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Biden to announce $3.3bn AI center during visit to battleground state Wisconsin – US politics live | US elections 2024
Biden to announce $3.3bn AI center in Wisconsin Good morning, Joe Biden is set to visit the battleground state of Wisconsin today where he is expected to unveil a $3.3 billion Microsoft AI center. Biden’s trip to Racine will not only mark his fourth visit to Wisconsin this year but will also contrast the president…
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Crow Country review – breathtaking survival horror game that harks back to Silent Hill | Games
It is fascinating to be playing games made by developers who have been raised on 3D games – and Crow Country’s affectionate referencing of Silent Hill is a prime example of this. A survival horror game about the dark secrets lurking within and beneath an abandoned theme park, it is also a gorgeous homage to…
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Award-winning UK teacher aims to show adults their historical blind spots | History
Adults need to revisit their history lessons to learn where their “blind spots” are after schools failed to thoroughly teach them about colonialism and empire, according to a leading history teacher. This is the aim of a new book, The History Lessons, by the award-winning teacher Shalina Patel, which spotlights the historical figures and stories…
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After 200 years, women can join the Garrick. Now for the task of making it share power, not hoard it | Jemima Olchawski
Britain’s “old boys’ club” suffered a blow last night. The Garrick Club – an exclusive gentlemen’s club in central London and relic of some 19th-century fantasy of male dominance – voted to allow women to become members for the first time in almost 200 years. About 60% of the votes were in favour. In the…
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The Accountants review – a dizzying bombardment of big questions | Stage
The vast populations of China and India exceed every other country in the world and in The Accountants we’re bombarded with stats projected on a giant screen: growth, spending, broadband speeds. But although this show, conceived and directed by artist Keith Khan, purports to be about two dominant global powers, it is really a musing…
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Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX says it will be able to repay creditors full $11bn | FTX
The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX has said it will be able to repay creditors the full $11bn (£8.8bn) it owes, as the boom-bust cycle repeats itself with a sharp increase in bitcoin prices. John Ray III, who succeeded the disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried as the chief executive of FTX shortly after its collapse, said that once…
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The Image of You review – schlocky erotic thriller is ripe with naffness | Film
Given that this intensely schlocky, cheap-as-chardonnay-in-a-box erotic thriller is about identical twins who are often mistaken for each other, it can’t be a mere accident that it’s coming out hot on the heels of similarly titled romcom The Idea of You, an Anne Hathaway-vehicle about a fortysomething woman falling for a 24-year-old pop star. Surely,…
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‘Mayday Stinky Bay’: Ordnance Survey adds nicknames to database to aid rescuers | Ordnance Survey
From Stinky Bay to Sausage Island, local nicknames for UK landmarks have long been a source of amusement. But in an emergency, the last thing rescuers need to grapple with is how to find Crazy Mary’s Hole. Fortunately Ordnance Survey (OS) has added thousands of these unofficial names for cliffs, caves, sandbanks, coastal carparks and…
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Two men injured in violent home invasion in Glenfield
Two men have been injured in a violent home invasion in Sydney’s southwest, sparking an urgent police appeal for information. Five men allegedly forced entry into a home on Gazelle St, Glenfield and assaulted a 44-year-old man inside with a firearm just before 10.30pm on Friday, January 12. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Police release CCTV…
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Dortmund delight as PSG’s Champions League woes return: Football Weekly – podcast | Football
Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today; despite a disappointing domestic season Dortmund keep showing up in the Champions League – they deserved their win over two legs against PSG. Can they go all the way and…
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