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2, 300-year-old beer discovered in ancient Qin Dynasty tomb
48+ min ago (542+ words) The excavation at tomb M39 Archaeologists discovered the well-preserved liquid while excavating Tomb M39 at the Shanjia Bao cemetery near Guyuan City in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, according to findings published by a collaborative team of Chinese scholars recently in the…...
Vietnam braces for 40 C heatwaves in June after its most intense May heat in 5 years
50+ min ago (318+ words) The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said the spell that gripped northern and central Vietnam on May 22-28 was the most intense for that part of the month since 2021, driving 11 weather stations to daily highs at or above their historical records....
Messaging apps retreat from privacy protections
12+ hour, 18+ min ago (716+ words) In May, U. S. company Meta removed end-to-end encryption on Instagram, citing a "too low activation rate. It had introduced E2 EE as an opt-in feature in 2021, requiring users to dig deep into settings to enable it. In March, a Tik Tok spokesperson…...
Seoul deploys high-tech fog, canopies as record summer heat looms
15+ hour, 46+ min ago (262+ words) The measures, which will remain in place until Sept. 30, follow a forecast from the Korea Meteorological Administration that average temperatures this summer will be well above normal, the Korea Times reported. A heat-related death on May 15 was the earliest recorded…...
Singapore braces for months of haze as El Nino returns in June
16+ hour, 14+ min ago (270+ words) The Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) said in a joint statement on May 29, reported by The Straits Times, that there is more than an 80% chance of El Nino conditions emerging between June and July. El…...
Vietnam should not build large AI models but focus on applications: experts
19+ hour, 29+ min ago (933+ words) "What Vietnam shouldn't do is that it should not build another big model," Curtis S. Chin, chair of senior fellows and senior advisor for global markets at the U. S. -based Milken Institute, said at the GStar Summit in Ho Chi Minh City…...
Mathematician who won lottery 14 times, forcing rule changes
19+ hour, 28+ min ago (737+ words) Born into a poor Jewish family in Romania in 1931, Mandel developed a passion for mathematics at a young age but could not pursue an academic career because of financial hardship. Instead, he worked as an accountant to support his family....
Hyundai's humanoid robot stuns football star Son Heung-min with advanced skills
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (406+ words) "School of Football," a five-part social film series launched by Huyndai earlier this week, follows Atlas as it learns the sport through progressive training modeled on professional players. In the series, Atlas, developed by U. S. -based robotics firm Boston Dynamics, which…...
Tips for protecting air conditioner in 40 C heat
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (481+ words) The basic principle is that an air conditioner's outdoor unit must release heat into the environment before the indoor unit can cool the room. But when outside temperatures are extremely high, the outdoor unit cannot do its job efficiently, and…...
Stanford, IAS professors awarded $1. 2 M Shaw Prize for mathematics breakthroughs
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (394+ words) Candes, 56, is a professor at Stanford University, while De Lellis, 50, works at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. One of Candes' most influential achievements was helping develop compressed sensing, a mathematical method that allows computers to accurately…...