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A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Reports reveals that infection with SARS-CoV-2 significantly impacts cognitive function in patients with preexisting dementia, causing rapidly progressive dementia. Researchers investigated 14 patients with various types of dementia and found that following COVID-19 infection, the differences between dementia subtypes became blurred, and cognitive deterioration progressed rapidly. Cortical atrophy and inflammation-related white matter intensity changes in the brain…

Faster sparse matrix multiplication with the new library PopSparseAuthors: Zhiyi Li, AI Engineer, Douglas Orr, Research Scientist, Valeriu Ohan, Software Engineer, and Dominic Masters, Research ScientistImage by author.In light of the significant growth in deep learning model size as well as the increased uptake of artificial intelligence across a broad range of applications, the incentives to reduce the computational cost of running these models have never been greater.One method that has shown significant promise to…

Last Updated: February 10, 2023, 10:58 ISTPininfarina GT Battista (Photo: IANS)The pure-electric hyper GT Battista has made its first public appearance in India at the Hyderabad E-Motor ShowBattista, the world’s fastest accelerating electric car, was unveiled at Hyderabad E-Motor Show here on Thursday.The pure-electric hyper GT Battista was unveiled for the first time in India at the show organised as part of the E-Mobility Week and it adds an important milestone, as the city gears up for India’s first Formula E Grand…

Expedia Group™️ acts as a booking agent for all sorts of travel. An issue we’ve wrestled with is when a hotel (or vacation rental, activity, etc.) shares public contact information through our platform that allows for direct booking. This act violates our service agreements, and we must detect if it happens. Furthermore, this mechanism needs to scale to review an ongoing stream of data generated by bookings, website updates, client updates, etc. This is not a unique problem in the travel industry. It can be…

As the fight between Google and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) reaches the Supreme Court, the tech giant on Friday said India is at a juncture where the stakeholders must come together to bring down barriers to access and make safe and secure smartphones available to all, supported by a flourishing digital ecosystem. Google said that foundational disruptions at this stage could set us back years and undo the deep investments and effort made by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), developers, and the…

California's Central Valley. The Central Valley (green) encompasses the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Tulare Basins (black and white boundary). The red border outlines the area of GRACE/FO mascon data used for the study. Blue dots show locations of active reservoir storage gauges distributed within the study region, and the orange and brown dots show locations of the two main stream discharge gauges in Central Valley. The GRACE/FO data, reservoir storage…

Credit: Chart: The Conversation/CC-BY-ND Source: IEA The year 2022 was a tough one for the growing number of people living in food insecurity and energy poverty around the world, and the beginning of 2023 is looking bleak. Russia's war on Ukraine, one of the world's largest grain and fertilizer feedstock suppliers, tightened global…

Scientists have discovered that the pace of groundwater depletion in California’s Central Valley has accelerated dramatically during the drought as heavy agricultural pumping has drawn down aquifer levels to new lows and now threatens to devastate the underground water reserves.The research shows that chronic declines in groundwater levels, which have plagued the Central Valley for decades, have worsened significantly in recent years, with particularly rapid declines occurring since 2019.“We have a full-on crisis,” said…

Geely-owned Volvo Cars has announced it is joining the Accelerating to Zero Coalition, which will be launched at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. During COP27, Volvo Cars also called on countries to step up their climate action to meet the threat of global warming. The Accelerating to Zero Coalition consists of a broad group of stakeholders committed to facilitating and…

Sperm count among men worldwide is falling at an accelerated rate after halving over the last 40 years, a large new study said Tuesday, calling for action to stop the decline.The study, led by Israeli epidemiologist Hagai Levine, updates 2017 research which had come under scrutiny for only including North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.The new study includes data from more than 57,000 men collected over 223 studies across 53 countries, making it the largest meta-analysis ever conducted on the subject.With…