One might not expect to come across a lake in India‘s arid state of Rajasthan. But with Aravalli hills on both sides, this valley is a natural reservoir for the water cascading off the mountains. And a bandh (dam) ensures that the water stays, in a body of water called Siliserh Lake. Built in 1845 by the then-king of Alwar, Maharaja Vinay Singh, this lake can spread across nearly 10 square kilometers after a good monsoon. Siliserh is a part……
Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MIT’s tallest academic building, a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus skyline. This radar dome — or “radome” for short — is a fiberglass shell that encases a large parabolic dish, shielding it from the elements while allowing radio waves to penetrate. First installed in 1966, it was used initially to pioneer weather radar research. As the years……
Researchers at the Future Urban Mobility (FM) interdisciplinary research group atSingapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have created a synthetic framework known as theory-based residual neural network (TB-ResNet), which combines discrete choice models (DCMs) and deep neural networks (DNNs), also known as deep learning, to improve individual decision-making analysis used in travel behavior research. In their paper, “Theory-based residual neural networks: A synergy of discrete choice models and deep neural networks,” recently published……
The Chiesa del Soccorso is located on a steep promontory in Forio, a town on the Ischia Island. This peculiar white-colored church is dedicated to Santa Maria della Neve (Saint Mary of the Snow). The first religious building was dedicated on the Soccorso promontory around 1350 as part of an Augustinian convent, later suppressed in 1653. Originally, the church was small with only a nave and apse. Between the 18th and 19th-centuries, three chapels were added. One of these……
GajiGesa, a fintech startup that provides earned wage access (EWA) and other services for workers in Indonesia, has added strategic investors to help it launch new services and expand its user base. Its new backers include OCBC NISP Ventura, the venture capital arm of one of Indonesia’s largest banks, and the founders of grab-and-go coffee chain Kopi Kenangan. GajiGesa also recently expanded beyond the enterprise space with a new employee management system for SMEs and micro-SMEs. Called GajiTim, the……
Coinbase shares tumbled today to their their lowest point since the company began trading publicly on April 14. The market often moves in mysterious ways, but several drivers could be at play, including Coinbase’s high opening price at the time of its direct listing, its reliance on margins that are all but certain to drop owing to growing competition, and the lack of a lock-up period, meaning more insiders might now be offloading some of their highly valued shares,……
(CNN Español) — Los astronautas Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover y Shannon Walker de la NASA y Soichi Noguchi de la misión Crew-1 de SpaceX y la NASA regresaron a la tierra después de pasar aproximadamente 6 meses en la Estación Espacial Internacional (EEI). La nave Dragon, también conocida como Resilience (Resiliencia, en español) voló desde el espacio exterior, atravesó la espesa atmósfera de la Tierra y amerizó sin complicaciones en la costa de Florida, el pasado 2 de mayo…
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello friends, welcome to Daily Crunch, where we bring you the day’s most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. The fintech world is front and center today, with big news from Chime lighting up the analytics boards here at TechCrunch. But we also explored impressive earnings from fintech giants today, asking……
Jeti-Ögüz is a bright red rock formation that lends its name to a nearby resort, a village, and a whole Kyrgyz district. To differentiate it from these other entities, the formation is sometimes referred to as Jeti-Ögüz Rocks or Jeti-Ögüz Canyon. The name of this protected natural monument in Kyrgyzstan translates as “Seven Bulls,” a reference a mythological dispute between two rival khans. The wife of one of the khans betrayed her husband to join the second khan. Conspiracies and……
Ceasar McDowell, MIT professor of the practice of civic design and associate head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), has been named associate director for civic design at MIT’s new Center for Constructive Communication (CCC). McDowell will maintain his leadership roles at both DUSP and CCC moving forward. “Since 2019, Ceasar has been a trusted advisor to my Media Lab research team’s work in promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks, and has helped guide……
Last October, the White House released the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking. The plan was motivated, in part, by a greater understanding of the pervasiveness of the crime. In 2019, 11,500 situations of human trafficking in the United States were identified through the National Human Trafficking Hotline, and the federal government estimates there are nearly 25 million victims globally. This increasing awareness has also motivated MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded research and development center, to harness……
This kitschy pink elephant sign was a resident of Seattle‘s Belltown neighborhood for more than 60 years. It has over 380 lights and is constructed from bent neon and steel. The bright and whimsical sign made this Elephant Car Wash location one of the most photographed spots in Seattle. Elephant Car Wash first opened in the SoDo neighborhood in 1951. In 1956 the owners opened a second location on Battery Street, which included a sign designed by local artist……
The area surrounding Turkey‘s Orhaniye Bay, with its pine forests, warm beaches, and clear sea, is beautiful—some may say magical, even miraculous. This is because of Kizkumu Beach, where one can seemingly walk on the water. A sandy shelf, two meters wide and stretching over half a kilometer into the bay, provides a shallow hidden path flanked by much deeper water. Visitors can easily walk 600 meters towards the open sea. It is reminiscent of the story of Jesus……
What if a cancer patient could receive life-saving cellular therapy within days of diagnosis rather than weeks? What if pharmaceutical researchers could bring new treatments to market in months rather than years? Kytopen is significantly speeding up both discovery and delivery of engineered cell therapies with its transformative Flowfect platforms. The MIT spinout was co-founded by associate professor of mechanical engineering Cullen Buie and former MIT research scientist Paulo Garcia, now the company’s CEO. Cellular engineering is the process……
The Australian custom of saving a turn on the billiards (pool) table in pubs and bars by placing a coin on its edge is celebrated with the coins left on the gravestone to reserve a game with Australia‘s greatest billiards player. Walter Albert Lindrum was an Australian professional billiards player who held the World Professional Billiards Championship from 1933 until his retirement in 1950. He was named Walter Albert to have the initials of the state where he was born……
