I’m not even going to try to pretend I don’t have a bit of a girl-crush on Shoshana Berger. She’s a former WIRED editor turned editorial leader for companies like Notion and Ideo. She’s super smart and chic. And she’s the cofounder, with Nina Willdorf, of the Aged Intelligence Society, a buzzy events startup that…
A health worker administers polio drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign amidst heavy snow in the Bakwali-Surgan area of AJK’s Neelum Valley, on February 4, 2025. — AFP Khyber reports its first polio case since 2019. Special vaccination drive planned in high-risk areas. Officials launch probe, plan additional vaccination measures. PESHAWAR: Pakistan…
Canadian author and publisher groups say they are pleased to hear that Library and Archives Canada (LAC) recently updated its ISBN (International Standard Book Numbers) policy to limit registrations for AI-generated books and other content. “This change not only protects Canadian authors and our valuable creative sector, it also allows Canada‘s cultural and heritage identity…
AUSTIN: Max Verstappen is set to be a party-pooper this weekend as he seeks to delay Kimi Antonelli’s title celebrations by notching a third consecutive win with another triumph at the United States Grand Prix. Red Bull’s four-time world champion won both the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia and then the Singapore Grand Prix to…
Liquid AI just announced Liquid RIPL, short for Real-time Inference Pipeline. RIPL is a low-latency engine that serves Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) inside a live request path. It returns complete generated responses end-to-end in under 50 ms. It also claims that latency holds while traffic arrives continuously at peak load….
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses a press conference on the Marburg virus outbreak at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda, October 20, 2024.— Reuters The WHO said on Wednesday it wanted more information from Russia on the death of a plague laboratory technician — and on reports of “a second employee…
More than a million Canadian homes were in need of serious repairs as of 2021, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation estimated in a new report. This figure amounts to 6.1 per cent of all homes in Canada, a report by CMHC chief economist Mathieu Laberge said on Thursday. “As of 2021, nearly 1 million…
Sri Lankan players celebrate after winning the third one-day international of the tri-series match against England at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on October 22, 2026. — PCB Rathnayake, Fernando add 166 runs together. Shanaka scores explosive 97 off just 50. Brook quickest ODI double ton goes in vain. Sri Lanka produced a sensational…
Elon Musk has invested approximately $1 billion in the newly formed media company Skydance, according to a new report from Semafor. News of the investment comes a few weeks after Paramount completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to create the combined company. Co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz are tasked with bringing…
Representational image of a bacteria. — Reuters NIH capable of diagnosing plague cases. Health ministry monitoring situation, says health DG. WHO reportedly not fully briefed on suspected case. ISLAMABAD: The federal health ministry has said the risk of plague spreading in Pakistan is currently very low following a suspected case in Siberia. Speaking to Geo…
