“We understand that after Bakhmut they could go further. They could go to Kramatorsk, they could go to Sloviansk, it would be open road for the Russians after Bakhmut to other towns in Ukraine, in the Donetsk direction,” Zelenskyy said.
Elon Musk apologizes after mocking a laid-off Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson, who joined Twitter in 2021 after the company acquired his startup Ueno (Barbara Ortutay/Associated Press)
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Elon Musk apologizes after mocking a laid-off Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson, who joined Twitter in 2021 after the company acquired his startup Ueno — If you’re not told you are fired, are…
Four Americans were kidnapped in Mexico by cartel gunmen. How safe is it to travel there for healthcare?
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US to relax Covid testing rules for travellers from China
The Biden administration is preparing to relax Covid-19 testing restrictions for travellers from China as soon as Friday, according to two people familiar with the decision.
US officially rescinds recent Covid testing rules for travelers from China – CNN
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Google Researchers Unveil ChatGPT-Style AI Model To Guide a Robot Without Special Training
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM) with 562 billion parameters that integrate…
New report suggests pro-Ukraine groups behind Nord Stream attacks
New York Times says new intelligence seen by US officials suggests opponents of Vladimir Putin behind pipeline attacks.
Chinese cities hit record high temperatures for early March
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