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India's potential in artificial intelligence will be hindered if there is excessive focus on regulation, Debjani Ghosh, president of technology industry body Nasscom, said on Friday.“The best way to distract the government is to get them focused on regulation. It will take them years and years to figure out what to do and how to do it,” she said at an event in New Delhi.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied…

Summer is traditionally a busy time for buying and selling homes. Many families choose to relocate while school’s out. Warmer weather also makes it easier to move. According to Zillow data analyzed by MovingFeedback, an online resource that helps connect people relocating with moving companies, July is typically the busiest month for home sales in Colorado. But after struggling with months of historic low inventory, higher interest rates, and rising prices, will the summer season return to something resembling the norm…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers are still learning from the last century's worst global health emergency for clues about the outcomes of the most recent one. As lockdowns descended on regions all over the world to limit the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020, economist Ruben Gaetani and his co-authors were curious about…

Low inventory continues to keep Denver home prices high and the time on market low, according to the April report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. In April, the median sale price of a single-family home was $640,000, up 3.2% from March but down 5.9% from a year earlier when the Denver metro was in the grip of a buying frenzy. “The inventory decline in an already tight market raises some concern as to what the rest of the year has in store for the Denver market,” says Libby Levinson-Katz, chair of the DMAR…

A volunteer helicopter operation ferrying in badly needed supplies to beleaguered communities in the San Bernardino Mountains was shut down by authorities as desperation among residents continued to grow Saturday in the aftermath of storms that dumped historic amounts of snow.Four helicopters with CalDART, a nonprofit organization that has coordinated aerial disaster relief efforts across California, had partnered with residents to deliver food, medicine and other supplies Friday amid perfect flying conditions.But the…

A number of studies have already shown that synthetic chemicals can harm the bees that are vital to the pollination of plants. New research now additionally indicates that fertilizers may disrupt bees' ability to identify flowers, reducing the likelihood of the insects landing on them.Not surprisingly, bees are able to differentiate flowers from other objects based largely on factors such as color and odor. That said, the specific strength of electrical fields produced by plants (which the bees can detect) also plays a…

Health ministry on Monday invited doctors in Kashmir to an online training session on managing ventilators - critical equipment for patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Most, however, were unable to attend because of long-running curbs on the Internet that have prevented those living in Kashmir from accessing information about the coronavirus, which has infected more than a thousand people in India, killing 29.The Muslim majority region has been tense since the central government stripped it…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain App-based monitoring of subsidised cooking oil and fuel distribution may deny access to intended recipients coming from low-income families. The…

Because they feed by filtering seawater, mussels are particularly vulnerable to pollutants present within that water. According to new research, it now looks like waterborne microplastics could keep the molluscs from growing to their regular size.For the recent study, a team from Australia's RMIT University started by collecting Mytilus galloprovincialis mussels from Port Phillip Bay, near the city of Melbourne. Those mussels were placed in tanks in a lab, in which the water contained various concentrations of microscopic…