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Fifteen percent of India’s pilots are women, which is three times more than the global average, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.Modi was speaking after inaugurating the Boeing India Engineering and Technology Centre near the international airport in Bengaluru. The 43-acre campus, built with an investment of Rs 1,600 crore, is Boeing’s largest such facility outside the US and will help develop next-generation products and services for the global aerospace and defence industry.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The cost of climate change may take six months off the average human lifespan, according to a study published January 18, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Amit Roy from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and The New School for Social Research, U.S. Temperature and rainfall—two telltale…

Is this what the future of working from home will look like?A startling AI-generated image of what the average work-from-home employee could look like in 25 years has been making the rounds online — and causing quite a stir.Job search site DirectlyApply published the AI-generated image, created using what they say is an aggregation of data sourced from psychologists and fitness experts.Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >>The image depicts a woman, named Susan, wearing tight, ill-fitting clothing…

Last week, I posed this challenge: You and nine of your coworkers are sitting in a conference room when somebody wonders aloud about the group’s average salary. Everyone is curious, but nobody feels comfortable sharing their own pay with the group. How can you all learn your average salary without anybody learning any more information about another person’s salary (other than what can be deduced from the group average)? You all have pen and paper and can conceal what you write from others, but you have no other tools at…

Understand the logic behind the fundamental algorithm used inside the gradient descentIntroductionIn time series analysis, there is often a need to understand the trend direction of a sequence by taking into account previous values. Approximation of the next values in a sequence can be performed in several ways, including the usage of simple baselines or the construction of advanced machine learning models.An exponential (weighted) moving average is a robust trade-off between these two methods. Having a simple recursive…

The Italian supercar manufacturer, Lamborghini, gifted two Huracan LP610-4 supercars to the Italian Police back in 2014. Since then, these supercars have been used regularly by them. However, they are not being used to catch speeding cars but rather to deliver essential organs. Recently, a post shared online revealed that two cops in the Huracan hand-delivered two kidneys for transplant in just two hours, whereas a normal car would take 6 hours. Pictures of this incredible delivery have been shared, showing the Huracan…

A Chevrolet Bolt is displayed at the Philadelphia Auto Show, Jan. 27, 2023, in Philadelphia. Electric vehicles are far less reliable than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs, mainly because most automakers are still learning how to build a completely new power system, according to this year's auto reliability survey by Consumer Reports.Credit: AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on…

Hussain Elius is best known as the co-founder of Pathao, one of Bangladesh’s top ride-sharing apps. For his latest startup, however, Elius is exploring the world of DeFi with Wind.app, a self-custodial, smart contract wallet with three main features. The first is enabling businesses to send payments to remote employees around the world. The second is allowing people to use Wind.app as a virtual bank account. And the third is is the on-ramp/off-ramp infrastructure that the company is building to enable users to change…

Koichi Miura, who worked as a landscape artist for Tears of the Kingdom, has left Nintendo. In his Tweet, he explains that the company is a haven for geniuses, but hell for an average person. It doesn’t seem like Miura is bitter about leaving, as his translated Tweet states that he has no regrets, and he thinks Nintendo is an incredible company. Nevertheless, he wouldn’t recommend it lightly. Though the company is ideal for geniuses, Miura felt as though he wasn’t cut out for the environment. Ultimately, he discovered…

The Indian cyberspace has seen nearly double the number of cyber incidents as compared to the global average, National Cybersecurity Coordinator MU Nair said on Sunday. Addressing a session on 'Aligning Technologies to Future Conflicts' at the Synergia Conclave 2023, Nair said ransomware attack payments of nearly $1.54 billion have been made on an average over the past 10 months, which has doubled since 2022. "These payments are just the tip of an iceberg since several of these incidents go unreported," he said. Nair said…