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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Japan and the Philippines Important defense agreement Japan on Monday gave the go-ahead for the deployment of Japanese troops for joint military exercises in the Southeast Asian country, which was brutally occupied by Japan during World War II but is now building an alliance with Japan amid a growing conflict with China.of Mutual Access AgreementThe treaty, which also allows Philippine troops to enter Japan for joint combat training, was signed in Manila by Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and witnessed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The treaty will take effect…

Image: Auterion Auterion, a Swiss-based open source autonomous computing technology provider, has announced a new solution that will enable militaries to combat drones at the expense of smartphones. Auterion’s Skynode S is a combined drone computer and flight controller that provides fully autonomous flight to reach and destroy ground targets with great precision. With swarm control, fully autonomous flight, and immunity to jamming, the Skynode S increases success rates from 20% to over 90%, according to the company. The low-cost, NDAA-compliant technology has already proven useful in combat missions in Ukraine by providing Ukrainian forces with advanced computer vision to…

* Heat warning 12pm to 8pm*It’s a somewhat subjective rating of the weather for that day on a scale of 0 to 10.2/10: A brutal combination of heat and humidity that can get tiring quickly.today: Mostly sunny, partly cloudy and muggy. Locally storms possible. High: 94 to 99.tonight: Partly cloudy and muggy. Low: 73 to 80.tomorrow: Hot and humid. Storms possible later in the day. Highs: 95 to 100.The heat is relentless, and the humidity is back after yesterday’s lull. The heat index, which combines both heat and humidity, is expected to exceed 100 every day through Wednesday. We’d love…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has warned that the cash-strapped country will continue to seek an IMF bailout if it fails to increase tax revenues, media reports said on Monday.The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader is based in the UK. Financial Times The paper said he was “relatively confident” he would reach a staff-level agreement this month with the Washington-based global lender for an estimated $6 billion to $8 billion in loans.But Aurangzeb said, “This will not be the last fund programme unless we increase tax revenues.”Last month, the federal government passed a Rs 18,877 billion tax increase budget…

Specialist Kamal Bey of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program celebrates after winning a gold medal in the Greco-Roman wrestling 77 kg weight class at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Bey plans to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Nate Garcia/U.S. Army) With the Olympic and Paralympic Games being held in France this summer, U.S. soldiers have their sights set on gold medals, especially in shooting events. Seven U.S. Army soldiers and at least two veterans have qualified to compete in the Olympics, which will be held in Paris and other cities in France from July…

UK’s new Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer. AFPEver since Rishi Sunak, the former British Prime Minister, in May, called snap general elections to be held on July 4, six months before they were due, the die was cast—the near certain demise of ‘Rishi Raj’ ending fourteen years of Conservative rule.Unsurprisingly, in the formerly Brexiting, Eurosceptic UK, with the election results, the pendulum has swung back to the other side, with the centre-left Labour party getting a stunningly mammoth victory getting 412 seats in the House of Commons, at par with the historic win of Tony…

BNP Paribas and QuantumStreet AI today announced the launch of a new, unique BNP Paribas Cross-Asset Trended and AI Index in Brazil, with global plans. The BNP Paribas Cross Asset Trend & AI Index is designed to combine traditional trend-based investment techniques with an AI-powered approach of trend-following signals powered by QuantumStreet AI, designed to identify cues that might otherwise be missed and target optimal allocation across asset classes worldwide. The index’s underlying strategy leverages both historical data and forward-looking indicators powered by AI analytics to capture the broadest range of information available. QuantumStreet AI uses IBM watsonx as the…

Welcome to our 38th Media Mailbag AthleticThank you for submitting your questions via our website and app! We received over 170 questions, so here is part one of a two-part series.Note: Questions have been edited for clarity and length.Does hiring someone like Tom Brady to call football games really boost viewership? Are people going to say, “Yeah, I’m going to watch that game because ____ is calling it?” Don’t most fans prefer a call-up guy who hits his own home runs? Am I way off the mark? — Chris A.That’s an interesting question, Chris. It’s one that’s constantly debated within…

One of Nvidia’s advantages in the data center space is that it not only offers cutting-edge GPUs for AI and HPC computing, but also uses its own hardware and software to effectively scale the number of processors across a data center. How can you beat Nvidia if your GPUs are slow and your software stack is not as pervasive as Nvidia’s CUDA? Then scale your own scale-out capabilities. That’s exactly what Chinese GPU maker Moores Threads has done, according to a report in Science China Morning Post.Moore Threads has upgraded its KUAE data center servers for AI, enabling the connection…

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the oldest and second-oldest presidents in US history, respectively, and their ages have prompted calls for cognitive testing as they attack each other’s intellectual abilities in the 2024 election.Concerns have been raised about Biden’s age and mental health after he performed poorly in the debates, stumbling, struggling to understand and losing his train of thought.In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Friday night, the 81-year-old Biden declined to say whether he would take cognitive tests. “I take cognitive tests every day,” said Biden, who will be 86 when he leaves office if he…