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Secret To AI Profitability Is Hiring a Lot More Doctorates(2024-12-10 06:00:07)

As tech giants struggle to profit from AI, a growing industry of specialized AI training firms is emerging by hiring doctors, radiologists and other experts to develop commercially viable applications. The $20 billion data services sector, projected to grow 20% annually, is attracting major investme...
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China's Trillion-Dollar Bet on High-Speed Rail Transformation(2024-12-10 03:00:03)

China's high-speed rail network, which has tripled to nearly 30,000 miles under President Xi Jinping's leadership, faces mounting financial challenges amid aggressive expansion plans. China State Railway Group, the national operator, has accumulated nearly $1 trillion in debt and liabilities, requir...
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Drylands Now Make Up 40% of Land on Earth, Excluding Antarctica, Study Says(2024-12-10 00:00:06)

An area of land nearly a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland -- arid areas where agriculture is difficult -- in the past three decades, research has found. From a report: Drylands now make up 40% of all land on Earth, excluding Antarctica. Three-quarters of the world'...
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Scientists Advise EU To Halt Solar Geoengineering(2024-12-09 21:00:04)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a moratorium across the EU on efforts to artificially cool Earth through solar geoengineering. That includes controversial technologies used to reflect sunlight back into space, primarily by sending r...
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IT Giant Favored Indian H-1B Workers Over US Employees(2024-12-09 18:00:13)

chiguy writes: In October, a jury in a federal class-action lawsuit returned a verdict that found Cognizant intentionally discriminated against more than 2,000 non-Indian employees between 2013 and 2022. The verdict, which echoed a previously undisclosed finding from a 2020 US Equal Employment Oppor...
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