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It's muggy and rainy outside an unassuming, multi-building government building in Lakewood. Inside, a group of about two dozen people are preparing to enter another world.They don hats and gloves and wander into a giant freezer, where the shelves are packed with long, shiny, cylindrical tubes. This is the National Science Foundation's ice core facility, but these people are not climate scientists, researchers or government officials. They are doctors, nurses and other health care workers.”We have ice exhibits that people can look at, including ice from Greenland,” said Richard Nunn, the museum's associate curator. “The temperature in this room is…
Google has officially been deemed a monopoly, with a federal judge accusing the tech giant of illegally using its market power to harm rival search engines on Aug. 5. It's the first time a major internet platform has lost an antitrust case in more than two decades, raising questions about the business practices of some of Silicon Valley's most powerful companies.Many experts speculate that this landmark ruling will make judges more receptive to antitrust action in other ongoing cases against big tech platforms, especially with regard to the burgeoning AI industry. Currently, the AI ecosystem is dominated by many of…
A video of a Chinese father dressed as a teddy bear delivering flowers to his daughter at work as a sign of reconciliation after a family dispute has gone viral on mainland social media.According to Jiaotong Television, when he paid a surprise visit to her workplace in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province, in mid-August, both her visit and his attire came as a complete surprise.His goal was to make amends with his daughter after an argument over setting up a blind date for her.A cartoon character's father gives his runaway daughter a loving hug. Photo: BaiduShe left her parents' home…
Dr. Michael R. Kramer MACON — Mercer University School of Medicine recently appointed Dr. Michael R. Kramer as director of the Center for Rural Health and Health Disparities, one of the first National Institutes of Health Centers of Excellence focused on rural health. The Center for Rural Health and Health Disparities is housed within the College of Medicine and is committed to implementing community-driven solutions to health disparities issues in rural Georgia. The Center manages a $6 million+ federal portfolio focused on reducing maternal and infant mortality, preventing opioid overdoses, and self-management of chronic diseases. “We are pleased that Dr.…
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. After a call for police assistance with a mentally ill man at a Tucson gas station turned deadly, resulting in the deaths of the responding sheriff’s deputy, the man, and a cab driver who stopped to assist, local leaders began work in 2005 on a better way to respond to people in crisis. It was a multiyear endeavor. Local voters passed a $15 million bond to fund the construction of Tucson’s new 24/7 crisis center where individuals could…
Big tech companies like Google, Apple, and Discord are making it easy for people to sign up for harmful “undressing” websites that use AI to remove clothing from real photos, making victims appear “naked” without their consent. There are more than a dozen such deepfake websites, which have been using the tech companies' login buttons for months.WIRED's analysis found 16 of the biggest so-called strip-down and nudity sites to be using the sign-in infrastructure of Google, Apple, Discord, Twitter, Patreon and Line. The approach allows people to easily create accounts on deepfake sites, lending them a superficial sense of credibility,…
EU Midmarket Update: Nvidia beats expectations but fails to impress investors with high expectations; Europe's “sick man” takes dovish stance on ECB; German inflation in focus. Notes/Observations – German state CPIs suggest national figures will fall below ECB target: Lower-than-expected CPI figures for the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg raised expectations of an ECB interest rate cut from September onwards, pushing the DAX to a new record high and the euro back below 1.11 from recent highs. – Investors are analyzing Nvidia's earnings: Despite sales and profits beating expectations and strong guidance also being provided, the market…
Dreams can come true if you pursue them with unwavering perseverance and tenacity. There are countless success stories of people who have risen from humble beginnings, but recently, a video of a former Swiggy delivery girl turned fashion model has been gaining attention on social media. Mumbai-based Sahil Singh shared an inspiring transformation video on Instagram detailing his journey from food delivery man to walking the runway. In the viral video, Singh revealed that he worked as a Swiggy delivery man for two years, worked as a chef at Burger King for a year, and worked at Mango Tart for…
Reliance Industries, India's largest company by market capitalization, isn't shying away from the AI craze that's sweeping the tech world. At the company's 47th annual general meeting on Thursday, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani and other executives mentioned AI about 100 times over a two-hour period, detailing plans to integrate the technology across Reliance's vast business empire across telecommunications, retail and energy. Reliance announced plans to build large AI-enabled data centers in Jamnagar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, that would run on the company's green energy resources. Ambani claimed these facilities could lower the cost of AI inference in…
A new report says investment in content for the Indian and East Asian theatrical film, TV and streaming markets is set to reach $15.5 billion in 2023. However, spending growth will slow to just 4%, a significant slowdown compared to the 2021-22 investment peak due to COVID. Media Partners Asia's (MPA) 2024 Asia Video Content Dynamics report, which covers India, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, describes the slowdown as a “normalization of budgets and rationalization of local content investments towards streaming VOD.” India was the fastest growing market with a strong 12% increase, mainly driven by…