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Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:___Oct. 18The Washington Post on taxpayers subsidizing flood insuranceHurricane Helene likely caused more than $30 billion worth of damage. Less than two weeks later, Hurricane Milton inflicted almost $50 billion more. With six weeks left in this hurricane season, the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program is already out of money. And more tropical storms are swirling over the Atlantic. Who pays for all of this?Because private home insurers generally find this sector of the business unprofitable, the federal National Flood Insurance Program shoulders the burden of providing homeowners inundation coverage…

Namaste, vanakkam, sat sri akaal — these are just three forms of greeting in India, a country with 22 constitutionally recognized languages and over 1,500 more recorded by the country’s census. Around 10% of its residents speak English, the internet’s most common language. As India, the world’s most populous country, forges ahead with rapid digitalization efforts, its enterprises and local startups are developing multilingual AI models that enable more Indians to interact with technology in their primary language. It’s a case study in sovereign AI — the development of domestic AI infrastructure that is built on local datasets and reflects…

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A number of ballots were damaged after a United States Post Office collection mailbox was lit on fire in Phoenix, police said.An unknown individual lit a fire inside a drive-up collection mailbox at a USPS station early Thursday morning, according to the Phoenix Police Department, which said it responded to the scene at 1:20 a.m.The Phoenix Fire Department was able to open the mailbox and extinguish the fire and the Postal Inspector took possession of the damaged ballots and miscellaneous mail, police said.Phoenix police initially said that approximately 20 electoral ballots were damaged, though the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office…

Mayank Yadav should be on the plane to Australia if Mohammed Shami is not available for selection, asserted Brett Lee, one of the most devastatingly destructive bowlers, who has high hopes from the Indian pace sensation on the true, bouncy wickets Down Under. Aiming to qualify for a third successive World Test Championship (WTC) final, India will be travelling to Australia next month to defend the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and doubts remain over seasoned seamer Shami’s selection in the squad for the five-match Test series. “I can tell you that batters are okay when you bowl that 135-140 kmph…

AKRON, Ohio — A county elections board deadlocked Thursday about whether a Democratic member of Congress from Ohio resides in her Akron district, sending the matter before the state’s Republican secretary of state to break the tie.The challenge to the residency of U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes was launched by a Republican political activist. She faces GOP nominee Kevin Coughlin in the Nov. 5 election, a contest considered among the nation’s tightest House races.Both of the Democrats on the Summit County Board of Elections voted against the challenge while the the two Republicans supported it. The case does not affect Sykes’…

Life sciences and healthcare organizations across India are using generative AI to build applications that can deliver life-saving impacts — within the country and across the globe. Among such leading organizations are research centers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), intelligent life sciences company Innoplexus and AI-led medical diagnostics platform provider 5C Network. Central to their work are NVIDIA NIM microservices, including the new Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi 4B microservice for building sovereign AI applications and large language models (LLMs) in the Hindi language. The Nemotron-4 Hindi model delivers the highest…

The three Georgia men convicted in the 2020 killing of 25-year-old jogger Ahmaud Arbery are in court Thursday to ask for a new trial in the murder case.One of the men, Travis McMichael, claimed that he and his father suspected Arbery — who had been jogging through the neighborhood — had just burglarized a nearby home under construction. He testified that Arbery resisted a citizen’s arrest and attacked him after he, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan chased him.Travis McMichael, who delivered the deadly shot, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.Ahmaud Arbery, 25,…

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