In another one win for artificial intelligence, a study has found new proof suggesting&nbsp;AI is capable of predicting&nbsp;levels of loneliness&nbsp;in people.&nbsp;
The research by UC San Diego reveals that speech analysis AI can detect levels of loneliness in older adults by just listening to them.&nbsp;
For the assessment&nbsp;published in&nbsp;the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the team gathered 80 older adults and interviewed them for 90 minutes. The recordings were then analysed by IBM's&nbsp;natural language system that didn't just assess loneliness levels but was even able to find nuances between how men and women talk about loneliness differently.&nbsp;
Turns out, AI had a 94% accuracy in predicting the way the speaker was feeling.&nbsp;

In another one win for artificial intelligence, a study has found new proof suggesting AI is capable of predicting levels of loneliness in people. The research by UC San Diego reveals that speech analysis AI can detect levels of loneliness in older adults by just listening to them. For the assessment published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the team gathered 80 older adults and interviewed them for 90 minutes. The recordings were then analysed by IBM's natural language system that didn't just assess loneliness levels but was even able to find nuances between how men and women talk about loneliness differently. Turns out, AI had a 94% accuracy in predicting the way the speaker was feeling.

Digantika Bose, a grade 12 student from West Bengal, has won the prestigious&nbsp;national science competition award for an innovative &lsquo;ear pressure reduction tool&rsquo; that she has created to help&nbsp;frontline&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;workers.&nbsp;
Bose was one of nine children&nbsp;who were awarded the Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Ignited Mind Children Creativity and Innovation Awards 2020.
Talking about her innovation, Digantika&nbsp;told Indian Express,&nbsp;&ldquo;The head band is a facemask extender that simply connects the ear straps and extends them to wrap around the back of your head. As a result, there will be no pressure on the ears, and hence no discomfort or pain.&rdquo;

India has started the cultivation of&nbsp;asafoetida, commonly known as hing, for the first time ever thanks to the combined efforts of&nbsp;the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology.&nbsp;
A staple spice used in Indian cooking, the first&nbsp;hing&nbsp;seedling has been planted by farmers in the Lahaul&nbsp;valley in Himachal&nbsp;Pradesh.&nbsp;
Apart from being an essential spice, hing&nbsp;is also used for medical purposes as a laxative and sedative.&nbsp;India reportedly imports nearly 1,200 tonnes of the covetable spice annually from Afghanistan, Iran and Uzbekistan, which costs us $100 million per year. Growing hing locally could help India save upwards of 900 crore&nbsp;rupees, according to reports.&nbsp;

Matrimonial newspaper ads are notorious for including some of the most eccentric and often hilarious things. One such ad, giving a glimpse into India's arranged marriage culture, has gone viral for all the wrong reasons.&nbsp;
A man looking for a fair bride, describing himself as an 'effluent industrialist' has become the butt of many jokes on the micro-blogging site. The use of effluent, where he probably meant affluent, has received a variety of reactions from users. Take a look!&nbsp;

Indian celebrity chef, entrepreneur and TV personality Sanjeev&nbsp;Kapoor&nbsp;has launched his own culinary academy.
Dubbed to be India's first celebrity cooking academy, the platform has been launched in collaboration with&nbsp;Knorish, a tech platform fuelling over 10,000 such online academies.&nbsp;
Kapoor's&nbsp;online cooking school teaches essentials required for launching and growing a food business, courses on making immunity-boosting recipes and cooking up restaurant-quality or home-style delicacies.
Padma&nbsp;Shree&nbsp;awardee&nbsp;Sanjeev&nbsp;Kapoor&nbsp;shared the news on Twitter and wrote the initiative aims to help anyone to hone their culinary skills from the comfort of their homes.&nbsp;

October 20 is marked as World Osteoporosis Day and the aim is to raise awareness on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
Osteoporosis currently affects about 50 million Indians but most cases go undiagnosed and undetected.
According to the studies conducted among women in India across the country, it is estimated that among the 230 million Indians expected to be over the age of 50 years,&nbsp;46 million are women with osteoporosis.
The disease weakens bones making them porous that even mild stress like bending may lead to a fracture.&nbsp;
Numerous factors could be responsible for the condition, including ageing, genetics, arthritis, sedentary lifestyle and deficiency of calcium and vitamin D.
Here's a list of foods that you can include in your diet, to&nbsp;nurse your bones to good health!
You need sufficient&nbsp;calcium&nbsp;to strengthen your bones and&nbsp;vitamin D&nbsp;to help your body absorb calcium.
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Good sources of calcium include,&nbsp;milk, cheese and other dairy foods,&nbsp;green leafy vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage and okra,&nbsp;soya beans, tofu,&nbsp;nuts,&nbsp;bread and anything made with fortified flour and even&nbsp;fish where you eat the bones.
 Good sources of vitamin D include,&nbsp;oily fish, such as salmon and sardines mackerel,&nbsp;eggs,&nbsp;fortified fat spreads and&nbsp;fortified breakfast cereals.
In addition, having a diet rich in protein may also help strengthen the bones. Gorge on nuts, legumes and soy if you're looking for a protein-rich diet.
Along with a healthy diet, exercise helps build stronger bones. Whether its strength training or weight exercises, they will help improve bone and muscle strength in the long run.

Pope Francis' many appearances have spawned several memes&nbsp;in the past but there's one that seems to be more evergreen than others.&nbsp;
A 2013 Getty image of Pope Francis holding up&nbsp;a Eucharist wafer has become the latest subject of viral memes&nbsp;on Twitter with people making use of the platform's image tiles to create their own versions. According to Know Your Meme, the image has gone viral several times in the last few years.
From The Lion King&rsquo;s Simba&nbsp;to the Hot Priest character on Fleabag, netizens are recreating the viral meme with just about anything.&nbsp;

American plant-based meat substitute maker Impossible Foods has officially launched its 'faux&nbsp;beef burgers' in grocery stores across&nbsp;Hong&nbsp;Kong and Singapore.&nbsp;
The launch is part of the company's push towards bolstering a presence in Asia and entering the lucrative mainland China market. Impossible Foods is yet to get launch approval from China as its&nbsp;key ingredient, heme, made from genetically modified yeast, requires regulatory approval in China.
Impossible informed Reuters that it has launched its meatless meat products in about 200 stores in Hong&nbsp;Kong and Singapore this week.&nbsp;

Designer label Shivan&nbsp;&amp; Narresh&nbsp;just marked their ten years in the industry with a stunning digital showcase&nbsp;titled &lsquo;#Wilding20s&rsquo;.
Set amidst the Aravallis, the collection introduces 55 looks and 5 new art prints. What makes it a rare one though is that the designer duo has introduced 5 distinct vacation lifestyles in the collection. It features something for the beach, the mountains and more.
The digital showcase came as a breathe of fresh air as it featured a whole range of inclusive models.&nbsp;
The collection aims to celebrate a 'reforming future' .

In a new 'milestone' study, researchers from Trinity College Dublin have found that bottle-fed babies could be ingesting millions of microplastics&nbsp;a day.&nbsp;It brings to light the intensity of the plastic problem.
They found that the usual&nbsp;high-temperature process for sterilising plastic bottles and preparing formula milk for babies caused the bottle to shed millions of microplastics&nbsp;and nanoplastics.
Experts suggest replacing plastic with alternatives like glass bottles for feeding and developing tough coatings to prevent plastic shedding.

Navratris are here and for all those who are fasting, here are some foods you may not know you could still enjoy. 1. While grains are avoided during these fasts, you could turn to amaranth or ramdaana which is actually a pseudo-cereal and is also gluten-free. 2. Chironji, flax seeds and sunflower seeds have great Ayurvedic properties and give an energy boost. You can whip up a delicious Chironji Ki Dal and roll flax seeds and sunflower seeds into your rotis. 3. Himalayan pink salt is considered to be the purest form of salt on Earth. It is not refined or processed and is rich in as many as 84 trace minerals! 4. Potato is not only starchy vegetable you can eat while fasting. Root vegetables like arbi, jimikand and sweet potatoes can be eaten. You can add them to a chaat, shallow-fry them or cook them as a main dish. 5. You can have nut milks made of almonds and cashews along with coconut milk. Just make sure that they are pure and unprocessed. 6. You can even chomp on a bowlful of

A group of women is taking the vision of vocal for local a notch higher in Jaipur.
The group, is creating eco-friendly diyas with cow dung ahead of Diwali. In contrast to regular diyas, these ones aren't decorated with harmful colour or other adornments. The makers claim they can decompose easily and do not pollute the environment.&nbsp;
Over a 100 women, who work at the cowshed, are making 1000 diyas per day. The initaive will not only help promote organic products but also provide employment to women in the state.

NASA's&nbsp;Osiris-Rex spacecraft would be touching down on a&nbsp;skyscraper-sized asteroid, 200 million miles away on Tuesday and if all goes as planned, it will bring back chunks of the asteroid for further research.&nbsp;
Osiris-Rex will use its robotic arm to collect the samples of asteroid Bennu&nbsp;instead of landing on the surface of the asteroid.
Nasa&nbsp;shared that Bennu, which is a primitive asteroid and believed to have formed over&nbsp;4.5 billion years ago, could give important information about life on Earth.
The asteroid could also be rich in gold and platinum and this could help researchers study the feasibility of asteroid mining.&nbsp;

According to a new report by Oxfam, rich countries are loaning billions of dollars worth of funds at high interest rates to poor countries, aiding their fight against the climate crisis.
But, this is further pushing them into debt traps as the amount of 'climate finance' that is actually received by these poor countries after repayment, interest and other costs are subtracted, is very different and much lower.
According to Oxfam, in 2017-2018, poor countries were reported to receive&nbsp;$60bn&nbsp;as climate finance but what actually came was approximately $19bn to $22.5bn.
Experts suggest that financial flows be aligned&nbsp;with the Paris agreement and the UN sustainable development goals. Investment flows must be greener and more sustainable.&nbsp;
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To embrace the festive spirit, Covid-19 patients performed the famous Garba with healthcare workers at the Nesco Covid Centre in Mumbai.
In the video which is now going viral, healthcare staff dressed in full PPE&nbsp;kits&nbsp;can be seen enjoying the dance together with patients, who can be seen wearing masks.

An ethereal photograph of an endangered Siberian tiger hugging an ancient Manchurian fir tree to mark it with her scent, clicked by Russian photographer Sergey Gorshkov recently bagged this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year grand title.
Back home, IFS officer Parveen Kaswan took to Twitter to share an Indian version of the photograph, clicked by his friend Sarosh Lodhi.
It showed another tiger hugging a tree, similar to the one clicked by Gorshkov that won him the prestigious title from nearly 50,000 entries.

Ramagiri Swarika, a law student and micro artist in Hyderabad, has written the Bhagavad Gita on 4042 grains of rice.
It took her almost 150 hours of sharp focus to create the piece, without using a magnifying glass.
Swarika often uses paper carvings and sesame seeds among other things for her art. Until now, she has worked on over 2000 micro artworks, which also includes writing the Preamble of the Constitution on strands of hair.
The micro artist has bagged numerous accolades from prestigious institutions for her pieces made to precision.

A huge figurine of a 'relaxing' cat etched in the&nbsp;Nazca desert in Peru has been discovered by archaeologists.&nbsp;The figurine goes back some 2,000 years ago and was etched along with other animal figures.
Archaeologists stumbled across the faded etching while remodeling a section of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Peru whch&nbsp;is known for geoglyphs.
Peru's Culture Ministry shared that over the last week, the 37-metre figurine has been cleaned and conserved.

Ukrainian fitness influencer&nbsp;Dmitriy Stuzhuk, who told his followers on social media that Covid-19 does not exist, has died of the virus at 33 years old.&nbsp;His ex-wife Sophia, another influencer, confirmed the news of his death from the deadly virus on her personal Instagram.&nbsp;
Stuzhuk, a fitness expert with 1.1 million followers on Instagram,&nbsp;shared the news of him catching the virus just four days ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Sharing pictures from his hospital bed, he wrote that during a recent trip to Turkey, he showed some symptoms and got tested when he got back home.&nbsp;
"I was one who thought that Covid does not exist&hellip; until I got sick,&rdquo; he said in his Instagram post.

A 14-year-old Indian-American girl has won a USD 25,000 young scientist challenge for a discovery that could provide a potential treatment for Covid-19.
Anika Chebrolu, an eighth-grader from Texas, won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge,&nbsp;for her work on finding a molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus in an attempt to find a cure for the same, according to the 3M Challenge website.
Chebrolu was one of the 10 finalists in this year&rsquo;s 3M Young Scientist Challenge. In addition to the prize money, she was also awarded an exclusive 3M Mentorship.

Several pandal committees have made arrangements for virtual 'darshan' this year while barring the physical entry of visitors to cope with Covid-related restrictions.&nbsp;
At least two big-ticket pujas in Kolkata -- Santosh Mitra Square and Debdaru Fatak -- have announced that outsiders won't be allowed but insisted that people log on to their YouTube channels to catch a glimpse of the Durga idol, and the rituals.
Treading on a different path, some puja organisers have opened wide the doors of the marquees for the revellers, after putting in place strict safety measures to prevent the spread of the disease.

Research finds AI has a 94% accuracy rate in predicting how lonely a speaker is feeling&nbsp;

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