Vladimir Putin spoke at an event marking the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Credit: Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin has secured a fifth term in office, claiming a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election on 18 March. Election officials say he won a record 87% of votes. This outcome came as … Read more
The Amazon Spring Sale is here and if you’re interested in tech deals, you’ve come to the right place. However, don’t mistake this for a spring Prime Day — unlike Amazon’s bigger, traditional sale events, this one doesn’t revolve around Prime-exclusive discounts. And that’s a good thing; that means anyone who shops on Amazon can … Read more
Epic Games in February said that it would launch an Epic Games Store on the iPhone in the European Union, and today the company held an event at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) to provide additional information on the upcoming store debut and the fees that it will charge for apps distributed through its marketplace … Read more
How’s this for a comedy premise: A character played by Saturday Night Live alum Kristen Wiig strives to break into Palm Beach’s jet set in 1969. Now add a star-studded ensemble cast including Laura and Bruce Dern, Carol Burnett and Ricky Martin, and Palm Royale has real potential. The series is now available on the … Read more
The prospective TikTok ban – something that terrifies 170 million Americans and an untold number of online entrepreneurs – is rapidly becoming a tangible reality. But until it crystallizes with a signature from US President Joe Biden, nothing is certain, and everyone has questions. Ever since the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill … Read more
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every week? Sign up here. Some models are more likely to associate African American English with negative traits than Standard American English.Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Some large language models (LLMs), including those that power chatbots such as ChatGPT, are more … Read more
The Amazon Big Spring Sale is in full swing, and one of our favorite affordable pairs of wireless earbuds is even cheaper because of it. The 2023 Echo Buds are down to $35 in this Amazon deal, which is their lowest price yet. These Echo Buds have a lot of improvements over the previous model, … Read more
Meta, Microsoft, X, and Match today joined Epic Games to protest the way Apple complied with a court ruling requiring it to walk back its anti-steering rules. In an amicus brief in support of Epic Games (via The Wall Street Journal), the four companies said that the fees Apple is charging are too high, and … Read more
After unveiling a range of XPS laptops at CES, Dell introduced ten new Latitude laptops at MWC 2024, including a new 7350 variant. Weighing from just 2.18lb (0.989kg), it’s available as a laptop or a 2-in-1 (with a detachable model arriving soon). As expected from Dell, you can customize its configuration to suit your needs. … Read more
Building an atlas of all the cell types that make up the body typically requires multinational collaborations and massive budgets. But a technique that can analyse the genetic activity of hundreds of thousands of individual cells at a time has allowed one small team to produce a time-lapse atlas of an embryonic mouse’s cells over … Read more