Canadians are getting poorer at an alarming rate The high cost of living is affecting Canadians’ ability to access healthy foodSylvain Charlebois, Troy MediaCanada appears to be a “trading-down” ... 04/19/2024 - 4:38 am | View Link
Revision Shows Better Performance of Economy, GDP Grew by 1.6% Y-o-Y in 2023 (2) Year-on-year growth of Slovakia's GDP in 2023 reached 1.6 percent in fixed prices after revision, the Statistics Office has reported. Originally, slower GDP growth of 1.1 percent was reported in early ... 04/18/2024 - 9:37 pm | View Link
Unemployment rate drops in Tennessee, holds steady in Georgia In neighboring Georgia, the unemployment rate last month stayed at 3.1% in March as a record number of Georgians were on the job after employment in the Peach State grew by 55,400 jobs over the past ... 04/18/2024 - 12:37 pm | View Link
Polish 2022 GDP growth rate revised up to 5.6%, 2023 expansion confirmed at 0.2% The Polish economy expanded by 0.2 percent in 2023, after growing 5.6 percent in 2022, the country’s statistics office said on Thursday, revising upward its previous estimate for 2022 by ... 04/18/2024 - 4:20 am | View Link
China’s economy grew 5.3% in first quarter, but property sector remains obstacle to recovery For the first three months of the year, China's gross domestic product rose 5.3 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said. 04/16/2024 - 4:10 pm | View Link
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
Enlarge / A meeting of the UN Security Council on April 14. (credit: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, two months after reports Russia has plans to do just that.
Russia's vote against the resolution was no surprise.
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Logitech announced a new mouse last week. A company rep reached out to inform Ars of Logitech’s “newest wireless mouse.” The gadget’s product page reads the same as of this writing.
I’ve had good experience with Logitech mice, especially wireless ones, one of which I'm using now.
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Trendy, unproven "vampire facials" performed at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico left at least three women with HIV infections. This marks the first time that cosmetic procedures have been associated with an HIV outbreak, according to a detailed report of the outbreak investigation published today.
Ars reported on the cluster last year when state health officials announced they were still identifying cases linked to the spa despite it being shut down in September 2018.
The HMD Pulse base model. [credit:
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HMD has been known as the manufacturer of Nokia-branded phones for years now, but now the company wants to start selling phones under its own brand. The first is the "HMD Pulse" line, a series of three low-end phones that are headed for Europe.
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In the world of AI, what might be called "small language models" have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in the cloud. On Wednesday, Apple introduced a set of tiny source-available AI language models called OpenELM that are small enough to run directly on a smartphone.