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Students at IIT Guwahati, NIT Silchar and Dibrugarh University in Assam have jointly developed a multi-lingual smartphone application for farmers to smartly manage their farms and remotely monitor distress activities. Developed with a goal of optimising the in-farm productivity through Artificial Intelligence (AI), the application called "AgSpeak" will help the farmers in making decisions and managing farm activities through their smartphone or computer. "India is a leading agricultural country with immense potential, yet 2 billion people globally did not have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food in 2019 alone. To end this global starvation, we need to double agricultural productivity in the next 15 years. Unless we use technology appropriately in the agricultural sector, this would be impossible," said IIT Guwahati Director TG Sitharam. According to Manik Mittal, a student at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, the startup is leading this initiative in the … [Read more...] about IIT-Guwahati, NIT-Silchar and Dibrugarh University students develop AI-based mobile app for farmers

The professor says there is much to be done in areas like healthcare, waste management, environmental remediation, and energy. The government launched the Nano Mission initiative in 2007. But Bandhyopadhyay says government should do more. Government, he says, should give companies incentives to take on certain projects – such as waste management – to manufacture products and thereby create a supply chain in the space. He also feels education should be geared towards nurturing not just job seekers, but job creators. Big companies are too entrenched in the ways they function. Emerging technologies require entrepreneurs who think differently. … [Read more...] about India’s world No. 3 in nanotech research, but…

Other scientific subjects among the 100 finalists in Nikon's contest included an excited neuron, a chameleon embryo, a butterfly's coiled tongue, an adhesive pad on a ladybug's leg, the splash of colorful crystals that form in battery leakage and pearly dewdrops clinging to a spider web. … [Read more...] about Helix-Shaped Plankton Portrait Wins ‘Small World’ Contest

Last year, a colorful image of the blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo took home 1st prize, while 2nd place went to a photograph of newborn lynx spiderlings. The year before, an up-close portrait of a green lacewing larva won top honors, followed by an amazing image of blade of grass magnified 200 times. … [Read more...] about Dewdrops & Butterfly Tongues: Tiny Worlds Come to Life in Microscope Photos

Still, the projections were just a first step in the much larger comprehensive report on the state of antimicrobial resistance and its threat to human health and the global economy. The report, requested by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and led by economist Jim O’Neill, has been two years in the making and largely focuses on a 10-step plan to avert those doomsday predictions. … [Read more...] about In 2050, superbugs may kill 1 person every 3 seconds, report warns