Carleton Coffrin, a computer scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, developed the Severe Contingency Solver software to help government agencies better plan for power outages caused by extreme events. The software is now available publicly. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory A new, free, open-source software reliably predicts how damage from hurricanes, ice storms, earthquakes, and other extreme events will restrict power delivery from utility grids. The Severe Contingency Solver for Electric Power Transmission is the only software available—commercially or open-source—that reliably supports analysis of extreme events that cause widespread damage. “The software was designed specifically to address extreme events where…
Author: Loknath Das
Jay Tank, 25, is self-employed and earns about Rs 1 lakh a month. He lives with his homemaker wife and parents in their house, in Navsari, Gujarat. Given the early start to financial planning, his portfolio is meagre. It comprises cash of Rs 82,000, and equity in the form of mutual funds worth Rs 1.75 lakh and stocks worth Rs 1.02 lakh. In fact, his net worth is currently in the negative due to a car loan of Rs 9 lakh, for which Tank is paying an EMI of Rs 14,500. His goals include building an emergency corpus, saving for his future…
One day I was scrolling through various cat videos on Instagram and was advertised a game featuring what appeared to be a hot dog personified as a sexy lady. Despite being patently ridiculous, this game is entertaining as heck. Gacha games like Fate Grand Order and Otogi Spirit Agents are a little bit silly. In order to keep coming up with new characters to summon, so as to entice players to keep summoning them and possibly buying premium currency to do so, Grand Order and Otogi Spirit Agents turn to history to fill out their rosters. That’s how you end up with Sexy Anime George Washington. Outstream Video 00:00…
India’s higher education system is the world’s third largest in terms of students, next to China and the United States.(HT file) India’s higher education system is the world’s third largest in terms of students, next to China and the United States. According to a research conducted by a private university in Lucknow, in future, India will be one of the largest education hubs. India’s Higher Education sector has witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of Universities/University level Institutions & Colleges since independence. The ‘Right to Education Act’ which stipulates compulsory and free education to all children within the age…
MUMBAI: Non-banking financeNSE 0.12 % company L&T Finance is looking to raise up to Rs 1,000 crore through an issue of non-convertible debentures. The base size of the issue, which is the second tranche, is Rs 500 crore with an option to retain oversubscription of up to Rs 500 crore, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. In the second tranche, the company is offering bondsmaturing in 3, 5 and 8 years offering a coupon of 8.48-9.05 per cent, it said. Company Summary NSE BSE Larsen & Toubro Ltd. -20.80 (-1.48%) Power Finance Corpor… 0.15 (0.12%) “Net proceeds of the issue will…
There’s no question that the crypto industry has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past year, regardless of persisting bear trend that has sent overall market sentiment towards rock bottom. One indication of this growth has been the large and growing trend of social media giants entering the industry, and because social media companies operate on the forefront of the general public, their quickness to adopt crypto may signal a bigger trend of growing mainstream adoption. Report: Russian Social Media Giant VKontakte (VK) Developing Own Crypto According to a recent report from Russian news outlet RNS, VKontakte (VK) –…
School funding per pupil has fallen by 8% in real terms over the past eight years, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Photograph: Julian Claxton/Alamy Teachers at a cash-strapped primary school have volunteered to take a £7,000-a-year pay cut to save the jobs of colleagues. Schools across the country are so short of funds that headteachers are being forced to make drastic cutbacks. In a stark example of the funding squeeze, Furzedown primary school, in the south London borough of Wandsworth, had instigated a series of measures to balance its books and was facing the possibility of making redundancies. But…
SAN FRANCISCO: Adobe Inc and MicrosoftCorp are partnering to bolster each other’s sales and marketing software capabilities, taking aim at common rival Salesforce.com Inc, they said on Tuesday. Adobe and Microsoft hope to make it easier for users of Adobe’s marketing software to find and target teams of potential customers for business goods on LinkedIn, the social network owned by Microsoft, they said at a conference in Las Vegas. If an Adobe customer is selling medical equipment to a hospital, for example, the new partnership would make it easier to target tailored LinkedIn ads to all of the people involved in the…
Former prisoner David Breakspear says education in jail transformed his prospects – yet of 82,200 inmates, just 100 were studying at AS-level or above in 2018. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian As his two dogs wander in and out of the kitchen, David Breakspear expounds on the problems of British prisons: overcrowding, staff shortages, mental health issues. Breakspear has spent 15 years in jail. His final stint, he says, for holding up a newsagent at knife point, was deliberate – he hoped a few years behind bars could break a cycle of underachievement and homelessness. Once convicted, he spent his time…
Addis Ababa: An Ethiopian Airlines executive questioned whether Boeing had told pilots enough about “aggressive” software that pushes a plane’s nose down, a focus of investigation into a deadly crash in Ethiopia this month. Comments by the CEO and vice president of the airline this weekend will fuel a debate over the safety of Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft, two of which have crashed in similar circumstances in the last five months. Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s most profitable airline, has robustly defended its own safety record, training and procedures after the crash on March 10 that killed 157 people. Attention has focused on…