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A major storm will bring a lot of snow and heavy rain.
The Northern Plains and the Upper Midwest will see strong winds and significant snows during the interactions between the Central Plains and the Upper Midwest, the Storm Prediction Centre said. The northern Plains and Midwest will see 4-8 inches of snow through Friday of next week, with some locations getting up to one foot, it…
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Over the last 50 years, animal populations have shrunk by an average of 70%.
A new report by the Zoological Society of London and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has found a decline in wildlife populations across the world over the past 50 years. Latin America and the Caribbean saw a 94% average population loss and Africa saw a 66% decline, while North America experienced only a 20% drop and…
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China is a hot new place to get information about the election.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday rejected anti-government protests that had erupted over the past week and called them an attempt to “incite separatism”. He said, “We will not allow any group to interfere in our internal politics.” The protests were sparked by a Chinese student holding an anti-Xi banner on Beijing’s Sitong Bridge.
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The much anticipated commercial-supported plan will be called “Basic with Ads”.
Disney Plus Basic plan, which costs $7.99/month and replaces the ad-free version, is cheaper than the basic plan. It’ll cost $7.99/month in the US. The Disney Plus Premium plan, which now costs $10.99/month, has been reduced to $11.99/month in the US. Earlier this month, Disney had announced that it’ll no longer offer an ad-free plan.
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The best outdoor brands are up to 30% off.
Outdoor retailer REI launched its annual ‘Get Out Sale’, with offers including 30% off Co-op brand and up to 30% off camping and hiking gear, snow sports and cold-weather apparel essentials, 20% off carracks and up to 50% off men’s and women’s clothes. The deals includes a bonus card with each $50 purchase if you…
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Academics should be worried about the writing of smart essays by an artificial intelligence bot.
MIT researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot named ChatGPT that can answer questions in human language. It was built by using a form of simulated reward and punishment called reinforcement learning. The researchers fed human-written answers to ChatGPT as training data, and then used a form of reinforcement learning to push the model…
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The world’s 1,000 most spoken languages will be supported by a giant Artificial Intelligence language model.
Google has said it’ll be funding the collection of data for low-resource languages, including audio recordings and written texts. “By having a single model exposed to and trained on many different languages, we get much better performance on our low resource languages,” Zoubin Ghahramani, VP of Research at Google AI, said. “One of the…interesting things…
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What does this mean for Wear OS?
Google’s Director of Software Engineering for Wear OS, Pete Kilburn, said the company hopes to have a new version of Wear OS every year. “If new functionalities added in Android are critical for watches and hearable, then we’ve got to find a way to get it into the watch,” he added. “There will still be…
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It will be a very busy Thanksgiving travel season.
The AAA National Autonomous Highway Forecast (NAPRA) has projected that the US will witness nearly 49 million people travel by car this year, a 6% increase compared to the same period last year. “Given how separated…we were during the first two years of the pandemic, travel demand is high,” a AAA spokesperson Aixa Diaz said.
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Grant was a journalist who collapsed at the World Cup.
Grant Wahl, a journalist who had covered eight consecutive FIFA World Cups, died at the age of 40 in Qatar in December 2005. Wahl’s family has said that he received death threats for wearing a rainbow shirt while reporting on soccer organization’s activities in the nation. Wahl had volunteered to cover football as a junior…
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There is no basis for the hype about Kari Lake.
As many as 12 of the 13 Republican nominees for US federal and state office in Arizona have questioned the results of the 2020 election. They said they are determined to defeat former President Donald Trump’s hand-picked slate of election deniers. The candidates said they’ll not allow their voters to be intimidated by activists who…
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Stellantis says that the layoffs of Jeep are due to EV’s.
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has proposed a new class of tax credits for electric vehicle production. The proposed rules allow consumer tax credits for electric vehicles if they meet the requirements for US-based manufacturing of the vehicles themselves and their batteries. They also place caps on the cost of the vehicles and the…
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Here is one for her future.
Brittney Griner has been released from Russia after being jailed for over five months on charges of possessing hashish oil. She was detained at Yaroslavl airport on September 10 and later sentenced to two years in jail. “When I first saw Brittney, she was a very strong young woman,” former WNBA player Lisa Leslie said…
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There was a deal that freed a woman but left a man in Russia.
The US has released Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout as a part of a deal that also saw former US Air Force Special Warfare Captain Brittney Griner being freed from custody. “I’m grateful for President (Joe) Biden’s willingness to honour my family’s request for my release,” Griner said. “I’m looking forward to returning home to…
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The leaders retreated from raising the debt ceiling.
US Vice President Joe Biden has urged Congress to pass legislation to eliminate the federal debt ceiling by the end of this week. “We must raise the debt limit in a way that doesn’t add to the national debt,” he said. Earlier, the White House had said that the administration would consider using legal strategies…
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Sinema left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent.
US Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who began her political career as a Green Party member, announced that she has become a political independent. “When politicians are more focused on denying opposition party a victory than they’re on improving Americans’ lives, the people who lose are everyday Americans,” she said. Sinema is up for reelection in 2024…
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The Supreme Court may not be able to use Trump’s latest delay tactic.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday said it doesn’t have to restore a hold on the JusticeDepartment’s access to documents marked as classified because former US President Donald Trump’s request doesn’t ask them to. Trump was ordered by a House committee to turn over documents, including emails, pertaining to the probe into Russian meddling in…
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Sen. Sinema went from the Democrats to register as an independent.
US Senator Kyrsten Sinema has declared her independence from “broken partisan system” in Washington. Sinema, who is serving her fourth term in the Senate, said, “I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington.” She added that she doesn’t anticipate anything…
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Biden calls the risk of Armageddon the highest it’s been since the Cuban missile crisis.
US Vice President Joe Biden has said that it’s not clear whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict. “We don’t have any information to cause us to change our strategic deterrence posture, and we don’t assess that President Putin has made a decision to use…
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Lionel Messi is looking to inspire La Celeste.
Argentina and Netherlands will face each other in the World Cup knockout stages for the third time after they faced off in 1998 and 1978. They last met in the semi-finals eight years ago, a goalless game that Argentina ultimately won on penalties. Both the teams have lost their last two matches at the World…
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The New York Times reported that Musk sent the worst midnight email to his boss.
An alternative platform like Gab, Parler and Truth Social offers a “keyhole view” of what Twitter will look like under new owner Elon Musk, said Media Matters for America President Joe Roth. He added that the company’s decision to cut jobs “when the company is losing over $4M/ day” was “unfair”. Twitter has offered severance…
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There are 3 reasons why China may become more assertive.
The US and China are “more and more focused on no longer just deterring independence”, while China views its actions as a response to the US’ actions, a senior Chinese official has said. “There are people within…government who do not believe that China’s policies toward the US are the best,” the official added. The official…
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The rapid descent of Pedro Castillo from President to prisoner.
Peru’s Congress on Wednesday impeached and arrested former President Pedro Castillo, making Dina Boluarte the country’s first female President. The Congress voted to impeach Castillo after he announced that he was dissolving Congress and installing an emergency government. Boluarte is a lawmaker from Castillo’s party and the first woman President in Peru’s history.
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Russia demanded that a spy held in Germany be freed.
US President Joe Biden said the government is in “close contact” with the family of Paul Whelan, an American man who has been detained in Russia since 2018. This comes after Russian authorities released American Brittney Griner and jailed Russian citizen Viktor Bout in a prisoner swap. The US is working to secure Whelan’s release,…
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Data shows a rise in the flu in the US after Thanksgiving.
Several US health experts have said the rising number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the country was not “at a time that was environmentally favourable to respiratory syncytialvirus (RSV)”. They added that factors like temperature and humidity play a part in transmitting the virus. “We have a lot more immunity in the population than we…