Новости за 26.12.2024

"Well, 2024 sure has been a year" seems to be the prevailing sentiment. Well, we're setting the negativity aside because even if everything didn't break our way this year, the great thing about being reporters is that if we feel strongly about something, we get to put it in the spotlight. Sure, we broke news....

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries by enhancing decision-making, increasing efficiency, and driving innovation. For companies, upskilling the workforce in AI has shifted from being a competitive edge to a critical necessity for staying relevant in today’s market. Earlier this year, I led my company’s AI upskilling program. Through a process of trial and […]

1. 2025 World Juniors: Pittsburgh Penguin focus  PensBurgh
2. World Junior Championship preview: Top contenders, key players to watch  ESPN
3. Power Rankings  IIHF
4. USA looks to defend world juniors hockey title: 2025 schedule, roster, how to watch  USA TODAY
5. 2025 World Junior Championship schedule  NHL.com

Claire McCaskill reacts to Kamala Harris' remarks to young voters and says the vice president has plenty of options to explore after her elecition loss to Trump

A provincially run Manitoba facility that creates crucial materials used to detect cancer got a passing grade on its latest Health Canada inspection after failing its two most recent reviews by the regulator over concerns including mishandling test results, not following proper sterility practices and inadequately training workers.

Deepfakes were nothing like the political force in 2024 that many feared—but that doesn’t mean that generative AI didn’t profoundly affect elections all over the world.

The media does not give you an accurate picture of the world. This isn’t to say that we’re not reporting the truth or that we’re making facts up. Rather, our profession has a natural tendency to accentuate the negative because the negative is usually what we mean when we think of the news.  Reports of […]

It’s the end of the year, and disappointment is in the air. It has been for a while now. Given the current state of liberal politics in the United States, it’s easy to imagine why it might feel that way. 2024 has been a cascade of disappointments, a series of escalating underperformances from people we readily or reluctantly put our faith in, raising our hopes and crashing them down to the ground. The first domino was Joe Biden’s hilariously inept performance at the first presidential debate.... Читать дальше...

It was a dose of qualified good news. Signed in 2022, Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act gave the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services a power they’d sorely lacked since the agency’s conception: the ability to negotiate drug prices directly with the manufacturers. The law was by no means perfect. The cost savings are only for 10, albeit very expensive, drugs, and the negotiated prices only apply to Medicare and Medicaid rather than extending to every health care insurance plan.

And here we go again. President-elect Donald Trump wasted little time in signaling to Americans, through his Cabinet nominations and White House appointments, that he plans to move quickly to act on his most extreme promises. What kind of United States will we have in a year, or in four? How will the country and its democratic institutions change? What are the chances he doesn’t succeed? And what if he does—and an apathetic, exhausted, and inward-looking populace shrugs? We could think of no one... Читать дальше...

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1. 20 years later: A look at the deadliest disaster to strike Earth in modern history  Fox Weather
2. Supermodel Petra Nemcova says it's still 'difficult' to discuss surviving tsunami on its 20th anniversary  Fox News
3. Opinion | 20 Years Ago a Tsunami Killed 230,000 People. We Can Do Better Now.  The New York Times

2024 was my first full year at RPS, and as a guides writer, it was a year packed with the sort of games that make you roll your sleeves up, wipe sweat from your brow, and stare up at the sky from the trenches, ruminating on what life is like when you aren't dealing with back-to-back Soulslikes interspersed with gacha games that feature incomprehensible lootbox mechanics.

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What to know about hockey’s premier junior-aged tournament that is about to kick of

Britain‘s new Labour Government is doing what leftist governments always do: raising taxes on everyone, but pretending that only the wealthiest citizens will pay more. Middle-class British farmers are quickly finding out that the taxman is coming for them too.

Here’s what experts believe could happen to social media over the next 12 months.

Talia Cotton, Joe Doucet, and six other designers reveal the trends they want to let go of next year.

If you want to buy a sleek new heat pump or home battery before tax credits might disappear, here are some of the choices.

Today’s theme: 2024 in movies.

“I know it’s a lot to ask right now, but I need you to unclench your jaw.”

There is a champagne tower, and then next to it a water-glass tower to remind you to hydrate.

While elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City will receive the most attention next year, 2025 will also see plenty of lower-profile — but no less interesting — races. From a judicial race in the battleground state of Pennsylvania to several notable mayoral races, political observers will be watching to see how these...