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Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: ByteDance co-founder and CEO Liang Rubo urges staff to resist mediocrity after the company missed the initial wave of generative AI, in a company-wide meeting — - Co-founder said the company showed signs of complacency — Chinese peer Baidu claims its model can rival OpenAI's ChatGPT Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: ByteDance co-founder and CEO Liang Rubo urges staff to resist mediocrity after the company missed the initial wave of generative AI, in a company-wide…

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are poised to become a global health concern in the coming decades. In the race to develop new weapons, scientists from Texas A&M have created a novel family of antibacterial polymers that can kill 'superbugs' in a way they can't evolve resistance to.The discovery of penicillin was one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. Suddenly infections were far more survivable, with antibiotics opening up more surgical and medical treatments to more people. But the…

A majority of Indian startup founders are unwilling to raise money at a lower valuation than the last round, even as they expect the funding drought to continue in the first six months of 2024, according to ETtech's annual State of Startups survey.Nearly 80% of the respondents to the survey conducted among 80 of India’s top founders, investors and internet executives, said they would not accept a lower valuation for their companies, while 74% said the funding freeze would only start to ease up in the second half of next…

Smart coatings on orthopedic implants, developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, have bacteria-killing nanopillars on one side and strain-mapping flexible electronics on the other. This could help physicians guide patient rehabilitation and repair or replace devices before they fail. Credit: Beckman ITG, University of IllinoisResearchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have recently developed innovative “smart” coatings for orthopedic surgical implants. These coatings have the ability to…

Managers say team productivity has taken a hit as employees stay remote. Managers say team productivity has taken a hit as employees stay remote. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your…

This mystery drama twist-a-thon from China was a huge hit on home turf recently (far outperforming the latest Indiana Jones feature) and has been picked up for distribution in the UK and the US. Although the 180-degree plot pivots start to get a little ridiculous by the end, the script (credited to writer-producer Chen Sicheng, Shuyi Gu and Yixiong Yin) zips along with such gleeful mischievousness that the ride is too fun to resist. Intriguingly, it is supposedly based on a 1990 Russian film called A Trap for Lonely Man,…

Regular consumption of high-fat and high-sugar foods rewires the brain to subconsciously prefer these unhealthy options due to changes in the brain’s dopaminergic system responsible for motivation and reward.Why do we find it so hard to resist chocolate bars and similar treats?Why is it so hard to resist chocolate bars, chips, and fries while shopping at the supermarket? According to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne and <span class="glossaryLink"…

Sean Penn has expressed his solidarity with the Writers Guild of America (WGA), whose members are currently on strike in a fight for improved wages and working conditions.Speaking at a press conference in Cannes for his new film, Black Flies, Penn said the guild had his “full support” as “the industry has been upending the writers and actors and directors for a very, very long time.”The WGA strike, which began more than a fortnight ago, shows no sign of reaching a resolution as its members seek a renegotiated contract in…

Former Infosys director and industry veteran T V Mohandas Pai has said startups that do almost all their business in India and have all their employees here should resist any pressure from large investors to domicile outside, as he cited key lessons to be drawn from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Pai advised founders of India-centric startups "to be careful" and "not get carried away" by investors, who force companies they fund, to domicile in the US and open bank accounts there as well. Pai said SVB was a…

Credit: Shutterstock As managing partner at Orange Grove Consulting, a Boston-based company that offers diversity training and assessment in the workplace, Kelly Watson has learned that people tend to receive two responses when they confront others about microaggressions. "It's either, 'Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry; how can I make this…