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Comparison of innovation front number n(0) approximations. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312468120 In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice, "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." The race between innovation and obsolescence is like this. …

Jorge Calderon Contributor Jorge Calderon is managing director at San Francisco–based Inicio Ventures, an initiative of Hispanics in Philanthropy. Over the last 25 years, I’ve been a tech investor, founder, organizer, strategist and academic. I’m proud to be part of a growing group of diverse leaders shaping an innovation system that represents and benefits us all. But in recent months, I’ve become increasingly troubled by the absence of Latinx/e founders and leaders in today’s…

In a cover story with Net-A-Porter published Monday, Insecure‘s Issa Rae opened up about working on the satirical Oscar-nominated drama American Fiction and witnessing the decline of Black-centered stories onscreen. The writer-producer has kept busy within the last year, starring in three films up for Oscar nominations: Barbie, American Fiction, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. During the interview, Rae delved into satirical drama American Fiction, where she plays an author who pens a hit novel, We’s…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We've known for a decade that political affiliation increasingly affects Americans' everyday lives, including where they live, whom they befriend, and whom they welcome as in-laws. A recent Cato Institute survey revealed that nearly a third of Americans worry that voicing their political views could even harm their…

A recent study reveals that strong neural connections in the brain, crucial to its functionality, are likely formed by universal self-organizing principles, not species-specific mechanisms. This finding, based on advanced imaging and a Hebbian plasticity model, could reshape our understanding of brain structure in various species. Credit: SciTechDaily.comA new study suggests different species may rely on a shared principle for neural network formation.In all species, brain function relies on an intricate network of…

Trends are indicated in the three focal areas by (a) total US citizens, White US citizens, and non-White US citizens (2011–2021) and (b) total number and women (2007–2021), with academic positions for total and women divided into five categories. Symbols indicate significant trends: * = downtrend. # = uptrend. Credit: Oceanography (2023). DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2024.134 A paper published Dec. 19 in Oceanography examines whether…

As we venture into building on-device models, we're on the cusp of a surge in GenAI-related APIs and SaaS products. This shift resembles the past decade's trend towards backend and cloud services, and it behooves us to learn from that experience. I'm revisiting my earlier discussion on how to tailor SaaS APIs for mobile developers, using mobile developer personas for illustration.  A UX (User Experience) persona is essentially a fictional character embodying a particular user group that might interact with a product,…

A team from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed “BridgePRS,” a new statistical technique to improve disease prediction for non-European individuals, especially those of African descent. This method addresses the limitations of current polygenic risk scores, which are less accurate for non-European ancestries, and marks a significant step towards personalized medicine and reducing healthcare inequities. Credit: SciTechDaily.comStatistical technique enhances genetic disease prediction in non-European…

Image Source : FILE Vi collaborates with Gameloft to bring a diverse range of games to the users Vi (Vodafone Idea) has joined forces with Gameloft, a renowned mobile video game developer to provide telecom network users with an extensive selection of hyper-casual games to play. The collaboration aims at offering genres like sports, action, racing, adventure and more…

Credit: Stanley Morales from Pexels Students achieve better grades in college science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses when those classrooms have higher numbers of underrepresented racial-minority and first-generation college students, according to new research published in AERA Open. While this link holds true for…