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Tokyo: Sony PlayStation on Tuesday said it was laying off eight percent of its global workforce, as the tech industry continues to suffer a wave of job cuts. Calling it “sad news,” PlayStation chief Jim Ryan said that the reduction would affect 900 people across the globe, including video-game making studios. The cuts would see…
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Intuitive Machines said the next day that human error was to blame for the navigational issue. Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since 1972, neared the end of its fifth day on the lunar surface still operational, but with its battery in its final hours before the vehicle is expected to…
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China, which imposed an anti-dumping tariff against Brazil’s poultry industry in 2019, has not renewed the tax. File | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s government has opted to not renew a tariff on imports of poultry products from Brazil, the South American nation said on Feb. 27. China hit Brazil with a tariff of between 17.8%…
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An investigation is being conducted by the regional transport police (Representational photo) Paris: A bag containing a computer and two USB memory sticks holding police security plans for the Paris Olympic Games was stolen on Monday evening from a train at the capital’s Gare du Nord station, police sources said Tuesday. The bag belonged to…
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U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden implored the top four leaders of Congress on February 27 to act…
Leap years have been with us since the 16th century. Paris: An extra day every four years, what’s not to love? The calendar quirk of February 29 keeps us in sync with the seasons but it has also spawned a host of rituals and superstitions, not to mention computer glitches, which AFP unpacks here: Why…
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Oleg Orlov, the 70-year-old human rights campaigner and co-chair of the Nobel Prize winning Memorial group, is seen handcuffed after being sentenced to two and a half years in jail on charges of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, in Moscow on February 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP A Russian court on February 27 sentenced…
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Representatives for the New York Times and OpenAI did not immediately respond. OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence systems to generate misleading evidence for the case. OpenAI said in a filing…
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A proof copy of the first Harry Potter book, which was purchased over 30 years ago for pennies at a secondhand bookshop, fetched 11,000 pounds (Rs 11.5 lakhs) at auction, as per a report in ABC News. The original edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” which is marked “uncorrected proof copy” on the…
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Sri Lanka’s main Opposition party has accused parliamentary Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana of “violating” the Constitution, in clearing the appointment of a controversial official as the island’s police chief. Posting on social media platform ‘X’ on Monday night, Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa said: “Constitution is being blatantly violated for the second time. Shame on…
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