Russian gasoline output fell to a level equivalent to only around 65 per cent of the seasonal average consumption after Ukrainian drone attacks led to stoppages at large oil refineries, according to two industry sources and Reuters calculations. Ukraine has intensified its attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, including large oil refineries, to try to undermine…
Israel’s military has continued to carry out strikes in Gaza during the wider regional conflict involving Iran. Andy Burnham, who is expected to be named as Britain’s new prime minister later this month, wants to exert more pressure on the Israeli government over its actions in Gaza, the Guardian reported on Thursday. In an interview…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role, The Wall Street Journal reports. In a staff note Thursday, Simo said her ongoing medical leave has proven longer and harder than expected, and that she’ll transition to a part-time advisory role instead. Simo joined OpenAI’s board of directors in 2024 and…
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Top Vancouver Fishing Charter company took to social media on June 28 to brag about how its two vessels had gone out together and would head back to port with a haul of fish. “This is what makes fishing in Vancouver so addictive — every trip brings a surprise, and we always head home with…
The Pakistan Meteorological Division (PMD) on Friday predicted rain, windstorm and thundershowers within the higher components of the nation over the weekend. The division stated that moist currents from the Arabian Sea have been constantly penetrating the higher components of the nation, growing in energy on Saturday (July 11) night. “In the meantime, a westerly…
“I think we are literally in a renaissance,” says the artist Refik Anadol, in a characteristically optimistic comment, when asked how he sees this moment in art history, with artificial intelligence ascendant yet controversial as a medium. “We just don’t have a name for it yet.” Anadol, known for technological installations that probe the relationship…
Circle has joined a small but growing list of crypto-native companies that have received OCC approval. The entity behind the second-largest stablecoin announced earlier today that it has secured the necessary license from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to launch First National Digital Currency Bank, NA, which will operate as…
FIFA’s handling of two World Cup red-card cases came under renewed scrutiny on Thursday after England defender Jarell Quansah got a two-match suspension while US striker Folarin Balogun avoided an immediate ban for a similar challenge. That has left former international referees unable to reconcile the two decisions. Quansah was sent off in England’s last-16…
Most wearable health models are built one outcome at a time. That approach breaks down at thirty-five endpoints. Labels are expensive and retrospective annotation is infeasible. Google Research introduced SensorFM, a foundation model for wearable health pre-trained on more than 1 trillion minutes of sensor data from 5 million people. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.22759 What is SensorFM? SensorFM…
