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INDIA – India holds COVID vaccine drills ahead of mass inoculation drive (Al Jazeera)

India has staged nationwide drills to start one of the world’s biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes as the drug regulator prepared to approve the first...

YEMEN – Yemen wedding hall blast kills five women: Officials (Al Jazeera)

Five women have been killed in war-torn Yemen after a projectile exploded at a wedding held on New Year’s Day in the Red Sea...

ALGERIA – Algeria’s Tebboune signs new constitution into law (Al Jazeera)

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has signed into law the country’s new constitution, his office said on Friday, months after the document was approved in...

OPEC+ – OPEC+ meeting to decide oil production levels after a dismal 2020 (Al Jazeera)

Members of the OPEC group of oil producers and their partners will meet via videoconference on Monday to decide on production levels for February,...

ARMENIA – Conspiracy theories in Armenia have put NGO work in danger (Satenik Baghdasaryan, Al Jazeera)

Two weeks after the war in Nagorno-Karabakh started, the phone rang at “Article 3” Human Rights Club founded by our NGO For Equal Rights....

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – Stanford HAI’s Most-Watched Videos of the Year (HAI Stanford University)

From future of work to facial recognition, here are the most popular videos of the year. https://hai.stanford.edu/blog/stanford-hais-most-watched-videos-year

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – Stanford HAI’s Most-Read Stories of 2020 (HAI Stanford University)

Research on the design of interactive AI systems tops the list. https://hai.stanford.edu/blog/stanford-hais-most-read-stories-2020

TECHNOLOGY – HAI Recommended Reading: 10 Books Worth Checking Out (HAI Stanford University)

HAI faculty members share their favorite fiction and nonfiction books with a technology theme. https://hai.stanford.edu/blog/hai-recommended-reading-10-books-worth-checking-out

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – AI Has Sped Up Biological Discovery by Cracking the Mystery of Proteins (Russ Altman, HAI Stanford University)

Proteins are the molecular machinery of life. DNA blueprints tell cells how to make a given protein by stringing amino acids together like a...

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