France are favourites to win a third World Cup. Photo: AFP MIAMI: The World Cup is down to just eight teams, with a heavyweight line-up set to do battle in the quarter-finals from Thursday. AFP Sport looks at the match-ups, all of which are taking place in the United States. France v Morocco Imperious France…
Robbyant, the embodied-AI company within Ant Group, has open-sourced LingBot-Vision, a family of self-supervised Vision Transformers built for dense spatial perception. The weights ship under Apache-2.0 on Hugging Face in four sizes — ViT-giant, ViT-large, ViT-base, and ViT-small — together with a technical report and inference code. Most vision foundation models are trained for semantic…
XRP remains under pressure across both the USDT and BTC pairs, with sellers continuing to control the broader trend despite several short-lived recovery attempts. While the USDT chart shows buyers defending an important support area, the XRP/BTC pair continues to trade near multi-month lows, highlighting the token’s persistent relative weakness against the market leader. Ripple…
A growing wildfire in British Columbia’s Fraser Canyon has forced further evacuation alerts and the closure of a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway. The province’s transportation website, Drive BC, says the Brunswick Creek fire has forced the closure of Highway 1 between Boston Bar Station Road and Ainslie Road North. The closure comes after new…
Following years of delays due to Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) issues, Punjab ’95directed by Honey Trehan and starring Diljit Dosanjh and Arjun Rampal, was finally released in India on ZEE5 under the new title Satluj. However, within just two days of its premiere, the film was suddenly rendered unavailable to viewers in India…
Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products. As part of the deal, Apple will put $1.5 billion in capital expenditure investment to help expand Broadcom’s manufacturing facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. The tie-up builds on Apple’s…
Bitcoin exchange Bull Bitcoin said Wednesday that it had petitioned France’s Council of State (Conseil d’État) to strike down a French decree implementing the European Union’s DAC8 crypto tax reporting rules. DAC8 requires crypto service providers to collect users’ identity and transaction data and automatically report it to national tax authorities, which then exchange the…
Researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto are working on a large trial to determine if a blood test can detect tiny amounts of cancer remaining after patients have been treated. Lead investigator Dr. Lillian Siu says smaller studies around the world have shown evidence that cancer DNA can show up in the blood…
The price of 24-karat gold dropped by Rs 4,700 per tola, bringing the new price to Rs 430,236 per tola. KARACHI: Gold prices in Pakistan posted a sharp decline on Wednesday, mirroring losses in global bullion markets as international gold prices retreated. The price of 24-karat gold dropped by Rs 4,700 per tola, bringing the…
WeWard, an app that offers users rewards for logging their steps, is launching a feature called “Walking Mode” that allows users to restrict their use of chosen apps until they hit a certain step count. The feature is supposed to motivate people to walk while also helping them reduce their screen time, if that’s something…
