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A bigger Big Ten means more games for MLive's college football writers to predict, and with a schedule as full as opening week is, there will be 18 matchups before the 2024 season kicks off. Below, we'll predict every game against the spread.Many of these games will be won by big margins — 11 of them have a margin of victory of at least 20 points — but opening weekend will feature a tight contest in Las Vegas between USC and LSU. USC is one of four new schools in the Big Ten, and all of them will play Thursday…

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Subscribe now to get complete access to real-time updates, breaking news, analysis, pricing, and data visualizations. Subscribe now Emerging trends in Asia's oil consumption centers, strengthening energy security and decarbonization strategies pursued by Asian countries will be some of the themes that S&P Global Commodity Insights will focus on at the Asia-Pacific Petroleum Conference (APPEC 2024), scheduled to be held in Singapore from September 9-12. In a wide-ranging discussion with Asia Energy Editor Sambit Mohanty, three senior market experts – Dave Urnberger, Head of Market Reporting and Trading Solutions, Calvin Li, Head of Asia Content, and Kang…

Pope Francis is old (he turns 88 in December) and frail, but he is pressing ahead with the most ambitious international itinerary of his 11-year reign, visiting Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore from September 2-13. What is the Pope's motivation for completing the trip, which was originally planned for 2020 but canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic? First, he is a man of his word. He has declared that he will visit these countries, and for Catholics in particular, papal pilgrimages invigorate the faithful and strengthen the Church's presence there. John Paul II visited all of Francis's…

Insider Brief: NSF announced $5 million in funding for five pilot projects to develop the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL). The NQVL will be a national resource designed to advance quantum technologies and support the broader quantum ecosystem through workforce development and accessible technology. The pilot projects will lay the foundation for the NQVL, and teams will have the opportunity to seek further funding through the Quantum Science and Technology Demonstration (QSTD): II. Design and Implementation proposal. Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced funding of $1 million each to five recipients to advance projects aligned with…

DAEGU, South Korea, August 29, 2024 — Advances in wearable, mobile and Internet of Things technologies are driving demand for high-resolution displays. Efficient ultra-high-resolution displays can enhance the immersive experience of AR and VR applications and make using AR, VR and wearable technology more comfortable. Researchers from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), and Institute of Basic Science (IBS) have developed a technique to create ultra-high definition screens for emerging display technologies. Using the technique, called dual-layer dry transfer printing, the researchers created highly efficient LEDs with quantum dots (QLEDs).…

Thailand plans to acquire the latest Saab Gripen E/F fighter jets to improve its air defense capabilities and step up military modernization in the aftermath of the Myanmar civil war and the intensifying competition between the U.S. and China for influence in Southeast Asia.This month, The War Zone reported that the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has announced its intention to acquire Sweden's state-of-the-art Saab Gripen E/F fighter jets, which will mark a significant upgrade from its current fleet of Gripen C/D fighters.After a 10-month evaluation, the RTAF now plans to procure 12 to 14 of the new fighter jets,…

In the 1870s, only a small percentage of the U.S. population worked in offices, and most of them were men. Fifty years later, one-third of the workforce were office workers, half of whom were women. The transformed workplace was characterized by open-plan designs and rapidly evolving technology. But even in the 1930s, it remained overwhelmingly white.A changed worldThe offices of Detroit-based manufacturing company Leland & Faulconer contain just a manager, an engineer, an accountant, and perhaps a male errand boy or apprentice. The layout of the room (pictured above), with its armchairs and handcrafted wooden desks crammed with drawers and…

Cybersecurity is experiencing an AI revolution. Every day new products and features are announced that leverage LLM to make security operations faster, more accurate and more efficient. The most excited experts are already talking about fully autonomous SOCs and the job of a security analyst is destined to disappear. But are we really so close to AI taking over threat detection and response capabilities? The arrival of the AI ​​Singularity is still a possibility, so we can’t say we’ll never have fully autonomous, AI-powered SOCs, but to claim that the current wave of AI capabilities will lead to that is…

The World Food Programme said on Wednesday that Israeli forces had opened fire on one of the UN agency's teams as they headed to an Israeli checkpoint in the Palestinian territories in a highly marked vehicle, forcing the programme to suspend the movement of its staff in the Gaza Strip.The WFP team was returning from a mission in two armoured vehicles “after escorting a convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian supplies towards central Gaza”, the agency said in a statement.”The vehicle was hit directly by gunfire while traveling towards an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) checkpoint, despite being clearly marked and having…