards.The Mimansa Education…

IIT Madras researchers build massive open alloy database using AI to speed up materials innovation Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) have developed an Artificial Intelligence platform to accelerate the discovery of sustainable, high-performance metallic alloys for applications including electric vehicles, aerospace, renewable energy and marine infrastructure.The researchers have built one…