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☆ India’s time zone: Why the world’s most populous country has a unique one
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Dhruv Tikekar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world. The start of the 20th century saw some push from scientific associations to calibrate India’s time to GMT. That recommendation was rejected by the colonial government, which opted for a unified time that sat squarely in the middle: five and a half hours ahead of GMT. In 2015, North Korea moved out of sync with South Korea by creating “Pyongyang Time,” putting the country eight and a half hours ahead of GMT instead of nine. India’s colonial-era time zone decision making, however, reflected a chorus of political, scientific and commercial voices both from within the government and outside of it, Gordon says.

Persons: Hulton, ”, Geoff Gordon, Gordon, “, it’s, Wong Maye, Hugo Chávez, Nicolas Maduro, Terry Gilliam, Rube Goldberg, Maulik Jagnani, Jagnani Organizations: CNN, East India Company, Hulton Deutsch, University of Amsterdam, Madras, Washington D.C, Greenwich Meridian, Greenwich Observatory, Meridian, Royal Society, Prime Meridian, Physical Laboratory, Tufts University, NPL Locations: New York, London, Tokyo, Iran, Myanmar, Australia, India, British, Madras, Chennai, “, Bombay, Kolkata, Washington, London ., Greenwich, North Korea, South Korea, Korea, Pyongyang, Brazil, ”, Greenwich , London, China, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat

What’s the Cloud Outlook for Eclipse Day? If you have an eclipse-viewing destination in mind, enter it in the box below to see average cloud cover in the past. For those in the United States, Texas has the lowest chance of cloud cover at about 45 percent. Where you go in Texas may matter, too — historical cloud cover in Dallas is no better than it is in Cleveland. They were able to see the total eclipse for almost five minutes.

Persons: Fred Espenak, Chris O’Byrne, It’s, Jay Anderson, “ It’s, Mr, Anderson, ” Mr Organizations: Cloud Outlook, Eclipse, NASA Locations: United States, Canada, Mexico, United States , Texas, Texas, Dallas, Cleveland, Canadian, China, Shanghai, Winnipeg

☆ Exclusive: AI healthcare software startup Cohere Health just raised $50 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Cohere Health just landed $50 million in Series B extension funding, Business Insider has learned exclusively. Deerfield Management led the Series B extension, with participation from Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners. The Cohere Health team. This year, as it works to get more health plans to use its software, Cohere plans to grow its workforce. In the second quarter of this year, Cohere plans to announce software that will apply AI to medical imaging.

Persons: Siva Namasivayam, Cohere, Axios, Namasivayam, It's, Michael Greeley, Lynne Chou O'Keefe, Greeley, Cohere's Organizations: Cohere, Business, Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital, Longitude, Polaris Partners, Humana, Capital Partners, Cohere Health Locations: Deerfield, Cohere

☆ Mojave Desert killings: 5 arrested after authorities find 6 people shot and killed in drug dispute
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Christina Maxouris | Taylor Romine | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Authorities in southern California have arrested five men in connection to the grisly killings of six people discovered shot – and some of whom were also burned – last week in a remote area of the Mojave Desert. The killings appear to be connected to illegal marijuana, authorities said, though they did not release many details, as the case is being reviewed by the district attorney’s office. Warrick said the man told them in Spanish he had been shot but did not know where he was. Authorities served multiple search warrants throughout the investigation and recovered several firearms and other evidence, the news release said. “We are confident that this appears to be a dispute over marijuana, which resulted in the murders,” Warrick said.

Persons: –, Michael Warrick, Warrick, ” Warrick, Adelanto, ”, Franklin Noel Bonilla, Kevin Dariel Bonilla, Toniel Baez, Duarte, Mateo Baez, Jose Nicolas Hernandez Sarabia, Jose Gregorio Hernandez Sarabia, Jose Manuel Burgos Parra, “, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon D, Dicus, ” CNN’s Cheri Mossburg Organizations: CNN, Authorities, Deputies, California, Patrol, Baldemar Mondragon, San, San Bernardino County, Attorney’s Office, San Bernardino County Sheriff Locations: California, San Bernardino County, Spanish, Adelanto, Los Angeles, Albarran, San Bernardino

☆ The job Americans would most like to see replaced by robots
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Joseph Bien-Kahn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

In a survey of jobs Americans would most like to see replaced by robots, the umpire would surely rank near the top. (The MLB league official tells me that legalized gambling has not been a factor in implementing ABS.) Frustratingly, the subjective has infiltrated what initially felt like a technological problem: What does the perfect strike zone even look like anyway? The MLB league official agrees, telling me the Jetson Robot Home Plate Ump is not in their plans. "Growing up, my parents would go, 'Oh, the umpire's strike zone was small!'

Persons: Jordan Pacheco, Pacheco, John McEnroe, —, Billy Beane, maniacally, Houston, it's, Ben Hurian, Paul Hawkins, Goltz, Tyler Le, Justin Goltz, he's, there's, rears, Tyler Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, who's, FanGraphs, Bagwell crouch, Miguel Yajure, Phillip Evans, Evans, X, they'd, Dylan Yep, what's, we're, Rob Manfred, — England's, Calvin Baker, Baker, Drew Strotman, Billy Evans, Strotman, Greg Maddux, MIT grads, steph, klay thompson, alf, hite, mudge, hird, ove, ahn Organizations: Lexington Legends, Twitter, Major League, ump, MLB, Sony, NASCAR, Triple, Albuquerque, Colorado Rockies, Astros, Companies, English Premier League soccer, Rugby, NFL, NBA, ABS, Sutter Health Park, Cats, San Francisco Giants, River, Reno Aces, AAA, Atlantic League, Big, of Fame, Seton Hall Sports, MIT, hawkeyes, ust Locations: OKC, California, Sacramento, uman

☆ ‘Dark’ ships are faking their locations to move oil around the world — and it's likely worth billions of dollars
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Maritime technology company Windward identified the area as a hub for smuggling oil. Cargo ships and car ferries cross the Kerch Strait, an area of "dark activity," according to marine technology company Windward. So that's definitely moved that focus into, okay, I'm now going to manipulate that signal," he told CNBC by video call. This can be done in a number of ways, a Spire spokesperson told CNBC by email. "If you're in the insurance industry, and you're not paying attention to this, you really need to start paying attention," Swift told CNBC by video call.

Persons: John Lusk, Christopher Swift, Foley, Lardner, We're, Lusk, Ami Daniel, Daniel, Good Hope, Iain Goodridge, Spire's, that's, I'm, " Goodridge, OFAC, Swift Organizations: Windward, Europa Press, Getty, Maritime Organization, AIS, Spire Maritime, Government, CNBC, Russia, Anadolu Agency, Venezuela, Spire, U.S . Treasury Department Locations: Morocco, Maritime, Ukraine, U.S, Russia, Kerch, Windward, Arabian, Venezuela, The U.S, East Asia, Angola, Venezuela's, South Africa's, Good, China, Malaysia

☆ Textron announces option to sell up to 1,500 Cessna Citation aircraft to NetJets
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Mehr Bedi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A worker cleans a NetJets booth on the trade show floor, in preparation for the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 11, 2021. REUTERS/Steve Marcus Acquire Licensing RightsSept 20 (Reuters) - Textron Aviation (TXT.N) and NetJets on Wednesday signed an agreement which would give the private jet firm owned by Berkshire Hathaway an option to buy up to 1,500 additional Cessna Citation business jets over the next 15 years. The deal for Cessna Citation business jets, which are designed, produced and delivered by Textron, could be valued at approximately $30 billion, according to analysts at Jefferies. The deal extends NetJets' existing fleet agreement and includes options for an increasing number of aircraft each year, allowing it to expand its fleet with Cessna Citation Ascend, Citation Latitude and Citation Longitude aircraft. Deliveries of the Citation Ascend are expected to begin in 2025 when the aircraft, currently under development, is expected to enter into service.

Persons: Steve Marcus, Berkshire Hathaway, Mehr Bedi, Shilpi Majumdar Organizations: NBAA Business Aviation Convention, Las Vegas Convention, REUTERS, Textron Aviation, Wednesday, Berkshire, Cessna Citation, Textron, Jefferies, Cessna, Thomson Locations: Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S, Bengaluru

☆ Opinion: The Deep Space Network is in trouble
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Opinion Don Lincoln | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The Deep Space Network, or DSN, is an interconnected set of three radio telescope facilities spread across the globe. Indeed, without the DSN, NASA’s robotic exploration of deep space would simply not be possible. On the contrary, if humanity is going to once again venture into deep space, it will be crucial to be able to maintain a radio link with those intrepid explorers. Both of those missions, indeed all deep space programs, depend on reliable communication, or they will fail. The Deep Space Network is NASA’s link to the planets, and it needs additional support if we ever hope to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Persons: Don Lincoln, James Webb, NASA Artemis, Artemis Organizations: Fermi, Accelerator Laboratory, Facebook, CNN, Space, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Telescope, Orion, Twitter, James Webb Space Telescope Locations: California, Spain, Australia

☆ Domino's can find you wherever you are with new Google pin drop tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Domino's is using Google Maps tech to launch Pinpoint Delivery. Domino's has seen a slowdown in its delivery business due to inflationary pressures on customers. The pizza chain, which bills itself as a tech chain that happens to sell pizza, is leveraging Google Maps technology to deliver pizzas to locations without addresses, such as parks, beaches, and baseball fields. Domino's is leveraging Google Maps tech for Pinpoint Delivery. There's no extra cost for Pinpoint Delivery, which comes as inflationary pressures have hurt Domino's delivery business.

Persons: Domino's, —, Christopher Thomas, Moore, Carl Orsbourn, Sandeep Reddy, Reddy Organizations: Google, Service, Oppenheimer, Commerce, NPD

☆ China lodges complaint over South Korean president's 'erroneous' Taiwan remarks
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BEIJING, April 23 (Reuters) - China's Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong has lodged solemn representations with the South Korean ambassador over "erroneous" remarks by the South Korean president about Taiwan, China's foreign ministry said on Sunday. "The Taiwan issue is not simply an issue between China and Taiwan but, like the issue of North Korea, it is a global issue," Yoon said. Yoon's remarks are "totally unacceptable," Sun said, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement. "The South Korean leader made no mention of the One China principle, but equated the Taiwan issue with the Korean Peninsula issue," Sun said. Sun's complaint followed criticism from the Chinese foreign ministry last week that South Korea should "prudently" handle matters related to Taiwan.

☆ A Russian ship that's been off the coast of Hawaii for weeks is believed to be gathering intelligence, the US Coast Guard says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The US Coast Guard said Wednesday it is monitoring a Russian ship near Hawaii. The Coast Guard said the ship is believed to be gathering intelligence. "The Coast Guard operates in accordance with international laws of the sea to ensure all nations can do the same without fear or contest. The Coast Guard said it was coordinating with the Department of Defense to provide updates on the movement of the foreign ships. In May, the US Indo-Pacific Command said it was monitoring a Russian vessel near Hawaii.

☆ Video shows dramatic helicopter rescue after vehicle plunged into California canyon
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Authorities say it's a miracle two people had only minor injuries after their vehicle plunged hundreds of feet off the road and into a canyon Tuesday in California. A man and a woman in their early 20s fell about 300 feet when their vehicle veered off the road into Monkey Canyon in Angeles National Forest, about 30 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. “Nearly all of the vehicles that go over the side of the road in that particular area turn out to be fatalities. Had it not been for the smartphone technology, Gilbert said, the two risked hypothermia, because temperatures were expected to drop into the 30s overnight. The sheriff’s department’s Special Enforcement Bureau tweeted dramatic video and photos of the rescue.

☆ This 31-year-old CEO says staying focused on one disease was the key to helping his company raise $120 million in a frozen biotech market
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Arthur Kuan is the 31-year-old CEO of CG Oncology, a startup focused on treating bladder cancer. CG announced earlier this week that it has raised $120 million, despite a difficult biotech market. Since 2016, the year that Kuan became the CEO of CG Oncology, the Irvine, California-based cancer startup has raised big rounds from investors. "I think I've seen a lot of successful stories where you've stayed very focused on just one thing and you just see things that others don't by being very deep," Kuan told Insider. But when his father died that same year from pancreatic cancer, Kuan said he decided to focus on bladder cancer.

☆ Apple's new crash detection feature for the iPhone 14 and Apple Watch is calling 911 when people ride roller coasters
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Apple recently introduced crash detection for iPhone 14 and Apple Watch. Crash detection is calling 911 when users go on roller coaster rides, WSJ and Coaster101 report. The feature, which works on the new iPhone 14 and Apple Watches, is supposed to detect severe car crashes, and help users reach emergency services. Emergency services responded to the park, but didn't see any such incident, per a 911 report cited by the Journal. The Warren County Communications Center, which received the call, gave the Journal six such recordings of unnecessary crash detection calls it received, spurred by rides at Kings Island.

The Longitude and Latitude Tote Bags ($245) come in five colors: Black, Navy, Pine, Buff, and Ruby. Recently, Away debuted two new leather tote bags, the Longitude Tote Bag and the Latitude Tote Bag, to complement its luggage. The vertical Longitude Tote can hold up to a 13-inch laptop, and the horizontal Latitude Tote can hold up to a 15-inch laptop. We tested out Away's newest leather tote bags, using them as our work bags and while traveling. We tried Away's $245 tote bags.

Persons: Ruby, — Organizations: Navy, Service, tote

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