BEIRUT (AP) — A Russian business delegation met Lebanese officials on Monday to discuss plans to rebuild the grain silos destroyed last year in a massive explosion at Beirut’s port, a Lebanese Cabinet minister said. The visit by the Russian team — including officials from Russia’s Hydro Engineering and Construction […]
Daily Archives: June 29, 2021
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The UN Security Council on Tuesday will hold its first formal public meeting on cybersecurity, addressing the growing threat of hacks to countries’ key infrastructure, an issue Joe Biden recently raised with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. At their summit earlier this month in Geneva, the US president set out […]
Israel Folau is free to return to rugby league in Australia after French club Catalans Dragons confirmed the controversial dual-code international has been released from the remainder of his contract. Folau’s bid to play for Gold Coast side the Southport Tigers had been held up because he was still contracted […]
WASHINGTON — A bumper crop of applications for the European Space Agency’s astronaut corps is providing a boost to proposals for Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capability. ESA announced June 23 that it received 22,589 applications in a solicitation that ended June 18. That’s far more than the […]
By Chris Stokel-Walker AI is not very good at predicting what happens next when objects interact Bear at al. Stanford University/UC San Diego/MIT Artificial intelligence struggles to comprehend how objects interact with each other as they roll, collide, drop and drape, flunking a set of benchmark tests designed to see […]
Katie confirmed during her confessional that there was a preexisting connection between the two of them, which is reminiscent of Blake also having sent DMs to Clare before he began filming her season. Additionally, Katie expressed she was having trouble figuring out what to do, given that she knew the other […]
The National Weather Service warned of “unprecedented heat” in Northwest Washington today, with temperatures expected to reach up to 113 degrees fahrenheit (45 degrees celsius). That’s very hot weather indeed, and Seattle-based Bungie had to shut its doors early as a result. Bungie tools engineer James Haywood confirmed as much […]
In another unmistakable sign that New York is coming back to life, Marc Jacobs celebrated a long-awaited return to in-person fashion shows when he presented his fall collection Monday evening at the grand Fifth Avenue branch of the New York Public Library By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer June 29, […]