Author: Vidya Saras

Elderberries are one of my most used go-to herbal remedies for cooler months. They’re both immune-boosting and delicious in different recipes. I make DIY elderberry marshmallows, tea, and even kombucha. This easy elderberry syrup recipe is a great way to get all of their benefits! The dried berries of the Sambucus nigra plant are naturally high in antioxidants that help with colds and flu. You can use them in a variety of remedies, and my favorite is this simple elderberry syrup. Elderberry: A Natural Remedy for Colds and Flu? There’s certainly a time and a place for conventional medicine and…

SpaceX has temporarily grounded its Falcon 9 rocket after the vehicle experienced an issue on the Crew-9 astronaut launch for NASA.Crew-9 lifted off on Saturday (Sept. 28) from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, sending NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aloft aboard the Crew Dragon capsule “Freedom.”Everything appeared to go well. The Falcon 9’s first stage aced its landing shortly after liftoff, and the rocket’s upper stage deployed Freedom into its proper orbit; the capsule is on track to arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 29) as planned. After today’s successful launch…

Politics / September 27, 2024 The Republican vice presidential candidate argued as recently as 2020 that Trump “thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism.” Ad Policy JD Vance speaks to a crowd during a rally at the Berks County Fairgrounds on September 21, 2024, in Leesport, Pennsylvania.(Matthew Hatcher / Getty Images) When Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance take the stage for Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, Vance can be counted on to sing the praises of his running mate, former president Donald Trump. That’s what vice presidential candidates do. Unfortunately for Trump—and Vance—the Ohio senator’s praise for the former…

This summer, 350 participants came to MIT to dive into a question that is, so far, outpacing answers: How can education still create opportunities for all when digital literacy is no longer enough — a world in which students now need to have AI fluency?The AI + Education Summit was hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with speakers from the App Inventor Foundation, the Mayor’s Office of the City of Boston, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, and more. Highlights included an onsite “Hack the Climate” hackathon, where teams of beginner…

The company added that, under certain circumstances, the successful exploitation of the vulnerability might allow code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering. Time of Check Time of Use vulnerability Nvidia Container Toolkit allows Nvidia containers, which are specialized software packages designed to facilitate the deployment of applications particularly involving artificial intelligence and machine learning use cases, to access the GPU hardware. It includes tools and libraries that enable applications running inside containers to utilize the GPU. According to a Wiz Research blog post, whose researchers Nvidia has credited for the discovery of the vulnerability,…

JOHANNA LEGUERRE/AFPRobert Bourgi has lifted the lid on decades of work with French and African presidentsIt was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside palace in Libreville.He was there to collect funds for the approaching French presidential election on behalf of the centre-right Gaullist candidate Jacques Chirac, who was mayor of Paris at the time.Who should then be ushered into the same antechamber but Roland Dumas, former French foreign minister and right-hand man of ruling Socialist President François Mitterrand, Chirac’s arch-rival.“Good day, Bourgi,” said Dumas. “I believe…

Israel has killed Hizbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in a massive strike on Beirut, in the latest in a series of devastating blows to the Lebanese militant group.The strike in a densely populated residential neighbourhood in southern Beirut was part of an intense bombardment carried out by Israeli forces on Friday and marked a dramatic escalation of Israel’s offensive against Hizbollah.The Lebanese group confirmed Nasrallah’s death in a statement on Saturday, saying he had joined the group’s long list of “martyrs”. It said its leadership would continue to battle against Israel “in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defence of…

The big promise of Todd Phillips’ Joker was stripping out the titular character’s comic book elements and showing what would happen if a regular guy in 1980s Gotham decided to put on clown makeup. (Turns out, things didn’t go well, mainly for everyone else around him.) A young Bruce Wayne is in the original movie, and you may be wondering what would happen if an adult Batman met this version of his nemesis. According to director/writer Todd Phillips, he thinks Arthur Fleck would just think Batman’s neat. (You’re shocked, I’m sure.) In a recent IGN interview, Phillips explained how Arthur would “be…

Mubi(Credit: Mubi)No one who watches this twisted Demi Moore film about a special anti-ageing treatment will forget it. But is it a feminist masterpiece or shallow, misogynistic and exploitative?In The Substance, the much-discussed, opulently stylised and lavishly gory gonzo horror from French director, Coralie Fargeat, a disembodied voice playing over a marketing video for a tenebrous new beauty product asks: “Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself – younger, more beautiful, more perfect?” It’s a question which captures Fargeat’s intent – to explore, through the medium of blood-spatter, thrills and a splash of sci-fi, what happens when…

Maximizing Bitcoin Gains with ETF DataSince the introduction of Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in early 2024, Bitcoin has reached new all-time highs, with multiple months of double-digit gains. However, as impressive as this performance is, there’s a way to significantly outperform Bitcoin’s returns by utilizing ETF data to guide your trading decisions.Bitcoin ETFs and Their InfluenceBitcoin ETFs, launched in January 2024, have quickly amassed large amounts of Bitcoin. These ETFs, tracked by various funds, allow institutional and retail investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin without directly owning it. These ETFs have accumulated billions of USD worth of BTC, and…