FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.

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The plane crashed and burst into flames on Tuesday in Louisville, killing at least 12 people and injuring nearly 20 others. The disaster also shut down the largest UPS package distribution hub.

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The deployment comes following a surge of bear attacks in Japan's northern Akita prefecture.

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The judge ordered prosecutors to produce evidence by the end of the day on Thursday following concerns that the Justice Department was trying to "indict first" and investigate second.

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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a state of emergency on Thursday after Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 114 people dead and more than 100 missing in central provinces.

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The Federal Aviation Administration will reduce air traffic at many busy airports to maintain safety during the government shutdown, which has led to staffing shortages of air traffic controllers.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefed top lawmakers on Wednesday on a series of strikes conducted by the Trump administration on alleged drug boats.

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Democratic socialism doesn't have a one-size-fits-all definition. But its proponents emphasize a stronger role for the government over the economy to benefit the public.

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Famine declarations are relatively rare. But the leading international authority on hunger crises this week declared that regions of war-torn Sudan face catastrophic shortages of food.

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The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.

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Calling himself "the accountant", the fixer told undercover reporters how he could ?confuse? immigration enforcement.

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The BBC's Ed Thomas confronted Kardos Mateen, who is at the centre of an illegal worker network.

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Problems in the prisons and the courts are not new but they are growing and the government doesn't have a grip on them.

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Winners include a project for making the Atlantic Forest financially viable and a global ocean treaty initiative

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A BBC investigation finds that a host of areas in England are closing waiting lists and others are rationing care.

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Kalmaegi left the Philippines on Thursday morning and is currently moving toward central Vietnam.

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The BBC understands there have been "conversations" within government about the possibility of a new levy on EVs.

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Most analysts believe the Bank rate will remain at 4% for now, although there could be a cut in December.

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Video of the incident, which was live streamed, has been shared widely on the internet.

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The art of making an app by describing it to artificial intelligence (AI) tops 10 new terms on the shortlist.

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Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship

China has matched the European Space Agency?s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.?

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Awkward, seeing as they?re close partners

Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.?

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Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don?t want, once it fixed a bad link

Updated Microsoft Australia has apologized to users of its M365 suite after regulators accused it of steering them towards pricey bundles that include its Copilot AI service.?

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Some clever networking hacks open the door

AI search provider Perplexity's research wing has developed a new set of software optimizations that allows for trillion parameter or large models to run efficiently across older, cheaper hardware using a variety of existing network technologies, including Amazon's proprietary Elastic Fabric Adapter.?

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Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs

Microsoft has warned of a ?thermal event? impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.?

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Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent

AI models are filled to the brim with bias, whether that's showing you a certain race of person when you ask for a pic of a criminal or assuming that a woman can't possibly be involved in a particular career when you ask for a firefighter. To deal with these issues, Sony AI has released a new dataset for testing the fairness of computer vision models, one that its makers claim was compiled in a fair and ethical way.?

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For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store

hands on Normally, when you install an application in Windows, it comes either from a direct download or as a single choice from the Microsoft Store. But what if you could install several different apps at the same time by creating a custom group??

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An hour?s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands

Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, used a handheld tablet to command an optionally piloted Black Hawk through multiple autonomous missions. ?

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Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year

Google's second attempt to acquire cloud security firm Wiz is going a lot better than the first, with the Department of Justice clearing the $32 billion deal, which ranks as Google's largest-ever acquisition.?

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The DoE?s planned funding runs through 2030

America's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive up to $125 million through 2030 to develop hybrid computing systems that link quantum and supercomputing technologies.?

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Social engineering strikes again.

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Man said he was in a monogamous 50-year marriage, but doctors aren't so sure now.

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You wouldn't know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.

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Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants.

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As a test case, the machine was used to test a model of superconductivity.

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?This is a hard lesson for us all.?

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Lawmakers' calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

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Google engineers think they already have all the pieces needed to build a data center in orbit.

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Google will make several changes to Android app support globally, supported through at least 2032.

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A new major Windows 11 release means a new guide for cleaning up the OS.

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