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The National Cricket League (NCL) icons Suresh Raina and Pragyan Ojha visited Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in South Dallas, sharing their passion for cricket and the importance of sports with students. During an engaging lesson, students had the unique opportunity to learn the basics of cricket, participate in drills, and hear firsthand from the international cricket stars about the values of hard work, dedication, and discipline that have defined their careers. Raina a superstar in the world of cricket, emphasized how sports—especially cricket—can open doors and build character. They highlighted the growing popularity of cricket in the…

In late 2023, the first drug with potential to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration. Alzheimer’s is one of many debilitating neurological disorders that together affect one-eighth of the world’s population, and while the new drug is a step in the right direction, there is still a long journey ahead to fully understanding it, and other such diseases.”Reconstructing the intricacies of how the human brain functions on a cellular level is one of the biggest challenges in neuroscience,” says Lars Gjesteby, a technical staff member and algorithm developer from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s…

An escalation of conflicts in the Middle East in recent weeks has triggered a sharp increase in oil prices, raising uncertainty about where costs will head in the final weeks before Election Day.Oil prices surged about 13% over an 11-day stretch ending on Monday. Prices fell markedly on Tuesday, however, as nearly a week passed without the onset of a widely anticipated Israeli counterattack on Iran.The rise of oil prices carries potential implications for the presidential election next month. A hike in the cost of crude oil typically raises the price of gasoline, which holds substantial sway over general consumer…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s corrections chief said Wednesday that the department expects to unveil a new process for executing inmates by the end of the year, signaling a possible end to a yearslong pause due to findings that several inmates were put to death without the proper testing of lethal injection drugs.“We should have our protocols in place by the end of this calendar year or at the first week or two of January,” Commissioner Frank Strada told lawmakers during a correction hearing. “We’ve been working with the attorney general’s office on writing those protocols to make sure that they’re…

Ratan Tata (Credit: @RNTata2000)2 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 12:11 AM IST Tata Sons’ Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata was known as much for his business acumen as for his philanthropy. However, a lesser-known fact was his stellar track record when it came to startup investment. Tata had, over the years, invested in several successful startups, having famously said that he viewed these investments as a “learning experience”. Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp Over the last decade, the silver-haired tycoon backed the likes of Paytm, Ola and Snapdeal.  Starting out as…

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. NEW RESEARCH Securely Training Decision Trees Efficiently In a recent paper: Securely Training Decision Trees Efficiently that will appear at ACM CCS 2024, researchers from Microsoft significantly reduce the communication complexity of secure decision tree training. Decision trees are an important class of supervised learning algorithms. In this approach, a classification or regression tree is built based on a set of features or attributes present in the training dataset. As with many learning…

A Turkish Airlines flight diverted to New York on Wednesday morning after one of its pilots died.Flight 204 was traveling from Seattle to Istanbul when it was diverted to John F. Kennedy International Airport for an emergency landing at approximately 6 a.m. after “one of the pilots suffered a medical emergency,” according to the Federal Aviation Administration.Capt. İlçehin Pehlivan “lost consciousness” during the flight, and after initial medical intervention proved ineffective, the co-pilot was rerouted to JFK, where the Airbus A320 safely landed, the airline said in a statement.Turkish Airlines also confirmed that Pehlivan died before the plane touched ground.…

Nitish Kumar Reddy announced himself on the international stage with a flamboyant 74 as a youthful Indian side delivered yet another commanding performance to thrash Bangladesh by 86 runs in the second T20I in New Delhi on Wednesday. With the win, the hosts took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. The 21-year-old Reddy (74 off 34 balls) played the most attractive innings of his nascent career while also taking a couple of wickets (2/23) with his seam bowling. Reddy combined with Rinku Singh (53 off 29), who too sizzled with a blistering fifty, to help India…

A law moving many town and county elections in New York to even-numbered years to align them with state and federal races was struck down by a state judge, providing a win to Republicans who claimed it was a partisan effort by Democrats to gain an electoral edge.Sponsors of the bill approved by the Democrat-led state Legislature last year said they wanted to shift elections for town supervisor, county executive and some other local posts from odd-numbered years to reduce confusion and increase voter turnout. Republicans denounced the law as an effort to move local elections to higher-turnout presidential election…

By Prathiba Raju and Abhijeet Singh New Delhi: Amid recent concerns regarding the classification of widely used drugs such as paracetamol and antibiotics along with 50 others, as spurious, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has rejected those reports, calling them as a misinterpretation. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), which oversees drug quality and safety in India, clarified the situation in response to media queries on the sidelines of an event.Dr. Rajeev Raghuvanshi, Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI), addressed the controversy and said, “In the recent news which came about three weeks back, there was actually…