Author: Vidya Saras

Former Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has made a bold prediction about current Blues striker Nicolas Jackson. Jackson has impressed following his arrival from Spanish side Villarreal last summer in a deal worth £32m and has established himself as Chelsea’s main striker.The 23-year-old had an impressive first season and scored 17 goals in all competitions, with 14 of those coming in the Premier League.Hasselbaink makes bold Jackson claimMuch was made of Chelsea’s failure to sign a striker this summer after pursuing Victor Osimhen for the majority of the window, but Jackson’s start to the season suggests that may not have been…

In the universe of Star Trek, few characters have made as profound an impact as T’Pol, the Vulcan science officer aboard the Enterprise NX-01. As the first Vulcan to serve long-term on a human starship, T’Pol’s journey was a groundbreaking exploration of cultural exchange, personal growth, and the complexities of identity. Portrayed by Jolene Blalock, she broke barriers and challenged norms, evolving from a reserved observer of humanity to a beloved and integral member of the crew. T’Pol’s character delved deep into themes of logic versus emotion, tradition versus change, and isolation versus connection. Her struggles and triumphs resonated with…

By Aaron Michael C. Sy and Beatriz Marie D. Cruz, Reporters THE PHILIPPINES is looking at borrowing P310 billion from the domestic market in the fourth quarter, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said on Thursday, amid expectations of further rate cuts that could drive yields lower. The planned auctions put the government on track for its full-year borrowing target, National Treasurer Sharon P. Almanza said in a Viber message. This year’s borrowing plan is set at P2.57 trillion — P1.92 trillion from domestic sources and P646.08 billion from overseas, according to Treasury data.  Interest rate cuts by the US…

If you live in a larger body, sometimes it feels like you can’t win. If you don’t lose weight, people will criticize you for being “lazy,” “unhealthy,” or “lacking willpower.” But if you take medication to help you, you’ll be criticized for “cheating” or “taking the easy way out,” even if you’ve tried for decades to manage your weight through diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes (sometimes extreme ones). In this article, we’ll be talking about a highly contentious group of medicines—GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs such as semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsus) or tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound). And people have lots of opinions…

NASA and South Korea’s space agency have agreed to deeper cooperation in space exploration, science and aeronautics, including collaboration on a pioneering mission.NASA and the Republic of Korea’s newly created Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) signed a joint statement on advance cooperation on Sept. 19.Areas of potential cooperation include NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture, space life sciences and medical operations, lunar surface science, utilization of Korea’s deep-space antenna and future commercial activities in low Earth orbit, according to a NASA statement.”Building on years of work together both on Earth and in space, we are proud to significantly grow our partnership with…

AI data centers are so hot right now. Each time generative AI services churn through their large language models to make a chatbot answer one of your questions, it takes a great deal of processing power to sift through all that data. Doing so can use massive amounts of energy, which means the proliferation of AI is raising questions about how sustainable this tech actually is and how it affects the ecosystems around it. Some companies think they have a solution: running those data centers underwater, where they can use the surrounding seawater to cool and better control the temperature…

Multimodal models represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence by enabling systems to process and understand data from multiple sources, like text and images. These models are essential for applications like image captioning, answering visual questions, and assisting in robotics, where understanding visual and language inputs is crucial. With advances in vision-language models (VLMs), AI systems can generate descriptive narratives of images, answer questions based on visual information, and perform tasks like object recognition. However, many of the highest-performing multimodal models today are built using proprietary data, which limits their accessibility to the broader research community and stifles innovation in…

In February, the FBI issued an advisory against Volt typhoon’s threat activities, listing out the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by the group. “The US authoring agencies have confirmed that Volt Typhoon has compromised the IT environments of multiple critical infrastructure organizations — primarily in Communications, Energy, Transportation Systems, and Water and Wastewater Systems Sectors — in the continental and non-continental United States and its territories, including Guam,” the advisory said. In a December 2023 operation, the FBI disrupted a fraction of the Volt Typhoon operations by pulling down a botnet of hundreds of US based small-office or home-office…

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ReutersIwao Hakamada has been awaiting his potential execution for 56 yearsAn 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found that evidence used against him was fabricated.Iwao Hakamada, who has been on death row for more than half a century, was found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss, the man’s wife and their two teenage children.He was recently granted a retrial amid suspicions that investigators may have planted evidence that led to his conviction for quadruple murder.More than half a century spent on death row has taken a…