• Mon, January 27, 2025

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Kalamazoo Public Schools teacher wins statewide excellence award, cash prize

A Kalamazoo teacher was awarded ten thousand dollars from the state on Monday for excellence in mathematics teaching, according to the MDE.

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Using Ollama to Install Deepseek 14B on a Laptop

Langchain used ollama to install Deepseek 14B on a laptop. They used for a local deep researching model. $ ollama pull deepseek-r1:14b $ export TAVILY_API_KEY= $ uvx -refresh -from "langgraph-cli [inmem]" -with-editable . -python 3.11 langgraph dev

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Infosys co-founder and former CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan among 18 booked under SC/ST Act in Karnataka

Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, along with 17 others, has been implicated under the SC/ST Atrocities Act in Karnataka following a complaint by Durgappa, a former IISc faculty member. Durgappa alleges wrongful dismissal and caste-based abuse.

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Who Is Kris Gopalakrishnan? The Infosys Co-Founder Booked Under SC/ST Atrocities Act

Senapathy Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder of Infosys, has been booked under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, along with former Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Director Balaram and 16 others,

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India's space agency completes 1st Gaganyaan astronaut crew capsule

The Indian Space Research Organization has completed its first Gaganyaan astronaut crew capsule, marking another milestone in the country's pursuit to develop homegrown technology for independent human spaceflight capabilities.

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Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, former IISc Director Balaram booked under SC/ST Atrocities Act

Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan and former IISc Director Balaram face charges under the SC/ST Atrocities Act, along with 16 others. The case, filed at Bengaluru's Sadashiva Nagar police station,

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Study abroad in the Germany: 10 Universities with best academic reputation according to QS rankings

Germany is a sought-after study abroad destination offering affordable education and prestigious universities. The QS World University Rankings assist students in selecting top institutions such as LMU Munich,

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Martian meteorite to go on display in Japan Pavilion at 2025 expo in Osaka

The Japan Pavilion for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka was unveiled to the media on Jan. 26, featuring a meteorite from Mars and cutting-e･･･

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Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC

The tariffs would ensnare cutting-edge smartphone and PC-related chips for Apple, AMD and Nvidia if enacted. But Trump is betting his plan will bring more chip production to the US.

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Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan booked under SC/ST Atrocities Act

A man's alleged he was falsely implicated in a honey trap case, subsequently dismissed from service at IISc, where Kris serves as a member of Board of Trustees.

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Lightspeed leads Whizzo's $4.2 million seed fundraise

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Laser surface texturing can boost lightweight vehicle design and lower emissions

A team of researchers from Seoul National University of Science and Technology has uncovered a promising method to enhance the strength and durability of joints in lightweight vehicle design. By exploring laser surface texturing (LST) techniques on galvannealed advanced high-strength steel (AHSS),

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AI and nano-3D printing produce breakthrough high-performance material

Nanoarchitected materials represent a transformative leap in material science, combining strength, lightweight properties, and customizability like never before. These materials have achieved unparalleled specific strength,

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UK government's AI plan gives a glimpse of how it plans to regulate the technology

The UK government recently published its plan for using AI to boost growth and deliver services more efficiently. It also suggests a fundamental shift in how the UK aims to position itself as a global leader in AI innovation.

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Floating solar can increase greenhouse gas emissions on small ponds, study finds

While floating solar—the emerging practice of putting solar panels on bodies of water—is promising in its efficiency and its potential to spare agricultural and conservation lands, a new experiment finds environmental trade-offs.

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Global sea level very likely to rise between 0.5 and 1.9 meters by 2100 under a high-emissions scenario

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from NTU Singapore, and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, has projected that if the rate of global CO2 emissions continues to increase and reaches a high emission scenario,

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Revolutionary nano-chip quickly detects earliest sign of heart attack

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  • Tue, January 28, 2025

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Trump calls for tariffs on computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals from Taiwan

Donald Trump called for tariffs on foreign computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals from places like Taiwan in the near future.

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This Chinese MIT Physicist Uses AI To Find New Drugs. Next Up: Solar Panels And EV Batteries

Wen Shuhao helped speed up the development of Pfizer's Covid oral drug, Paxlovid. Now the chairman of Xtalpi wants to help make better solar panels and EV batteries.

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Lawyers urged to strictly adhere to ethics of the legal profession

Lawyers have been reminded of the need to strictly uphold the ethics of the legal profession to help prevent them from disciplinary actions and sanctions.

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DeepSeek's new AI chatbot and ChatGPT answer sensitive questions about China differently

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek 's new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test the rival of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

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It's not sci-fi: Americans support asteroid defense spending

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Shenzhou-19 astronauts send Spring Festival greetings from space station

Shenzhou-19 astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong, and Wang Haoze sent their Spring Festival greetings from China's Tiangong space station in a video released by the China Manned Space Agency on New Year's Eve.

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Non-profit empowers Memphis youth through education and exposure

Every Tuesday as part of our Greater Memphis on a Mission series, we highlight organizations making Memphis better. This week, we caught up with a group that believes in

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Explained: Infosys Co Founder Kris Gopalakrishnan And The Case Against Him

Infosys co-founder Senapathy Kris Gopalakrishnan, former IISc Director Balaram and 16 others were named in a case under the Prevention of SC/ST Atrocities Act.

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Here's all the executive orders Trump signed during his first week

President Donald Trump signed a record number of executive orders during his first week back at the White House.

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Mint Explainer: DeepSeek's lean AI and India's AI future

Chinese tech firm DeepSeek's cost-effective AI model not only raises hopes for accelerating India's AI future but also for democratising AI globally.

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What Are the Financial Trades Around the DeepSeek AI Earthquake?

Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.

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Bemidji State to launch reimagined computer science program in fall 2025

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Mint Explainer: How DeepSeek's not-so-hungry AI model can shape India's AI future

Chinese tech firm DeepSeek's cost-effective AI model not only raises hopes for accelerating India's AI future but also for democratising AI globally.

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New DeepSeek Janus Pro 7B Beats OpenAI Dall-E 3 on Image Generation

DeepSeek just dropped a new open-source multmodal AI model, Janus-Pro-7B. It is MIT opensource license. It's multimodal (can generate images) and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks. This comes on top of all the R1 hype.

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Satellite images reveal huge fusion research facility in China

China is reportedly constructing a large fusion research facility in the southwestern city of Mianyang, which could contribute to nuclear weapons development and research into energy production capabilities,

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Here's Why Investors Should Retain CACI Stock in Their Portfolio

CACI International CACI shares have plunged 25.3% in the past three months, underperforming the Zacks Computer and Technology sector and the S&P 500 index's return of 6% and 5.4%, respectively. Shares of CACI have also underperformed the Zacks Computer - Services industry's decline of 7.

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Frazer School student among 40 finalists in national science and math competition

Frazer School student Sophia Rong's passion for science began in seventh grade at Lincoln Middle School when she was assigned a research project on the evolution of an object. "Most of my classmates chose technical subjects like computers and cars — I chose toilet paper,

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Chandigarh University Lucknow gets UGC nod; To kick start admissions in 43 AI Augmented programs for 2025 session

Days after the State Assembly passed the Uttar Pradesh Private Universities (Fifth Amendment) Act, 2024 for the establishment of Chandigarh University Lucknow as a State (Private) University, Chandigarh University Lucknow has now received recognition from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to start academic courses from 2025-26 academic year.

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Trump calls China's DeepSeek AI app a 'wake-up call' after tech stocks slide

Silicon Valley and Washington leaders said the app shows China can challenge the U.S. The Nasdaq lost 3 percent and chipmaker Nvidia shed $589 billion in market capitalization.

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The AI advantage in discovering new medicines

With continued investment and growing buzz from the industry, the AI hype is expected to extend through 2025 and beyond.

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Be careful with DeepSeek, Australia says - so is it safe to use?

Australia's science minister, Ed Husic, has become the first member of a Western government to raise privacy concerns about DeepSeek, the Chinese chatbot causing turmoil on the markets and in the tech industry.

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China's DeepSeek AI app sends U.S. tech stocks reeling

Silicon Valley and Washington leaders said the app shows China can challenge the U.S. The Nasdaq lost 3 percent and chipmaker Nvidia shed $589 billion in market capitalization.

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Electric vehicles now as reliable and durable as petrol and diesel cars, study finds

Researchers analyzed nearly 300 million UK vehicle inspection records from 2005 to 2022, finding that the reliability of electric cars has improved rapidly.

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India raising the bar on drug formulation challenges

This article is authored by Saransh Chaudhary, president, Global Critical Care, Venus Remedies Ltd and CEO, Venus Medicine Research Centre.

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Gujarat: CM Bhupendra Patel launches AI Center of Excellence in GiftCity

Launching the Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence at GiftCity here on Monday, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said the AI center will emerge as an important think tank in the regionThe center has become operational as a result of the MoU signed in June-2024 between the state government's Department of Science and Technology and Microsoft to develop AI in Gift City,

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Meet Aravind Srinivas: From Chennai to Silicon Valley, the tech visionary eyeing TikTok

Aravind Srinivas, co-founder of Perplexity AI, is in merger talks with ByteDance to form a new U.S.-based company for TikTok's operations. This move aims to address national security concerns in the U.

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Australia says be 'very careful' over DeepSeek and privacy

Australia's science minister has raised privacy concerns over China's new AI chatbot, DeepSeek, urging caution due to differing approaches to user data management. The chatbot, developed by a China-based startup,

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Kris Gopalakrishnan, Infosys co-founder, booked in SC/ST Atrocities Act | What's the case?

A man's alleged he was falsely implicated in a honey trap case, subsequently dismissed from service at IISc, where Kris serves as a member of Board of Trustees.

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Air pollution inequities linked to industrial swine facilities are detectable from space

A study led by researchers from the University of Virginia has used satellite measurements to show the long-term persistence of air pollution inequalities tied to industrialized swine facilities in Eastern North Carolina.

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Explainer-What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector?

Chinese startup DeepSeek's launch of its latest AI models, which it says are on a par or better than industry-leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, is threatening to upset the technology world order.

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Fast and Precise Protein Labeling in Intact Tissues with MIT Technology

A new technology developed at MIT enables scientists to label proteins across millions of individual cells in fully intact 3D tissues with unprecedented speed, uniformity, and versatility.

Kalamazoo Public Schools teacher wins statewide excellence award, cash prize

A Kalamazoo teacher was awarded ten thousand dollars from the state on Monday for excellence in mathematics teaching, according to the MDE.

Shannon Houtrouw, a teacher at the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center, has been honored with the 2023-24 Michigan Department of Education's Teacher of the Year award. This prestigious recognition comes with a $5,000 cash prize, sponsored by the Michigan Education Excellence Foundation. Houtrouw, who has been teaching for 23 years, was celebrated for her innovative teaching methods and her ability to inspire students in STEM fields. Her approach includes engaging students with real-world applications of science and math, fostering a collaborative learning environment, and encouraging students to explore and question. The award not only acknowledges her contributions to education but also aims to highlight and promote excellence in teaching across Michigan.

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