Author: admin

Updated Women’s T20 World Cup Points Table: The Indian women’s cricket team finally showed great intent as they thrashed Sri Lanka by massive 82 runs in their third match of the 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup. After losing to New Zealand in the first match, things had become tricky for the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side. But with back-to-back wins against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the side’s semi-final chances have received a boost. Before the match against Sri Lanka, India were fourth in Group A with two points from two matches and a run-rate of -1.217. (Women’s T20 World Cup…

AI can help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges — whether climate change, cancer or national security — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm emphasized today during her remarks at the AI for Science, Energy and Security session at the NVIDIA AI Summit, in Washington, D.C. Granholm went on to highlight the pivotal role AI is playing in tackling major national challenges, from energy innovation to bolstering national security. “We need to use AI for both offense and defense — offense to solve these big problems and defense to make sure the bad guys are not using AI for…

While it’s still hours away from making landfall and has yet to cause any damage, Hurricane Milton is already rewriting the record books, officials said.”I think for the west-central coast of Florida, this has the potential to be the most impactful hurricane we’ve seen in living memory, given the scope of the impacts from the storm surge,” Mike Brennan, director of the National Hurricane Center, told ABC News.Milton is forecast to make landfall between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET Wednesday near Sarasota as a Category 3 hurricane with wind gusts of over 100 mph. On Wednesday afternoon, Milton was…

Ratan Tata (Photo posted on Instagram by @ratantata)4 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 1:05 AM IST Fate placed Ratan Tata in a situation where few expected him to succeed. However, not only did he succeed, but he also transformed the sprawling Tata Group from an India-focused entity into one of the world’s most significant names, from an old-world business into a modern conglomerate, where its software outfit became the crown jewel, and from a group that had parted with Air India into one that brought the airline back into its fold. Equally important, Tata changed…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A severe solar storm is headed to Earth that could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes, space weather forecasters said Wednesday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a severe geomagnetic storm watch for Thursday into Friday after an outburst from the sun was detected earlier this week. Such a storm could temporarily disrupt power and radio signals.NOAA has notified operators of power plants and orbiting spacecraft to take precautions. It also alerted the Federal Emergency Management Agency about possible power disruptions, as the organization copes with the devastating…

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is returning to New York in the race’s final stretch, scheduling a rally at the city’s iconic Madison Square Garden.Trump is planning his event for Oct. 27 to kick off the final week of campaigning, according to a campaign official familiar with the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement.It will be Trump’s second rally in the city he grew up in following a May stop in the South Bronx that drew a large and diverse crowd. He held another on Long Island last month.“We…

Odisha FC crashed out of the AFC Women’s Champions League.© @OdishaFCW Odisha FC suffered a 1-3 defeat to hosts Ho Chi Minh City FC to record a second loss on the trot and crash out of the AFC Women’s Champions League at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Wednesday. The Kalinga Warriors were on the back foot right from the start, as the hosts raced to an early lead within the first minute when Nguyen Thi Kim Yenfrom struck from a corner. The home side maintained pressure, and it bore fruit in the 42nd minute when Odisha failed…

With major airports already shutting down, gas stations running low on fuel, a spate of tornado warnings and bridges on the Florida Peninsula closing, authorities are warning residents in the path of Hurricane Milton that it may be too late to evacuate.”This is it, folks,” Kathy Perkins, Pinellas County’s emergency management director, said Wednesday morning. “I’m not saying this to scare you — I want you to be prepared.”As of noon Wednesday, Milton was a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph. The monster storm was located about 160 miles west-by-southwest of Fort Myers and about 190…

As inflation slowly moderates, US consumers continue to feel the pinch of higher food costs. Value retailers are seeing more foot traffic as shoppers shift to store brands and cut back on non-food expenses. According to Circana, formerly IRI and The NPD Group, consumers are looking for ways to make their budgets stretch, from canceling subscriptions to favoring at-home meals over dining out.The Value of At-Home MealsDuring the 12 months leading up to March 2023, foodservice costs were 4.3 times higher than at-home meals. With the average retail meal costing just $1.78 compared to $7.48 at a restaurant, it’s no…

Identifying one faulty turbine in a wind farm, which can involve looking at hundreds of signals and millions of data points, is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.Engineers often streamline this complex problem using deep-learning models that can detect anomalies in measurements taken repeatedly over time by each turbine, known as time-series data.But with hundreds of wind turbines recording dozens of signals each hour, training a deep-learning model to analyze time-series data is costly and cumbersome. This is compounded by the fact that the model may need to be retrained after deployment, and wind farm operators may lack…