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World Obesity Day 2024 will be celebrated on March 4. Obesity among children in…

Last Updated: February 09, 2024, 15:16 ISTTata Motors Aims for Top Safety Rating with Next-Gen Tiago and Tigor Models. (Photo: Motorbeam)Tata Motors targets top safety ratings for next-gen Tiago & Tigor, emphasizing six airbags. Proactive stance aligns with evolving standards.Tata Motors, a leading automobile company, is stepping up its efforts to ensure safer rides for customers.Mohan Savarkar, the Chief Product Officer of Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, highlighted the company’s commitment to safety, tracing back to…

The study shows that job autonomy must be coupled with low job ambiguity and high procedural justice for organizational citizenship behavior to be seen within a public administrative organization. Credit: WIPO | OMPI from Openverse, CC by 2.0 Although change-oriented behaviors are critical to high-quality public service delivery, encouraging employees to embrace and pursue change in the public sector is difficult. Even with…

Google is launching a few updates to Chrome on desktop this week to make your browsing experience safer and give you more control over your browser’s memory usage. The marquee feature for this update is proactive Safety Check. Starting with version 120, which actually launched a few weeks ago, Chrome’s Safety Check on desktop will now run in the background and send out proactive alerts when it detects if a password in Chrome has been compromised or when an extension you’ve installed is malware. It’ll also remind you…

Image by author, created with the assistance of DALL.E 3Revolutionising Efforts with Generative Adversarial Networks and Synthetic DataIntroductionThe recent explosion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models has focused the world on ethics, risks, and security concerns, and the Bletchley Park conference earlier this month cumulated in a commitment to international collaboration on the safety of emerging AI systems. Yet, those same systems can help address similar challenges to ethical engagement in …

Credit: Amelie Funk In Africa, climate change impacts are experienced as extreme events like drought and floods. Through the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (which leverages expertise from USG science agencies, universities, and the private sector) and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center, it has been possible to predict and monitor these climatic events, providing early warning of their impacts on…

Those well-established conventional IT systems, however, can no longer be taken for granted. Companies are accelerating their digital transformation efforts, automating, optimizing, and reinventing their business processes. The pace of change continues to accelerate: Deloitte reports, for example, that 58% of organizations have stepped up their modernization plans due to the covid-19 pandemic. Many ERP apps are now being moved to public cloud services, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, while others are being replaced…

In November 2016, German-American entrepreneur Cyriac Roeding read a profile of Sam Gambhir, a physician and scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, in a magazine. In the article, Gambhir described how he had devoted his career to early cancer detection, only to lose his teenage son Milan to a highly aggressive brain tumor in 2015.Roeding, the cofounder and former CEO of mobile shopping app Shopkick, was struck by Gambhir’s story and immediately sent him an email, asking to meet. Over the next few months, the…

I’ve helped several brands with their online reputation management (ORM) during my digital marketing career.  Unfortunately, most of this work involved trying to help the brands recover from a crisis. Even more unfortunate was that the damage to their reputations could have been greatly mitigated with some proactive effort. What follows is a basic, three-pronged approach to a proactive ORM strategy. 1. Own your name Often, what looks like a reputation problem is more…

The increased pace of high-profile threats (e.g., ransomware) is up to double-digit (15.8%) growth. The result is a dangerous path most likely to lead to continued losses for organizations that fall victim to a cyberattack without any gains in defensive powers. Indeed, a 2021 data breach report by IBM and the Ponemon Institute reveals that the average cost of a data breach is $4.24 million. Beyond costs, a cyberattack can cause irreparable damage to a company’s brand, share price, and day-to-day operations. According to…