• Sat, December 28, 2024 •

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President Akufo-Addo commissions Accra STEM academy

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the Accra STEM Academy, an institution dedicated to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.

by: Yahoo

High hopes for 2025 Jersey air display

The 2024 Jersey International Air Display in September was made possible after £30,700 was donated by islanders and additional sponsors came forward following an appeal for funds. Mr Higgins said Covid had stymied fundraising in 2020, while more recent years had brought "factors outside their control" which hindered them.

by: NDTV

Indian-Americans Condemn Racist Attacks On Donald Trump's Appointee Sriram Krishnan

Recently, the Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna criticised those targeting Indian-born Krishnan, over his Indian origin.

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Researchers develop groundbreaking therapy to reverse colon cancer cells

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North Korea launches 'toughest' U.S. strategy in key party meeting

By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a key policy-setting meeting of the country's ruling party last week ahead of the new year, state media KCNA reported on Sunday. The meeting of party and government officials decided that North Korea would launch the "toughest" strategy to counteract the United States for its security and national interests,

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Schools are learning how to harness AI to assist students with disabilities

Artificial intelligence holds the promise of helping countless students with a range of visual, speech, language and hearing impairments execute certain tasks.

by: CNET

NFL Network Saturday: How to Watch, Stream All Three Week 17 Games Today

After Netflix and Prime Video kicked off the NFL's penultimate regular season week, the action shifts to the NFL Network starting with the Chargers and Patriots.

by: MSN

PC Gamer's biggest hardware stories of 2024: Elon Musk, the rise and rise of AI, brilliant builds, the humbling of big tech giants, orb pondering aplenty, and much more

Below, we take a look back at the stories that piqued your interest, the headlines you just had to share, and wonder just where the time went over the last 12 months. While I try in vain to avoid confronting the merciless passage of time,

by: MSN

An online debate over foreign workers in tech shows tensions in Trump's political coalition

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House.

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'Will Serve America Very Well...': Indian Diaspora Group Denounces 'Racist' Attacks On Trump's Appointee Sriram Krishnan

Indian diaspora on Saturday issued a media advisory strongly condemning the racist attacks on Sriram Krishnan, who was recently appointed as Senior AI Advisor by President-elect Donald Trump. "Sriram Krishnan,

by: MSN

CSIR CLRI Recruitment 2024-25 for Scientist Posts: Salary Upto Rs.1,34,907, Check Eligibility, Application Process And More

The CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai under the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has released recruitment notification for various Scientist posts in Employment News December (21-27) 2024.

by: MSN

Florida Space Coast missions scheduled for 2025: When to watch the rocket launches

Florida is gearing up for a busy 2025 in space exploration, with a packed schedule of rocket launches planned. From high-profile NASA missions to ambitious commercial projects, the launches are poised to push the boundaries of space exploration and technology.

by: MSN

Manmohan Singh's legacy in Visakhapatnam: Steel plant expansion, HSL revival efforts

VISAKHAPATNAM: Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has left an indelible mark on the City of Destiny. In 2006, the former Prime Minister laid the foundation for the expansion of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) with a massive investment of over Rs 8,

by: MSN

A comprehensive survey of federated transfer learning: Challenges, methods and applications

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention as a novel distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, traditional FL methods face challenges such as data heterogeneity,

by: MSN

Don't like pills? Here's an alternative pain-management treatment to consider for your golf aches and pains

Acknowledging for a moment that medical science has come a long, long way in the research and development of drugs and rehabilitation techniques that treat injuries, pain and soreness, it's also true that it doesn't have all the answers.

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Do blind people 'see' images in their dreams?

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Bad news for Elon Musk as China unveils world's fastest train with top speed of..., its name is...m

The Maglev system, first proposed in 1910 by American engineer Robert Goddard, gained traction in 2013 after Elon Musk wrote a white paper on the subject. China's Maglev train recently reached a record-breaking speeding 387mph (over 622 kmph).

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IIT-Bombay Introduces Painless Shockwave-Based Needle-Free Syringe

Needles have played a crucial role in inducing life-saving vaccines, and drugs into a patient's system, however, when it's the most dreaded part of a child's experience at a doctor's clinic. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT ) Bombay have introduced a painless alternative in the form of a shockwave-based needle-free syringe

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Internationalisation at REVA University: Expanding Horizons through Global Collaborations

In today's interconnected world, globalisation has become a driving force that impacts all sectors of society, especially higher education. The boundaries that once confined knowledge within geographic regions have now dissolved,

by: MSN

NASA's Parker Solar Probe sets new record for sun proximity

Operations teams have confirmed NASA's mission to "touch" the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

by: MSN

What is quantum supremacy?

However, several of these assertions, including Google's, have since been rejected, after researchers developed novel classical algorithms that go toe-to-toe with quantum computer
  • Sun, December 29, 2024 •

by: NextBigFuture

AI, Humanoid Bots and Robotaxi Shocks in 2025

The scaling of the data centers and progress with AI will continue to surprise people and change the world.

by: Libcom

The Marxism of Paul Mattick

Originally published in Issue 10 of Root & Branch, this text by Pierre Souyri talks about Mattick's contribution to Crisis Theory and Critique of Political Economy.

by: Vanguard

How Rita Attah is leading charge in tech-driven business transformations across industries

Rita Attah, a Business Analyst at a leading technology services company, exemplifies how strategic innovation and technology management expertise can transform business operations.

by: Indiatimes

Top health stories of 2024: Groundbreaking progress in medicine

Explore the groundbreaking medical advancements of 2024, including AI diagnostics for lung cancer, revolutionary twice-yearly HIV injections, and the first robotic double lung transplant.

by: Reuters

Liverpool thrash West Ham to go eight points clear

Liverpool thrashed West Ham United 5-0 at the London Stadium to stretch their Premier League lead to eight points on Sunday with Mohamed Salah once again in irrepressible form.

by: Forbes

Building Life With Generative AI

"Maybe generative AI isn't just going to create beautiful cartoons and limericks to entertain ourselves and one another, and access knowledge that is already resident within humanity," he posits. "It may just expand our access to new knowledge and new technologies in important ways."

by: ScienceAlert

2025 Set to Be an Exciting Year For Space Exploration. Here's What to Expect.

BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025. This maneuver will help the spacecraft enter orbit around Mercury by November 2026. BepiColombo aims to study Mercury's composition, atmosphere and surface geology.

by: WFAE

Jimmy Carter's environmental legacy set the foundation for today's climate action

Former President Jimmy Carter's work on energy efficiency and renewable energy were criticized, but it laid the groundwork for the country to address climate change now.

by: MSN

The Kessler Syndrome: The doom scenario worrying scientists

"The Kessler Syndrome is going to come true," warned John L. Crassidis, a professor of innovation and space debris expert at the University at Buffalo.

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NASA's micro-mission Lunar Trailblazer will make macro-measurements of the lunar surface in 2025

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission. Artemis II will utilize NASA's Space Launch System,

by: Forbes

Bitcoin's Endgame: Quantum Computing Comes For BTC

Advancements in quantum computing means that bitcoin will need to be upgraded to stay secure. Should bitcoiners be worried?

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Detecting nuclear fusion energy could reveal advanced alien civilizations

As technological societies advance, their energy demands skyrocket, pushing them up the Kardashev scale. While fossil fuels, wind, and solar power offer solutions, they're limited by efficiency, material availability,

by: MSN

Global Shifts and Shocks: 2024's Most Pivotal Moments

As the clock ticks down to 2025, it's hard not to feel the weight of the year gone by. If you're exhausted by the upheavals of 2024, you're not alone. But before the new year begins, let's reflect on ten pivotal moments that shaped 2024 and promise to influence the future.

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Texas awards $170 million contract to Virginia IT company for security

At the end of a year when Texas employees were among those targeted by hackers, the state has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to a company that works with entities to increase technological efficiency and offer cybersecurity protection.

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Pandemic 2025 could be looming as doctors worried about 11 diseases including Disease X and Covid 2.0

Covid, measles and Disease X continue to worry scientists and doctors, and they've been named among the 11 most dangerous diseases for the coming year.

by: MSN

IPPB Recruitment 2024-25: Apply Online For 68 Manager Posts at ippbonline.com, Check Eligibility, Salary and others

The India Post Payments Bank Limited (IPPB) has released notification for the recruitment of various Managerial posts in the Employment News (Dec 28 2024-Jan 03 2025). Interested and eligible candidates can apply online for these posts on or before January 10,

by: MSN

Will AI Help or Hurt Workers? One 26-Year-Old Found an Unexpected Answer.

His friend and colleague David Autor is more hopeful, believing that AI could do just the opposite. New research from Aidan Toner-Rodgers, an MIT doctoral student, challenges both Acemoglu's pessimism and Autor's optimism.

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Explained: ISRO to test robotic arms, plant growth in space

C60/SPADEX(Space Docking Experiment) mission which will launch on 30th December 2024, is all about high-profile experiments that are aimed at enabling India's human spaceflight ambitions and exploration missions like Chandrayaan-4.

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Best in Space '24: A final flight, signs of Mars life and spaceflight milestones

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German Flying Taxi Project Shuts Down, Leaving 1,000 Jobless

The dream of flying cars has captivated imaginations for decades. From science fiction movies to futuristic urban planning, the concept of airborne transportation has always promised to redefine how people move through the world.

by: MSN

ISRO's year-end SpaDeX mission to demonstrate autonomous docking technology

ISRO is launching the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) to demonstrate autonomous docking technology. This mission aims to advance India's space capabilities and position in the global space sector.

by: MSN

Mike Flanagan's The Dark Tower: The Great Old Ones Should Have a Presence

Mike Flanagan's Dark Tower adaption needs to include the history of this fantasy world, including the Great Old Ones.

by: MSN

By royal appointment: New English entries in 2024 Spanish dictionary

Spoiler, granularity and wasabi are among the new foreign terms chosen by Spanish academics to join the new words in the Diccionario de la Lengua Española. View on euronews

by: MSN

Korea's top R&D feats in 2024: AI chips, quantum technologies

Progress in artificial intelligence (AI) chips and quantum technologies has been recognized as the top achievements in Korea's research and development (R&D) efforts for 2024, raising hopes that these advancements could serve as a cornerstone for the nation's technological breakthroughs that can reshape the national economy and society.
  • Mon, December 30, 2024 •

by: i

From pensions to trains - how AI is taking over public services

Algorithmic tools are being deployed to help citizens interact with the state and to try and speed up processes within government

by: MSN

Kalamazoo prepares for New Year's Fest, Countdown to Noon

A couple of New Year's celebrations in Kalamazoo will include thousands of balloons, fireworks and more. A long-standing Kalamazoo tradition returns for its 39th year to ring in 2025. New Year's Fest performance arts festival is set to bring family fun to downtown Kalamazoo,

by: MSN

I signed up for YouTube Premium, and it was the best tech decision I've made all year

YouTube Premium might seem like a pricey option, but if you watch YouTube regularly, it's a must-have subscription.

What is quantum supremacy?

However, several of these assertions, including Google's, have since been rejected, after researchers developed novel classical algorithms that go toe-to-toe with quantum computer

Quantum supremacy refers to the point at which quantum computers can perform tasks that classical computers practically cannot, due to the immense computational power and different operational principles of quantum mechanics. This concept was thrust into the spotlight when Google claimed in 2019 to have achieved quantum supremacy with its 53-qubit Sycamore processor, which reportedly solved a specific problem in 200 seconds that would take the world's most powerful supercomputer approximately 10,000 years to complete. However, this claim has sparked debate within the scientific community about what constitutes true quantum supremacy, with critics arguing over the practical utility of the task performed and the scalability of quantum systems. Quantum computers leverage quantum bits or qubits, which can exist in multiple states simultaneously (superposition) and can be entangled, allowing them to process vast amounts of information in parallel. Despite the excitement, significant challenges remain, including error rates, qubit coherence times, and the need for extremely low temperatures to maintain quantum states, all of which must be overcome to realize the full potential of quantum computing in real-world applications.

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