Why do frilled sharks look more like sea snakes? – Will, age 6, Darlington, Western Australia Hi Will. Thanks for this question! Frilled sharks are very strange looking sharks. You’re right – they look much…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) speaks during the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the nomination of Chris Magnus to be the next U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, in the Dirksen Senate…
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In the early 1900s, automobiles took the streets of industrialised cities by storm, rapidly displacing horse-drawn vehicles. Fiercely contested at first, the internal combustion engine won the technological battle against electric vehicles which accounted for…
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Press enquiries: +41 61 280 8477press@fsb.org Ref: 19/2022 The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Regional Consultative Group (RCG) for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) met today in virtual format. Discussions centred around…
Read MoreCentral banks use a wide spectrum of print, broadcast and digital media to communicate with the wider public. The 33 central banks that responded to the Communications Benchmarks 2022 employed on average about 10 distinct…
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Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA has achieved a long-held dream of AI…
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4/4 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A field of winter wheat is pictured outside Bashtanka, Mykolaiv region, as Russia’s attacks on Ukraine continue, Ukraine June 9, 2022. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo 2/4 By Conor Humphries MYKOLAIV, Ukraine…
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Concerns about rising food prices are making the headlines across the world as pressures mount in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The war has driven up prices of commodities, including wheat, which is…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Traffic drives through the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland along the M1 motorway, as seen from Carrickcarnan, Ireland, May 19, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne LONDON (Reuters) – Britain published legislation on…
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Starbucks Workers United won its 100th election on May 27, 2022 – fittingly, in Seattle, the company’s hometown. And the union has notched another 46 victories in the just over two weeks since then. It…
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