Новости за 20.05.2024

By Michael Scollon

(RFE/RL) -- The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi sets in motion a scramble to replace him in short order, with long-term implications for the clerical establishment.

Mohammad Mokhber, who served as first vice president under Raisi, has already taken over the presidential duties in an acting capacity.

His time in office will likely be brief, with Iranian law stipulating that a new presidential election be held within 50 days.

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LOVE Island beauty Lucinda Strafford appears to have confirmed a secret feud with two of her villa besties.

Everton have made plans to complete the permanent signing of Leeds United winger Jack Harrison, according to the club’s sporting director Kevin Thelwell. Leeds plays Southampton in the playoff final at Wembley with one game remaining in their season to guarantee their promotion to the Premier League. The Championship club would hold more authority over […]

South Korea is to host a mini-summit on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence, following an inaugural AI safety meeting in Britain last year

The flirty, conversational upgrade to OpenAI's chatbot has been compared by some to 2013 film Her.

Process to choose new president could push political rivalries among regime loyalists to new level

The war of words between Christian Horner and Toto Wolff continued at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix last weekend.

A 35-year-old woman is in critical condition after the pick-up truck she was driving was struck by a Via Rail passenger train Monday morning in Quebec's Monteregie region.

On Sunday, the students learned the ropes, did a little sailing in the bay and in Lake Erie. On Monday, they will head to Put-In-Bay in Ohio.

A woman in her 30s is in critical condition after the pick-up truck she was driving was struck by a Via Rail passenger train Monday morning in Quebec's Monteregie region.

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After many people noticed that one of the voices in OpenAI’s voice-enabled chatbot sounded very much like that of Scarlett Johansson’s disembodied AI companion in Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie “Her,” the company is suspending the voice for the time being. The Johansson-soundalike voice, called Sky, was part of OpenAI’s GPT-4o release, which it launched last week. […]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won a bid to appeal against a UK court ruling that approved his extradition to the United States to face trial for breaking national security laws.

Gold could hit $3,000 per ounce in a few years if recent price trends continue, experts say.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr swiped at rival Kyle Busch following a crash during the second lap

Former President Donald Trump said he would consider tapping Ken Paxton for U.S. attorney general if he wins a second term in the White House.

A man took to the internet to ask for advice after discovering a mystery bug in his home - but people were quick to beg him to 'call professionals' after spotting what it was

Nigel Farage has been banging on about how little our young people know about D-Day, the epic invasion of Nazi-occupied France by the Allies in June, 1944.

Azerbaijan's national oil and gas company SOCAR is eyeing new Black Sea oil & gas projects, while the Israeli gas field is on hold for now due to the war.

Ford Ride will have an impact on a few London and Essex roads and routes this weekend

The future of optical communications just got brighter. In a development reported in Advanced Photonics, researchers from Nanjing University have introduced iso-propagation vortices (IPVs), a novel concept that offers a solution to a long-standing challenge faced by scientists and engineers: how to increase information processing capacity while overcoming the limitations of traditional vortex beams.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia is introducing trading reminders with immediate effect, a new tool highlighting listed companies that exhibit unusual trading activity.

Инфекции нижних мочевых путей (ИНМП), наиболее частым проявлением которых является острый бактериальный цистит, распространены необычайно широко [1, 2]. В России ежегодно регистрируют 26–36 млн случаев цистита, и с этим заболеванием связано до 60% обращений к урологу [1]. Циститом болеют преимущественно женщины, что связано с анатомо-физиологическими и гормональными особенностями их организма [1-3]. В течение жизни острый цистит переносят 20–25% женщин, причем у каждой третьей из них в течение года возникает рецидив заболевания... Читать дальше...

This is a free country, or so I’m told. While that doesn’t mean you’re entitled to lifesaving healthcare without going bankrupt, it does mean that if you own a hot dog bar in Las Vegas, Nevada, you can host an unofficial meet-and-greet with world famous cartoon pup Bluey and piss off hundreds of children and their…