Un par de investigadores estadounidenses desarrolló un algoritmo de inteligencia artificial que podría usarse para predecir futuras pandemias, como la de COVID-19. Este estudio multidisciplinario también revela la gravedad con la que los pacientes sufrirán infecciones virales, entra estas las del nuevo coronavirus, y muestra cómo el modelo de dichas infecciones se puede utilizar para predecir la eficacia de posibles curas. Esta investigación, realizada por la profesora Pradipta Ghosh y el profesor asociado Debashis Sahoo en la Universidad de California San Diego, cierra la brecha entre la medicina y la informática. Ghosh, experta en medicina celular y molecular, dijo a…
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CHENNAI, India — U.S. social media giant Twitter has lost legal protection in India for content on its platform due to non-compliance with the new Information Technology rules, opening the microblogging site to lawsuits for third-party content on its site under Indian law. Social media firms or intermediaries like Twitter, Facebook, and instant messaging app WhatsApp are granted safe harbor protection under the law, which provides them legal immunity against content hosted on their platforms. India is one of the most important markets for Twitter, with an estimated 17.5 million users, only topped by the U.S. and Japan. In a culmination of…
KOLKATA, India — The Andaman and Nicobar Islands — a tropical, picturesque island in the Bay of Bengal and one of India’s eight Union Territories — might soon be stripped as the Indian government eyes tourism projects, shipping industries, and big business. The ecologically and ethnically significant Indian archipelago is staring at “mega” projects proposed to bring growth and employment. In 2017, the proposed plan included rail construction, a port, a petrochemical complex, special economic zones, and tourism projects. An “integrated tourism complex” — an international airport and a new harbor at Dugong Creek — was also proposed. By 2018, the government think-tank…
A new report from Start-Up Nation Central reveals that Israel’s innovation technology sector broke a new capital funding record: a total of $10.5 billion raised since the start of the year. The same amount was raised throughout the whole of 2020, which was itself a record year, in less than half the time. Israel recorded an increase of 137 percent in innovation investment for the first five months of 2021 compared with the first five months of 2020, the report says, while the increase globally was only 89 percent. This means Israel now leads the world in funding growth. Uri…
Angel Alon, 70, from the southern Israeli city of Netivot, has eight children, 24 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. But she and her husband, Shlomo, always had room in their hearts for more. Over the past 29 years, they took in 217 babies as one of 13 emergency shelter foster families for Jerusalem-based Summit Institute. To mark World Foster Day on May 31, President Reuven Rivlin invited the Alons to the President’s Residence. He thanked them for nurturing abandoned and abused children — mostly infants up to the age of three months — until appropriate long-term arrangements could be made for…
Hundreds of unaware people flocked to the Fagradalsfjall volcano on Reykjanes Peninsula of Island after lava began erupting four months ago. Spectacular displays of gushing lava sometimes reach 1,312 feet. Although walking on fresh lava fields is a dangerous activity that can turn deadly for sensation-seeking hikers, many exposed themselves to perilous situations. Donatas Arlauskas, who lives locally, filmed a video in the Natthagi valley near Fagradalsfjall volcano on June 20, warning about the risks of falling through the thin crusts into red-hot lava cavities underneath. He said the volcano had been releasing lava non-stop since March: “People need to…
Egyptian TikTok users Haneen Hossam and Mawada al-Adham have been sentenced to 10 years and six years in prison, respectively, for uploading dance clips said to “seduce” girls into joining improper social media groups. Hossam, who was sentenced in absentia, was also fined $12,753. Al-Adham and three men accused of assisting the women were sentenced to six years and ordered to pay the same fine by the Cairo Criminal Court. The women were charged with human trafficking after being accused of using their social-media profiles to encourage women to join video-sharing platforms and post inappropriate content, according to media reports.…
The biggest college sports teams will get even wealthier after a landmark Supreme Court ruling ending the limit on compensating student athletes, experts told Zenger News — and lawyers look set to win too, with the ruling opening up more avenues for litigation against the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Schools in the elite Power Five conferences will soar ahead of less wealthy foes due to the ruling, Luke Cornelius, director of the University of North Florida’s higher education administration told Zenger. The Power 5 includes the biggest names in college sports, such as Ohio State, the University of Alabama and…
After calling for a wealth tax on billionaires and a levy on stock trades, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is stirring new controversy with her calls to put funding of the Internal Revenue Service beyond the reach of Congress — a move, she says, would facilitate tax enforcement, but which critics say could disproportionally target her political foes. The “Restoring the IRS Act of 2021,” which Sen. Warren introduced in May, proposes a budget of $31.5 billion for the IRS — a nearly-triple increase on the present $11.9 billion. The bill would also allocate funds on a mandatory basis, rather than…
Gary Antuanne Russell is increasingly a force to be reckoned with in boxing’s junior welterweight division. Russell scored a knockout win over Jovanie Santiago in their match on May 29 that announced him as a force to contend with. His latest fight makes it 14 straight wins, all by knockout, for the 25-year-old. The bout, which took place in Carson, California, was only his second win away from the East Coast. “It’s a matter of time [being prepared to fight away from home]… and like a good dog, you’ve got to be prepared. A good dog isn’t just protective in its…