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Josh Reynolds/AP Leah Thomas, a transgender swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania who won the 500-meter freestyle at the NCAA collegiate swim meet against Harvard University, speaks with her coach on January 22, 2022. CNN — According to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, transgender swimmer Leah Thomas was arrested after swimming's governing body, World Aquatics, passed a resolution restricting transgender athletes from competing in elite women's swimming competitions. has started legal proceedings against the group. The athlete is challenging parts of World Aquatics' gender inclusion policy, which came into effect on June 20, 2022, according to the International Tribunal.…

Freight theft from freight trains in the Los Angeles area has skyrocketed, with detectives estimating more than 90 containers are opened every day and thefts from freight trains in the Union Pacific area are up about 160% year over year. are doing. Nationwide, cargo theft caused nearly $1 billion in losses last year. The companies have declined to comment, but California's governor has publicly questioned the prevalence of rail theft. Most of those arrested were unorganized. Many of them were homeless people nearby, opportunistically taking away boxes that had fallen off the tracks. The main cause of theft is the…

Moody's Analytics found 21 million “red flags” related to shell companies that enable financial crimes, from ancient board members to suspicious addresses. For example, Richard Graham, director of Moody's Analytics, found in a study released Monday that more than 2,200 companies had 123 He said that there are directors who are over the age of 50. One of his listed directors said he was 942 years old and would have been born in the 11th century. Atypical boards are just one of seven key behaviors uncovered in the study, including mass registration, dormancy, and rotating ownership. New regulations around the…

Innovation requires solving difficult technical problems, right? Yes. And no. As the Apple Macintosh celebrates its 40th anniversary, what began with Apple prioritizing the flimsy concept of “user experience” with his 1984 flagship product is now clearly evidenced by subsequent blockbuster products. It has been. We've found that designing for ease of use, efficiency, accessibility, elegance, and fun pays off. Apple's market capitalization now exceeds $2.8 trillion, and its brand is every bit as associated with the word “design” as the best fashion houses in New York or Milan. Apple turned technology into fashion, and they did it through user…

The world's first plant to use ethanol to produce low-pollution jet fuel has opened in the United States. Iowa corn growers and biofuel producers say the development is a wake-up call to accelerate decarbonization. Illinois-based LanzaJet announced Wednesday that the Georgia-based LanzaJet will invest in Georgia at an event Wednesday that included investors including Suncor Energy, IAG SA's British Airways, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and local officials. officially opened the $200 million facility located in the countryside. LanzaJet CEO Jimmy Samartzis said in an interview that the U.S. government-funded plant will produce biofuels made from both traditional…

Young people under the age of 15 currently make up 29% of South Africa's population. However, this will soon change. The proportion of older people in the population is predicted to increase from 2030 onwards, posing many challenges. Lauren Johnston, an expert in economics and political economy, recently published a paper on this topic. We asked her to put what's next for her in perspective. What is South Africa's current population profile? South Africa is “young” among the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), but “old” by African standards. For example, the elderly of South Africa's population make up…

India's stock market capitalization has overtaken Hong Kong for the first time, as the South Asian country's growth prospects and policy reforms endear it to investors as global capital flows out of China. The total value of stocks listed on Indian exchanges reached $4.33 trillion as of Monday's close, compared with $4.29 trillion in Hong Kong, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. This makes India her fourth largest stock market in the world. The amount exceeded $4 trillion for the first time on Dec. 5, with about half of that amount occurring in the past four years. advertisement Continue reading…

A honeymoon in western Tibet came to a tragic end in October when the newlyweds suffered from altitude sickness and crashed their car on a mountain road. Yu Yanyan, a 27-year-old from Shanghai who was sitting in the passenger seat, was seriously injured. She was taken to a local hospital, but due to rapid bleeding and lack of sufficient blood stocks, it was likely that she would not survive. However, Yu's husband, using the couple's networks and connections, was able to secure blood donations from local officials and ordinary people in that region of Tibet, which helped stabilize the bride.…

An anonymous reader shared a report. Apple is widely expected to announce major new artificial intelligence features in iOS 18 in June. The code, discovered by 9to5Mac in the first beta of iOS 17.4, shows that Apple continues to work on developing new versions of Siri that leverage large-scale language model technology, with a little help from other sources. It shows that there is. In fact, Apple appears to be using OpenAI's ChatGPT API for internal testing to help develop its own AI models. According to this code, iOS 17.4 includes a new SiriSummarization private framework that calls OpenAI's ChatGPT…

CNN — According to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, transgender swimmer Leah Thomas was arrested after swimming's governing body, World Aquatics, passed a resolution restricting transgender athletes from competing in elite women's swimming competitions. has started legal proceedings against the group. The athlete is challenging parts of World Aquatics' gender inclusion policy, which came into effect on June 20, 2022, according to the International Tribunal. Thomas' legal focus is that male-to-female transgender athletes can only become female if they change gender before the age of 12 or reach the second Tanner stage of puberty. It is to overturn the…