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Abdullah Shafique in action© AFP Pakistan cricket team batter Abdullah Shafique returned to form with a brilliant century on Day 1 of the first Test match against England in Multan on Monday. Shafique looked in tremendous touch as he slammed 102 off 184 deliveries before getting dismissed by Gus Atkinson. It was a significant knock for the Pakistan cricketer who scored three ducks in the last three matches. Even Pakistan skipper Shan Masood was asked about Shafique’s form but he defended his teammate with a reference to India batter Virat Kohli. Masood pointed out that after 19 Tests, Shafique’s…

SANTA FE, N.M. — The weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust” pleaded guilty Monday to a separate criminal charge of carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment.Movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed agreed to change her plea to guilty on the charge in exchange for a reduced sentence of 18 months supervised probation. Judge T. Glenn Ellington approved the agreement that allows Gutierrez-Reed to begin probation while serving out an 18-month prison term at a New Mexico state penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of…

New Delhi: The Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda in his inaugural address to the 77th session of WHO Southeast Asia Region (SEARO) stated that India’s health system embraces a ‘whole of government’ and ‘whole of society’ approach to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), with emphasis on strengthening primary healthcare and essential services. The opening session of the Regional Committee meeting included election of office bearers, establishment of a ‘Drafting Group for Resolutions and Decisions’, adoption of ‘special procedures’ to regulate the conduct of the session and adoption of the provisional agenda. Dignitaries present at the event included Dr Razia…

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. NEW RESEARCH ProbTS: Benchmarking Point and Distributional Forecasting across Diverse Prediction Horizons Time-series forecasting is a technique used to predict future values based on previously observed data points over time. It has extensive applications for traffic flow, renewable energy, retail, finance, and climate, among other uses. For these applications, it is crucial to provide forecasts across different prediction horizons, addressing both short- and long-term planning needs. Many decision-making processes also require not only…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge from Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania to a Biden administration executive order that is intended to boost voter registration.The justices did not comment in rejecting an appeal from the Republicans, who claimed the order is an unconstitutional attempt to interfere in the November election. Lower courts had dismissed the lawsuit. Nine Republican secretaries of state and 11 members of Congress had asked the court to step in. In May, the justices declined to take up and decide the case on an expedited basis.The justices separately rejected two appeals stemming…

Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI Decoded series, which demystifies AI by making the technology more accessible, and showcases new hardware, software, tools and accelerations for RTX workstation and PC users. Across industries, AI is driving innovation and enabling efficiencies — but to unlock its full potential, the technology must be trained on vast amounts of high-quality data. Data scientists play a key role in preparing this data, especially in domain-specific fields where specialized, often proprietary data is essential to enhancing AI capabilities. To help data scientists with increasing workload demands, NVIDIA announced that RAPIDS cuDF, a…

The counting of votes for the much-anticipated 2024 Haryana Assembly elections is set to take place on October 8, 2024. This election is significant as it follows the recent Lok Sabha elections, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress emerged as key players in the state’s political landscape. According to official reports, the counting process will commence at 8 am, with election officials and party representatives expected to arrive at the counting centres by 5 am. Polling officials will undergo briefings and take their designated positions at the counting tables by 6 am to ensure a smooth and transparent…

Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali lauded young Indian pace sensation Mayank Yadav on his international debut and expressed hope that he travels to Australia for the five-Test match Border-Gavaskar Series starting from November 22 in Perth. The new-look India boosted by debuts of tearaway pacer Mayank Yadav and all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy secured a dominant seven-wicket win over Bangladesh in the first of the three T20Is at Gwalior on Sunday, with Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy and Hardik Pandya delivering best performances. Mayank first made waves during this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL), taking seven wickets in four games…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis refused to take a call with Vice President Kamala Harris in the last several days on hurricane response, as the state recovers from Hurricane Helene and stares down Hurricane Milton, a source close to the governor told ABC News.The DeSantis team claim the vice president’s outreach is politically motivated, according to the source.DeSantis staffers also said the governor has not spoken to President Joe Biden in the last few days.DeSantis later said he was unaware that the vice president had reached out.”No, I didn’t know she called me. I saw [the report], but I was not…

Imagine having to straighten up a messy kitchen, starting with a counter littered with sauce packets. If your goal is to wipe the counter clean, you might sweep up the packets as a group. If, however, you wanted to first pick out the mustard packets before throwing the rest away, you would sort more discriminately, by sauce type. And if, among the mustards, you had a hankering for Grey Poupon, finding this specific brand would entail a more careful search.MIT engineers have developed a method that enables robots to make similarly intuitive, task-relevant decisions.The team’s new approach, named Clio, enables…