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Borodyanka, Ukraine – Days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a 500-kilogramme high-explosive bomb dropped from a fighter jet collapsed a section of Mariya Vasylenko’s apartment building. During the March 1, 2022, attack that levelled or damaged dozens more houses in this once-tranquil town, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of Kyiv, Vasylenko and her neighbours were hiding in an ice-cold basement. They rushed outside to see how the heatwave turned the air blue, melted snow and ignited cars, leafless trees and frozen blades of grass around the building. “Have you ever seen hell? That’s what it was,” Vasylenko,…

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, displays the new Blackwell GPU chip during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2024.David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expected to reveal details about Rubin, the chipmaker’s next AI graphics processor, on Tuesday at the company’s annual GTC conference. While other tech companies usually name their products using combinations of inscrutable letters and numbers, most of Nvidia’s most recent GPU architectures have been named after famous women scientists.Nvidia is naming its next critical AI chip platform after Vera Rubin, an American astronomer.The company has…

Lars Joergen Kleist, wearing a Make America Great Again hat, queues to vote at the polling station in Nuuk on March 11, 2025, as Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory, holds legislative elections.Odd Andersen | Afp | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said Thursday that he thought that the potential annexation of Greenland by the United States would happen.Trump defended that idea, saying the U.S. needs the massive Arctic island – which is a territory of Denmark — “for international security.”The president’s comments came during a meeting in the White House with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.A reporter asked Trump, “What is…

Spirit Airlines is out of bankruptcy, hitting its target to emerge in the first quarter, after a crippling few years. CEO Ted Christie says the carrier is leaner and ready to take on competitors, including rival Southwest Airlines.Earlier this week, Southwest shocked customers by announcing it will start charging for checked bags for the first time in its half-century of flying, a huge strategy move for the largest domestic U.S. carrier. (There are some exceptions to Southwest new bag rules, which take effect in late May.)”I think it’s going to be painful for a little bit as they find their…

As the Trump administration works to dismantle the Department of Education, the nation’s public school system — which educates roughly 50 million students — faces critical changes. That’s why the U.S. education ecosystem is actively seeking ways to counteract diminished support through avenues like technology and, more specifically, artificial intelligence.From targeting states that fail to revoke diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to targeting Dept. of Ed efforts related to disabilities and special education, the federal government is vastly reducing, if not eliminating, its education support, which contributes upwards of 13% of a school’s overall funding, according to the most recent…

LAHORE: Presiding over a meeting about a plan to send skilled manpower abroad from Punjab, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday set a target of providing training and job placement to 100,000 youths. She sought a comprehensive plan to send skilled manpower abroad and issued directive to provide business cards and loans to skilled youths on a priority basis. It was decided that a Skills on Wheel project would be launched for the youth of remote areas in collaboration with the private sector. The chief minister also approved several other schemes, including a ‘plug and play’ call centre launching…

The SADC mission that has suffered losses this year will conduct a ‘phased withdrawal’ of its troops.The Southern African regional bloc has said it will conclude its troop deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), having decided on a “phased withdrawal”. Leaders from the 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) – which has lost at least a dozen soldiers in the eastern DRC since January – held a virtual summit on Thursday to discuss the ongoing conflict in an area that has seen three decades of unrest. The meeting comes a day after Angola announced that peace talks…

A researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics (IOP) conducts research on two-dimensional (2D) metal in Beijing, capital of China, in March 2025. (Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics/Handout via Xinhua)BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists have recently succeeded in creating single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of just one 200,000th of the diameter of a human hair, an achievement expected to pioneer a new realm of two-dimensional (2D) metal research and trigger material innovation.The study was conducted by a research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics (IOP) and was published in…

Listen to article Consumers are likely to enjoy a massive relief of up to Rs14.16 per litre in prices of petroleum products, which aligns with the reduction in international oil prices, effective from March 16, 2025. The ex-depot price of petrol is expected to fall Rs14.16 to Rs241.47 per litre as compared to the existing price of Rs255.63 per litre. Petrol is primarily used in passenger cars and motorbikes and a big drop in its price will have a favourable impact on the consumers. Similarly, the diesel rate is also expected to register a downward trend. The ex-depot price of diesel is…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeta’s upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by Elon Musk’s X for its similar service.On Thursday, Meta revealed in a blog post more details of its new content moderation tool, and said it incorporates the same open-source algorithm that powers X’s Community Notes. Meta said that over time it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its Facebook, Instagram and Threads apps.”As X’s algorithm and program information…