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By Prathiba Raju and Abhijeet Singh New Delhi: After enduring the tribulations of the pandemic and the subsequent aftershocks driven by several unfavorable environmental changes, the government has recognised the urgent need for a concrete policy to support its biotech industry. This is seen as a key solution to invigorate the economy while addressing challenges such as climate change. The introduction of the BioE3 policy, which stands for Biotechnology for Economy, Environment, and Employment, is a significant step in this direction.Simplifying this critical and crucial policy decision for the Industry Dr Rajesh S Gokhale, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of…

File photo of Harmanpreet Kaur© Twitter Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on Tuesday climbed four spots to be joint 12th in the ICC Women’s T20 batting rankings. Off-spinner Shreyanka Patil surged nine places to be 29th in the bowlers’ rankings. Harmanpreet now shares the 12th position with Sri Lanka’s Harshitha Samarawickrama, boasting 610 rating points. In contrast, Smriti Mandhana slipped one place to fifth, and Jemimah Rodrigues dropped two spots to 20th. Veteran offspinner Deepti Sharma fell two places to fourth, while seamer Renuka Singh Thakur maintained her position at fifth. The rankings have been released in the midst…

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. What the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship just launched has a bit more horsepower.“Maybe it’s not a Ferrari yet, but we have a car,” says Bill Aulet, the center’s managing director. The vehicle: the MIT Entrepreneurship JetPack, a generative artificial intelligence tool trained on Aulet’s 24-step Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework to input prompts into large language models.Introduce a startup idea to the Eship JetPack, “and it’s like having five or 10 or 12 MIT undergraduates who instantaneously run out and do all the research you want based on the question you asked,…

GraphRAG uses large language models (LLMs) to create a comprehensive knowledge graph that details entities and their relationships from any collection of text documents. This graph enables GraphRAG to leverage the semantic structure of the data and generate responses to complex queries that require a broad understanding of the entire text. In previous blog posts, we introduced GraphRAG and demonstrated how it could be applied to news articles. In this blog post, we show that it can also be tuned to any domain to enhance the quality of the results. The knowledge graph creation process is called indexing. An LLM, guided…

Companies in the US spend $15bn annually on talent acquisition. The most important metric in recruitment advertising is the conversion from the paid click on the job platform to the application the employer receives. Industry-wide, apply conversion is just 5%. Redirection of the candidate from the job platform to the company site is the biggest cause of abandonment; this step has a 70% bounce rate. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz speaks with Mikhil Raja, Cofounder and CEO of SonicJobs, about how they have built AI Agents to enable candidates to complete applications directly on job…

Rival marching bands team up to honor Hurricane Helene victims The bands from North Carolina State and Wake Forest University joined forces on Saturday for a heartfelt rendition of “Amazing Grace” in tribute to those affected by September’s storm.October 7, 2024 Source link

LONDON — Social media users in the European Union will soon have a new forum to challenge decisions by platforms to remove posts and videos for breaking their rules or leave up others that may violate them.An “out of court dispute settlement body” named the Appeals Center Europe said Tuesday it has been certified by Irish regulators to act as a referee on content moderation disputes across the 27-nation EU, starting with cases involving Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. The center is similar to Meta’s Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body set up in 2020 that acts like a supreme court for…

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Michael Jordan arrived at Talladega Superspeedway about 30 minutes before the start of the playoff race and made his way directly to Bubba Wallace’s pit stand for a quick visit with his guys. The NBA great eventually made his way down pit road to Tyler Reddick’s stand, where he sat on the wall and waited for Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins. Both NASCAR team owners have refused to sign NASCAR’s charter agreement and last week filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the stock car series.The brief exchange Sunday was planned as a show of solidarity by…

File photo of Mahmudullah© AFP New Delhi: Veteran Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah on Tuesday announced his retirement from T20 Internationals and the third and final match of the ongoing series against India will be his last game in the format.The final match between India and Bangladesh will be played in Hyderabad on Saturday.”Yes, I’m retiring from T20Is after the last game of this series. It was pre-decided,” he said at the pre-match press conference ahead of the second T20I against India here.”It’s the right time to move on from this format and concentrate on ODI,” he added.The 38-year-old, who made…

Nuh: Voters wait in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station at Ghasera village during the Haryana Assembly elections, in Nuh district, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (Photo: PTI)2 min read Last Updated : Oct 08 2024 | 5:44 PM IST More voters in Jammu and Kashmir used the NOTA button against those in Haryana, latest Election Commission data shows. In elections to the 90-member Haryana assembly, out of over two crore electors, 67.90 per cent had exercised their franchise. Out of these, 0.38 per cent used the none of the above (NOTA) option on the…