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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin President and CEO of PreciseDx . Passionate about personalizing medicine through AI-enabled pathology. The concept of “who gets cancer treatment and what type” seems like a movie plot or a question from decades ago, but unfortunately, even in 2022, it is still a dilemma faced every day around the world. Although the underlying causes, detection and treatment options vary with the specific types of cancer, a central role of pathology is the proper diagnosis and characterization of cancer to determine the subsequent management and treatment options. The problem is that anatomical pathology, the technique used universally to diagnose cancer, is inherently subjective, with variability in both accuracy and reproducibility well documented. The promise of greater accuracy and reproducibility is driving scientists and commercial organizations to apply artificial intelligence (AI) platforms that review tens of thousands of … [Read more...] about Technology’s Role In Determining Cancer Treatment

EssenceMediacom – GroupM’s newest and largest agency – formally launches today with an ambition to deliver marketing breakthroughs for their clients. Disrupting the old models across media, creative, innovation and analytics, the agency has been built to find new opportunity for brands and deliver truly integrated media solutions. Comprised of 10,000 people across 120 offices globally and led by Global CEO Nick Lawson, EssenceMediacom combines Essence’s performance, data, analytics and creative technology DNA with MediaCom’s scaled multichannel audience planning and strategic media expertise. Everything will be underpinned by EMOS – EssenceMediacom’s Operating System. This modular suite of tools and data will connect the best of Essence, MediaCom and GroupM’s technology and make it available to EssenceMediacom’s teams and clients across the globe. The agency launches with an enviable global client roster, which includes adidas, Bayer, Dell, Google, Mars, NBCUniversal, … [Read more...] about EssenceMediacom launches as the breakthrough agency in 120 offices globally

Representative image Highlights Raw materials used in clean energy systems are concentrated in a select few countries outside India The availability of adequate and affordable finance remains a constraint Diversion of large scale funds to green energy can be a challenge for developing countries Despite the rapid scale-up of renewable energy capacities, India continues to depend on thermal power The FY23 economic survey took a balanced approach about climate change policies. It narrated the steps being taken by India to combat greenhouse gases and transition to cleaner sources of energy. But to achieve the stated goals, the survey emphasised the need for renewed support from developed countries, especially in the areas of finance, technology transfer and capacity-building. Importantly the survey rightly highlighted the limitations and economic costs of the climate change policies. Clean energy systems such as solar photovoltaic plants, wind farms, … [Read more...] about Economic Survey takes a pragmatic line for climate change policies

The man filed a complaint with the Thane police. (Representative image: Wikimedia Commons) A man from Maharashtra's Thane city was allegedly duped of Rs 5 lakh by online fraudsters when he was checking a fault in his TV channel service, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on January 14 when the man called up his TV channel service provider as its details were not displayed on his television screen, an official from Chitalsar police station said quoting the victim's complaint. While he was speaking on the phone, he got a call from another number where the caller asked him to download the AnyDesk app. After the man downloaded the app, he found that an amount of Rs 5 lakh was debited from his bank account through net banking even when he had not initiated the transaction, the official said. The man subsequently complained to the police who registered a case against unidentified persons under Indian Penal Code Section 420 (cheating) and provisions of the … [Read more...] about Man downloads AnyDesk on phone, loses Rs 5 lakh in seconds

The World Economic Forum says billionaire Elon Musk wasn't on the guest list for the annual meeting of business executives, global leaders and cultural trend-setters in Davos, Switzerland despite what the Twitter owner claims. Notables from European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen to actor Idris Elba are gathering in the ritzy Alpine town this week to talk about global issues ranging from war to climate change and technology's effects on security. Elon Musk wasn't there, though he says he was invited. Forum spokesman Yann Zopf knocked that down Tuesday, saying the last time the Tesla CEO got an invitation was “not this year and not recently - last time in 2015.” Musk said in a tweet Dec. 22: “My reason for declining the Davos invitation was not because I thought they were engaged in diabolical scheming, but because it sounded boring af lol.” He didn’t specify when he got the invitation, but the tweet's timing suggested it was for this year. Musk did not immediately … [Read more...] about Elon Musk wasn’t invited to World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, say organisers

Hong Kong Disneyland on Lantau Island is set to get a 'Frozen'-themed land in the second half of 2023. (Photo courtesy Hong Kong Tourism Board) I've visited Hong Kong more times than I can remember. ‘Asia’s World City’—Hong Kong’s self-appointed title and a nod to its universal appeal— has enjoyed its reputation as a boisterous city, with its vibrant food, shopping and nightlife. One of Asia’s major business hubs, this glitzy metropolis attracts professional elites from across the globe, crammed into the glass and steel skyscrapers that dot the city’s skyline. The crackdown on citywide pro-democracy protests in the year before the pandemic tarnished the reputation of this former British colony a bit as die-hard locals and foreigners fretted over the city’s broader loss of autonomy. Once the pandemic hit, this was exacerbated by the crushing Covid policies, often mirroring China’s own draconian approach, which then triggered an exodus of foreigners from Hong Kong’s shores. … [Read more...] about Insider’s guide to Hong Kong

The world's first kite on record was rectangular, and was flown in the second century B.C. in China. (Representational image: Agnieszka Ziomek via Unsplash) Growing up in Hyderabad, one of the indelible memories of January has always been of seeing endless kites in the sky and how the fliers would compete to cut each other’s manja - the strong thread that allows the kite to scale such heights and still remain obedient to the skillful flier's wristy movements. With time, I saw fewer and fewer kites and it was not until a recent trip to Ahmedabad that these memories came rushing back as I visited the unique kite museum. (Photo by Bindu Gopal Rao) History Beckons The museum is located on the ground floor of Sankar Kendra, a cultural centre on Bhattacharya Road, in a building dating back to 1954 and designed by Le Corbusier . The layout is simple, and as you enter here, it is the sheer volume of infographics that is bound to blow your mind. Started with 125 … [Read more...] about Makar Sankranti 2023: Ahmedabad’s Kite Museum takes you back in time

Jaipur Literature Festival, the 'Kumbh Mela of Literature'. The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) will have a Nobel Prize winner for the second successive year. After Indian-American economist Abhijit V Banerjee, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics with wife Esther Duflo in 2019, led the festival speakers last year, JLF will see another Nobel laureate, Tanzanian-origin British author Abdulrazak Gurnah, on the opening day of the five-day event beginning on January 19. Tanzanian-origin British author Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, will deliver the keynote address of the 16th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival to be held from January 19 to 23. Gurnah, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, will deliver the keynote address. The author of such acclaimed novels as Afterlives (2020), By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994), is expected to delve at length on identity and borders drawing from his own experience as an … [Read more...] about Curtain raiser | Jaipur Literature Festival 2023: Books, borders and everything in between

Apple is reportedly expected to shift 25 percent of its iPhone production to India by 2025. Now, new reports suggests that iPhone production in India could rise to 50 percent by 2027. According to a forecast by Luke Lin, an analyst at the research unit of Taiwan’s DigiTimes newspaper, in the South China Morning Post, India could produce one in two of the world’s iPhones by 2027 as compared to the current percentage with stands at less than 5 percent. The forecast is more aggressive than JPMorgan’s earlier prediction that India would assemble 25 percent of total Apple iPhones worldwide by 2025. However, the report also states that this is in line with the rapid surge in India’s share of iPhone deliveries. India’s iPhone shipments doubled from April to December 2022, from the same period in 2021. Rumours also suggests that Apple will begin simultaneous production for the iPhone 15 series in China and India. China’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19 disrupted production … [Read more...] about India to be world’s iPhone factory by 2027 rolling out half of all devices, predicts this analyst

Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda. (Image: jeff-maggioncalda-5652548/LinkedIn) The CEO of Coursera, Jeff Maggioncalda, spoke to Moneycontrol on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos about the challenges of a post-pandemic world and how ChatGPT is “extraordinary” but “dangerous”. He also spoke about Indian students as the online open course provider expands in the country. Speaking about the challenges of balancing an on-campus life and online courses, Maggioncalda said that the pre-pandemic world was place based. “So if you had to learn you had to go to campus, if you wanted to work you had to go to an office. Then the campuses shut down, the offices shut down. What we are seeing now is a hybrid world,” he said. On Coursera’s India plans, he said that the company is working with universities across India to integrate career electives and industry certificates into on-campus learning programmes. “The online courses can be from universities and they can also be … [Read more...] about Coursera CEO is taking an online course from this university