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Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star. The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the distance between Earth and the sun, with enough gas and dust to form super-sized planets in far-flung orbits, the U.S. and German researchers reported this week. First spotted in 2016, the disk around a star 1,000 light-years away was not confirmed to be a hotbed for new, emerging planets until recent observations by telescopes in Hawaii.
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding on Tuesday posted a greater-than-expected decline in profit for the fourth quarter due to its equity investments, sending its stock price plunging in New York. Alibaba said this was primarily due to a lower market value of its equity investments. “This quarter’s results demonstrate that our strategies are working and we are returning to growth,” said Eddie Wu, Alibaba CEO, in an earnings call.
Google debuted a host of AI features for its Android and Workspace platforms during its Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday.
Google is bringing some of the biggest changes to its search platform in years.
Google on Tuesday rolled out a retooled search engine that will frequently favor responses crafted by artificial intelligence over website links, a shift promising to quicken the quest for information while also potentially disrupting the flow of money-making internet traffic. The makeover announced at Google's annual developers conference will begin this week in the U.S. when hundreds of millions of people will start to periodically see conversational summaries generated by the company's AI technology at the top of the search engine's results page. The AI overviews are supposed to only crop up when Google's technology determines they will be the quickest and most effective way to satisfy a user's curiosity — a solution mostly likely to happen with complex subjects or when people are brainstorming, or planning.
Biden allies say he would never consider cancel college speeches. From a pure optics standpoint, it would be a gift to the Trump campaign. But Biden has also long relished speaking at commencements
U.S. government officials have temporarily relaxed strict guidelines on how public health laboratories and healthcare facilities handle, store and transport H5N1 bird flu samples, which are considered high-risk pathogens, in response to the recent spread of the virus to dairy cattle. The revised guidance, which has not been previously reported, came at the request of the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), which represents state and local labs that monitor and detect public health threats, according to interviews and correspondence seen by Reuters. The H5N1 virus has been detected among dairy cattle in nine U.S. states since late March.
Jamilla Smith was last heard from on Dec. 2. She was in Aiken County with her ex-boyfriend, who was arrested Dec. 23 on kidnapping and murder charges
Free trade is out, with both political parties now endorsing tariffs and other forms of protectionism.
Google parent Alphabet on Tuesday unveiled a product called Trillium in its artificial intelligence data center chip family that it says is nearly five times as fast as its prior version. "Industry demand for (machine learning) computer has grown by a factor of 1 million in the last six years, roughly increasing 10-fold every year," Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a briefing call with reporters. "I think Google was built for this moment, we've been pioneering (AI chips) for more than a decade."
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration closed its review of Blue Origin's New Shepard investigation last year, agreeing with the company's findings. It required Blue Origin to make 21 corrective actions, including an engine redesign and "organizational changes".
Ukraine's leaders and Russian dissidents are struggling to make common cause.
The group formed by the September merger of France's Eutelsat and Britain's OneWeb lowered guidance in January after delays to the rollout of its OneWeb ground network. It said in February that it had caught up after the delays and confirmed in Tuesday's trading update that the rollout was on track.
An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search. A prosecutor in Metz, France, confirmed Tuesday that Ian Thomas Cleary, 31, of Saratoga, California, had been taken into custody last month and will be held pending extradition proceedings. Cleary had been the subject of an international search since authorities in Pennsylvania issued a 2021 felony warrant in the case weeks after an Associated Press story detailed the reluctance of local prosecutors to pursue campus sex crimes.
President Biden quadrupled tariffs on Chinese-made EVs. The catch? Hardly any Americans are buying these cars anyway.
Less than a week after the 24/7 visual art installation was put in place, officials opted to close it down temporarily.
A German court on Thursday convicted one of the country's most controversial far-right politicians, Bjoern Hoecke, of deliberately using a banned Nazi slogan at a rally.Hoecke was convicted of using the banned slogan at an election rally in Merseburg in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in the run-up to Germany's 2021 federal election.
When the Westminster Kennel Club dog show added an agility competition a decade ago, it opened U.S. dogdom's most elite door to mixed breeds for the first time since the late 1800s. “She just tries hard, and she's a wonderful dog,” handler Cynthia Hornor told The Associated Press this week. Nimble had a flawless run in 28.76 seconds, over a second ahead of her closest competitor, a border collie called Vanish.
The sale of California town Campo would include more than 20 buildings, including single-family homes, apartments and commercial properties.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, a change the Republican-controlled Statehouse championed amid concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases. The new Tennessee law, which goes into effect July 1, authorizes the state to pursue capital punishment when an adult is convicted of aggravated rape of a child. Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis enacted a similar bill nearly a year ago.
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