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Indo-Pacific and European faultlines: Four Pillars week

Indo-Pacific and European faultlines: Four Pillars week

This week has been a more mellow one, but that doesn’t mean that nothing happened. In fact, plenty happened in the Four Pillars space, but as these are small events or stories without an broad overarching theme like last week or the NATO summit. We have compiled them...

Remarks of Ramu Damodaran on International Day of Peace

Remarks of Ramu Damodaran on International Day of Peace

Ramu Damodaran, co-chair of UN Centennial Initiative, the first Chief of UN Academic Impact, and a Distinguished Contributor of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, presented opening remarks at BGF online high-level panel “Peace for the Global...

Cybersecurity in Academic Research

Cybersecurity in Academic Research

“Colleges and universities face severe challenges in preserving a secure research environment,” writes Inside Higher Ed, which, in the last two years, along with other news outlets, has “reported a surge in ransomware attacks, causing significant operational and...

AI model detects COVID-19 infection in people’s voices

AI model detects COVID-19 infection in people’s voices

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to detect COVID-19 infection in people's voices by means of a mobile phone app, according to research to be presented on 5 September at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain. It was...