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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The average Croatian leaves their parents' home at 33 years old — the highest age in the EU.</li><li>It's expensive for young people to buy or rent in Croatia. BI visited Dubrovnik to investigate.</li></ul>Lukša Malohodžić is 27 and runs a successful business — life ought to be going his way. But he still lives with his mom and dad.He runs <a target="_blank" href="https://rewinddubrovnik.com/">boat tours</a> for wealthy tourists showing off <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dubrovnik-croatia-jeff-bezos-vacation-yacht-lauren-sanchez-katy-perry-2023-8">the stunning Adriatic coast</a> — keenly aware that he can't afford life there.Like vast numbers of Croatian <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-retiring-early-fire-movement-financial-independence-millionaire-savings-work-2024-5">millennials</a>, he's yet to fly the nest, and doesn't see it happening soon.Seated at a café in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/things-to-do-in-dubrovnik-croatia#:~:text=Most%20travelers%20come%20to%20Dubrovnik,get%20quite%20crowded%20during%20summer.">Dubrovnik's Old Town</a> in mid-April, he reflected on the situation."There comes a point where it starts to weigh on you," he said. "You begin to think, 'I really ought to change this,' but what can you do?"<a target="_blank" href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/bookmark/9fa9c9db-6389-4d42-ac5a-077090577af4?lang=en">According to Eurostat,</a> the EU statistical office, the average Croatian leaves their parents' home at over 33 years of age, its highest figure.For men, it's even higher — at just under 35.<div type="image" title="Dubrovnik's Old Town, viewed from the city walls." height="4284" width="5712" msid="110390899" hostid="261"></div>In the US, almost everyone has moved out by then. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/adults.html">US census figures</a> say only 16% of Americans aged 25-34 live with parents.BI visited Croatia in April, the start of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/things-to-do-in-dubrovnik-croatia">Dubrovnik's tourism season,</a> to hear firsthand how it's affecting millennials there.They spoke of feeling stuck and infantilized: a woman of 35 whose relatives keep reading her mail, a grown man whose grandma kept track of his dating.Based on the data, Malohodžić can expect to live under his parents' roof for another seven years, but it could be even longer."It's hard to buy anything or even rent," Malohodžić said. "It's just crazy."<a target="_blank" href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/digpub/housing/bloc-2a.html?lang=en">Eurostat</a> notes that house prices in Croatia have consistently climbed over the past decade. Last year, Croatia had the <a target="_blank" href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hpi_a__custom_11294635/bookmark/table?lang=en&amp;bookmarkId=a2cfe34c-a9bc-4a54-b0ed-4a371d09301c">highest annual increase in the house price index</a> among all EU member states.Malohodžić says a "big majority" of his friends are in the same situation as he is, with only a fortunate few having inherited properties.Property prices in Dubrovnik, a picturesque <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/traveling-tips-couple-unesco-site-2023-12">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a>, are especially high.According to news outlet <a target="_blank" href="https://total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/dubrovnik-property/">Total Croatia</a>, the average purchase price for an apartment or house in the city is slightly above 3,600 euros per square meter, equivalent to roughly $335 a square foot.The <a target="_blank" href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDLISPRIPERSQUFEEUS">US figure is roughly $230</a> a square foot, with much bigger salaries to buy it.The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htm">average salary</a> in the US is more than triple Croatia's, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/average-salary-by-state/">$59,000 or so </a>to <a target="_blank" href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/earn_nt_net__custom_8614186/default/table?lang=en">$18,500 in Croatia.</a><div type="image" title="Ivan Vukovic, a tour guide, sits at a cafe in Dubrovnik." height="4284" width="5712" msid="110390900" hostid="261"></div>"You can't make the kind of money here that you need to buy properties," says <a target="_blank" href="https://dubrovnik-tourist-guides.com/">Ivan Vukovic</a>, a tour guide who has lived in Dubrovnik since he was born in 1981.Vukovic has lived through Dubrovnik's various transformations over the years — from the bustling crowds during the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0261517785900068">Yugoslav tourism boom of the mid-1980s,</a> to the devastation of the War of Independence and the subsequent return of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/emerald-ultra-luxury-cruise-line-new-yacht-wealthy-travelers-2024-4">cruise ships</a> in the postwar era.Today, he finds himself part of another tourism boom — fueled by tourists eager to see the city that served as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/where-does-game-of-thrones-film-kings-landing-2017-8">King's Landing in HBO's "Game of Thrones."</a><div type="image" title="Dubrovnik was the main filming location in Croatia for King's Landing, featured in HBO's &quot;Game of Thrones.&quot;" height="4284" width="5712" msid="110390902" hostid="261"></div>While tourism brings economic opportunities for Vukovic and many others, he says it has also worsened the already <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/housing-market">dysfunctional housing market.</a>The surge in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/leave-san-francisco-american-moving-dubrovnik-croatia-downsides-2023-6">foreigners wanting a slice of Dubrovnik</a> has driven up the demand for vacation homes, he said, and local entrepreneurs are increasingly <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/real-estate-investing-airbnb-vs-long-term-rental-pros-cons-2024-1">flipping properties into Airbnbs</a> to make money.AirDNA, a short-term rental data analytics company, told BI that Dubrovnik, which has a population of about 41,000, has more than 5,500 properties listed on Airbnb or the Expedia-owned Vrbo during the summer months."Both foreigners and wealthy locals mainly use these properties as investments because the return is very good," Filip Brkan, a member of the Real Estate Business Association of the Croatian Chamber of Economy, told BI.For renters, this can make finding a place for the whole year nearly impossible. The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/buy-short-term-rental-property-investing-strategy-markets-good-investment-2023-12">money that can be made from short-term rentals</a> also drives up the price of buying vacant properties."What needs to be done in Croatia is to increase the housing supply," said Brkan.But in parts of Dubrovnik, Vukovic explained, that's not feasible."We cannot expand," the tour guide said. "It's a small city protected by UNESCO, and the price has skyrocketed because somebody always wants to buy real estate in Dubrovnik."<div type="image" title="Dubrovnik, viewed from the Old Town's walls." height="4284" width="5712" msid="110390905" hostid="261"></div>For Josip Crncevic, 34, prices feel far out of reach."I always like to tell my guests on the tour that, right now, it will probably take two lifetimes to buy something within the walls," he said.Even in Dubrovnik's suburbs, Crncevic said homeownership is unattainable for him.For now, he lives in a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/living-multigenerational-home-lessons-pateince-openness-death-2024-3">multi-generation</a>, three-story family house about seven miles outside the city.His uncle's family lives on the top floor and his grandmother below, in a setup Crncevic describes as three distinct apartments, each with a private entrance and lock.While it's not the situation he dreamt he'd been in at 34, he said there are some positives.Crncevic enjoys helping his grandmother with daily tasks, though the proximity has posed challenges in the past, especially when it comes to dating."My grandmother is the best CCTV in the area," he said.<h2 id="fd0c4321-4ca5-4d1f-b409-63d7336130f8">Establishing boundaries</h2>Privacy is a recurring issue for many millennials living in similar conditions in Croatia.Marija, a 35-year-old who asked to be referred to only by her first name in order to speak candidly about living with her in-laws, said the decision was born of necessity.Marija and her husband moved into his parents' home in 2019 because they couldn't find <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cheap-homes-apartments-low-rent-scarce-expensive-housing-real-estate-2024-1">affordable rent</a>, and buying was not an option.Although it seemed like a sound financial move, Marija said she now views it as a big mistake."We would like to have some kind of privacy, and not to be interrogated on a daily basis," she said.The biggest problem is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-right-way-to-set-boundaries-with-people-2023-10">establishing boundaries</a> "like not reading our mail and not entering the home without knocking," she added.Sanja Cikato, a 47-year-old who lives with her husband and two teenage children above her mother, said setting those boundaries took patience and perseverance.<div type="image" title="Sanja Cebiric Cikato" height="3024" width="4032" msid="110390908" hostid="261"></div>"It wasn't perfect in the beginning, but later, with time, we simply learned how to live together in this house," she said.Cikato said achieving this required open and honest conversations, but that her mother still occasionally eavesdrops on the couple's quarrels.Despite the difficulties, she said the benefits, such as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/childcare-benefits-offered-by-employers-boosts-worker-productivity-retention-2024-3">help with childcare</a>, outweigh the drawbacks.When her children, now 12 and 14, were younger, her <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/millennial-couple-live-with-boomer-parents-childcare-help-intergenerational-home-2024-3">mother was a live-in babysitter</a>, enabling Cikato to work longer hours during the tourist season.Diana Marlais, another working parent, echoed this, telling BI that multi-generational living is a life-saver for working parents.<div type="image" title="Bogdan Nicolae Dascalescu, Diana Marlais, their children, and her parents spending the evening together in their home." height="4284" width="5712" msid="110390910" hostid="261"></div>Cikato also said the setup creates a special bond between her mom and her kids, and that she wants to replicate it when her own children are adults."You have to understand that was something really normal before," she said.But Malohodžić, who represents the younger cohort of Croatian millennials, sees it as being "purely economic" rather than a tradition worth upholding.He said he wouldn't choose to live this way if finances weren't such a factor.He wouldn't choose to be in his late 20s and to still "sometimes feel like a teenager."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11895291" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="singapore" source="Orion">Singapore</keyword> is trialing two <keyword id="11907543" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="robots" source="Orion">robots</keyword> called Xavier to catch and prevent "undesirable" behavior.</li><li>The robots look for smoking, hawking, and flouting COVID-19 rules.</li><li>The robots can report rule-breaking and flash messages to the public, officials said.</li></ul>Singapore is testing robots that patrol the streets looking for "undesirable social behaviours."The two robots, called "Xavier," have cameras that give them a 360-degree field of vision, and will search for people smoking in public, flouting COVID-19 rules, or illegally hawking, Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency <a href="https://www.htx.gov.sg/news/media-release-htx-ground-robot-on-trial-at-toa-payoh-central-to-support-public-officers-in-enhancing-public-health-and-safety">announced Sunday</a>.Data from Xavier's cameras feeds into AI video analytics software, the agency said. "Once Xavier detects any of the above, it will trigger real-time alerts to the command and control centre," the agency said.Public officers can then "activate additional resources to respond to on-ground situations when necessary," it said.<div type="image" title="Autonomous robot Xavier patrols a neighbourhood mall in Singapore to detect &quot;undesirable social behaviours&quot;" height="3226" width="4304" msid="86004856" hostid="261"></div>The two robots will rove around the high-footfall area of Toa Payoh Central, and as well as alerting officers they will display messages that "educate" the public, the agency said.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tips-to-make-your-resume-is-robot-friendly-2019-4">A robot will probably read your résumé before a human does. Here are 3 simple tricks to make sure they don't pass it by.</a>"The deployment of Xavier will support the work of public officers as it will reduce the manpower required for foot patrols and improve operation efficiency," the agency said in its statement.This isn't the first time Singapore has turned to robots to help <keyword id="11894211" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="police" source="Orion">police</keyword> its citizens. In May 2020, officials deployed robotics company <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/roaming-robodog-politely-tells-singapore-park-goers-to-keep-apart-2020-5">Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot Spot in parks</a> to tell people to stay at least one metre apart.<div type="image" title="Boston Dynamics Spot Singapore" height="3147" width="4196" msid="86004858" hostid="261"></div>Other countries have tried integrating robots into law enforcement. In June 2019, California's Huntington Park police department <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-police-force-deploys-egg-shaped-robot-elon-musk-skeptical-2019-6">deployed an egg-shaped robot named Robocop</a>, which was essentially a mobile CCTV camera.In December 2020, the New York Police Department also trialed the Spot robot, but <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nypd-terminates-contract-boston-dynamic-creepy-robotic-dogs-2021-5">canceled its contract with Boston Dynamics</a> in May after public outcry.

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<ul><li><keyword id="6550201" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="staqu">Staqu</keyword> launched an AI powered Video wall which will analyse CCTV footage from 70 prisons of UP.</li><li>The video analytics platform called <keyword id="1821831" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="jarvis">JARVIS</keyword> will check for frisking, unauthorised access, crowd analysis, violence, and intrusion detection.</li><li>The startup has already worked with the police forces of Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Telangana.</li></ul>Indian <keyword id="107950" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="20" keywordseo="artificial-intelligence">Artificial Intelligence</keyword> and facial recognition startup Staqu which has partnered with the police on several occasions - has now brought about a ‘Video Wall’ that will analyse movement in the prisons of Uttar Pradesh. The AI-powered Video wall will cover and analyse CCTV footage from 70 prisons of UP. The video analytics platform called JARVIS will use data from 700 cameras from UP’s prisons to check for frisking, unauthorised access, crowd analysis, violence, and intrusion detection. “JARVIS is now no longer limited to the realms of science-fiction; we are making intelligent video analytics a reality for India’s police force, starting with the first phase of integration in Uttar Pradesh. We have installed a super video wall in Lucknow that will be powered with our expertise in artificial intelligence. It will analyse live footage from 70 <keyword id="4621045" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="UP-prisons">UP Prisons</keyword> and provide actionable insights to the police forces,” said Atul Rai, co-founder and CEO of Staqu. Staqu, which was founded in 2015, had turned profitable earlier this year and has been working with various state police departments of India. The startup landed its first deal with the Rajasthan police force after the Alwar lynching. After a flurry of successes, police officials started recommending Staqu to others in the force. It has since then gone on to help solve over 1,100 cases for the police forces of Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Telangana. It has raised only one round of funding – $650,000 from Indian Angel Network.

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New Delhi, Jul 8 () Auto components major Bharat Forge Ltd on Wednesday said it has launched health risk monitoring system (HRMS), which enables companies and institutions to comply with home ministry guidelines for safe reopening, in collaboration with artificial intelligence startup Blackstraw. HRMS primarily consists of two major components -- a contactless thermal screening system integrated with RFID badge reader and AI algorithms running on surveillance CCTV cameras to monitor and control human behaviour. The contactless thermal screening system with RFID badge reader records temperature of associates at high speed with accuracy and also maintains an automatic daily record of the temperature of every person entering and exiting the premises, the company said in a statement. On the other hand, the AI (artificial intelligence) algorithms running on surveillance CCTV cameras alerts administrators and provides them a dashboard when social distancing norms are not met or if an employee is not wearing a face mask. These alerts and dashboards are then reviewed to drive sustainable behaviour change across the enterprise, it added. Commenting on the launch, Bharat Forge Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Baba Kalyani said safety norms have become more stringent with this pandemic. "We have inducted Artificial Intelligence and technological intervention to further safeguard people's health by creating an environment that is anxiety-free and fosters growth. We have developed HRMS to reduce manual interference and keep an effective check on safety norms. This technological approach has ensured maximum safety for employees," he added. Blackstraw CEO Atul Arya said the partnership with Bharat Forge has led to development of a range of video analytic products over the last year. "HRMS has been a quick and timely assembly of technological components developed over time for an immediate need. We strongly believe that this platform which will not only safeguard companies and their employees but will also help reinstate confidence and normality," he added. Bharat Forge said HRMS is ideal for deploying in high–footfall areas like educational campuses, hospitals, gated communities, retail stores, railway stations, airports and transit points to monitor individual and societal health. Presently, it is being deployed at The Kalyani School in Pune and all critical facilities of the company pan-India. Bharat Forge Ltd has partially resumed operations at its manufacturing facilities by taking several safety measures. It has added HRMS as a crucial tool to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection, thereby creating a safe environment for its thousands of employees entering and exiting the facility, it added. "The company also intends to make the developed HRMS system available widely across schools and enterprises which will help them to safely reopen their premises and businesses respectively, during these tough times," the statement said. RKL RUJ RUJ

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Theft and fraud cost <keyword id="6354851" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="retail">retail</keyword>ers $62 billion in 2019, up from $51 billion the previous year, according to a National Retail Federation survey.</li><li>These losses — which retailers refer to as shrink — represented about 1.6% of sales last year, up from 1.4% the previous year.</li><li>The retailers surveyed said they are seeing a higher number of theft cases by employees and shoplifters.</li></ul>Retail theft is surging to record highs, despite an expanded use of new technologies designed to catch thieves, according to a new survey. Retailers' losses due to theft, fraud, and other causes totaled nearly $62 billion in 2019, up from nearly $51 billion the previous year, said the survey, which was conducted by the National Retail Federation and the retail consulting firm Appriss Retail.On average, these losses — which retailers refer to as shrink — represented about 1.6% of sales last year, up from 1.4% the previous year. For a company the size of <keyword id="80487" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="walmart">Walmart</keyword>, which generated more than $514 billion in revenue last year, a 1.6% shrink rate would translate into more than $8 billion in losses. Walmart does not publicly disclose its losses due to shrink. "Between an increase in incidents and new ways to steal, shrink is at an all-time high," said Mark Mathews, NRF vice president for research development and industry analysis. "Loss prevention experts are facing unprecedented challenges from individual shoplifters to organized gangs to highly skilled cybercriminals."The survey polled a total of 69 retailers with sales volumes ranging from less than $99 million to more than $50 billion. About a dozen of the survey participants were large chains with more than 2,000 stores. <h2>Retailers are seeing more cases of employee theft and shoplifting, survey finds</h2>Shrink has been driven higher, in part, by an increase in theft by employees and shoplifters, according to the survey.The retailers surveyed reported an average of 560 employee theft apprehensions in 2019, up from 323 the previous year, and 689 shoplifting apprehensions, up from 509 the year before.The average robbery netted about $830 in losses last year, the survey found.Another source of losses is fraud, which can include the use of stolen credit cards, gift card scams, and the return of stolen merchandise for refunds. Many retailers are trying to address rising cases of theft and fraud by using technology, such as artificially intelligent video systems, to identify potential problems. Most of the retailers surveyed use burglar alarms, digital video recorders, and live customer-visible CCTV to combat losses. About 57% of survey respondents said they use point-of-sale analytics systems to combat shrink and 16% said they use video analytics.

Retailers are facing a $62 billion problem that has nothing to do with the pandemic

<ul><li>Indian startup <keyword id="6550201" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="staqu">Staqu</keyword> has built a thermal camera which can detect COVID-19 positive cases even in crowded places. </li><li>The technology can alert the system if anyone in the crowd has a body temperature of above 37°C and will also examine heat signatures directly through the camera.</li><li>The latest technology comes under the startup’s already existing artificial intelligence enabled video analytics product JARVIS. </li></ul>As <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> cases rise up in India, the country’s <keyword id="6362513" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="startups">startups</keyword> are stepping up their game and doing their bit to handle the crisis. Indian startup Staqu has built a thermal camera which can detect COVID-19 positive cases even in crowded areas. The technology can alert the system if anyone in the crowd has a body temperature of above 37°C. It will also examine heat signatures directly through the camera. The camera which has a range of 100 metres can effectively work in places like airports, malls etc. It will then send real-time alerts and will help tracking people with positive cases. As many possible suspects are absconding from hospitals and quarantines, this technology would be a Godsend for the authorities. “Our latest technology removes human intervention in early stages of detection; through heat wave analysis and more, the technology helps in proactively taking preventive efforts to reduce the risk of the spreading the virus. We are hopeful that the government and other authorities would make the best of this advancement,” said Atul Rai, CEO and Co-founder, Staqu. The latest technology is a part of the startup’s existing video analytics product JARVIS. Staqu works on futuristic technologies like AI and facial recognition. It also has an AI-powered video wall that covers and analyses CCTV footage from 70 prisons of UP. JARVIS will then use data from 700 cameras from UP’s prisons to check for frisking, unauthorised access, crowd analysis, violence, and intrusion detection. Staqu, which was founded in 2015, turned profitable earlier this year and has been working with various state police departments of India. The startup landed its first deal with the Rajasthan police force after the Alwar lynching. After a flurry of successes, police officials started recommending Staqu to others in the force. It has since then gone on to help solve over 1,100 cases for the police forces of Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Telangana. See Also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/topic/coronavirus">coronavirus: Latest News, Articles on coronavirus | Business Insider India</a>

Coronavirus cases can now be detected in crowds by a thermal camera from this Indian startup

<ul><li><keyword id="1518229" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="lenskart" source="Orion">Lenskart</keyword> plans to invest upto $2 million in eye technology startups over the next couple of years.</li><li>Their investment would be made in eyewear technology brands across the globe and Lenskart would also mentor them.</li><li>One of its pilot projects includes giving out the glasses to the customer on the spot instead of them taking the eye test and waiting for delivery.</li><li>On the side, Lenskart is looking to hire over 2,000 people for tech, retail and corporate development teams in India and abroad.</li><li>Lenskart has picked Singapore, Middle East and the United States for its bets</li></ul>Even as eyewear brand Lenskart is all set to make segue into the international market, the company is looking to invest in new technology and ideas that could make its offering more compelling. The decade-old company — which set up a <keyword id="12088602" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="lenskart-vision-fund" source="Orion">Lenskart Vision Fund</keyword> earlier in June this year — plans to invest upto $2 million in eye technology startups over the next couple of years. The total corpus of this fund is $20 million, which will be used to invest in 20 startups. Lenskart’s founder and chief executive (CEO) Peyush Bansal, in an interaction with Business Insider, said that he would be looking to invest in startups that are creating better eyewear for sports, phones, colourblind people or more. As a part of this process, the company has also set up a research and development (R&amp;D) center here in India to develop products. Though the company has not yet set up a concrete timeline to exhaust these funds, it claims to be underway to close 10 such deals by the end of 2022. Bansal told Business Insider the company will look to invest in companies that are revolutionizing eye technology in any part of the world. “The product research team is working on figuring out what a guy with a turban should wear because when the temples go inside a turban, it is uncomfortable. This is just an example of the problems we are working on,” Bansal added. Lenskart Vision Funds’s investment so far: <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none;" class="redcator-table-advance"><colgroup></colgroup><col /><col /><col /><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Company </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Head office </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">What does it do? </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Thin Optics </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">USA </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Thin Optics makes light reading glasses that can be attached to phones, tabs and laptops. </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Ditto </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">USA </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Ditto offers a virtual try-on platform that allows customers to try out products online. </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">6over6 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Israel </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">6over6 allows customers to take their own eye test online. </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">TangoEye </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">India </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">TangoEye is a video analytics platform that enables retailers to improve sales conversions, optimise product placement and more. The company reads CCTV footage to offer such data to retailers. </td></tr></tbody><tbody></tbody><tbody></tbody><tbody></tbody><tbody></tbody></table>What’s on the plate next? Lenskart claims to be underway to crack two more investment deals with Indian startups in the coming months. “One of the companies that we are in talks with is quite phenomenal. It’s not out of India though. It creates simple styles that can be worn right away. Currently, one has to get an eye test done, then I go to the back to make those glasses and give it to the customers,” Bansal said, adding that they are piloting this technology and giving out these glasses to the customer on the spot. The company will also offer its mentorship to these companies to grow. Bansal noted that they are not pushing these startups not generating revenue as they are tech product ideas. “We are only focused on developing them,” he added. Any investments in an early stage startup would be made through Lenskart Vision Fund, whereas any acquisition or merger would be made through Lenskart’s main entity. These acquisitions are not directly related to Lenskart’s international expansion plan but they would definitely bring in some strategic opportunities for the New Delhi-based company. More money for hiring Lenskart investment ambition also coincides with the company’s aggressive domestic and international expansion plans. The company is planning to hire over 2,000 employees in India to manage retail operations, technology operations, supply chain efforts and corporate functions. Besides this, it is looking to hire another 300 in sales, marketing and product development teams to expand internationally in Singapore, Middle East and the United States. The company already has a presence in Singapore and the Middle East since August this year. It will launch in the USA in another 30-45 days. Founded in 2010 by Bansal, Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet Kapahi, Lenskart is one of the largest retailers and manufacturers of eyewear in India with both online and offline presence. The company says that it serves over 10 million customers every year and nearly 30% share in India’s organised eyewear market. 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Lenskart is setting aside $20 million for technologies like instant glasses, spectacles for the colourblind and other breakthrough ideas

<ul><li>Two Indian states — <keyword id="68884" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Telangana">Telangana</keyword> and <keyword id="6357713" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</keyword> — are giving the country a digital push by implementing <keyword id="107950" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="20" keywordseo="artificial-intelligence">artificial intelligence</keyword>. </li><li>The Telangana state is planning to introduce programmes specific to AI throughout the year, thereby declaring 2020 as the year of Artificial Intelligence. </li><li>Uttar Pradesh is bringing its prisons and examination systems in the ambit of artificial intelligence. </li><li>The UP government will conduct AI-based video analysis across 70 prisons via JARVIS — by scanning CCTV footages of the prisons. </li></ul>AI has become ubiquitous to companies across sectors be it — healthcare, finance, agriculture and human resources. AI’s ability to grasp knowledge and make decisions also caught the eye of the government which deals with tough decisions and extensive data. Two Indian states — Telangana and Uttar Pradesh — are taking the first steps with a digital push to governance. Telangana is planning to introduce programmes specific to AI throughout the year, and declared 2020 as the year of Artificial Intelligence, according to KT Rama Rao, Information Technology Minister of the state. The state is looking to aid research in AI and also training workforce in the emerging technology. "The Telangana government is continuing to attract investment from marquee companies that are setting up their research &amp; development (R&amp;D) and technology development centres in emerging technologies like the internet of things (IoT), AI, <keyword id="294572" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="20" keywordseo="machine-learning">machine learning</keyword>, cyber security and blockchain. The government is happy to collaborate with <keyword id="6372077" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="nasscom">NASSCOM</keyword> in bridging the skill gap in this emerging technology space," the minister <a href="https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/telangana-to-declare-2020-as-year-of-ai/71769885">said</a>. The state has also sought expressions with government think-tank Niti Aayog to roll out a National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. Digital push in the state of Uttar Prades The state of Uttar Pradesh is also using AI to manage its prisons and examination systems. It is implementing AI to <a href="https://www.digit.in/news/machine-learning-and-ai/uttar-pradesh-government-partners-with-staqu-to-introduce-ai-based-video-analytics-platform-jarvis-i-50967.html">crack down on </a>unlawful activities in prisons. It has joined hands with technology company Staqu to conduct AI-based video analysis across 70 prisons using their analytics platform, JARVIS. The platform will be used to scan CCTV footages of the prisons and alert concerned authorities. The move is an attempt to put a halt to criminal activities in prisons like use of mobile phones, knives and guns. The state is also considering implementing AI-enabled bots to maintain transparency in the education and examination system. "Things are still in the planning stage and we are trying to ensure implementation of the programme for the 2020 board examinations," the government officials told IANS. The move will track and report cases of proxy students and teachers. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/article/heres-how-artificial-intelligence-changed-the-way-we-eat-write-drive-and-talk/articleshow/71846412.cms">Here's how artificial intelligence changed the way we eat, write, drive and talk</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/staqu-launches-jarvis-an-artificial-intelligence-video-analytics-platform-for-india-prisons/articleshow/71955239.cms">This Indian startup has launched an AI led ‘Video Wall’ for surveillance in India’s prisons</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/ai-skills-needed-to-get-best-jobs-in-the-industry-according-to-the-data-science-skills-study-2019/articleshow/71473858.cms">The hottest AI jobs will need you to know these programming languages and tools</a>

These two state governments are looking at AI for governance and development

<ul><li><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5995c241b0e0b5712b8b57cb-2400/ap148507492360.jpg" alt="Nike CEO Mark Parker" data-mce-source="Mary Altaffer/AP" />Mary Altaffer/AP</div></div></div>Nike is facing the heat from a California-based grassroots advocacy group, which is demanding that it end its support of President Donald Trump.</li><li>Courage Campaign is circulating <a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/NikeDumpTrump/">a petition</a> calling for the sportswear brand to relocate its flagship Niketown store from New York City's Trump Tower and end its financial support for Donald Trump.</li><li>While it appears that the movement is slowly gaining steam online, it is unlikely to overtake Nike's social conversation, said social analytics company Brandwatch. </li></ul>Post Charlottesville, the anti-Trump sentiment is on the rise once again. And Nike is feeling some collateral damage.Despite having nothing to do with President Donald Trump's now <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/strategic-and-policy-forum-trump-business-council-disbanded-scrapped-2017-8">disbanded councils,</a> the marketer is taking heat from a California-based grassroots advocacy group, which is demanding that it end its support of President Donald Trump.Courage Campaign is circulating <a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/NikeDumpTrump/">a petition</a> calling for the sportswear brand to relocate its flagship Niketown store from New York City's Trump Tower and end its financial support for Donald Trump. The petition has been signed by more than 72,000 people. "Nike is a brand that boasts constant displays of dedication to diversity and inclusion," said Eddie Kurtz, executive director of Courage Campaign. "It is time for Nike to choose which side of history they will stand on and end their financial support for Trump and his companies. Anything less means that Nike is complicit in supporting Trump's insidious and racist agenda."This is not the first time that Nike is facing the wrath of Courage Campaign. Last year too, the organization called on the company to sever ties with Trump after his 2005 Access Hollywood video where he spoke to Billy Bush about sexually assaulting women was leaked.Nike ultimately signed a new lease with a non-Trump building nearby, but has not publicly commented on its plans for the current space in Trump Tower. Courage Campaign is renewing the effort, calling Nike's continued association with Trump "completely unacceptable."Nike is not alone either. B<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/marketers-are-trying-connect-with-the-coasts-and-middle-america-2017-8">rands are caught in somewhat of a catch-22 situation in today's polarized climate</a>. On one hand, they are expected to tap into the cultural zeitgeist to connect with consumers, while on the other, they must be wary of getting called out for taking positions that will end up alienating their audiences. Since Donald Trump took office, a number of brands including <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-under-armour-brand-boost-after-trump-council-walkout-2017-8">Under Armour</a>, Kellogg's, New Balance, Chobani and L.L. Bean have faced online outrage for being associated with him.According to the Courage Capital, Nike should follow what it did in 2016, when it <a href="http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/14793389/nike-ends-endorsement-contract-manny-pacquiao">immediately dropped Manny Pacquiao for his abhorrent remarks on same-sex couples</a> and cut ties with Maria Sharapova right away after she announced that she failed a drug test. Business Insider reached out to Nike but has not received comment from the company yet. It appears that the movement is slowly gaining steam online. Nike has been mentioned more than a whopping 1.8 million times online in the past two weeks. While its overall sentiment during this time period is 89.2% positive, social mentions associating Nike with Trump have been on the rise since Wednesday, according to social analytics company, Brandwatch. There have been around 200 mentions of Nike associating it with the hashtag #DumpTrump so far, with 180 of those mentions occurring yesterday.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5995c209b0e0b593758b4df2-869/screen shot 2017-08-17 at 110516 ambw.png" alt="nike" data-mce-source="Brandwatch" />Brandwatch</div></div></div>It is unlikely, however, that Nike's social conversation will be consumed by outrage due to how large the conversation around the brand generally is, said Kellan Terry, PR brand analyst at Brandwatch. The same thing happened when Adidas sent out an email to marathoners titled, 'You Survived the Boston Marathon,' he said."While people were upset due to the insensitivity of the subject line, Adidas did everything right and apologized for the oversight," he said. "So even though people shared their unfavorable sentiments on social media, Adidas' conversation was so huge, the backlash was negligible."It's also worth noting that Grab Your Wallet, another organization that has been at the forefront of leading boycotts against companies doing business with Trump, is not calling for the same against Nike. "The athletic apparel company's flagship Niketown store in New York City is located in a space owned by Trump, but as with other companies that lease from Trump, it's acknowledged that the lease may have been signed prior to the election," <a href="https://grabyourwallet.org/Boycott%20These%20Companies.html">the group notes on its website.</a> "In addition, the #GrabYourWallet boycott's emphasis is on companies that realize a profit from doing business with the Trump family."But Courage Campaign argues that flagship stores like Niketown are crucial for companies, as they generate considerable foot traffic and high volumes of sales, while increasing the brand's value and reputation through association with similar, or higher valued brands. 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An advocacy group wants Nike to move its flagship store out of New York City's Trump Tower

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59933dc8f1a8501d008b5286-833/gettyimages-635496528.jpg" alt="Under Armour" data-mce-source="Getty/Spencer Platt" />Getty/Spencer Platt</div></div></div>More brands are coming forward and distancing themselves from President Trump. The president's manufacturing council of business leaders <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/merck-ceo-kenneth-frazier-resigns-from-trump-manufacturing-council-2017-8">lost three of its members Monday</a>, and a fourth on Tuesday, amid backlash from his failure to strongly condemn the deadly white-supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend. The president <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-second-statement-kkk-neo-nazis-charlottesville-2017-8">offered a stronger condemnation on Monday</a>, but it was too little too late. "For the vast majority of Americans there is a fine boundary between backlash from political correctness and overt hatred," said Paul Marcum, president at integrated marketing agency Truffle Pig. "Charlottesville - and the president's response to it - missed that distinction and ended up on the wrong side of that boundary."In other words, had the executives not walked out and made their stances clear, they would have invariably ended up implying their support of white supremacy in the eyes of the majority, said Marcum. The four executives staging a walkout was them being unwilling to give extreme positions cover, he said.This is in stark contrast to positions that many of them held until very recently. For months, business leaders have rationalized joining Trump's business councils by saying that they were trying help the president make better decisions about American business, even ignoring backlash.Under Armour's Plank, for example, was all praise for Trump in an interview with CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report" back in February, despite the brand being literally threatened with "mass burnings" of the company's garments across America. "He wants to build things. He wants to make bold decisions and be really decisive," Plank had said. "I'm a big fan of people that operate in the world of 'publish and iterate' versus 'think, think, think, think, think,' so there's a lot that I respect there."But now, brands seem to be realizing that their advice is largely inconsequential. And that walking out in such a situation is not only the right thing to do, but also good business.The companies in question, according to data crunched by social analytics company Brandwatch, are actually getting a boost in brand perception after their walkouts. Since August 13, Merck has been mentioned more than 344,000 times online, because of departure of its CEO from Trump's American Manufacturing Council. Intel and Under Armour have too been mentioned over 116,000 times and 130,000 times respectively, within the same time period.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59933e52f1a850a31a8b4fbb-884/screen shot 2017-08-15 at 124941 pmbw.png" alt="Screen Shot 2017 08 15 at 12.49.41 PM_BW" data-mce-source="Brandwatch" />Brandwatch</div></div></div>Further, the sentiment around the brands is largely positive, with 88.6% of Intel's and 89.4% of Under Armour's conversation being positive.The only brand with a negative sentiment attached to it is Merck (with 62.9% of its mentions being negative). This is being driven by Trump's ​criticism on Twitter of Kenneth Frazier and how Merck provides "ripoff drugs." The only reason it is negative is because people are criticizing Trump for singling out Merck and Frazier and not the other CEOs, and the algorithm can't decipher that context.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59933da6f1a8502b008b5290-877/screen shot 2017-08-15 at 125407 pmbw.png" alt="ua" data-mce-source="Brandwatch" />Brandwatch</div></div></div>On the other hand, president Trump's brand seems to have taken a hit. According to Brandwatch, the most used hashtag in the combined conversations around all three companies is #ImpeachTrump. The hashtag has garnered over 33 million impressions.Still, the brands seem to realize that it is ultimately a fragmented and polarizing issue. So even while leaving, it appears that Intel and Under Armour were trying to avoid backlash as much as possible."It certainly appears to be a strategic maneuver from Plank and Krzanich to announce their departure later in the evening when people are looking to relax and stray away from news updates," said Brandwatch's PR data manager, Kellan Terry. "I'd guess that they hoped their departures wouldn't garner as much attention later at night, and it's commonly witnessed on social media that backlash is greatest for the first deviation away from the expected."Get the latest Intel stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/intc-Quote"> here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jogger-push-woman-london-red-bus-putney-bridge-city-2017-8">CCTV footage shows the moment a jogger appears to push a woman in front of a London bus</a></h3> <div> <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/qFYS06zk-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5aa1407be86053ce058b4670-1500/kim jong nam nerve agent hazmat suit.jpg" alt="kim jong nam nerve agent hazmat suit" data-mce-source="Rahman Roslan/Getty" data-mce-caption="Members of Atomic Energy Licensing Board put up their Hazmat suit outside the KLIA2 terminal on February 26, 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia's Police Forensic Team with the help of Fire Department and Atomic Energy Licensing Board swept the terminal at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 for toxic chemicals after they announced on Friday, Kim Jong Nam was poisoned by VX nerve agent, which is listed as the most potent form of nerve agents known in chemical warfare. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's older half-brother Kim Jong Nam died in Malaysia last week after apparently being poisoned at a Kuala Lumpur airport. Malaysia's police said on Wednesday they are seeking a senior official at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur in connection with the killing of Kim Jong-nam. Mr Kim, the eldest son of the former North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, was once considered the heir to power in North Korea but fell out of favor in 2001 after he was seized by Japanese authorities at Narita Airport for trying to enter the country on a forged Dominican Republic passport. (Photo by Rahman Roslan/Getty Images)" />Rahman Roslan/GettyInvestigators put on hazmat suits outside the KLIA2 terminal on February 26, 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia while investigating a nerve agent attack.</div></div></div><ul><li>Former Russian double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were exposed to nerve agent before they collapsed in Salisbury.</li><li>Police have classified this as attempted murder.</li><li>Nerve agents are highly toxic chemicals that can kill people in minutes, and are extremely hard to make.</li><li>Experts differ over whether this means Russia did it.</li></ul><hr /> Sergei Skripal, the former Russian double agent, and his daughter Yulia are fighting for their lives in a Salisbury hospital after being exposed to nerve agent.While officials did not specify the type of nerve agent used, a well-placed source told the BBC <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/nerve-agent-used-to-poison-sergei-skripal-was-extremely-rare-2018-3">it was likely to be extremely rare</a>.Nerve agents are extremely toxic chemicals that effectively shut down communication between the brain and muscles - in other words, stop the body from working. They are also very hard to make.Here's what you need to know about the deadly substances.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5aa1049123aa631c008b4670-1500/salisbury hospital.jpg" alt="salisbury hospital" data-mce-source="Matt Cardy/Getty" data-mce-caption="SALISBURY, ENGLAND - MARCH 07: People enter Salisbury District Hospital where Sergei Skripal and his daughter who were found critically ill on a bench on March 4 were taken sparking a major incident, on March 7, 2018 in Wiltshire, England. Sergei Skripal, who was granted refuge in the UK following a 'spy swap' between the US and Russia in 2010, and his daughter remain critically ill after being exposed to an 'unknown substance'. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)" />Matt Cardy/GettyThe Salisbury hospital where Sergei and Yulia Skripal remain in critical condition.</div></div></div><h2>What are nerve agents?</h2>Nerve agents can take the form of gas, aerosol, or liquid, and enter the body through inhalation, the skin, or the consumption of liquid or food contaminated with them, <a href="https://www.opcw.org/about-chemical-weapons/types-of-chemical-agent/nerve-agents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said</a>.Symptoms include restlessness, loss of consciousness, wheezing, and a running nose, <a href="https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/nerve/tsd.asp">according to the Centers for Disease Control</a>.Depending on the amount and method of administration, symptoms can take minutes or hours to occur, <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/what-is-a-nerve-agent-and-how-does-it-work-11280206">Sky News science correspondent Thomas Moore said</a>. When administered in high doses, nerve agents can suffocate victims to death within a couple of minutes, the OPCW said.It's not clear when the Skripals were exposed to the chemicals and how much was administered to them.A witness at Zizzi, the restaurant where the Skripals were eating before they collapsed, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43326734">told the BBC</a> that the elder Skripal "seemed to lose his temper" and "just started screaming at the top of his voice, he wanted his bill and he wanted to go."Another witness <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43297638">who saw the stricken Skripals later on</a> said Yulia "looked like she had passed out" and Sergei "was doing some strange hand movements, looking up to the sky."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/58ffb8b70ba0b89a1e8b5f3a-1200/nerve-agent-chemical-weapons-symptoms-effects-sarin-vx-tabun-soman-gf-business insider.png" alt="nerve agent chemical weapons symptoms effects sarin vx tabun soman gf business insider" data-mce-source="Diana Yukari/Business Insider" data-mce-caption="Nerve agents like tabun, sarin, soman, GF, and VX all have similar effects on the body, depending on the route of exposure." />Diana Yukari/Business Insider</div></div></div><h2>What was used on the Skripals?</h2>The type of nerve agent used on the Skripals remains unclear. Investigators have identified it but are not making it public at this point, the BBC reported.A source close to the investigation told the BBC the nerve agent was likely rarer than sarin gas, which is <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/sarin-gas-weapon-effects-human-body-2017-4">believed to have been used in the Syrian war</a> and used to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/20/tokyo-subway-sarin-attack_n_6896754.html">kill 13 people in a Tokyo subway in 1995</a>.The source also said the substance used was not VX, which was <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/vx-nerve-gas-poison-2012-2">used to assassinate</a> the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last year.The Sun previously reported <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/investigators-suspect-sergei-skripal-poisoned-thalium-report-2018-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">military scientists on the case as saying the pair might have been poisoned</a> with a "hybrid" kind of thallium, a hard-to-trace heavy metal commonly found in rat poison and insecticides. Detectives originally thought <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6163520.stm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with thallium in London in 2006</a>.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5aa130c2b318a919008b4665-1429/skripal salisbury groceries.png" alt="sergei skripal salisbury groceries" data-mce-source="ITV News" data-mce-caption="Sergei Skripal buying groceries near his Salisbury home on February 27, 2018." />ITV NewsCCTV image showing Skripal buying groceries and scratch cards near his Salisbury home five days before he collapsed.</div></div></div><h2>How easy is it to make nerve agents?</h2>The raw materials for nerve agents are relatively inexpensive and easy to procure, the OPCW said. However, the chemical weapon itself is difficult to make.Victor Madeira, a senior fellow at The Institute for Statecraft <a href="http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/defence-committee/russia-implications-for-uk-defence-and-security/written/31103.html#_ftn1">who testified to Parliament about Russian covert interference in Britain</a>, told Business Insider: "Nerve agents are rare, tightly-controlled synthetic substances that do require specialised knowledge to manufacture, store and use safely."However, that knowledge isn't beyond someone with a good Master's degree in Organic Chemistry, say, and access to a good laboratory. Very difficult, but not impossible."Chemical weapons expert Richard Guthrie <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/07/russian-spy-police-appeal-for-witnesses-as-cobra-meeting-takes-place">similarly told The Guardian</a> that manufacturing nerve agents require "fairly complicated chemistry," and were "essentially impossible" to make at home."Nerve agents, such as sarin or VX, require some fairly complicated chemistry using certain highly reactive chemicals," Guthrie said. "Small quantities could be made in a well-equipped laboratory with an experienced analytical chemist. To carry out the reactions in a domestic kitchen would be essentially impossible."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a9fad8f5cc4102d008b4571-1500/skripal putin.png" alt="skripal putin" data-mce-source="AP/BBC Newsnight" />AP/BBC NewsnightA composite image of Sergei Skripol in 2006 and Russian President Vladimir Putin.</div></div></div><h2>Does this point to Russia?</h2>Experts appear to differ over whether Russia was responsible.Matt Tait, a former GCHQ officer, said the method of attack seemed "designed to project that this is a nation state that's doing it."<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/salisbury-nerve-agent/555071/">He told The Atlantic</a>: "This is a very extreme form of killing in a way that is designed to project that this is a nation state that's doing it. Nobody can be under any sort of illusions that this is some sort of run-of-the-mill killing. [...]"The clear message that they're sending to both people who currently work for their intelligence agencies and also people who used to work for their intelligence agencies … they will make an example of you."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img style="color: #000000;" src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5aa11c94f04752371a8b45ab-1500/skripal forensic tent.jpg" alt="skripal forensic tent" data-mce-source="Toby Melville/Reuters" data-mce-caption="A forensics tent covers the bench, where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped, in a cordoned off area in the centre of Salisbury, Britain, March 7, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville" />Toby Melville/ReutersA forensics tent over the bench where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found collapsed on Sunday.</div></div></div>Madeira disagreed. Just because nerve agents are rare doesn't necessarily mean a state actor did it, he said."Simply using a 'very rare' nerve agent against Col. Skripal wouldn't necessarily indicate Kremlin (or Russian) involvement," he told BI. "This is why DSTL Porton Down [the UK Ministry of Defence's <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">science</keyword> lab] and partner agencies are racing to 'fingerprint' the agent used, which will then allow them to narrow the list of potential sources right down."<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/08/europe/russian-spy-sergei-skripal-nerve-agent-attack-intl/index.html"></a><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/08/europe/russian-spy-sergei-skripal-nerve-agent-attack-intl/index.html">Rob Wainwright, executive director of Europol, told CNN</a> that attacking an ex-spy with nerve agent in Britain was an "outrageous affront to our security in Europe and our way of life." He warned, however, that people should "exercise caution before jumping to any conclusions."The Kremlin has <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/sergei-skripal-russian-embassy-accuses-uk-media-of-demonisation-2018-3">vehemently denied any involvement or knowledge</a> of the case. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-explains-spacex-falcon-heavy-central-core-crash-landing-2018-2">Elon Musk explains the one thing that went wrong with SpaceX's Falcon Heavy flight</a></h3> <div> <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/Lmg55ZnF-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script> </div> </div>

What you need to know about nerve agent, the deadly chemical used in ex-spy Sergei Skripal's attempted murder in Britain

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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/PMModis-Smart-Cities-Housing-for-All-is-smart-but-ambitious/articleshow/47814233.cms">Narendra Modi</a> government has allocated Rs. 98,000 crore for the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Smart-City-imperative-in-India/articleshow/47831312.cms">Smart Cities</a> project. So, funds have been allocated, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Read-on-to-know-what-makes-a-city-a-smart-city-in-India/articleshow/46986772.cms">blueprints</a> are ready, but what is the blueprint based on? Top players involved in the plan reveals what it takes to build a smart city.
 

	1. Healthcare
 “You can’t dream about being smart without being healthy,” said <keyword id="3009246" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lux-Rao">Lux Rao</keyword>, cto of technology services and country leader of <keyword id="6367983" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="HP">HP</keyword> Future Cities. 

	India is a destination of medical tourism. Yet, the urban poor do not have easy access to even the basic healthcare amenities. For making cities <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Smart-Cities-Are-Good-Idea-But-What-About-Existing-Ones/articleshow/45963855.cms">smart</a>, we must make healthcare affordable first. The way forward is Telemedicine, which is in simple definition a doctor or specialist remotely monitoring a patient via an intermediary who is perhaps an intern or a doctor.
 

	This virtual doctor or ‘studio doctor’ (the term given to them) would need access to medical records in real-time. What if one loses their medical records, which is more likely with the urban poor with all their immigration from one place to another?
 

	HP introduces the solution to this- Digital locker within EMR, which stores all the medical records. So one just needs to biometrically access the locker and the virtual doctor can get access to the patient’s details immediately, hassle-free.
 

	“We have executed e-healthcare centres meeting the needs of 140,000 patients in 44 locations in 6 states throughout the country. We have 25 ‘studio doctors’ who are in remote locations addressing the needs of patients,” he informed.
 

	This is just the start of smart healthcare! With introduction of IoT and mobility technology, a lot more can be done.
 

	2. Education 
 

	How can we make education an egalitarian platform?
 

	The answer is ‘Future Classroom’, which is not only having a virtual teacher, but the contents are available online too. So what one need is an internet connection and education can reach even the remotest place in India.
 

	Besides, though India has immense potential in the young generation but the educational resources are limited.
 

	“Does an engineering student have such an ecosystem to make him walk into a lab and turn his idea into a product instantly?” Lux raised the question.
 

	3. Quality of life
 

	How can a city be smart if its citizens do not have a work life balance? Easy access to the basic amenities like water, parking space, cheap energy etc makes a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Michael-Bloomberg-soaks-in-Delhi-life-talks-of-smart-cities/articleshow/46273869.cms">smart city</a> literally smart.
 “Smartest cities are driven by local priorities and local interventions. Also, technology interventions should be pragmatic,” said <keyword id="901850" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Prashant-Pradhan">Prashant Pradhan</keyword>, Director, Smarter Planet Business, <keyword id="10875" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="IBM">IBM</keyword> India and South Asia. 

	IBM started a fairly successful pilot project in Bangalore on equitable water distribution and reducing non-revenue water. In Allahabad, they are working on solid waste management as that is the main need of that city to be made smart. It is also working closely with the power sector in generating renewable energy.
 <keyword id="3009245" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Aamer-Azeemi">Aamer Azeemi</keyword>, MD, <keyword id="6390344" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cisco">Cisco</keyword> India came up with a simple solution to the traffic problems in India, particularly near Connaught Place, Delhi; solve the parking problem. 

	“Half the traffic is because they are in search of a parking space. This can be solved by allowing free entry into the nearby building (apartment or malls) parking space which remains empty especially in the evening,” he said.
 

	4. Safety
 

	A smart city needs to be safe for citizens to live a smooth life. 
 

	Introducing smart surveillance technology or analytics to manage the crowd, traffic and following the building code (Code to be followed strictly while constructing a building, which sadly is not done in India) to manage natural/man-made disasters would make a city safe and secured for a citizen to live in.
 

	Azeemi said that if we install CCTV in numerous places around the city, a perception of the city being safe is created.
 

	“Even the perception of it being safe helps to attract citizens into the city,” he added.
 

	5. Enterprising solutions
 

	Every company and authorities related to the city needs to participate in the game. There should be seamless communication between the state government, local bodies and the citizens.
 “One central authority (like, one IAS or one CEO of the city) should be there to look into all the issues and integrate it into one,” said <keyword id="2827654" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Pratap-Padode">Pratap Padode</keyword>, founder and director of <keyword id="2827653" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Smart-Cities-Council-India">Smart Cities Council India</keyword>. 
	 
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