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Here’s the latest news on trade with top partners
South Korea has declared an “emergency response mode” after the US imposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The move underscores the US’ focus on reducing the US trade deficit. India had been bracing for tariffs from the Trump administration, while also trying to stay ahead of them. India cut tariffs on several goods…
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There is a high level of continuity of forager ancestry
Researchers in the US have discovered the first direct evidence of trans-Mediterranean sea voyaging during the Early European Holocene. The find was made in central Libya during the Cyrenaican Prehistoric Period. It has been observed that archaeological findings have suggested cultural exchange between European hunter-gatherers and North African hunter-gatherers. The researchers believe resistance to farming…
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The 15-inch MacBook Air is reviewed with a score of Bluer and Better
Apple on Tuesday unveiled the new 15-inch MacBook Air with the Sky Blue color option and announced that it is no longer selling Sky Blue Macbooks. The 15-inch MacBook Air is priced at $999 (over 7,900), while the 13-inch MacBook Air is priced at $999 (over 8,300). Apple has also launched an 11-inch MacBook Air…
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The wet season is dryer than the dry season
A method to track moisture sources for precipitation in regions with the Fully Coupled WRF model has been reported. The water vapour tracer tool 25 was coupled into WRF model (WRF-WVT) to track moisture sources for precipitation by replicating the prognostic equation for total moisture and creating new variables for tracers of different moisture species.…
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There is a map of the government properties that were pulled from the GSA website
A map of US government properties that are not core to government operations has been created by Wired. The map was created through a dataset of non-core properties originally published by the General Services Administration and an inventory of owned and leased properties. In February, WIRED had reported that employees at GSA were told to…
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A laptop with a display that is extra tall
Lenovo unveiled a concept model of its ThinkBook Flip, an attachment that can be used to convert a 13-inch laptop screen into an 18.1-inch laptop screen with a 4:6 aspect ratio. The attachment folds down over the top of the laptop’s lid for a small screen when closed. It can be used with a 13.3-inch…
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TheXiaomi 15 and 15 Ultra are reviewed
Xiaomi’s new 15 and 15 Ultra have been reviewed by The Verge, with the latter getting a 5 out of 5 for camera. The 15 Ultra has a 6.5-inch AMOLED screen with 3670×1200 resolution and is powered by Snapdragon 845, while the 15 has a 6.63-inch AMOLED screen with 3670×1200 resolution and is powered by…
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There is a stake in the deal with Trump
The US would not provide security guarantees to Ukraine in exchange for the sharing of the country’s mineral wealth, US President Donald Trump said. He added that the US would not provide security guarantees to Ukraine in return for the sharing of the country’s mineral wealth, even if President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Washington to…
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Journalists share some of their memories
Comedian-actor Patton Oswalt has said that he started his career as a comic in New York. “I saw parents get their oil changed, filling out paperwork, and going to funeral services, the sheer silliness of S.N.L, and the fact that they spent their days getting their oil changed…and filling out paperwork,” he added. “The seriousness…
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The prosecutors resigned after being ordered to drop the NYC Mayor Eric Adams case
Former US prosecutor Christopher O’Leary has alleged that ex-US Attorney for New York Christopher Bove “gave strong, direct encouragement to the line prosecutors to aggressively pursue the investigation, legal process, support FBI, etc”. Bove and O’Leary worked in the US Attorney’s Office in New York at the time of the 2016 Capitol riots. Bove was…
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The centuries of isolation shaped the genetics of the Greenlanders
Fatash can compute posterior probabilities of the local ancestry per genomic window per haplotype using haplotype likelihoods and genome-wide admixture proportion estimates obtained from HaploNet train and HaploNet admix. It can obtain posterior probabilities of the local ancestry per genomic window per haplotype based on haplotype likelihoods and genome-wide admixture proportion estimates obtained from HaploNet…
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The US funding freezes are endangering global health
The UN General Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution urging the US to restore its foreign aid programme, which has been frozen amid the Trump administration’s budget cuts. It called on the US to restore its foreign assistance programme and provide urgent support to save lives. It also urged the US to “rethink its policy…
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Do you think it’s legal for Trump to send U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador?
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has agreed to accept “dangerous American criminals” being held in the US illegally, including US citizens and legal residents, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday. Bukele also offered to accept US citizens and legal residents convicted of violent crimes. The US has no plans to try and…
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USPS will accept parcels from China
The US Postal Service has stopped accepting packages from Hong Kong and China after the country imposed retaliatory tariffs on US imports including coal and liquified natural gas in response to US President Donald Trump’s executive order of increasing tariffs on China. The move comes after China imposed retaliatory tariffs on US imports, including coal…
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USPS suspends parcels from Hong Kong
The US Postal Service (USPS) on Tuesday said it would stop accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong. This comes after the US imposed an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods and ended the de minimis exception that allowed small value parcels to enter the US without paying tax. The number of parcels entering the…
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There is a U.S. aid freeze hitting secret girls’ schools
US State Department’s website has a new page about the Agency for International Development ( USAID), which is responsible for funding aid projects around the world and managing over 40 billion in federal spending in coming year. There are seven items on this USAID section, a drastic reduction of the reports and information on the…
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Donald Trump is cleaning up his data
US Office of Personnel Management has ordered federal agencies to remove “gender ideology-related content” from their websites by 5 pm on Friday in order to defend women and uphold the truth of biological sex against gender activists’ claims. According to OPM, the “intimate spaces are designated by biological gender and not gender identity”. Agencies have…
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People with disabilities do a lot of jobs, but not direct air traffic
The White House said President Donald Trump’s remarks on hiring people with disabilities and diversity at the FAA “are based on common sense”. It added that there is “no evidence” that the hiring of people with disabilities or the Obama or Biden administration’s diversity efforts were to blame for the crash. This comes after Trump…
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Attorneys and unions want federal workers not to leave
Elon Musk sent a similar email to US federal employees “fork in the road”, asking them to leave by February 6 if they don’t want to return to office five days a week and commit to a culture of excellence. While the subject line of the email read ‘Fork in the Road’, the firm representing…
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The show of force was put on by Hamas
Hamas released four women Israeli field observers from a military base it had seized in 2003 in the Gaza Strip, Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said. “This is acynical ceremony…Hamas proved itscruelty during Saturday’s handover,” he added. The women were serving as field observers in Unit 414 of the Field Intelligence battalion when…
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Cancer can poison the immune system by giving it faulty machinery
An international research team has identified trends in academic promotion criteria in nearly 250 universities and government agencies. Researchers have identified trends in the academic-promotion criteria of schools and government agencies by using hundreds of policy documents. Researchers found that research output was included as a criterion for promotion in almost all of the documents.
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Immune cells are used to destroy anti-tumour defences
T cell exhaustion was shown in mice with cancer, when tumor TILs infused alien mitochondria, researchers said. Twenty-four hours later, TIL04#9 cells were cocultured with MEL04#9 cells for 3 days with or without 10 mM NAC. As per the manufacturer’s instructions, each cell was incubated with Annexin V and eFluor for 15 min at room…
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You may have to take extra training before graduate school
A post-baccalaureate position is a stepping stone for master’s or PhD in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). A post-baccalaureate position can also be used as a stepping stone to graduate school for a PhD in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Post-baccalaureate positions are dedicated to gaining research experience and scientific skills before graduate school.
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Trump wasflattened in response to Biden’s new chip restrictions
The US has new rules that will require AI developers to pay for their infrastructure so that it doesn’t raise electricity prices for consumers, the White House said. Developers building new AI data centres on federal land will be required “to pay all costs of building and operating AI infrastructure…so that this development does not…
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Trump said that officials handling the Los Angeles wildfires were incompetent
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday said that he has invited US President Donald Trump to visit the state amid the wildfires that have killed at least 16 people and destroyed 12,000 structures in the state. “He’s invited in the spirit of an open hand…not a closed fist,” he added. The fires were caused by…