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The Hindu
a day ago
- The Hindu
13-member delegation visits Alappuzha to study digital survey
A 13-member high-level team of officials from various States visited Alappuzha on Saturday to study the Ente Bhoomi Digital Survey and understand its technical aspects. The team arrived at the Collectorate in the morning and held discussions with District Collector Alex Varghese. The Collector briefed the delegation on the ongoing digital survey in the district and highlighted the region's geographical features. Following this, members of the district's digital re-survey team gave a detailed PowerPoint presentation on the Ente Bhoomi Digital Survey and addressed the team's queries. Later, the team visited Aryad South village to observe the digital survey activities on the ground. At Chathanad, they interacted with survey officials and local residents. The visit was part of the land digital survey conclave held in Thiruvananthapuram from June 25 to 28.
Business Insider
2 days ago
- Health
- Business Insider
Cofounder of Neuralink rival Precision Neuroscience reveals what people often get wrong about brain implants
At least that's the line from Dr. Ben Rapoport, the cofounder and chief science officer of Precision Neuroscience, a brain-computer interface, or BCI, company. "Many people have the impression that the data that we care about is sort of everywhere inside this dimensional structure," Rapoport, a neurosurgeon and engineer, told Business Insider. That's a big misconception, he said. People often incorrectly assume that "you need electrodes that penetrate deep inside the brain to get that information out," he added. But brain implants don't need to be as invasive as they might sound, he said. Precision is developing a thin film that sits on the brain and records brain activity in patients with paralysis. "We implant modules of 1,024 electrodes on the brain surface in the area that controls movement, especially the hand," Rapoport said. That allows them to have cursor control, typing ability, access the internet, use PowerPoint, play games, and word process, he added. These are actions that require vision, movement, sensation, and executive function — core parts of consciousness that are concentrated in the brain's outermost layer, the cortex, Rapoport said. Deeper inside are "connections, you know, between those activities and also sort of subconscious processes, because the brain coordinates a lot of activities in the body that don't take place consciously," he added. The New York-based startup, which received FDA clearance for part of its wireless brain-computer interface in April, has raised $155 million in funding since it launched in 2021. It is one of a few companies advancing this technology as part of the Implantable BCI Collaborative Community. BCIs are largely classified into two categories: invasive and non-invasive. Non-invasive BCIs, which don't require surgery, often rely on external sensors to detect the electrical signals in the brain. BCS that are implanted record neural activity directly from the brain and are being developed to restore speech, movement, and other complex functions in people with neurological conditions. The buzziest BCI these days is Elon Musk's Neuralink, which has ambitions to create a "symbiosis" between the human brain and AI. But there are a host of other companies working on BCIs as a way to treat neurological diseases, like Precision Neuroscience. The company has tested its temporary device in over forty patients in early clinical studies. Over the next year, it will prepare for the first human studies of its permanently implanted devices. "There are certain internal validation checks and internal milestones that we need to meet for ourselves and for the FDA before we want to start implanting the permanently implanted wireless device in humans," Rapoport said. The company's ultimate goal is to help paralyzed people get "back to a level of functional capacity where they can be significantly independent, economically self-sufficient, and hold a job in the workplace," Rapoport said. Correction: June 27, 2025 — An earlier version of this story said that Dr. Ben Rapoport was the founder and CEO of Precision Neuroscience; Dr. Rapoport is the cofounder and chief science officer. An earlier version also mischaracterized the film that goes on the brain. It is not studded with electrodes; the electrodes are embedded.
Business Journals
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Journals
5 steps for organizations to get started with AI
1. AI PRODUCTIVITY: Begin your AI journey by activating AI features already available in your Microsoft suite. Microsoft Copilot integrates directly with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, providing immediate value without requiring new infrastructure. Users can use Copilot to draft documents, analyze spreadsheet data, create presentations, and summarize email threads. These tools can be deployed iteratively across departments, starting with power users who can become internal champions for the rest of the organization. 2. WORKFLOW & DOCUMENT INTELLIGENCE: Some of the quickest areas of ROI in AI comes with exploring. Identify repetitive, rule-based processes that consume significant employee time and automate them using AI-powered tools. Microsoft Power Automate can handle document processing, data entry, approval workflows, and integration between different business systems. Using Power Platform's AI Builder, you can utilize AI models to detect document types and extract data to drive these automated workflows, which can connect to Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and many other third-party applications. 3. AI STRATEGY & GOVERNANCE: Create a foundation for AI success by establishing clear data governance, ethical AI guidelines, and implementation standards. This includes data quality assessments, privacy compliance, and defining acceptable AI use cases for your organization. This can consist of leveraging Microsoft Purview for data discovery and classification across your M365 environment and utilizing the Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance Center to enforce AI governance rules and monitor compliance across all AI implementations. 4. LAUNCH AI PILOTS: Select specific business challenges and use cases where AI can deliver measurable value with minimal risk. Customer service or internal facing chatbots, document summarization, or predictive maintenance are excellent starting points that can provide a clear ROI while building organizational AI experience. Plan to start small with several experiments before determining which use cases and AI solutions should proceed to the pilot stage. 5. BUILD INTERNAL EXPERTISE: Invest in developing your team's AI literacy through structured training programs, workshops, and hands-on experience with AI tools. Create centers of excellence that can guide AI adoption across different departments and maintain best practices. Eventually, the input and experiences of these teams will create a cycle of evaluation and updating of your organization's AI strategy and governance plans.
Time Out
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
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Photograph: Courtesy of the artist | Josh Sharp Josh Sharp has been a pillar of the queer alt-comedy scene in New York, often working alongside his partner in subversive humor, Aaron Jackson, with whom he co-created the memorably outré 2023 movie Dicks: The Musical . Now he goes it alone, riding the recent vogue for comedic Off Broadway solo shows, with a collection of stories and jokes set to a massive PowerPoint presentation that includes some 2,000 screens to be clicked through . Will he slip on all those slides? Find out in a what is sure to be a manically amusing evening , directed by Oh, Mary! 's newly be-Tonyed Sam Pinkleton . Mon, Jul 7, 2025 Tue, Jul 8, 2025 Wed, Jul 9, 2025 Thu, Jul 10, 2025 Fri, Jul 11, 2025 Sat, Jul 12, 2025 Sat, Jul 12, 2025 Mon, Jul 14, 2025 Tue, Jul 15, 2025 Wed, Jul 16, 2025 Show more By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. 🙌 Awesome, you're subscribed! Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Discover Time Out original video
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Report: Harvard and Trump admin circle toward deal amid multiple clashes
First came a social media post on Friday from President Donald Trump, boasting of a 'mindbogglingly HISTORIC' deal with Harvard University. Later that day, the New York Times released an article citing numerous unnamed sources that talks had been progressing between Harvard and the Trump administration, and that some kind of a deal may indeed be coming. Discussions resumed this week at a meeting in the White House, according to the Times. Harvard showed federal officials a PowerPoint presentation on how the university has addressed antisemitism, admissions and viewpoint diversity among faculty. The White House then sent Harvard a letter naming conditions the university could take that would resolve the conflict. Harvard's press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday. Two sources told the Times that a deal was unlikely to take shape within the next week. The Times also reported that Harvard felt pressured to make a deal with the administration. The Trump administration has taken a multi-pronged approach to bring Harvard to heel, cutting off or freezing billions in federal funding, attempting to stop Harvard from accepting foreign students, trying to end Harvard's tax-exempt status and listing demands that Harvard address antisemitism and a lack of viewpoint diversity among its faculty. MassLive highlighted 10 Harvard researchers set to have their work terminated by Trump administration cuts. The news of the potential deal came just hours after a federal judge once again blocked the Trump administration from preventing Harvard from accepting foreign students. Some foreign students at Harvard University say they've become a bargaining chip in Trump's attacks on the school. 'It's part of a bigger battle between authoritarianism and democracy and we are kind of in the middle of it right now and we're the most recent victim,' Karl Molden, a rising junior Harvard student from Austria, told MassLive in May. Some Harvard students, both foreign and those from the U.S., have said they are looking elsewhere to transfer amid the fight with the federal government. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology announced this month that it had offered acceptance to a Harvard student to transfer and that more applications awaited. Harvard scholars have also considered leaving the United States and academia, as well, amid the cuts. Along with the university's legal battle with the administration over international students, in April, the Trump administration demanded an overhaul of Harvard's leadership structure, admissions and hiring. If the university didn't comply, it risked losing $9 billion in funding, the federal government said. The actions were taken in the name of antisemitism, as the Trump administration claimed Harvard failed to protect Jewish students, particularly in the wake of the war in Gaza. The funding cuts sent a wave of resistance through higher education and Harvard rejected the administration's demands and set the stage for a historic showdown. The school stated that the Trump administration looked to 'invade university freedoms long recognized by the Supreme Court.' The federal government froze an initial $2.2 billion on April 14, a number that has only grown since. On May 16, a wave of nearly 1,000 federal research grant terminations began, amounting to more than $2.4 billion, according to an analysis by Nature. Next, the Trump administration said it would bar Harvard from acquiring new federal grants. And then just a few days later, eight federal agencies cut $450 million in grants, followed by the Department of Health and Human Services cutting $60 million. All federal agencies were then ordered to cut off existing contracts with Harvard or transfer them to other vendors, according to a letter from the U.S. General Services Administration. Harvard is engaged in a lawsuit with the administration after it froze $2.2 million in federal funding and has addressed the administration's claims that it has not done enough to combat antisemitism on its campus. The funding cuts, according to Harvard, have threatened research that includes: Breakthrough therapies to prevent and target a range of cancers A new class of anesthetics for service members wounded on the field of battle The potential to 'significantly cut' the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and strokes Preventing new HIV infections Tuberculosis Vaccine safety and efficacy MassLive reporters Juliet Schulman-Hall, Hadley Barndollar, Will Katcher and Ryan Mancini contributed to this article. 'Devastating': 10 Harvard researchers detail 'essential' work set to be cut by Trump Trump says he's working on 'mindbogglingly HISTORIC' deal with Harvard Federal judge halts Trump's plans to keep Harvard from enrolling foreign students Harvard researcher's work gives 'hope' for Parkinson's. But the feds cut his funding Read the original article on MassLive.
