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IThis has happened to me dozens of times: I’m riding a wave and out of the corner of my eye I see something dark rising up from below. Cape Town is a great white shark hotspot, so it’s hard not to assume the worst. But my fears are quickly allayed when it becomes clear I’m sharing the wave with a Cape fur seal. Sometimes the seal gets so close I can see the foam on its baleen.Now nine seals have tested positive for rabies — the first large-scale outbreak of the disease in a marine mammal anywhere in the world…

LONDON — You can’t wave from a balcony, but for the first time, paying visitors can peek into the rooms behind the famous spot where members of Britain’s royal family gather for coronations, weddings and birthday parades.Starting this month, the Royal Collection Trust will expand its guided tours of Buckingham Palace to include access to the East Wing, including corridors lined with paintings by Thomas Gainsborough and others, the Yellow Drawing Room decorated with Chinese porcelain, and the Centre Room leading to the famous balcony.This may be part of an effort to open up a little more of the royal…

Jurgen Klopp has rejected an offer from the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) to take over as men’s national team coach following the firing of Gregg Berhalter.Sources familiar with the matter said there had been initial contact with Klopp about the possibility of coaching the U.S. national team, but the coach reiterated that he wanted to take some time off from soccer. Nevertheless, the U.S. Soccer Federation remains interested in making the 57-year-old the next head coach, the sources added.Berhalter was fired on Wednesday following the U.S. men’s soccer team’s elimination in the group stage this summer. Copa Americawas held…

Intuit is informing about 1,800 employees worldwide (10% of its workforce) that they will leave the company, but management said the move is do not have To reduce costs. CEO Sasan Gudarji Fortune 500 Companyoffers products such as QuickBooks. Credit Karmaand TurboTax wrote in an internal email to employees. luckHe announced “the very difficult decision that I and my leadership team have made.” Goudarji explained that Intuit’s transformation journey, which includes the departure of 1,800 employees, is part of a strategy to increase investments in priority focus areas of AI and generative AI, such as its GenAI-powered financial assistant called…

Generative AI has already shown great potential in robotics, where applications include natural language interaction, robot learning, no-code programming, and even design. This week, Google’s DeepMind Robotics team is showcasing another potential sweet spot between the two: navigation. In the paper “Mobility VLA: Multimodal Directed Navigation with Long Context VLM and Topological Graphs” The team demonstrated how they implemented Google Gemini 1.5 Pro to teach the robot to respond to commands and navigate around the office. Naturally, DeepMind used some of the Every Day Robots that have been in use at Google since it was founded. Project closure due to…

New research suggests that time may not be a fundamental element of the universe, but rather an illusion resulting from quantum entanglement. time This is a vexing problem for physicists: inconsistent behavior among our best theories of the universe has led to an impasse that has prevented researchers from finding a “theory of everything” – a framework that explains all of the physical phenomena in the universe. But in a new study, researchers have Quantum entanglementThe strange connection between two distant particles. The team published their findings in the journal Physics on May 10. Physics Review A. “There are ways…

Lyudmila Chernetska/iStockphoto/Getty Images Experts say adults shouldn’t smoke or vape around children, whose lungs are still developing. CNN — A new study finds that children who live in homes where adults use e-cigarettes are exposed to significantly less nicotine from secondhand smoke than children who live in homes where adults use traditional cigarettes, but e-cigarettes still expose children to nicotine and may pose other risks. Researchers say that to fully protect children from nicotine, it’s important to never smoke or use e-cigarettes around them. The researchers said they conducted the study because of the perception that e-cigarettes are safer than…

Raleigh, North Carolina Scientists in North Carolina have unearthed a 100-million-year-old dinosaur that they believe lived in burrows like an armadillo and ate grass like a deer.The new dinosaur, Phona herzogae, lived 99 million years ago in what is now Utah, a vast floodplain ecosystem sandwiched between a huge inland sea to the east and active volcanoes and mountains to the west. It was a warm, wet, muddy environment cut by numerous rivers.Paleontologists from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have been excavating this fossil and other specimens of the same species since 2013.…

Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Paul Mescal as Lucious in Gladiator II and Spencer Treat Clark as Lucious in Gladiator. Paramount Pictures/Universal Pictures The first trailer for Gladiator 2 shows Lucious, played by Paul Mescal, battling Marcus Acacius, played by Pedro Pascal.In the original Gladiator film, young Lucius was played by Spencer Treat Clark.Here’s why Clarke won’t be reprising the role for Gladiator 2: “GladiatorThe sequel hits theaters on Tuesday, and fans are wondering why Paul Mescal is playing Lucious, the slave warrior, instead of Spencer Treat Clark, who played him in the original.Starred…

Gregg Berhalter is stepping down as head coach of the U.S. men’s national team because it’s starting to feel unimaginable that he could continue. The uproar has become too much. The team’s two largest supporter groups: American Outlaw and Rose 76made the call for a new coach after the United States’ disgraceful group stage exit from the Copa America in their home country. Ultimately the campaign was unsuccessful.American fans could be clearly heard chanting “Fire Greg!” This coordinated fan effort to oust the coach was unprecedented and effective, driven by concern about the team’s trajectory with less than two years…