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Unarguably one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Rafael Nadal confirmed his retirement at the end of the Davis Cup season. The Spaniard, who made his debut in professional tennis at the age of 15 years and 10 months at the 2002 Mallorca Open, went on to smash some of the biggest records in the game. 22 Grand Slam titles later, Nadal announced his decision to say goodbye to the game that transformed him into a sporting great. While Nadal went on to win every single Grand Slam title, it was the French Open that saw…

STOCKHOLM — After three days of Nobel prizes honoring work in the sciences, the literature award is being announced Thursday by the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy.The winner will follow Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, who was honored last year for writing in Nynorsk, one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, that prize organizers said gives “voice to the unsayable.”The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated, with just 17 women among its 119 laureates. The last…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Olympic Committee has set a Jan. 30 date for the key presidential election meeting where seven candidates will meet with voters ahead of their ballot in March.The closed-doors meeting at IOC headquarters is the only set-piece campaign event in perhaps the most discreet and secretive election in world sports. IOC rules prohibit candidates from publishing videos, organizing public meetings or taking part in public debates.“This in-camera meeting will give the IOC members the opportunity to hear from the seven candidates about their programs,” the Olympic body said in a statement on Thursday.The candidates to replace…

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI-powered assistant that you can configure to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on your enterprise data. Amazon Q Business offers over 40 built-in connectors to popular enterprise applications and document repositories, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Salesforce, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Gmail, Slack, Atlassian, and Zendesk and can help you create your generative AI solution with minimal configuration. Nearly 100 thousand organizations use Slack to bring the right people together to securely collaborate with each other. A Slack workspace captures invaluable organizational knowledge in the…

With its mighty strength and its dangerous path, Hurricane Milton powered into a very rare threat flirting with experts’ worst fears.Warm water fueled amazingly rapid intensification that took Milton from a minimal hurricane to a massive Category 5 in less than 10 hours. It weakened, but quickly bounced back, and when its winds briefly reached 180 mph, its barometric pressure, a key measurement for a storm’s overall strength, was among the lowest recorded in the Gulf of Mexico this late in the year. At its most fierce, Milton almost maxed out its potential intensity given the weather factors surrounding it.“Everything…

Continuing their rampant run against Pakistan, England scripted a new world record on Day 4 of the Multan Test. The country’s top-scoring Test batter Joe Root orchestrated a 454-run partnership with Harry Brook on Thursday, earning the cricket world a never-seen-before record. It was the first time in Test cricket history, since the start of the format in 1877, that two batters put 450 runs on the board as a pair for the 4th wicket. The previous best was 449 by Adam Voges and Saun Marsh of Australia. They had accumulated the score against West Indies in Hobart…

4 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 2:22 PM IST Shares of Arvind SmartSpaces jumped up to 3 per cent at Rs 865 per share on the BSE in Thursday’s intraday trade. Arvind SmartSpaces share price gained after the company announced bookings of over Rs. 500 crore at Arvind Aqua City, its largest township development to date, launched towards the end of September. “Including the selective pilot phase of Rs. 93 crore in Q1, Arvind Aqua City has achieved total bookings of Rs. 600 crore. The township project is India’s largest private man-made lake spanning…

Rudy Giuliani’s son is trying to stop two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against his father from taking the elder Giuliani’s New York Yankees World Series rings, saying in new court filings that he is actually the rightful owner because they were gifted to him years ago.Andrew Giuliani, who was unsuccessful in a 2022 Republican bid for New York governor, said in papers filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan that his father gave him four World Series rings as a gift in 2018. He added that he and his father agreed that the elder…

As artificial intelligence models become increasingly prevalent and are integrated into diverse sectors like health care, finance, education, transportation, and entertainment, understanding how they work under the hood is critical. Interpreting the mechanisms underlying AI models enables us to audit them for safety and biases, with the potential to deepen our understanding of the science behind intelligence itself.Imagine if we could directly investigate the human brain by manipulating each of its individual neurons to examine their roles in perceiving a particular object. While such an experiment would be prohibitively invasive in the human brain, it is more feasible in another…

WASHINGTON — U.S. inflation last month likely reached its lowest point since February 2021, clearing the way for another Federal Reserve rate cut and adding to the stream of encouraging economic data that has emerged in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. The consumer price index is expected to have risen just 2.3% in September from 12 months earlier, down from the 2.5% year-over-year increase in August, according to economists surveyed by FactSet, a data provider. A reading that low, likely reflecting lower gas prices and only a slight rise in food costs, would barely exceed the Fed’s 2%…