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Tennis Briefing: Djokovic, a water bottle, and so many injuries in Rome

14May

By Anderson W. WhiteNo Comments

Sports

Tennis Briefing: Djokovic, a water bottle, and so many injuries in Rome

Welcome to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the story behind the stories from the last week on court. This week, the coveted Masters 1000 in Rome ran its first week and the stories on court were matched by the drama off it. Novak Djokovic exited, struck by a water bottle, Rafael Nadal took the next step in his comeback, and the on-court spectacle was overtaken by some strange umpiring.And is everybody injured now?If you’d like to follow our fantastic tennis coverage, please click here.Are all these injuries signal or noise?Friday lunchtime in Rome and the Foro Italico briefly felt like an infirmary, as one medical bulletin followed another.First, defending champion Elena Rybakina withdrew because of illness, before the first matches of the day on the Campo Centra...

OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks

14May

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Technology

OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks

As Apple and Google transform their voice assistants into chatbots, OpenAI is transforming its chatbot into a voice assistant.On Monday, the San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up unveiled a new version of its ChatGPT chatbot that can receive and respond to voice commands, images and videos.The company said the new app — based on an A.I. system called GPT-4o — juggles audio, images and video significantly faster than previous versions of the technology. The app will be available starting on Monday, free of charge, for both smartphones and desktop computers.“We are looking at the future of the interaction between ourselves and machines,” said Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer.The new app is part of a wider effort to combine conversational chatbots like ChatGPT with...

Enhance your supply chain with transportation monitoring in United States

13May

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Empresas

Enhance your supply chain with transportation monitoring in United States

The ability to track routes in real-time has become essential for logistics firms in today's e-commerce landscape. By keeping a close eye on the exact positions of their fleets, businesses can make better decisions, foresee possible challenges, and tackle any obstacles that arise. Delego's last-mile software equips enterprises from United States to enhance logistics efficiency and achieve outstanding outcomes.Discover how tracking routes can enhance your planning processes, minimize delivery durations, and boost operational productivity, as well as how innovative transportation routing and monitoring software can enable your business to thrive.What is the process of transportation monitoring?Transportation monitoring tools aim to show real-time visualization of your fleet's location. Howev...

U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles

12May

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Business, Economy

U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles

The Biden administration is set to announce new tariffs as high as 100 percent on Chinese electric vehicles and additional import taxes on other Chinese goods, including semiconductors, as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.The move comes amid growing concern within the administration that Mr. Biden’s efforts to jump-start domestic manufacturing of clean energy products could be undercut by China, which has been flooding global markets with cheap solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles and other products.The long-awaited tariffs are the result of a four-year review of the levies that President Donald J. Trump imposed on more than $300 billion of Chinese imports in 2018. Most of the Trump tariffs are expected to remain in place, but Mr. Biden plans to go bey...

Brazil’s National Museum Receives Massive Fossil Donation

12May

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Brazil’s National Museum Receives Massive Fossil Donation

On the night of Sept. 2, 2018, a fire swept through the National Museum of Brazil, devastating the country’s oldest scientific institution and one of South America’s biggest and most important museums. On Tuesday, the museum announced that it received a major donation of ancient Brazilian fossils to help rebuild its collection ahead of a scheduled 2026 reopening.Burkhard Pohl, a Swiss-German collector and entrepreneur who maintains one of the world’s largest private fossil collections, has handed over to the National Museum about 1,100 specimens, all of which originated in Brazil. The donation is the biggest and most scientifically important contribution yet to the museum’s rebuilding efforts, after the loss of 85 percent of its roughly 20 million specimens and artifacts in the fire.The mo...

Patient Dies Weeks After Kidney Transplant From Genetically Modified Pig

12May

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Health

Patient Dies Weeks After Kidney Transplant From Genetically Modified Pig

Richard “Rick” Slayman, who made history at age 62 as the first person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died about two months after the procedure.Massachusetts General Hospital, where Mr. Slayman had the operation, said in a statement on Saturday that its transplant team was “deeply saddened” at his death. The hospital said it had “no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant.”Mr. Slayman, who was Black, had end-stage kidney disease, a condition that affects more than 800,000 people in the United States, according to the federal government, with disproportionately higher rates among Black people.There are far too few kidneys available for donation. Nearly 90,000 people are on the national waiting list for a kidney.Mr. Slayman, a supervisor for the s...