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Clean energy investment is set to double that of fossil fuels – here’s how developing nations can also benefit
Ensuring emerging countries can develop renewable energy projects is one element of the ‘just transition’. Image: REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY A major milestone is set to be reached this year in the fight to tackle the climate crisis – global investment in clean energy will reach almost double the amount going to…
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Empowering the next generation of scientists in Africa
The Future African Scientist organization was sparked by a connection between two students from different walks of life during an MIT program in South Africa. Zach Winn | MIT NewsMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/empowering-next-generation-scientists-in-africa-0802) No one is born a world-class scientist. Instead, their skills are built over many years of education, networking, mentorship, and work in laboratories…
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Empowering Future Innovators Through A Social Impact Lens
The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge helps students hone their entrepreneurship skills to create viable ventures for public good. MIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/empowering-future-innovators-through-social-impact-lens-0710) What if testing for Lyme disease were as simple as dropping a tick in a test tube at home, waiting a few minutes, and looking for a change of color? MIT Sloan Fellow and…
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IBM Study: As CEOs Race Towards Gen AI Adoption, Questions Around Workforce And Culture Persist
– More than half of CEO respondents say they are pushing their organization to adopt gen AI more quickly than some employees are comfortable with – Half of CEOs surveyed say they are hiring for gen AI-related roles that didn’t exist last year, but more than half have not yet assessed the impact of the…
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MIT Launches Working Group On Generative AI And The Work Of The Future
New initiative is convening leading companies and nonprofits with support from Google’s Community Grants Fund. MIT Industrial Performance CenterMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-launches-working-group-generative-ai-and-work-of-the-future-0328( From students crafting essays and engineers writing code to call center operators responding to customers, generative artificial intelligence tools have prompted a wave of experimentation over the past year. At MIT, these experiments have…
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AI vs. elections: 4 essential reads about the threat of high-tech deception in politics
Like it or not, AI is already playing a role in the 2024 presidential election. kirstypargeter/iStock via Getty Images Eric Smalley, The Conversation It’s official. Joe Biden and Donald Trump have secured the necessary delegates to be their parties’ nominees for president in the 2024 election. Barring unforeseen events, the two will be formally nominated…
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Why We Need Both Cloud Engineers And Cloud Architects
Cloud providers are becoming commoditized, so you have to be careful to determine where the best value lies. In the rapidly evolving landscape of IaaS cloud computing, public cloud providers are increasingly reaching feature and function parity. This means they are beginning to look alike. Before you keyboard warriors remind me that some obscure feature…
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Three MIT Alumni Graduate From NASA Astronaut Training
Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, now eligible for spaceflight assignments, encourage MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class. Sandi Miller | Department of PhysicsMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/three-mit-alumni-graduate-nasa-astronaut-training-0307) “It’s been a wild ride,” says Christopher Williams PhD ’12, moments after he received his astronaut pin, signifying graduation into the NASA astronaut corps.…
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How AI Is Helping Advance Women’s Health Around The World
For International Women’s day, we’re sharing AI solutions that can improve early diagnosis, quality and access to care for women’s health worldwide. AI offers an unprecedented opportunity to enhance global well-being and human health — particularly women’s health. For most of history, women’s health has faced systemic barriers including limited access to funding and research,…
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Usher’s New Look Embarks on AI-Focused Collaboration with IBM to Set Students up for Career Success
AUSTIN, Texas, March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SXSW EDU — Usher’s New Look (UNL) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaboration to provide free career readiness training through IBM SkillsBuild. With a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and professional workplace skills, IBM will provide UNL with training and customized learning plans for student learners. This effort aims to benefit thousands of UNL’s…
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How Taylor Swift Unexpectedly Brought Fathers and Daughters Together Through Football
Inside are many long-assumed truths about fathers and daughters: that their interests inherently differ, conversations inevitably drift as girls grow older, and few common spaces exist to bridge divides as adulthood nears. So when global pop icon Taylor Swift entered the stadium seats of Travis Kelce’s NFL games this past season, culture watchers scarcely expected…
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Clean Air Is A Valuable Economic Asset. Here Are 4 Steps To Achieve It
The benefits of clean air extend well beyond the environment; it is also key to human health. There is no dearth of headlines on air pollution from Dubai to Delhi to DC. And every year they get starker. At COP28, the first ‘Health Day’ was ironically marked by the Dubai skyline being covered by smog, and…
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Why Standards And Controls Are Essential To The Future Of Digital Financial Markets
While the industry is ready to assimilate DLT and digital assets into the financial ecosystem, it first needs help overcoming roadblocks to moving assets across blockchains and integrations to traditional systems. For a moment back in the mid-2010s, blockchain was being hailed as the future of financial markets. It was labeled generational and transformative due…
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How We Can Identify Climate-Vulnerable Neighbourhoods And Protect Inhabitants
The Netherlands is working to protect its climate-vulnerable neighbourhoods It is not the disaster of large floods, but the stacking of smaller damage from climate change that will likely become too much for homeowners in climate-vulnerable neighbourhoods. With climate change threatening our long-term existence, news stories on the implications of dramatic flooding get a lot of attention.…
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Our Lifestyles Are Making Us Sick: How Food-Is-Medicine Can Help
The concept of “Food is Medicine” (FIM) dates back to antiquity, with the writings of Hippocrates emphasizing the deep relationship between food and health. Image: Unsplash The concept of “Food is Medicine” (FIM) dates back to antiquity, with the writings of Hippocrates emphasizing the deep relationship between food and health. However, in scaling global food…
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Farmers In India Are Using AI For Agriculture – Here’s How They Could Inspire The World
Krishna, a smallholding farmer, diligently cultivates his half-hectare plot in Telangana, India, every day. For this, he earns $120 per month—just enough to meet his family’s basic needs. But Krishna must also contend with unpredictable monsoons, frequent droughts, pest infestations, and diminishing yields. He must battle the impacts of changing climate patterns and soil health.…
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Putting People At The Centre Of The Green Transition
Labour market disruptions, risks to the accessibility of products, and gaps in financing and capability impact fairness in the green transition. The window to avert the consequences of climate change is shrinking fast. Despite the unprecedented pace of low-emission technology development, investment allocation and policy implementation over the past decade, the advance of climate change…
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How Universities Can Play A Pivotal Role In Building Economic Resilience
We are all vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, supply chain disruptions, cybersecurity lapses, and armed conflict in an interdependent world. While I am not a politician, a Fortune 500 CEO or even an economist, as a scientist and president of one of the world’s top universities I can offer my insight into emerging…
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3 Ways Companies Can Mitigate The Risk Of AI In The Workplace
Around 84% of workers who use generative AI in the workplace said they publicly exposed company data in the last three months. The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) use means companies must quickly gain pace with the rate of adoption among their employees. When ChatGPT launched in November 2022, it set off a…
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Drug Resistance: Could Global Goals Be The Answer To This Worldwide Health Crisis?
When thinking about the top 10 global public health threats, your first thoughts might include viruses with pandemic potential, climate change, or poverty. Drug-resistant infections might not immediately jump to mind. But drug-resistant infections, caused by antimicrobial resistance (AMR), are a huge global issue. Research published in The Lancet in 2022, unveiled the very real human cost…
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The Rise Of Green-Collar Jobs – And 6 Other Predictions For 2024’s Labour Market
Balance is always a hot topic in January for New Year’s resolutions. Whether seeking to find more balance between work and home, or in our health, many of us set out to achieve the perfect equilibrium. The last few years have seen labour markets off-balance – with the deep lows of COVID and the swinging…